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New Library Privacy Guidelines From American Library Association

Over the last year the ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee (IFC) Privacy Subcommittee has been developing Library Privacy Guidelines to provide libraries strategies and best practices for protecting the privacy of library users. The ALA IFC approved these four new guidelines: Library Privacy Guidelines for Public Access Computers and Networks: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/library-privacy-guidelines-public-access-computers-and-networks Library Privacy Guidelines for Library…

New York Heritage – August Spotlight Feature

This month, New York Heritage Digital Collections proudly spotlights digital selections from the Richard Linke Collection of Adirondacks Re-Viewed Photographs from the Adirondack Museum. Read the August Spotlight here.

lynda.com – GIS on the Web

CLRC offers its member constituents (including members of our five participating library systems and individual members) access to the entire lynda.com training library at no charge. For more information on how to request an access code, please click here GIS on the Web by Jason VanHorn When Geographic Information Systems (GIS) meet some of the…

Weekly Update – 7/27/2016

Weekly Update for July 27, 2016 Take a look at some of the events, stories, and resources available to library professionals in the CLRC region.

Youth Code Project – August 18

CLRC is a sponsor of the AT&T Youth Code Project at the Tech Garden in Syracuse on August 18. Participants will receive a list of coding programs at CNY libraries, so that they can keep learning in our amazing community spaces. Please send Matthew Kopel details about your library’s coding programs to be included in…

Sustainability Spotlight Focus on Grand Valley State University in Michigan

Grand Valley State University’s (Allendale, Michigan) $65 million Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons opened in June 2013. It is a strong example of a sustainable and resilient, and possibly regenerative, library– from its initial impulse to truly put students first and create a building that supports a full range of their needs,…

Sustainability Spotlight – Green Warriors

Last week’s sustainability Spotlight focuses on the “Green Warriors” Green Warriors Help NYLA Increase Sustainability Awareness The New York Library Association (NYLA) worked with the Green Warriors, a team of MBA students from the University at Albany (SUNY), to develop initial stages of a program that would assist member libraries and their local communities advance…

NN/LM – Application for Outreach Funding

The National Network of Libraries of Medicine Mid-Atlantic Region invites applications for their current round of outreach funding. Five award types are available for outreach projects that: * Enhance clinicians’ and public health workers’ abilities to find and use biomedical and health information in practice and for patient education * Strengthen the involvement of libraries…

NEXT WEEK – Events for Historical Records Repositories

Captioning Instructional Videos – Four-Week Course Date: Begins August 1, 2016 Price: $130 ASCLA Member; $175 ALA Member; Nonmember $210; Student $100 Association of Specialized and Cooperative Library Agencies offers a four-week course on creating and synchronizing captions for library instructional videos for patrons who are deaf or suffer from hearing impairments. Participants will be…

lynda.com – Google Cloud Platform Essential Training

CLRC offers its member constituents (including members of our five participating library systems and individual members) access to the entire lynda.com training library at no charge. For more information on how to request an access code, please click here Learn about the services available in the Google Cloud Platform. Like other cloud vendors, Google’s services…