Slany Chapternews Newsletter Summer 2004

ChapterNews Volume 76, #2 Summer 2004

Message from the President

IN THIS ISSUE Message from the President..........1

Farewell

Message from the

By Agnes Mattis

Director of Publications .............2

his is my last Message from the President. After two years as your president, I am turning the reins over to Tom Pellizzi. I have truly enjoyed serving the Chapter again and thank you for your support and encouragement. The one thing I must admit I won’t miss is writing this column. I am not a good writer; I don’t enjoy writing; I agonize over each issue. When Jennifer contacts me to remind me that the deadline is a month away, I promise myself I am going to try and write something brilliant and start on it right away. Then, in true procrastinator fashion, I find other urgent things I must do first and before I know it the deadline is two days away. The only issue I truly enjoyed writing (and I probably should not admit this) was the special edition we published for April Fool’s this year.

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St. Clair Accepts Award.................3 Chapter Announcements: Lee is Mover/Shaker...................5 New SLA Members ....................5 Writers Wanted...........................5 Scholarship Winner ....................5 Media Restoration of Past/Future SLA Special Interview ................7

This year the Chapter made a change in the format of two of our Chapter meetings. The meetings on offshoring and on communities of practice were both conducted without a networking/social hour. While we fully understand the importance the members put on networking, the Board decided we could not incur the expense. Our sponsorships are down and we only receive $12.00 per member annually from headquarters to provide services to our members. At some of the facilities we rent for meetings, the minimum cost of refreshments is $25.00 per person. When we are ordering for 125 people, that cost soars to $3,125 for a one-hour reception. We will probably keep this new format for a few meetings in the coming year and may indeed start charging a fee for our meetings. The Board is continuing to look at ways to provide services and balance expenses. You can do your part as well. If you sign up to attend a meeting, please show up! We base our count for food and beverage on your responses. If you find you cannot attend after you have sent in your registration, please cancel. The Chapter will continue to offer all the Virtual Seminars at no cost to the membership.

Metro Magnet Attracts Staff ........10 Horticultural Society Blossoms ..11 Digitizing a Legacy ......................13 We’re Moving the Library When? .15 SLA-NY Career Day.....................16 Web site Resources: Measuring Ethnic Populations ...18

ADVERTISERS

I hope to see many of you at the conference in Nashville this year. Since we are all under one roof, we will probably see each other coming and going all day long. My schedule looked manageable when I registered but I keep adding events to my online planner so it’s currently looking scary. I’m sure yours is the same. While we are in Nashville, we are going to miss out on a very popular New York event - the running of the Belmont Stakes. Even if you are not a racing fan the chance to see if Smarty Jones can win the Triple Crown is irresistible. How about we New Yorkers watch the race together? Let’s gather in Rusty’s Sports Bar and Grill at 5 PM on Saturday and catch the race. The race is scheduled for 6:30 PM New York time. You’ll have plenty of time to make your dinner plans. You don’t want to miss the chance to see if the 12th Triple Crown can be won. There hasn’t been a winner since Affirmed in 1978. Let’s see if little Smarty Jones (isn’t it a great name?) can be victorious. Don’t even ask me if I’m paying for this – it’s every person for himself or herself. Go Smarty!

Dialog ............................................6 Donna Conti Career Resources .....8 EBSCO ........................................11 EOS International........................12 Gatta Design & Co. .....................15 Global Securities Information, Inc...4 InfoCurrent ....................................3 Pro Libra......................................13 Wontawk .....................................17 ChapterNews

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ChapterNews New York Chapter Special Libraries Association Summer Vol. 76, No. 2

Message from the Director of Publications:

Preserving the Past to Understand the Future

PUBLICATION SCHEDULE

By Michael Gruenberg

ChapterNews, the bulletin of the New York Chapter of the Special Libraries Association, is published four times a year. Deadlines for submitting materials:

Fall issue

September 24

Winter issue

December 15

Spring issue

March 15

s our society makes gains in health, science and technology, we often overlook our past. We are so enthralled with our progress that we forget what it took to travel the road that got us to the point of a breakthrough.

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In 1968, a small company in Maryland was granted a contract by the Securities and Exchange Commission to be the archivist for all the documents filed there by public companies. Microfiche was the medium of choice for storing, cataloging and indexing the information. The genesis of this project actually began as a result of the Stock Market crash in 1929. After the debris from the crash settled, it was clear to Congress that the stock-buying public really was at the mercy of companies selling stock and that there was no legitimate framework for the public to understand the quality of the stocks prior to their purchase.

Submit all material to:

Jennifer Kellerman ChapterNews Editor E-mail: [email protected] Submissions: Articles on topics of general interest to information professionals and the New York Chapter are welcome. Authors can send submissions via e-mail as text file or MS Word for Windows attachments, or with article in the body of the e-mail. Please use single-line spacing, Courier font, with minimal use of boldface and italics. Include a byline with your full name and place of work.

The 1933/34 Disclosure Acts of Congress mandated that companies offering their stock to the public had to disclose various elements of their business in the form of specific documents that would be publicly available prior to stock purchase. However, in 1934, those documents were mandated to be filed on paper. To this day, from the turn of the century to 1968, the corporate record of U.S. public companies is on paper at the SEC in Washington, D.C. Therefore, we have thirty-four years of mandated paper filings and well over sixty years of non-mandated paper documents that are the actual history of corporate America. Only since 1968, when filings began to be stored on a medium that had a better life expectancy than paper, do we have a compete record of our corporate history.

ADVERTISING inquiries should be addressed to:

Nancy Bowles 235 East 22nd Street, Apt 9L New York, NY 10010 Telephone: (212) 679-7088 or E-mail: [email protected] Special Libraries Association assumes no responsibility for the statements and opinions advanced by contributors to the Association’s publications. Editorial views do not necessarily represent the official position of Special Libraries Association. Acceptance of an advertisement does not imply endorsement of the product by Special Libraries Association.

The question to be answered is: how is American corporate history stored and accessed prior to 1934? There are a number of university libraries which have paper copies of annual reports dating back to the turn of the century. That’s great, but how easily can a researcher find that information? Not easily and not efficiently are the probable answers.

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Our society consumes information at an extraordinary rate. As professional information handlers, librarians are faced with not only the dissemination of information, but also the preservation of older information. I was greatly impressed with the processes outlined in my interview with Mr. O’Neill on how his company works with preserving information on a number of different media. The old adage warning us that if we don’t learn from history, we will keep repeating our mistakes certainly applies here. Our history will help us unlock the mysteries of the future. We must learn and understand the lessons of the past by preserving the very elements of time that got us to this point.

St. Clair Accepts Award

Mike Gruenberg

The awards ceremony was held on 5 May 2004. In his acceptance speech, Guy acknowledged the members of SLA. “They [SLA members] – as much as I – develop and share knowledge. They do it every day, they do it throughout the world, and they do it brilliantly. So for them – and for me – I express our sincere appreciation.”

Guy St. Clair, well-known in these pages for his regular

column on knowledge management (KM) issues, has been presented with the John Jacob Astor award in Library Studies and Information Science. The award, sponsored by the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation, enables German or American people who have made notable contributions to transatlantic knowledge transfer to travel to Berlin for a conference. The goal is to facilitate discussion and learning about the latest developments in the field.

Michael Gruenberg is the Strategic Accounts Manager at OneSource Information Services. He can be reached at [email protected] or 212-836-4161

At the conference, Guy conducted a workshop, titled “From Librarianship to Knowledge Services: Marketing the Specialized Library in the Knowledge-Centric Workplace.” He also took the opportunity to present a lecture to students and faculty at the Institute of Library and Information Science at Humboldt University Berlin. That lecture was called, “Knowledge Services: Future Requirements of the Profession, especially for Knowledge Workers.” Guy is an expert in the field of knowledge management. For over forty years he has written about, taught and consulted on KM, in particular, knowledge services, defined as “the convergence of information management, knowledge management and strategic learning.”

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Guy’s career began in 1960 at the Library of Congress. He has held a variety of positions at libraries all over the country. Twenty years ago, he started his consulting and training business, SMR International, which specializes in knowledge and information management and strategic learning.

• Executive search & direct hire placements nationwide • Temporary & temp-to-hire assignments • Competitive candidate benefits & training programs

The Checkpoint Charlie Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 by the Berlin State Legislature. The Foundation strives to foster German-American relations with such projects as the teacher exchange program and awards like the John Jacob Astor award.

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Congratulations to Guy on this notable achievement!

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CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS Writers Wanted There will be a Post-Conference edition of ChapterNews following the 2004 Annual Conference in Nashville, TN. If you are attending the conference and interested in submitting something to be included in the PostConference issue, please contact Jennifer Kellerman at [email protected].

NY Chapter Member is a Mover and a Shaker Suzan Lee, a Senior Research Librarian at UBS Securities

and the Library School Liaison for the New York Chapter of SLA, was named as a Mover & Shaker in Library Journal’s special supplement (March 15, 2004).

Scholarship Winner Announced

Suzan was recognized for her work with library school students in connection with SLA, in particular for the internship program she established in March 2000. In addition to her work at UBS and with the New York Chapter, Suzan is an adjunct instructor with Long Island University’s Palmer School of Library and Information Science. In her spare time, she also runs a knitting workshop at Gilda’s Club, an organization for cancer patients and their families.

Norma L. Medina-Ortiz, a library student at Rutgers, is the recipient of the Spring 2004 SLA-NY Student Scholarship. Norma won a scholarship based on an essay, a letter from her faculty advisor and her GPA. She will be presented with a certificate at Career Day, 22 May 2004.

Norma is currently enrolled in the MLIS program at the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies (SCILS) in Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She holds a Bachelor Degree in information and documentation from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia (1995). Before coming to the United States of America to work as an information professional at the Colombian Mission to the United Nations (2000), she worked in Colombia, in different librarianship fields including library automatization, cataloguing and classification, and collection development. As an international student at SCILS, she has conferred a global perspective to her studies and her fellow students. Recently she took part in an academic team whose task was the planning and organization of a Colloquium at Rutgers on library development in Colombia as a model for other countries.

Each year, Library Journal recognizes people who exhibit a passion for their career and who are making a positive contribution to the library and information science profession. The special supplement is sent to Congress to help highlight the industry and the people in it. For more information, go to www.libraryjournal.com.

Welcome to the New York Chapter Sarah Warner - SLA New York Chapter Membership Chair

We welcome the following new or renewed members to the New York Chapter. You will find many benefits to joining the New York Chapter. Look forward to meeting you at our Fall meeting.

Mrs. Medina-Ortiz has been a member of SLA since April 2003. Congratulations and best of luck to Norma!

Carlos Azeglio

Jennifer Farrar

Jim Borron Duncan Byrnes

Jarron Jewell

The Student Scholarship is awarded twice a year: at Career

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JacquelineCantwell George Cigale Jennifer Cwoik

David Shein

Day in the spring and at the Professional/Student Mixer in the fall. For more information, please go to the SLA-NY website (www.sla.org/chapter/cny) and click on “Students.”

Carla Davis Renee Dichiara

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Media Restoration – Preserving the Past for our Future

MG: Sounds like quite a project. Considering how many

Coke commercials I have seen or heard, how long did it take to complete that job? KOM: We’ve been working on that project for over three years. It is actually a very interesting project because not only do they get a preservation copy on a video, but they also get their videos encoded so that their internal marketing departments can access that footage for current production of their commercials. Another example of large projects that we have worked on is video installations in the museum sector.

By Michael Gruenberg

ibraries today are faced with many new sources of information. Dutifully, it is their role to disseminate that information to a large audience in a variety of formats. A dilemma that faces every library is what collections should be kept and preserved. Prior to the growth and ease of on-line, information storage and retrieval went from paper to roll film to microfiche to CD. What happened to all those films, books, CD’s as they outgrew their usefulness and ease of retrieval?

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MG: I know you’re not talking about video surveillance. What is a video installation at a museum? KON: That means that an artist could have produced a video 30 or 40 years ago on particular format and the museum is interested in showing it at an exhibit. In order for them to do that effectively, they need to put the video on a modern format. So, we work with museums and virtually all cultural institutions in these types of projects. We also work with archives in museums in order to preserve their audio, video and film collections.

Kevin O’Neill is the Sales and Marketing Director for VidiPax LLC, a New York City-based media restoration facility. VidiPax works with archives worldwide in reformatting virtually anything recorded on film, videotape and audiotape. According to O’Neill, “if it moves or makes a sound, [VidiPax] can place it on a more stable, modern format for the sake of preservation and access.”

MG: Can you give an example of a particularly interesting project you did for a cultural institution? KON: For a cultural institution, the most comprehensive project I can name was for the Metropolitan Opera where we reformatted and preserved all of their Texaco broadcasts. That represented almost fifty years of broadcasts that never would have seen the light of day had they not been preserved. Those broadcasts are now preserved and usable. They are now accessible to libraries.

Recently, I had the pleasure to interview Mr. O’Neill. We covered a wide range of topics that will show that preservation of media is an issue that touches virtually every library. While we all get caught up in the latest and the greatest, we need to also focus on our past and how that information can be kept in tact and be able to be accessed without fear of damaging the material.

MG: Can the general public see these broadcasts?

MG:Who are the basic users of the type of services

KON: Each institution has their own purposes and goals in mind when they give us their media. Some institutions like MoMA, for instance, through PS1 have asked us to decode their audio collection so that they can stream it through the internet on the world’s only art museum radio station.

provided by VidiPax? KON: Basically, the entire 20th century has been recorded to one extent or another. This means that every sector from consumer to academia to corporations to cultural institutions have their history recorded either on audio or visual media. This becomes increasingly more important as many people of the baby boomer generation increasingly look to the past to try and understand the future.

MG: I’m sure an art museum radio station is not Norman

Rockwell singing the songs of his day. What is an art museum radio station?

MG: Can you give me an example of the types of clients and projects that you have been working in these different sectors?

KON: It is actually arts based programming sponsored by MoMA. Artists come in and they will talk about their interests. They could be speaking about their work, the music that they like, etc. In which case, the museum will go into the archives and pull out old material that coincides with the topics covered by the featured artist. Some of the tapes that need to be accessed are in some cases, fifty to sixty years old. They need to reformatted and coded.

KON: There are many. They can be, for example, the

reformatting of every Coca-Cola commercial that has ever been made.

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MG: As you know, the SLA members who read this publication are working at major law firms, financial institutions, Fortune 1,000 corporations, academic institutions, etc. For example, what type of service would VidiPax provide for a law firm?

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KON: The type of work we would do for a law firm would

probably not involve the history of the firm, but would involve the history of the cases they are working on. If there is an audio tape, video tape, surveillance tape and restoration is needed so that the contents of the tape can be presented to a judge and jury, then we would work to restore the tape. However, I see a different use for law firms, especially the so-called “white shoe” firms. These firms have along and distinguished history. There are speeches and seminars given by the partners. They have client-related material especially with some of these firms who have had major corporate clients for over fifty years. Every institution, including law firms in America has a past, has a history. When you want to tell that history because you are proud of that history, we shouldn’t just limit that story to words. Moving images of pictures and sound are the primary mode of communication nowadays. Companies are able to define their future by pointing to their past accomplishments. We can certainly help them in that regard. When a company wants to change their direction, they usually dig for their past, identifying their values as a company, finding the evidence of those values through moving images and sound and reposition themselves with those images and sound. So, in order to do that they need their media reformatted and brought up to date.

MG: In essence, this type of project effectively bridges

generations of artists.

MG: The information contained in every SLA members’

KON: That’s correct. If a contemporary artist wants to

library is the yardstick by which the worth of that library is judged. To me, a company like yours is protecting those assets.

compare his work to someone like Jackson Pollack, he may want to hear some of the speeches Pollack may have given as emphasis to the comparisons he is trying to make on the radio show.

KON: I agree and would add to that thought the fact that in all those libraries there are undoubtedly tapes and films on a shelf that are assets of great monetary value to the organization. The Coca-Cola example I gave you earlier is a great example of that. Some of our most interesting work is for the National Archives and the Library of Congress where we are involved in preserving the cultural history of the United States.

MG: Given the huge amount of historical information that is archived, do you get into disaster recovery? KON: Absolutely. We just did a job for a large sports pro-

duction company that happened to have all their tapes stored in the basement of their building. Unfortunately, there was a flood and as a result, they called us in to help. A couple thousand of their tapes were affected by that flood. We went in and took those tapes out. We then did an assessment, treated them in accordance with the standards set forth by the archival community and then completed the work needed to preserve them for the future. These were commercial grade videotapes. Some were analog and some were digital. You have to understand that those tapes are the prime assets of the organization worth an untold amount of money.

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MG: Can you talk about some of the work you are doing for the U.S. Government?

KON: The archival community has been reluctant to use the CD or DVD technology for the purpose of preservation because being the conservative group that they have to be, they really do not know how long those media will last. Every physical substance deteriorates. CD’s and DVD’s have coatings on them and every manufacturer uses different formulations and the media has not been around all that long so we really cannot determine their lifespan. However, on analog formats, we know an audio tape will last a known amount of time, maybe up to thirty years until we have to reformat it. So what we do for special collections is that we will take it from the analog tape and put it back onto an analog tape and create a preservation master. We can than make CD’s or DVD’s as current use copies thus preserving the master. The trend nowadays is for companies to put their information in digital archives. They will ship us an external drive; we digitize the information for them and send it back to them. We don’t keep their content at our facility.

KON: The National Archives has many different collec-

tions at different libraries under their authority. I recently examined a historical collection at West Point, which is funded by the National Archives, whereas there are special collections that are just funded by those particular institutions. We are currently working on discs containing speeches by all the great Generals. Omar Bradley, General Westmoreland are but a few of the military men contained on those discs that we are preserving as a historical record of this country. These discs go back to the World War II period and extend up to the present time. We are also working on preserving the contents of the Presidential Libraries for the National Archives. Finally, for the Library of Congress, we are doing something that is very interesting. It is unlike the other projects I mentioned because we are not taking something off an old format and putting on a new format. We are taking currently recorded material, which is part of the Veterans Oral History program funded by Congress to collect video and audio histories from living veterans from all the wars. We are taking these tapes and digitizing them so the Library of Congress can have this available on the internet.

MG: Kevin, thank you for sharing this information with us. I am certainly glad to see that historical data is being preserved for future generations. For more information about VidiPax, please contact Kevin O’Neill at [email protected].

MG: Having been a Political Science major in college, it is reassuring to me that preservation of history is not just a concept, but a true reality.

Michael Gruenberg is the Strategic Accounts Manager at OneSource Information Services. He can be reached at [email protected] or 212-836-4161.

KON: It wasn’t until the last ten years or so that consideration was given to the fact that media is deteriorating and that steps needed to be taken to preserve this media because once it is gone, it will never be duplicated. MG: You will remember that the question came up in the roll film and microfiche days of how long can that stuff last. The same questions arose with the use of CD’s. Quite frankly, do we know how long fiche or CD’s really can last?

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The METRO Magnet: Attracting Library Staff to the New York City Area

For library staff interested in relocating to the region, the site provides the basics about the diverse neighborhoods that comprise the METRO area—the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester County. It also contains profiles of local librarians who discuss the advantages and perceived disadvantages of working in the region and profiles of some of METRO’s members.

By Susan Salomone, Consultant and Dottie Hiebing, Executive Director, Metropolitan New York Library Council

The site was initially funded in part by Federal Library Services and Technology Act funds awarded to the New York State Library by the Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services. Since grant funding for the job bank expired in September 2003, METRO now charges employers to post job announcements. Fees are $99 per 45 day posting for METRO members, $149 for nonmembers, and $1500 for unlimited annual postings for METRO members.

n August 2003, the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) launched the first library placement site of its kind, the METRO Magnet. The site was designed by METRO, a consortium of all types of libraries serving the five boroughs of New York City and Westchester County. The site was designed to attract library staff to METRO’s service area by providing a centralized online job bank and a wealth of information about living and working in libraries in the METRO area. The site is available at www.metro.org/magnet.

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Employers who have used the job bank say that it is easy to use and that they get high quality candidates through it. Well over 3000 unique visitors access the job bank each month, and many library job sites, including schools of library and information science, link to the METRO Magnet site. METRO continues to promote the site to job seekers throughout the United States and Canada to ensure that jobs postings receive a wide audience.

Local librarians looking for new opportunities and promotions are able to post their resumes and search the job announcements as are recent library school graduates and other library professionals wishing to relocate to the METRO area. Jobseekers may post resumes at no cost, and employers with active postings may search these resumes. To provide privacy to those jobseekers who desire it, resumes and personal information may be entered in the system without allowing employers to see it.

Please send comments, questions and requests for more information to Susan Salomone at [email protected].

Susan Salomone works as an independent management consultant with libraries, library organizations and nonprofits. She currently oversees the METRO Magnet Online Career Center for METRO from her home in Kansas. Susan worked for METRO for 2 1/2 years as the Professional Development Manager and was a member of SLA-NY during that time. Susan earned a Masters degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. Susan can be contacted at [email protected] or at (913) 306-3341.

Jobseekers interested in working in libraries in the METRO area have indicated that this site meets a unique need. Someone who used the site recently said, “Yours is the only list where I can be sure the jobs are in NY. Also, I notice that you list jobs first which are listed subsequently in other media. I already have an interview with one job listing from your website and have sent applications for two other positions. Since your listings appear so quickly, I was able to find out about a position today in time to meet the employer at a library event tonight.”

Dottie Hiebing is currently Executive Director of the Metropolitan New York Library Council. Prior to this, she was Executive Director of the Central Jersey Regional Library Cooperative in Freehold, NJ. She has worked for the State Library in Iowa and the Wisconsin State Librar, and she directed a public library system and a school media center. She holds an M.A.L.S. from Rosary College in River Forest, IL, an M.P.A. from the University of Denver, and a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

In addition to job postings, the METRO Magnet web site includes links designed to help local librarians focus on their professional development. The site provides information about the numerous professional development opportunities available at METRO through continuing education and special interest groups. The site also has helpful links to local placement firms, membership organizations, accredited Library and Information Sciences schools, and financial aid information.

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The Horticultural Society of New York Library is Blossoming By Katherine Powis

he Horticultural Society of New York was founded in 1900 with the mission of improving the quality of life in New York through horticulture. The Society is conveniently located at street level in midtown Manhattan where members and the public enjoy gardening workshops, lectures, tours, an art gallery and the Library. By focusing on partnerships, offsite gardening programs reach public school students, inmates on Rikers Island and communities around public libraries where professionally designed gardens are created.

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The Society’s founders were nurserymen, botanists, florists and estate owners with a constitutional mandate “to collect and diffuse information on all topics related to the culture and care of plants.” Early records indicate lectures on greenhouse construction, strawberry and ginseng culture, forestry methods, etc. Monthly and seasonal exhibits of specimen plants and flower arrangements with awards for ‘horticultural novelties’ were popular activities, as were pilgrimages to nearby estate gardens and gardens around the world.

people who garden upstate, on Long Island, in New Jersey and Connecticut; students of garden history, garden design, landscape design and landscape architecture; artists, designers, editors, writers and tourists; the UPS man, the mailman, the transit worker and the lobby attendant. They all make themselves right at home here.

The Society is probably best known for The International Flower Show that it co-produced with The New York Florists’ Club beginning in 1914. The show, an extravagant undertaking held at the Grand Central Palace and other locations, ran through 1970 with the exception of certain war years. In 1985 the Society brought the show back as The New York Flower Show on the West side piers. It was discontinued after the 1996 show because of its expense.

Two New York City design competitions prompted a number of individuals submitting proposals to contact and visit us regarding suitable plant material for the Highline (an outdated overhead rail line on the West side) and The World Trade Center Memorial Garden. Two newer members have been in regularly: one is restoring a garden at an historic house in upper Manhattan, the other is taking garden design classes at City College. Of course we get phone and e-mail requests from around the country and abroad. A researcher from the Netherlands, who asked for anything we might have on the cruise ship Statendam, was delighted that we could provide a souvenir listing the HSNY members who traveled to the international flower show in 1935.

The Society’s Library, begun in 1924, is an exceptional resource for gardeners and for research on American garden history and design. In keeping with the Society’s mission, the Library is open to the public. Full members can borrow from an extensive circulating collection on specific plants and groups of plants, garden styles and techniques. To say that the Library has 12,000 volumes and receives some 3,000 requests annually does not begin to convey that it is in many ways the heart of this organization. Our Reading Room is the site of lively conversation, casual browsing, informed reading and focused research. The Library is used by a wide spectrum of the population of this great city. Avocado pit growers and orchid fanatics; front yard, courtyard, terrace and rooftop gardeners; ChapterNews

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Not long ago during an interview with a library school student, I continued to field questions from walk-ins and staff as I described what I was then working on: the CBHL meeting that we co-hosted in June; signing on three authors for the Library’s participation in the “New York Is Book Country” fair on Fifth Avenue; a visit from a class at another local library school; and a 20-foot display at the public library five blocks away. She asked when I get to do library work, and I had to laugh, for that is precisely the point. In a small organization like this, with a highly specialized collection, it is up to me to promote the Library - and not just externally. As the manager and solo librarian, it’s just as important for me to work with staff involved with our field programs at public schools, public library gardens and the local prison; to make sure the Board of Directors know about the Library’s activities; and to meet and follow up with our instructors and students. I work with a Library committee whose purpose is clear: to raise the profile of the Library in the horticultural community. And I work with seven talented volunteers each of whom thinks this Library is well worth the time and energy. Some have corporate backgrounds, one works in the theatre, one is a retired librarian and another a retired teacher. Other volunteers willingly help with a growing list of events that the Library offers beyond the Society’s regular education program. We are rightfully proud of the things that have been accomplished: a climate-controlled, secure area that houses the research collection, an online catalog that visitors and staff can use in-house; an annual Library benefit that nets nearly $15,000; a guest author program that provides a unique opportunity to learn from experts in a small setting; regular donations of books to the Library from friends and publishers; small displays of archival documents that highlight our history. Early this year the Library was named one of the best special libraries in the city. SLA mentioned it as a place conference attendees might like to visit. In August, the Library was photographed for an upcoming spot in a Japanese magazine, Flowers Today. The reporter told me that she is always on the lookout for unusual, appealing places in the city.

The Horticultural Society of New York is located at 128 West 58th Street. Its website is www.hsny.org.

Katherine Powis, Librarian, The Horticultural Society of New York has an undergraduate degree in English Literature and an M.L.S. from Queens College, CUNY. In June, 2003 she cohosted (with the New York Botanical Garden and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden) the annual meeting of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries in New York city. She is a member of Metro Hort Group (an association of horticulture professionals in the New York City area), the New York Metropolitan Archivists Round Table and a past chair of SLA/NY’s Museum, Arts and Humanities

Challenges remain. We have yet to find funding to put our online catalog onto our web site, but the proposals are out. We need to develop a database to make our archival records more accessible. But just last week a Library committee member offered her fine collection of nineteenth century garden books, and another did so just last year. Both are garden historians whose collections will add substantially to our holdings. Clearly their contributions are votes of confidence for the direction that the Library is taking. ChapterNews

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Digitizing an Environmental Legacy By Linda Galloway he Roosevelt Wild Life Experiment Station at the State University of New York College of Forestry (now known as the College of Environmental Science and Forestry) in Syracuse houses one of the most unique vertebrate specimen collections in the Northeast. Outside of a small community of college professionals this collection remains largely unknown and is digitally inaccessible. A digitization project involving both digitizing archival records and providing online access to facsimiles of primary sources will provide access to information and specimen resources previously available only to those who traveled to the Roosevelt Wildlife Collection.

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The Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station was developed as a memorial to Theodore Roosevelt by the New York State legislature in May 1919. The 1919 New York State Law establishing the station reads as follows: “To establish and conduct an experimental station to be known as “Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station” in which there shall be maintained records of the results of the experiments and investigations made and research work accomplished; also a library of works, publications, papers and data having to do with wild life together with means for practical illustration and demonstration, which library shall, at all reasonable hours, be open to the public.”

The Roosevelt Wildlife Collection contains over 20,000 specimens used for teaching and research purposes. The vertebrate collection represents most species found in the Northeastern United States. There are more than 5,000 bird specimens, and approximately 1,600 of these were collected in the late 1800’s. The fluid preserved fish collection includes samples from the early 1900’s through present. These specimens, along with the collection data which includes collector, habitat, location, and date collected, provide an invaluable record of changes in the frequency and distribution of species.

The Roosevelt Wildlife Museum evolved as a unique entity as the Experiment Station’s collection of vertebrate specimens grew. The mandate of “open to the public” as it relates to the museum collection can today encompass digital accessibility and remote archival search capabilities.

Digitizing the Roosevelt Wild Life Collection

The Roosevelt Wild Life Station memorial was adapted from plans that Theodore Roosevelt personally approved in 1916. President Roosevelt was an accomplished naturalist and many of his greatest achievements were in conservation. He was very interested in forest wildlife and conservation of natural resources. Prior to Roosevelt’s advocacy, conservation and preservation of natural resources was almost unknown to the general public.

There are two distinct segments of the Roosevelt Wildlife Collection (RWC) that should be digitized. Initially, the information about specimens contained on card catalog entries need to be placed on a searchable database. Care must be taken to include all the data about the entries including date of collection, collector, location, donor and information about the specimen itself. Many of the objects in the collection have intrinsic value due to the rare or unique nature of the object. Other specimens may be of historical interest due to the collector or donor. For example, the RWC contains the fish collection of W.A. Dence and the mammal collection of C.E. Johnson. The RWC is of extreme importance not only because of the scientific value of the specimens, but also because of the historical and cultural significance of the objects.

The Roosevelt Wild life Collection was formally introduced as a select group of vertebrate specimens from the Roosevelt Station vertebrate collection in 1965. Alan D. Marsters became the first curator of the collection with the goal of reorganizing and maintaining the compilation. The Roosevelt Wild Life Collection moved to Illick Hall and Ronald J. Giegerich became the curator in 1977. Mr. Giegerich is a graduate of the College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) and trained in museum techniques at the National Museum in Washington, D.C. ChapterNews

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Secondly, some decisions must be made regarding prioritizing which collections within the museum will be digitized. Ronald Giegerich, the curator of the RWC, has determined that the first collection that should be photographed and digitally archived is the bird collection. This collection contains some especially rare and unique specimens. Three extinct species are represented: the ivory-billed woodpecker, heath hen and passenger pigeon. It would also be a very visually interesting exhibit and could spark public awareness of the Roosevelt Wildlife Collection. Ideally, a searcher looking for a picture of an ivory-billed woodpecker conducting a Google image search could be directed to the Roosevelt Wildlife Collection site for a photograph of an actual bird specimen and a link to scientific information regarding the specimen.

Would Theodore Roosevelt Support Digitization? Theodore Roosevelt, our twenty-sixth President, was a

steward of the land and an ardent conservationist. The Roosevelt Wild Life Program, continuing today at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY promotes public and private ventures for the conservation of natural resources. The notion of conservation as a public responsibility was spearheaded by Roosevelt’s passion for and love of the natural world. A digitally available Roosevelt Wildlife Collection would widen the audience for these objects and reveal their importance. The bird collection, containing some 5,000 specimens, is both visually stimulating and beautiful. The scientific importance of digitally preserving and archiving rare and extinct specimens cannot be overemphasized. Increasing access to these collections can help intensify interest in species preservation by demonstrating what has been lost forever. Furthermore, providing a digital facsimile of old and fragile specimens will help to preserve the originals.

The next important collection to be digitized should be the osteological collection. Curator Giegerich has personally prepared this collection of skeletal material, containing about 150 complete skeletons and thousands of skulls. These specimens are invaluable to researchers making bone identifications and are also used in Vertebrate Taxonomy and Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy classes. Making these objects (and data about them) available digitally would enable researchers all over the world to benefit from the expertise of scientists at ESF.

Dr. C. C. Adams, first director of the Roosevelt Wild Life

Station, wrote in the 1921 inaugural issue of the Roosevelt Wild Life Bulletin, “The Station is thus primarily devoted to increasing our knowledge of forest wild life, by both outdoor and laboratory study….” Making the resources of the museum available to a wider audience can support this mandate given to the Wild Life Station. Theodore Roosevelt would almost certainly have approved of a digitization project.

A simple internet search for “osteological collection” using Google uncovers very few sites with any images of osteological specimens. Many sites associated with universities have detailed records of their collections but no associated images. For an example of a site with detailed reference records see http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/eau/eaumam.htm. Again, digitizing the collection at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry would provide access to preserved vertebrate specimens and osteological specimens not readily available. Furthermore, providing searchers with cross-collection indexes and easy to use interfaces will significantly increase use of these collections.

Information on the resources used to research this article can be obtained by contacting the author.

Linda Galloway is a Research Support Associate at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. She is also a Master of Library and Information Science student at Syracuse University with an expected graduation date of December 2004. Linda is a student member of SLA and can be reached by email at [email protected] or by telephone at 315-470-6766.

Providing wider access to the materials contained in the RWC will enable researchers worldwide to benefit from the expertise of ESF scientists. While ESF has an outstanding international reputation it is also committed to serving the environmental research needs of New York State. The RWC receives many requests from researchers attempting to document the existence of a particular species in a certain location at times in the past. A digital archive of the specimens contained within the collection will make tracking habitat changes and changes in species distribution easier and more complete.

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We’re Moving the Library When??

INFORMATION ORGANIZATION NEEDS GOOD DESIGN TOO.

By Robin Holab-Abelman t could be a long anticipated move or something that happens very quickly. Either way, you as an information professional, face the reality of organizing the move of your library. A move, no matter what the distance involved, can be a disruptive event. I will provide some tips and guidelines to help you not only navigate but also survive.

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Confirm any and all rumors within your organization. Find out who is coordinating the move or acting as liaison between your organization and the movers. If the library move is separate from the office move, see the questions below related specifically to library movers. Be sure you or a member of the library staff is included on e-mails, meetings and any communication.

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Form a library move team and assign responsibilities. By doing this you naturally keep your staff informed and involved. Designate one person as ‘move planner’ to communicate between the library and the mover. Someone else can be in charge of weeding. This is crucial and must be done BEFORE the move and before you lay out the collection. If you have someone who is good with spreadsheets, s/he can prepare the origin map, move plan and destination map.

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Perhaps you’ll have the chance to be part of the team selecting the mover. The most important question (from your perspective) is what library experience does the mover have? Have they moved other libraries? How did they move the collection - in boxes or on book carts? What size were these collections? What types of materials have they handled? Can they integrate two parts of a collection? Do they provide other services if needed (e.g. cleaning, adjusting shelving). Get a list of references and call them. Many organizations will issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) and require a pre-bid tour. Be sure that any RFP includes very specific parameters for your move. Are you moving from one floor to another, somewhere on the same floor or to another building? What kind of freight elevator and/or loading dock is available? Can the move be done during regular business hours or does it have to occur at night or on a weekend? Do you have equipment and file cabinets to move? These are just a few of the issues to think about for both the RFP and the move.

If you are thinly staffed you may have to assume several (if not all) of these responsibilities. Don’t despair. A creative option is to ask your organization for temporary help. If you have a library school in the area, perhaps one of the classes might adopt your move as a project. You get the extra help you need and the class gets some real life experience. The next important step is to divide the collection into smaller relocation units. For example, reference, current journals, bound journals, and company reports all form discreet units. Measure how much space each unit occupies (to the half inch). Put this data on your spreadsheet. Indicate those units that require growth space and enter this information on the spreadsheet. Once the collection has been measured and growth rates determined, then you can do the layout for the new library. If parts of the collection are located in different places, the move may give you the chance to pull them together at the new destination. This information should also be noted on your move plan. Also, watch for material that is oversized and requires more space than standard between shelves. Be sure to take these requirements into consideration when planning and especially during layout of the collection. ChapterNews

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SLA-NY Career Day May 22, 2004

As your move date approaches, it’s time to set things in motion. By now the collection has been weeded. It’s been measured and divided into relocation units. All data has been entered into a spreadsheet, and the move plan has been created. Both origin and destination maps have been made. Now you need to ‘tag’ your collection. You can use any type of heavy paper or cardboard. You want to mark each relocation unit with a card indicating the beginning or START of that unit and the END of each unit. Put this insert into the first book of the appropriate relocation unit and put that book on its spine. Do the same for the last book in that relocation unit. By placing the start and end books on their spines with the insert sticking out, the units are clearly flagged for the movers. A number, a name or both can identify these units. It will correspond to your move plan. Shelving at destination should also be labeled with the same information.

By Co-chairs Robin S. Sanders and Margaret T. Hennessey

he New York City and the library/information job markets have made a stunning comeback! That was the very welcome news that greeted over 150 participants at the annual SLA-NY Career Day event.

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The 13th annual event was held again at The Lighthouse International, 11 East 59th Street. The participants were predominantly current (or potential) library school students, but many were career changers and working professionals seeking information about career prospects and available opportunities.

On move day(s), plan to have staff at both origin and destination. No matter how well you plan, questions inevitably arise and having a staff person available helps ensure a smooth move. If possible, cell phones with walkie-talkie capability are extremely helpful, especially if land lines are not up and running. Make sure everyone has copies of the move plan and all maps.

The event started in The Lighthouse’s exhibition hall. After being treated to a continental breakfast, attendees were able to meet and discuss the library job market with many of the library and information recruiters in the New York tri-state region. The recruiters included Donna Conti/Career Resources, Sarah Warner/ Wontawk, Diane Goldstein/InfoCurrent, Debbie Bard/William Harris Associates, Gloria Dinerman/Library Co-op, and Angela Dzikowski/ProLibra. Many of the tri-state region’s library schools -- Queens College, Pratt Institute, Rutgers and CW Post’s Palmer School -- had tables where students could meet with faculty, discuss admission requirements, and review the curriculum. Vendors, including LexisNexis and Thomson Dialog, displayed their latest products and answered questions from the crowd. The SLA, LLAGNY and NYLA booths were crowded with people requesting information about membership.

Before you know it, your collection will be packed, moved and unpacked. Because of all your planning and organization, the material will be back on new shelves, in order, with sufficient space for growth where needed. Again the key to success is to not let the move overwhelm you. Keep track of everything. Weed the collection thoroughly. Have a plan and stick to it. Try to be a bit flexible because inevitably something will go awry and you may have to adjust as you go (e.g. reset shelves, refigure growth space). Finally, be prepared. Wear comfortable shoes (absolutely crucial). Have a few supplies available (hammer, screw drivers, tape, paper towels, cleaner, WD-40, pliers, etc.). Also plan to reward your staff for a job well done, and then get started on those orientation programs to show off your new space.

Over thirty library professionals from diverse backgrounds manned the very popular “Career Café.” Attendees were able to meet with them one on one to discuss what their jobs are like, how they got their jobs, and any other pertinent subjects. At 1:00p.m., the panel discussions began in the auditorium. The first panel, “Job Seeking 101,” focused on some essential steps in the job-seeking process, including determining what skills are in demand, building a resume, searching for jobs on the internet, interview etiquette, and salary negotiations. Diane Goldstein from InfoCurrent kicked off this panel with the very encouraging news that New York is back and the job market for library professionals has picked up considerably. She is seeing increased demand for professionals with skills in

[This article is based on my presentation at the SLA Annual Conference, June 10, 2003.] Robin Holab-Abelman is the Vice-President of Clancy-Cullen’s library relocation division, where she has worked for 3 years. She has over 20 years of experience working in a variety of corporate and special libraries including Fluor Daniel, Camp Dresser & McKee and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Robin has an MLS from Simmons College in Boston. Her e-mail address is [email protected].

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the following areas: taxonomy and content management, knowledge management and competitive intelligence, executive search, records management, archives, vendor sales, and corporate/financial experience. Sarah Warner of Wontawk continued with her suggestions for building a professional resume. She stressed the necessity of always including your name, address, telephone number and personal email address and that your resumes should be free of typos. Above all else, she noted it is essential to be honest in your resume, as background checks are being done more often. Magdalene Chan from the Job Information Center of the New York Public Library spoke next. Her presentation reviewed how to use the Internet to search for library jobs. She highlighted a website she developed for the New York Public Library (www.nypl.org/branch and then click on “Job Information”) that leads to links for over fifteen Library job sites, as well as other general job sites, such as www.monster.com, www.hotjobs.com and www.careerbuilder.com. Diane Goldstein and Sarah Warner spoke next about interview etiquette. They reviewed the basic advice of interview grooming (i.e., look professional and wear your best suit or dress), and etiquette (turn off your cell phone and don’t bring coffee to the interview). They urged interviewees to arrive early, know the names of everyone they are to meet, and be prepared with questions.

An essential last step in the job seeking process is salary negotiations. Gloria Dinerman from Library Co-op addressed this difficult subject. She advised the audience to find out what the company salary range is and to do some financial calculations beforehand. To answer the question “What salary do you expect?” always give a figure in the middle of the salary range. She also handed out a sample dialog to consult before conducting a salary negotiation.

Many of the responses to the exit poll show that Career Day exceeded or met expectations. The Career Café and panel discussions were cited as being the best and/or most informative part of the day, followed by being able to meet with recruiters and library schools. An overwhelming majority considered Career Day to be a very helpful event.

After a short break, the second panel, “A Day in the Life of an Information Professional,” started. Librarians and information professionals from diverse backgrounds spoke about their jobs and described a typical day. Speakers included Nancy Gallenson, from LexisNexis, Rita Ormsby from Baruch College, Lucy Curci Gonzalez from Morgan Finnegan, Andrew Berner from the University Club, and Vandana Ranjan, an independent information broker. The audience listened raptly as each described their very different positions and responsibilities.

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Website Resources:

Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 1850-1990

Measuring Ethnic Populations By Louise Klusek

www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0029/t wps0029.html This working paper from the Census Bureau Population Division provides unofficial research on the foreign-born population of the United States. It updates some of the data published in Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970.

Ameristat www.prb.org/

Inter-University Program for Latino Research -IUPLR

“Race/Ethnicity” is one of the topics featured in this collection of demographic reports based on analysis of data collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. Reports often have links to sources and downloadable data. AmeriStat is a program of the Population Reference Bureau and the Social Science Data Analysis Network.

www.nd.edu/~iuplr/cic/index.html A consortium of eighteen university research centers and an official Census Information Center, the IUPLR offers data sets (in Excel) profiling the Latino population of states, counties and cities. It also offers country of origin statistics and data on the Latino school age population and the elderly. Data sets are extracted from official U.S. Census Summary tape files and supplemented with data from other government agencies.

CAB Multicultural Marketing Resource Center www.cabletvadbureau.com/MMRC/index.html The Cable TV Ad Bureau sponsors this site, which reports on the Asian-American, African-American, and Hispanic markets. “Facts and Figures” profiles each of these segments, offering data on age and gender distribution, household income, language usage, and selected product purchase data. Reports about values and attitudes are collected at “Psychographics and Cultural Insights.”

Latest Population Change and Migration Data Charts for U.S. Demographic Areas www.frey-demographer.org/usdata.html Using Census data from the past five censuses (from 1960 to 2000), this database is a tool for examining population trends for regions, states, and metropolitan areas in the United States. Current race-ethnic profiles are also available for these geographic areas. This database comes from William H. Frey, the noted demographer and director of the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN).

Census Bureau Minority Links www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hotlinks.html The U.S. Census Bureau designed this Web site to enable quick access to the latest data on ethnic population groups in the United States. Four groups are covered: Hispanic/Latino, Black/AfricanAmerican, Asian/Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native. The site includes links to Census data, demographic profiles and Census Bureau reports on social and economic characteristics of these populations.

Lewis Mumford Center for Comparative Urban and Regional Research http://mumford.albany.edu/census/index.asp

CensusScope

The Lewis Mumford Center focuses its research efforts on metropolitan racial and ethnic change, segregation, and diversity using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 Censuses. In addition to topical research reports, they offer the researcher “Data” in three formats: metro and city information, downloadable data series, and sortable lists. Use the lists to rank metropolitan areas of the U.S. by the percentage of the population that is of a particular ethnic background.

www.censusscope.org/ CensusScope, a product of the Social Science Data Analysis Network at the University of Michigan, offers tools for analyzing Census 2000 data. “Charts & Trends” (use the tabs at the top of the page) covers educational attainment and language, ethnicity, employment, migration and immigration, and housing characteristics for states, counties, and metropolitan areas. Race and segregation “Maps” and “Rankings” of the multiracial population for states and counties are another feature of this site.

Mapping Census 2000: The Geography of U.S. Diversity

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This Census Bureau Web site consists of national maps of year 2000, county-level data portraying the white, black, Asian, American Indian, Native Hawaiian, Hispanic, and mixed race populations. Individual maps, which can be modified by users, show total population, population percentage change since 1990, each group’s percentage of the population, and the percentage of the population under age 18 for each race. Datasets used to create the report are available in a separate file.

ERsys, a relocation consulting firm, combines market research and GIS technology to provide comprehensive profiles of 2,600 U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. The city profiles include maps of the ethnic makeup of the cities with accompanying text and tables. Additional maps profile education, income, age, and other demographic breakdowns of the population.

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Minority Business Development Center. Demographic Trends

Latino Database Project

www.mbda.gov/index.php?section_id=1&bucket_id=16&format_id=19

Launched in January 2004 at the City University of New York’s Center for Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies, the Latino Database Project will work jointly with CUNY’s Center for Urban Research to track the Latino population of the New York metropolitan region and the United States. Its first report The Latino Population and the Transformation of New York is drawn from microdata samples from the U.S. Census

http://web.gc.cuny.edu/lastudies/

MBDA, a unit of the U.S. Department of Commerce, publishes reports on minority markets with the goal of fostering the growth of minority business. Dynamic Diversity: Projected Changes in U.S. Race and Ethnic Composition 1995 to 2050 projects changes in the U.S. ethnic minority population at the national and state levels. Other recent titles include Minority Purchasing Power: 2000 to 2045 and Minority Population Growth: 1995 to 2050.

New York State Data Center www.nylovesbiz.com/nysdc/census2000/DemoProfiles1.asp

Race Contours 2000 Project

The New York State Data Center offers “Demographic Profiles” with year 2000 Census data on the number and percentage of racial groups in the population. The reports (in PDF format) cover counties, metropolitan areas, congressional districts, cities, villages and places.

www.usc.edu/schools/sppd/research/census2000/race_census/index.htm The Race Contours project at the University of Southern California studies race and ethnicity in Los Angeles County, California, and the United States using multiracial data from the 2000 Census. Summary tables are available in its report on Multiracial Patterns in the 50 States.

Louise Klusek is Business Librarian and Assistant Professor at the William & Anita Newman Library, Baruch College of the City University of New York. Prior to joining Baruch, she worked in the Corporate Library of Salomon Smith Barney, now part of Citigroup.

Tables for Race and Ethnic Distributions in the United States www.eeoc.gov/stats/census/94-171.html The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) presents race and ethnicity data from the 2000 Census in reports that have detailed demographics at various geographic levels, including states, counties, metropolitan areas, and places with populations greater than 50,000. Data for both single race groups and the four largest multiple race groups are tabulated. Files are available in HTML and PDF format.

Ethnic Populations in New York: Census2000 New York City www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/ayala/centro/Census2000/NY C/index.htm Maps and Census data on the Latino population in the five boroughs of New York City are offered as part of a larger study on Latinos in the Northeast by Professor Cesar Ayala of the Centro de Estudios Puertorriquenos.

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