New Initiatives Grant Final Report “OPaL’s News Network” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. Our project offered kids an opportunity to learn about reporting and creating a story from a documentary film maker, Ramona Persaud. Ramona created three instructional videos that led viewers through the process of developing, shooting and…
LOEX 2022 May 2022 In the beginning of May I had the pleasure of attending LOEX’s conference in Ypsilanti, MI. I’m a LIS graduate student at Syracuse University and am in a scholarship program for information literacy. In this program, a small group of graduate students in studying LIS are trained to teach instructional learning,…
LOEX 2022 May 2022 Thanks to the CLRC professional development grant, I was able to attend and present at my very first in-person library conference! After encouragement to present the development and outcomes of my student worker accessibility training tutorial by my supportive librarian mentor, my poster proposal was selected to be included in the…
I am so very grateful for the Professional Development Award I was awarded from CLRC, which allowed me to take this very informative online course. Collection analysis is a very important task that librarians must perform in order to insure that the collections we are sharing are diverse and contain accurate, up-to-date information.
Because of the CLRC’s professional development grant, I was able to take a 4-week class about the tools in embedded business librarianship. I’m currently the Outreach and Digital Services Librarian at the Utica Public Library. Being relatively new to my position, I was seeking out additional instruction that went beyond my MLIS in the realm of outreach.
I am truly grateful for the opportunity to take this online course thanks to a CLRC Professional Development Award. During four weeks of online discussions and research, I learned about the history of interlibrary loan and codes, copyright compliance, ILL policies and procedures, and impacts on modern ILL services.
We used our grant to acquire equipment to create a BPL Virtual Reality Tour kit. The kit is available for organizations and businesses to check out, so they can make a VR Tour and post it online.
This year I was fortunate enough to have received the CLRC Professional Development Award to attend the 2021 New York Library Association Conference in Syracuse, NY. This was my second in-person conference since I got my MLIS in 2018. This year’s conference was fabulous as I met several new librarian friends to network with and learned new ways to positively impact my community.
New Initiatives Grant Final Report “School Story Walks” Please provide a brief narrative explaining your project and its outcomes. Our project began when we recognized that we could share our StoryWalks with the elementary schools in our district, and give teachers an opportunity to share books with their students while outside their buildings. Using our…
This project was meant to bring together the concept of little libraries and digital forms of information in a community setting. We built 4 little libraries, 2 solar power systems and installed them in 4 quadrants of a rural/suburban town. Most importantly we began a collaboration between the school district, local entities and Town and State government to provide books and digital information at specific locations.