System Meeting October 19, 2012

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Birds of a Feather

Aaron's PC performance improvement tips & tricks

• Disabling unneeded software: http://plum.pls-net.org/twiki/bin/view/Members/ComputerMaintenanceProcedures#Computer_Cleanup
• When ordering computers, make sure that they have a parallel port adapter if you use a Star SP200 printer - http://plum.pls-net.org/twiki/bin/view/Members/AggregatePcPurchase#BaseComputerMCR

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Resource Sharing

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System Meeting Report Cards

Program

Accessing & Creating Local Content

Barb Ciambor, RRLC Outreach Librarian, will provide a guided tour of the New York Heritage Digital Collections and Historical Newspapers of the Rochester, New York Region databases.

NY Heritage Digital Collections, a project of the NY3Rs Association, Inc. provides the public with free access to digital collections of historical and cultural interest. NewYorkHeritage.org is a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists and others who are interested in learning more about the people, places and institutions of historical New York State. The site provides immediate free access to more than 160 distinct digital collections that reflect New York State's long history. These collections represent a broad range of historical, scholarly and cultural materials that are held in libraries, museums and archives throughout the state. Collection items include photographs, letters, diaries, directories, maps, newspapers, books and more.

Historical Newspapers of the Rochester, NY Region provides indexed access to selected historical newspapers from the service area of the Rochester Regional Library Council: Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Wayne and Wyoming counties. The content is limited to microfilmed newspapers. Currently included are newspapers from Brockport, Geneva, Canandaigua, Fairport and Newark and a run of the Catholic Courier.

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Chris Finger from Geneva and Peg Pelletier from Newark will provide an overview of the workflow behind the process of adding a digital collection.

System Meeting Documentation

• Agenda - October 19, 2012 System Meeting
• Summary - October 19, 2012 System Meeting.pdf
• Oct2012ReportCard.pdf

Link to previous Meeting

September 21, 2012 System Meeting