Weekly Update – 10/05/2016
Weekly Update for October 5, 2016 Take a look at some of the events, stories, and resources available to library professionals in the CLRC region.
DLD Announces Free Webinars
If you can’t attend a live session, these webinars will be recorded and available for free in the WebJunction course catalog. Teen Programming: A Mover & Shaker’s Recipe for Impact and Success (Resheduled) Tuesday, October 4, 2016 3:00 to 4:00 pm Registration: http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/teen-programming.html When “Change Agent” Courtney Saldana was featured as a 2016 Library Journal…
31st Annual Leatherstocking School Library Conference
Transforming Libraries; Transforming Learning Thursday, October 27 Vernon Downs Hotel, Vernon, New York Join us for the many engaging breakout sessions presented by school librarians and classroom teachers. Visit the great vendor area. Keynote Speaker: Doug McIntosh, educator, owner of the Doug’s Dirt/Cultivating Learning Environments Blog, and co-founder of Groupwerk Consulting, San Diego, CA. Featured…
Onondaga Free Library Featured in YALSA Blog
Congratulations to Alyssa Newton and the Onondaga Free Library on being chosen to create a “Snack Break” video on their coding program for ALA’s YALSA (Young Adult Library Services Association) blog. View here: http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2016/09/28/yalsa-snack-break-coding-libraries-learning/ YALSA will be offering a webinar on coding on October 20. See details here.
This Week’s Sustainability Spotlight
Trumansburg Library Goes Solar This week’s Sustainability Spotlight comes to us from Trumansburg, New York, in the heart of the Finger Lakes Region. Trumansburg’s beloved Ulysses Philomathic Library has begun generating solar power in an effort to be greener and keep operating costs down. Through a Library Construction grant of $55,313, awarded by the New…
STEM Grant Opportunity
The National Science Foundation, through the Advancing Informal STEM Learning program provides support to advance the design and development of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) learning opportunities for the public in informal environments. The application deadline is November 8, 2016.