Upstate NY Chapter of the Special Libraries Association
Fall 2003 Program

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Taking the Fear Out of Finance:
Successful Library Budgeting

Friday, November 14, 2003
Statler Hotel, Ithaca, NY

Whether you work in an academic institution, a public library, or for a corporation, understanding finances is important.
Join us as we examine the challenges and complexities of library budgeting.
Presenters will share suggestions and best practices for effectively dealing with financial management.
This all-day program promises to provide insights in budgeting and on making a convincing business case for financial support.

Download the complete program brochure
-- in PDF format -- here!

Registration Fees:
UNYSLA / SLA members: $50
Non-members: $65
Library and information studies students: $25

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AGENDA

8:30 - 9:00am -- Registration, Statler Hotel, Ampitheater Foyer

9:00 - 9:15 am -- Welcome & Introduction
Karen Kreizman Reczek, UNYSLA President

9:15 - 10:30 am -- "New Century Libraries: Now More Than Ever"
Carol Desch, NYS State Library

10:30 - 10:45 am -- Break

10:45 - Noon -- "Diagnostic Budgeting"
Pamela Rollo, Lexis/Nexis

Noon - 1:00 pm -- Lunch, Ballroom A

1:00 - 2:15 pm -- "Adapting to the Shifting Boundaries of Science"
Jean Poland, Cornell University

2:15 - 2:30 pm -- Break

2:30 - 3:45 pm -- "Practioner's Perspective" Panel Discussion
Ruth Balkin, Maureen Kays, Susan Kaufman, & Janet Steiner

3:45 - 4:00 pm -- Wrap-Up

4:00 - 5:00 pm -- Networking Reception & Library Tours

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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

• Ruth G. Balkin recognized the market for freelance law library services in 1978, while handing part-time library duties for a small law firm. Taking her employer as her first client, she marketed her services to other law firms, accounting firms and corporations. The business has since evolved to offer a variety of research and consulting services to corporations, companies of all sizes and consultants. Specialty areas are Legal Industry Marketing and Trade Show Follow-up. Ruth is active in several national information organizations, including the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) and the Association of Independent Information Professionals (AIIP). She has received recognition for her volunteer efforts, teaching, speaking, and writing in the industry. Locally, Ruth is a founding member of the local chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and a long-time member of the Rochester Professional Consultants Network. Ruth received an M.A. in French Language and Literature from the University of Connecticut and teaching certification from the State of New York.
  
  
• Carol Desch joined the staff of the New York State Library's Division of Library Development in 1984 and has served as the Coordinator of Statewide Library Services and Director of the Division of Library Development since 1996. Prior to becoming Coordinator of Statewide Library Services, Carol managed several statewide programs and initiatives, including the NYSILL statewide interlibrary loan program, the New York Medical Information Services Program, the statewide public library data collection program and the development and implementation of new minimum standards for public libraries. Carol also developed new legislation to advance libraries, and coordinated the administration of over $88 million in state aid to localities. Carol has been active in the New York Library Association (NYLA), serving as Treasurer and as President of NYLA's Reference and Adult Services Section. She also served as President of the American Library Association's Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies State Library Agencies Section for 1999-2000 and as Director-at-Large for ALA's Public Library Association for three years. Before joining the staff of the New York State Library, she worked at the Bethlehem Public Library in Delmar, New York, where she spearheaded a nationally recognized job and career information service. Carol is recipient of the 2001 Distinguished Alumna Award in Information Science and Policy from the University at Albany, State University of New York. Carol received a BA in Education and Social Sciences from the State University College of New York in Oneonta. She is a certified teacher, school library media specialist, and public librarian. She received her Masters in Library Science in 1977 from the University at Albany.
  
  
• Susan Kaufman is the Director of the Knowledge Center at Manning Selvage & Lee, an international Public Relations firm. Before joining Manning Selvage and Lee, she has worked at Time Warner, Newsweek, ABCNews, Morgan Stanley and The Conference Board. She is currently an adjunct faculty member at the NYU Management Institute and the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. A longtime violist, she is Assistant Principal Violist with the Bridgeport Symphony as well as an active freelancer within the New York tri-state area. She holds an A.B. from Barnard College and M.S. from Columbia University. She is a member of SCIP, SLA, and sits on the board of the Villa Lobos Music Society.
  
  
• Maureen T. Kays is Director of Information Services, Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC, in Syracuse, NY where she is responsible for the supervision, development and budget for both the library and records management departments. Prior to joining Bond, Schoeneck & King, she was a Reference/Circulation Librarian at the University of Maine Law Library. Maureen has held several other librarian positions in laws firms include at Foley, Hoag & Eliot and Social Law Library in Boston. Maureen is very active in professional organizations include serving on the Finance Committee and the Executive Committee of the Central NY Library Resources Council and has held various leadership positions in the AALL of Upper NY. She has an A.B. in English from Marywood College, and an M.L.S. from Simmons.

  
  
• Jean Poland is Cornell University's Associate University Librarian for Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences. She came to Cornell in 1999 from Indiana University where she was Head of Swain Hall Library (physics, astronomy, mathematics, and computer science). She has held positions in several US science and technology libraries and served as an ALA/USIA Fellow to the Asian Institute of Technology in Thailand. Jean is involved in a number of Cornell University Library's digital projects including the arXiv, the World Digital Mathematics Library, and the Electronic Mathematics Archive Network Initiative.
  
  
• Pam Rollo is currently Vice President with LexisNexis supporting both information professionals and sales associates in their efforts to identify smart solutions to current business information challenges. Pam provides strategy for the Premier Account program. Prior to joining LexisNexis, Pam served as Director for Information Resources for Credit Suisse First Boston, a global investment bank where she coordinated the services of approximately 70 team members globally providing enquiry services, in-house consulting, online contract management, and records. During the twenty-five years of Pam's career, she has worked as a public librarian in Houston, Texas; started one of the first research functions for executive recruiting in Miami, Florida; and periodically taken a gamble on self-employment. She has written a fair share of budgeting documents for a variety of economic conditions and for several audiences and has made presentation panels several times at the Special Libraries Association annual meeting and at both the US and European meetings of the European Business Information Conference. Pam also teaches library school at Pratt Institute in New York City as an Adjunct Professor. Pam has contributed the bulk of her service to the Special Libraries Association (SLA) to the Business and Finance (B&F) Division, which has a healthy subdivision within the New York Chapter as well. Pam was Chair of B&F in 1999. She is currently serving as Director on the SLA Board and is running for the office of SLA President-Elect. Pam was granted her M.S. in Library Service from Columbia University in New York City and her B.A. in History from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York.
  
  
  
• Janet Steiner has been the Director of the Tompkins County Public Library since 1993. Under her leadership a new library opened in the heart of Ithaca in 2000. Prior to that, she was the Director of the South Central Regional Library Council, a fourteen county research library consortium, headquartered in Ithaca. Before moving to New York, she was the Library Director of the Elk Grove Village Public Library in Illinois, the Director of the University Without Walls Program at the College of Racine, and Instructor in Children's Literature. She is a graduate of Leadership Tompkins. In 1996, she was named Director of the Year, by the Finger Lakes Library System. Janet is past president of the Ithaca Downtown Business Women, past president of the NYLA, a member of the Ithaca Rotary Club. She was also a member of the New York State Regent's Blue Ribbon Commission on Library Services.

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