How has the Chapter facilitated professional development activities?
We held two highly successful conferences this year. The Fall conference, held at Skidmore College, featured Marjorie Hodges Shaw as keynote speaker. She is the Policy Advisor to the Office of Information Technologies at Cornell University, and the Director of the Computer Policy and Law Program at Cornell. The conference drew approximately 130 participants. This Spring, we held a conference and annual business meeting, at SUNY Cortland. The conference drew approximately 100 registrants, including six students from library and information science graduates programs at Syracuse and Albany. In addition to the conferences, the Chapter awarded the second Janice Graham Newman Research Award to Holly Heller-Ross, a librarian at SUNY Plattsburgh. The chapter maintains, under the able supervision of Michael Engle from Cornell, an active chapter website (http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/acrl/) as well as a chapter listserv, managed by Melissa Jadlos, SUNY Binghamton (enyacr-l@bingvmb.cc.bi
