Home Safety – Making Your Home a Safe Haven at 6:30 pm at the Esther Bone Branch Library located at 950 Pinetree Rd. SE in Rio Rancho, NM
This seminar provides overviews of common safety hazards found within different rooms of a home, and safety tips to eliminate them.  Jack Corder of Liberty Mutual Insurance will conduct the workshop. This program is free and no tickets or prior sign-ups are required.  For more information please contact the library at 891-5012, extension 3128, or email rnankin@ci.rio-rancho.nm.us.

Alliance for Information Science and Technology Innovation (AISTI) , Santa Fe, NM

The current SLA President, Stephen Abram will be leading off the conference with a presentation on "Building Capacity for Change: Preparing Our Enterprises for New Information Strategies." Many AISTI organizational members have personal members who belong to SLA as well. Registration for this premier national/international event is not limited to AISTI members, if you haven't attended previously, many of us who have encourage you to attend.

The Grantsmanship Center’s (TGCI) signature Grantsmanship Training Program, Santa Fe, NM.

Hosted by the New Mexico State Library, this intensive five-day, “hands-on” workshop takes you step-by-step through all the stages of writing a grant proposal.  Participants learn the TGCI writing format, team up with classmates to prepare and write a proposal, and investigate funding sources for their individual organizations.  If you choose, you may draft a proposal for your own organization during the workshop.  Participants have the opportunity to use the extensive materials in the State Library’s Foundation Center Cooperating Collection, a vital resource for New Mexicans looking for funding opportunities.  

Program tuition of $875 includes a one-year TGCI Membership, which affords follow-up proposal review and access to TGCI’s exclusive funding databases.  The workshop is geared to both novice and advanced grantseekers.  In the past, there has been a good mix of library, government, and nonprofit staff.

Because TGCI workshops are designed to address the current needs and program activities of each participant, enrollment is limited to 30.  A limited number of half-tuition scholarships are available to organizations with annual budgets of less than $300,000.  To register for the May 12-16 workshop, or to apply for a scholarship, contact the TGCI registrar toll-free at 1-800-421-9512 or enroll online at http://www.tgci.com.  If you have questions about local facilities and arrangements, please contact Linda Harris, Reference Services Manager, New Mexico State Library, at )(505) 476-9763 or e-mail Linda.Harris@state.nm.us 

Rio Grande Chapter of the Special Library Association is inviting you to attend a presentation by Dr. James Matarazzo from noon-2pm at the Miller Stratvert Law Firm at 500 Marquette Ave NW, Suite 1100, in Albuquerque.

Why?: As electronic resources proliferate on employee desktops and corporate and academic budgets tighten, special librarians have had to redefine themselves and the unique value they contribute to their organizations' bottom lines. In this atmosphere, special libraries strive to closely align themselves with the strategic needs of their organizations and actively demonstrate their value.

Our presenter: James M. Matarazzo has consulted on corporate libraries for the past 25 years. He has work for over 55 for profit corporations and dozens of not- for-profit organizations on the establishment, evaluation and strategic role of libraries in these organizations. Dr. Matarazzo has studied corporate libraries in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He regularly teaches a corporate library course(s) at Simmons, the University of Arizona, and Wayne State University.

He is dean and professor emeritus at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science in Boston. He is the author of a number of SLA publications including: Closing the Corporate Library, Corporate Library Excellence, and with Laurence Prusak, two editions of Valuing Corporate Libraries and Information Management and Japanese Success. His latest book is Knowledge and Special Libraries. (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999)

Join the Rio Grande Chapter of SLA in welcoming Dr. Matarazzo to Albuquerque where he will speak on a topic which is important to all of us.

* Parking in building will be validated

Folk Music at the Esther Bone Library, Rio Rancho
The folk music trio, The Ancient Bones, will perform at the Esther Bone Memorial Library on Tuesday, May 20th at 6:30 pm.  The library is located at 950 Pinetree Rd. SE in Rio Rancho.  The concert will be held in the library’s program room.

There will be no admission charge for this event, however free tickets are required and available at the library’s adult information desk.  You may also call, 891-5012, extension 3128, for more information.

The Ancient Bones include Chuck Mensching, Heather Simpson and Kelly Campbell.  They have been performing together for almost five years.  They perform acoustic folk music and offer beautiful harmonies backed by acoustic guitar.

Author's Speak Series Presents Ana Baca, Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos, NM

Ana Baca graduated from Stanford University (B.A.) and the University of New Mexico (M.A.) with degrees in English literature.  Her first novel Mama Fela's Girls was honored with the New Mexico Book Award for “Best Historical Fiction” in 2007 and was first runner up for the 2007 Zia Book Award given by New Mexico Press Women. She is also the author of three children's picture books (Benito's Bizcochitos, Chiles for Benito, and Benito's Sopaipillas).  As Marketing, PR and Communications Manager at Bueno Foods and through her writing, she hopes to help celebrate and preserve New Mexico culture.

The High Desert Amateur Radio Club of New Mexico will be giving a presentation on amateur radio at the Esther Bone Memorial Library.  The program is to be held on Saturday at 10:00 am in the library program room.

This program is free and no prior sign-ups are required. The workshop is geared to all ages. If you need more information you may contact the library at 891-5012, extension 3128 or email rnankin@ci.rio-rancho.nm.us.

New Mexico Digital Preservation Conference (DigIn), University of New Mexico Continuing
Education Conference Center in Albuquerque

The E-Records/E-Discovery Connection: What Public Sector Agencies Need To Know.
Jason Baron, Director of Litigation. Office of General Counsel. National Archives and Records Administration

In this portion of the workshop, the foundational elements of what constitutes good recordkeeping in the age of digital government will be explored, as a way of managing the new demands placed on agencies in light of recent changes in federal and state rules of civil procedure regarding e-discovery.

Panel Discussion – Interactive Forum: Hot Topics in E-Discovery
Panelists: Jason Baron and Craig Ball

The latest cases and the most controversial areas of e-discovery will be explored, including how to cope with email, backup tapes, metadata, native file production, what constitutes an adequate legal hold, and more participation to better share emerging issues and best practices in this area.

Presentation 1:  Flatland to Virtual: Transcendence and the Digital Dimension. Richard Pearce Moses, Director of Digital Government Information. Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.

The information revolution has changed the very foundation of the information professions - librarians, archivists, and records managers.  The impact on the professions demands more than a transformation of paper-based theory and practice. To thrive in the digital era, we must transcend traditional understandings of professional boundaries.

Presentation 2:  Beyond Keywords: Emerging Best Practices in the Area of Search and Information Retrieval       
Jason Baron, Director of Litigation,Office of General Counsel. National Archives and Records Administration

With the growing volume and complexity of electronically stored information comes new challenges in how to perform a reasonable search for relevant records and evidence.  This session will explore the limitations of present-day keyword searching, and will look at ways in which agencies may go about improving the accuracy while decreasing the costs of searching in response to e-discovery and other external access demands.

Presentation 3:  The RIM Ecosystem: Thinking about Managing Records in a Whole New Way.
L. Reynolds Cahoon, Director – Advanced Programs, Lockheed Martin Corporation

This session explains the RIM Ecosystem, and its component parts providing five key ideas that can transform your approach to the organizational change an effective RIM initiative requires.  It provides an introduction to analytical tools for understanding and overcoming barriers and a records management capability model for assessing your current program and charting your future.  Through an examination of the elements of the RIM Ecosystem, The presentation will explain how the analysis of the elements of the RIM Ecosystem can help you develop a sustainable program to manage the preservation of digital records and related assets.

Presentation 4:  Nuts & Bolts: Preserving Digital Content at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Cathy Hartman, Assistant Dean of Libraries for Digital Information Technologies
Mark Phillips, Head of Digital Projects Unit

This presentation will cover background information about the growth of digital collections at the University of North Texas, how those collections affected the design of our preservation architecture, and how the architecture was designed and created.   Included will be a description of the heterogeneous digital collections that complicate the design of the digital archive and why existing solutions do not meet our preservation needs.  A significant portion of the allotted time will be dedicated to a thorough description of the architecture of the UNT system that manages digital content, allows access to the content, and preserves it for the long term.
                                                                         
Presentation 5:  iRODS: Integrated Rule‑Oriented Data System.
Mark Conrad, Archives Specialist, Electronic Records Archives
Richard Marciano,Director of the Sustainable Archives & Library Technologies

This presentation will examine iRODS, the Integrated Rule‑Oriented Data System, a powerful new open‑source approach to managing digital data. iRODS builds on the ten years of experience of the DICE Group in developing the widely‑used Storage Resource Broker (SRB).  The most powerful new feature, for which the Integrated Rule‑Oriented Data System is named, is an innovative "rule engine" that lets users easily accomplish complex data management tasks.

Presentation 6:  An Open and Shut Case: Growth, Evolution, and Closure in Archival Information Systems.  
Ken Thibodeau, Director, Electronic Records Archives Program

This session will explore how these challenges have been addressed in NARA’s Electronic Records Archives Program.  It will show how the ERA system addresses requirements for growth, evolution, and closure.  It will illustrate how the ERA architecture supports the open requirements while enabling the construction of archival “mini-systems” for the preservation of individual series and other archival aggregates of records.  It will include a progress report on development of ERA, which is expected to go live at the end of June.

Presentation 7:  An Invitation to Project Management.
Rosemary Flynn Pleva, Librarian and Manager, Library and Information Services, Energy and Environmental Research Center

This presentation explores some basic concepts of project management, including project life cycle, documentation, communication, and teamwork. If you have written a term paper, planned a wedding, planted a garden, or done any number of other activities, you have managed a project. What you learned from those can be applied to your digital preservation projects.

Presentation 8: Electronic Knowledge Management tools for today.
Jorge Ramon, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Scientific Software Engineering Group
Shelly Spearing,Los Alamos National Laboratory, ScientificSoftware Engineering Group

Through the use of electronic Knowledge Management (eKM) tools, knowledge can be distilled from large sets of records. In this presentation, we will demonstrate approaches our team has taken to identify patterns in, and synthesize knowledge from, large repositories of unstructured text.

Presentation 9: PeDALS: Persistent Digital Archives and Library System.
Richard Pearce Moses, Director of Digital Government Information. Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.

Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records is developing an integrated system to curate large collections of digital publications and archival electronic records.  PeDALS has two technical goals. The first goal will be to develop a curatorial rationale to support an automated, integrated workflow to process collections of digital publications and records. The second goal will be to implement "digital stacks" using LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) as an inexpensive, storage network that can preserve the authenticity and integrity of the collections. PeDALS also seeks to build a community of shared practice so that the system meets the needs of a wide range of repositories that could then support the ongoing development of the system and promote best practic

Presentation 10:  Towards a Data Model for New Mexico’s Public Records: Lessons Learned.
Daphne DeLeon, Administrator, Nevada State Library and Archives

This presentation will focus on the work completed as an NHPRC ERR fellow to create a data model for New Mexico’s public records by “extending” the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM).  Discussion will include information needs as distilled from the general records retention schedules, “gaps” in coverage found within the Global Justice XML Data Dictionary, how these gaps were bridged, how the Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) data dictionary was used, how the data element listing can be used, potential implementation strategies. 

The twisted folk music duo, Charmed, will perform at the Esther Bone Memorial Library on Thursday, June 19th at 6:30 pm.  This program is free; however tickets are required and available at the adult information desk.

The Esther Bone Memorial Library is located at 950 Pinetree Rd. SE, in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.  The telephone number for more information is 891-5012, extension 3128.  You may also email rnankin@ci.rio-rancho.nm.us.

Author's Speak Series Presents Robert Benjamin, Mesa Public Library, Los Alamos, NM

Robert  Benjamin is a Los Alamos science education writer and playwright.  His popular children’s book about fluid instability, Spills and Ripples, not only offers science projects using kitchen physics, but also clearly presents many underlying concepts of experimental science.

His stage plays specialize in issues central to seniors' lives.  Time Enough, a late-in-life romance, was a big hit in Albuquerque (June 2006) and is slated for two NM productions during 2008, including Los Alamos (March 2008), and possibly Off-Broadway.  He’s currently working on Parted Waters, a full-length drama about crypto-Jews in NM, commissioned by a professional theater in Phoenix.  His shorter plays include Offsides, Gorilla Tactics, Presents For Me, Warm Ashes, Fresh Out, The Search Party, Avocado Wagon, Sunrise at Otowi Bridge, Working Out,* Handle With Care,* Cruising,* Mesa by Moonlight,*  Yogurt Security.* (* co-written with Elaine Jarvik).