I have sent an email to Ms Ebert > Loretta Ebert > Director, New York State Research Library > Cultural Education Center > Room 10D34 > Albany, NY 12230 > Email (an email attachment is okay): LEBERT@mail.nysed.gov > or FAX: 518-486-6880) in support of weekend hours for the NYS Library. I hope that she can use it as *ammunition* for her campaign, and I hope that many, many of YOU have done likewise. Nancy a genealogist in Michigan, but with New York roots ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill & Cathy McGrath" <seamus@nycap.rr.com> To: <GEN-NYS-L@rootsweb.com>; <ny-warwashsar-L@rootsweb.com>; <nywestch@rootsweb.com>; <NY-HUDSONRV-L@rootsweb.com>; <ny-mOHAWK-VALLEY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 1:54 PM Subject: [GEN-NYS] NYS Library Possible Weekend Hours > As a genealogy researcher I am sure you would love to be able to utilize > the wonderful research material available at the New York State Library in > Albany during the weekend. This would make it so much easier for out of > state travelers and especially for those local researchers who work full > time. > > Please read the following two items that deal with an effort to have > weekend hours at the library and if you see, fit please write a letter, > email or fax as requested below. > > As a presentation to the Regents on this topic is being made on January 8, > time is of the utmost importance. If this proposal for weekend hours > interest you, send an email or fax before January 8 to have your voice > heard. > > Thanks, > > Bill McGrath > TIGS Project Coordinator > Clifton Park, NY > > Email From Jeanne Keefe - Troy Irish Genealogy Webmaster > > Hello Everyone: > > On Friday I received this email from Loretta Ebert, Director, New York > State Library and I am asking for your help. Loretta, who was previously > my Director of Libraries at RPI, moved on to the NYS Library last summer > and before she left Rensselaer I asked her to look into the possibility > of keeping the NYS library open for one day over the weekend. Since most > of us work 9-5, M-F, we are unable to do any research at our State > Library because we can't get there when its open during the week. I also > mentioned that many genealogists travel to the Albany-Troy-Schenectady > area to do family research and are severely limited by the library's > present schedule. Weekend hours, even if only one day, would allow more > of us to access the very important resources that are only available at > the NYS Library. > > In September, I met Loretta and she mentioned that she was encountering > some resistance to the idea, but felt confident that she would be able to > open the library, maybe on Saturdays, at some point late in the Fall. In > the following letter you will see that she is asking for some help in > convincing the Board of Regents to allow her to open the library on the > weekend and has asked for letters (or emails)in support of this move. > > Please read her letter below and take a few minutes to mail, email or fax > a brief letter to Loretta in support of her initiative. I think it is a > very important opportunity for genealogists and historians to have their > concerns voiced and research needs recognized. This is also a unique > opportunity to be involved in a change that has the potential to improve > access to these important records and resources, especially for those of > us needing to do family research in the New York State Library. For more > information about the NYS Research Library's genealogy collections use > this link: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/gengen.htm.Thank you all very much, > in advance, for taking the time to read this and > I hope you can take a few minutes to send Loretta a response by the end > of the week. > > Jeanne Keefe > TIGS Webmaster and > Visual Resources Librarian > Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute > Architecture Library > 100 8th Street, Greene 326 > Troy,, NY 12180 > tel: 518-276-2727 > email: keefej@rpi.edu > > Email From Director, New York State Library > > Loretta Ebert > Director, New York State Library > Cultural Education Center - Rm 10D34 > Albany, NY 12230 > 518-473-1189 > LEBERT@mail.nysed.gov > > Hi Jeanne, > Happy New Year! I am preparing a presentation to the Regents in early > January (8th) about opening the library on Saturdays. As I recall, > you were supportive of this idea. I wonder if you would be willing to > send a letter to me advocating extended hours for the library, citing > difficulties with the current Monday-Friday 9 to 5 schedule and the > lack of access to the "wonderful" resources of the New York State Library. > > Use whatever perspectives you have: librarian, genealogist, local > historian, or all of them! I would greatly appreciate it. Also, if > you know of others who could provide similar supportive letters, would you > ask them to send such to me too, or let me know their names? Thanks > so much for your help, I think these kinds of testimonials are most > effective with the power structure around here. > > My contact info: > Loretta Ebert > Director, New York State Research Library > Cultural Education Center > Room 10D34 > Albany, NY 12230 > Email (an email attachment is okay): LEBERT@mail.nysed.gov > or FAX: 518-486-6880 > > Thanks a million! > Loretta > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > GEN-NYS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.16.3/614 - Release Date: 1/2/2007 > >