The Gladys Brooks Foundation provides support to nonprofit organizations in New York state. The Foundation focuses its grant making on libraries, educational institutions, and hospitals and clinics. Grant applications will be considered only for major expenditures, generally between $50,000 and $100,000. Funds are intended to be used for capital projects, including equipment and endowments. Applications…
Rome Memorial Hospital has announced a new collaborative relationship with St. Joseph’s Health in Syracuse (both are CLRC member institutions). The two hospitals will work together to provide expanded patient services and high quality care. Read more here.
Central New York has amazing young heroes. Show your appreciation – take the first steps – pass this along. The Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes, founded by author T. A. Barron, invites applications for its 2016 awards. The Barron Prize celebrates inspiring, public-spirited young leaders ages 8 to 18 who have made a significant…
Weekly Update for March 22, 2016 Take a look at some of the events, stories, and resources available to library professionals in the CLRC region.
Here is a letter from Jeremy Johannesen, Executive Director of the New York Library Association, urging you to support a CLRC member library. Greetings, I am writing to enlist your support in aiding a fellow New York library in defending the constitutionality of NYS Education Law 259. The DeWitt Community Library, is chartered as a…
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 In 2002, a school district in Goleta, California, attempted an experiment. They introduced DPEA, the Dos…
The New York Library Association is urging library supporters to take action. Write to your legislators and tell them that library funding is not negotiable. Both the NYS Senate and NYS Assembly have released information from their budget bills and both versions have the same numbers included for libraries. State Library Aid: +$5M over…
The Syracuse University College of Law has created a scholarship fund in memory of Beau Biden to aid law students with an interest in children’s rights. Biden graduated from the College of Law in 1994. Read more here.
The New York Archives Conference, John A. Woods, and Larry Naukam are offering multiple $100 professional development grants to enable archives students, archivists, librarians, and others with archives or records management responsibilities to attend the conference. The 2016 New York Archives Conference will be held June 8 – 10th, 2016 at SUNY Plattsburgh, in Plattsburgh,…
Ridge College of Intelligence Studies and Applied Sciences at Mercyhurst Univerity in Erie, Pennsylvania has finalized an agreement with Syracuse University’s iSchool whereby undergraduates have the opportunity to accelerate their studies toward Master of Science degrees – Information Management or Library and Information Science. Under the plan, Mercyhurst students would take two summer and two…