CLRC

LILRC Webinar: Learn Interactive Marketing with Augmented Reality Technology
2024-04-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Patchogue-Medford Library sits on Main Street in a bustling downtown with daily foot and vehicle traffic. An ongoing challenge has been how to entice these passersby through the front door. Using augmented reality technology, their sidewalk-facing windows were transformed for the summer into a stunning 30-foot “Oceans of Possibilities” interactive aquarium exploding with color! An intrigued community was invited to customize a fish to be uploaded then magically appear swimming in the tank. PML’s creative marketing successfully lured all ages and segments of their population inside. Library card sign-ups surged, summer reading registration soared, while over 5,000 fish were created!
In this program, you will:

Learn how to use augmented reality technology and scale it to any marketing campaign.
Master a new level of outreach and advertising by using by utilizing whatever you may have to create your own interactive advertisement.
Rock what you got! Learn how to scale your campaign to your community no matter the demographic or size.
Conduct data measurement using statistics, surveys, QR codes, social media and more.

Presenters:
Laura Accardi, Library Development Assistant, leads a group of super creative staff at The Patchogue Medford Library. As head of the Promotions & Development Department as well as the consultant and head of the Graphics Department, she has created a work environment that exudes the passion, forward thinking and creative juices of her team. Together, they have created innovative, unconventional, and effective events and marketing campaigns beyond the scope of the library world.
An accidental library marketer and graduating first in her class from the school of hard knocks, life lessons, hard work, and her drive to make library marketing no longer a ho hum, mediocrity standard, she has propelled her library to new heights of marketing with tangible outcomes. Proudly the recipient of the 2016 Suffolk Library Marketing Award and the ELSA Excellence in Library Service Award, and her team the recipients of the 2023 American Library Association/ John Cotton Dana Award for an outstanding effective strategic communication campaign that showed results. Coming up on an 18+ year career at the library and 40 years as a community shaker and maker, she loves all things family, food, gathering, and design.
Michele Cayea is the Head of Community Engagement for the Patchogue Medford Public Library. She began her work there as a Teen librarian 13 years ago and has now found her niche in Public Relations as the social media and email marketing manager and community relations liaison for the school district and Patchogue-Medford Community. She considers herself to be someone who thinks outside the box and is very forward thinking. She became a librarian because she feels strongly about connecting people with resources and experiences; helping them develop the literacy and communication skills that are necessary to navigate today’s fast paced society. She believes in helping our community expand their thinking through library experiences, and to empower them to reach their academic, vocational, recreational and emotional potential.
Karen McCahey is Library Development Assistant for the Patchogue-Medford Library. A 30 plus year employee and lifelong resident, she is dedicated to connecting the library with the community through participation and partnership. She has been instrumental in taking the library out the front door establishing significant alliances with local businesses and non-profits, local organizations and community events. With an avid interest in local history, she believes in the educational value of linking today’s community with its past. Using out of the box methods, she has developed unique library walking tours, bus tours, river ferry tours, historic pub and church tours, haunted trolley and cemetery tours.
Emily Spizzirri is a dynamic and energetic Community Engagement focused Librarian. She began her career as a Teen Librarian, but has always enjoyed working with other Library departments to expand her knowledge. She is currently the Sustainability Coordinator for our “green” Library and Public Services Pages Supervisor.

CDLC Webinar: Civil Service 101 for Public Library Job-Seekers
2024-04-17 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Please note: This program will NOT be recorded.
This program is aimed at those interested in working in public libraries governed by local civil service agencies. Direct employment with New York State is beyond the scope of this session and will not be covered. The program will help attendees understand the civil service framework, explore the types of public libraries that utilize the civil service system, provide information on how to access details about civil service library jobs in the Capital Region, and provide information on the civil service exam and hiring process.
Registrants can submit questions with their registration or email them to Susan D’Entremont at susan@cdlc.org. There will also be ample time for questions at the end of the program.
About the presenter: Geoffrey Kirkpatrick is the Director of Bethlehem Public Library in Delmar, NY. He is a former President of the New York Library Association and has served as a member or Chair of the NYLA Civil Service Task Force/Civil Service Committee since 2006.
This program is cosponsored by the Southern Adirondack Library System and the Upper Hudson Library System.

LILRC Webinar: Girls Who Code - Cost Free Library Curriculum and Programs
2024-04-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology – and we are on track to do so by 2030! We have reached over 500 million people, served over 500,000 girls through our programming, and 50% of our participants are from historically underrepresented groups.
In collaboration with LILRC, we’re providing tools that make coding accessible to all youth-facing professionals – no prior coding experience necessary! We do this through our 100% free programming and resources available to all educators, librarians, and volunteers. During this presentation, we will introduce our free Clubs Program and our Summer Programs. We’ll engage participants in a programmatic coding tutorial to offer a deep dive into our program content as well as our educational philosophy. We’ll discuss the ways that we can directly support communities in growing their clubs, building their networks, and engaging with students at all levels of coding.
Presented by: Michaela Burger, Senior Associate, Community Partnerships & Outreach, Girls Who Code

CLRC Connections: Networking Night @ The Erie Canal Museum
2024-04-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
Join CLRC Staff and members for a night of light refreshments and hors d’ouevres upstairs at The Erie Canal Museum!
Drop in and network with your peers and colleagues and go on a museum tour.
We hope to see you there!
You can find information about parking here.
**Registration will close on April 9 at 5 p.m.**

LILRC Webinar: Applying the Learning - Practicing Giving and Receiving Feedback
2024-04-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Take what you learned in the first two sessions in this series and practice giving and receiving feedback. Participants will practice with each other and get feedback from presenters and other participants on their feedback. Participants are encouraged to bring their own feedback scenarios.
Presenters:
Kate Hall is the Executive Director of the Northbrook Public Library, after having served as Director at the New Lenox Public Library and in various library positions in the Chicagoland area for over 20 years. In her 11 years as a library director, Kate has been in leadership positions in state and national library groups including the American Library Association, Illinois Library Association, and Reaching Across Illinois Library System. She has served on the committee and chaired Director’s University, an intensive training for new Illinois Public Library Directors. Kate is the recipient of the 2021 Illinois Library Association Librarian of the Year Award and has just launched Illinois Libraries Present, a new statewide joint programming cooperative.
Kathy Parker was the director of the Glenwood-Lynwood (IL) Public Library District from 2002-2018 after serving as Assistant Director at the Harvey (IL) Public Library. She has worked in public and private libraries for over 40 years in nearly every department and co-founded Director’s University. She has served on numerous state committees including the Illinois Library Association and has served as library trustee for her local library and the regional library system, Reaching Across Illinois Library System. She was the 2016 recipient of American Library Associations Trustee Citation award. After retiring in 2018, Kathy launched the kathyparker consulting firm which provides training to trustees and new directors.

SCRLC Workshop: Resource Sharing Updates
2024-04-24 09:30 - 15:00 | NY
Join us to network with your Resource Sharing colleagues, learn about some updates in the field, and tour Cornell University’s Africana Research Center and Library.Location:
Finger Lakes Library System, 1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca &
Africana Studies and Research Center, 310 Triphammer Rd., Ithaca
The cost of the conference is $20 and includes lunch. Register at the bottom of this page.
Schedule:
9:30am-10:00am
Light breakfast & Networking
10:00am-10:50am
CrossLink with Mark Sullivan
CrossLink aims to improve the efficiency and lower the cost of resource sharing while promoting the interoperability among different systems using a customized discovery system and ISO18626 to broker requests. This session will go over the current status of the development of CrossLink, the different modules being built, and the plans for the future of resource sharing.
11:00am-11:50am
We can still get it: Adventuring outside the norm with Sarah Shank
Has your library been thinking about changing up their Resource Sharing practices? Come hear Ithaca College’s story about becoming the first North American library to migrate away from Worldshare to Rapido. Why would anyone choose to make this kind of switch? How does one prepare for the ‘unknowns’ associated with a brand-new product? What were some of the biggest struggles faced while transitioning to a brand-new product? How long does transitioning take? In this presentation you will learn the answers to these questions (and more).
12:00pm-12:50pm
Empire Library Delivery with Maria DeGaetano
Maria will provide an update to the Empire Library Delivery’s (ELD) policies and procedures. ELD makes resource sharing connections among all types of libraries affordable and streamlined. ELD provides return on investment for libraries by providing a convenient, affordable, and tailored delivery service to institutions, thereby supporting increased statewide resource sharing among ELD participants. By bundling shipments of library materials, ELD assists libraries in quickly getting items into the hands of users.
1:00pm-1:30pm
Catered lunch

1:30pm-1:45pm
Head to the Africana Studies and Research Center

2:00pm-3:00pm
Tour and presentation at the Africana Library
with Kofi Acree and Patricia Abraham
Learn more about the history of the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library; their collection and their ILL lending practices; the librarian’s liaison work on campus; and some of their special projects, including a quilting exhibit curated by Patricia, Ties That Bind: Quilting at the Clarke Africana Library and a display that will be at the library commemorating the Willard Straight Hall Student Occupation commencing on April 19, 1969, which led to the establishment of an Africana Studies curriculum at Cornell.

ESLN Webinar: Institutional Repositories - A Shared Experience
2024-04-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Whether you’re starting out with a new repository or are planning to migrate a legacy repository to a new platform, it’s likely you have a lot of questions. This workshop brings together librarians from across New York State to share their experience working with institutional repositories and addresses some common challenges. Through a series of case studies, our presenters will touch on a variety of popular topics. Repository strategy, policy development, staffing, and migration will be examined. The workshop will conclude with a question and answer session.
Topics:
Mid-sized public university with limited staffing by Joe Riggie
Buffalo State University is a mid-sized public university in Buffalo which uses Digital Commons as its institutional repository. The focus of the repository is on student scholarship, faculty run journals, and special collections. This presentation will touch on various issues relevant to mid-sized or smaller institutions. These include sustainable staffing, policies and long-term commitments, and creating distinctive collections.
Lessons Learned in Evaluating and Improving a Legacy IR by Frances Chang Andreu
Not all repositories are created under ideal circumstances, and inheriting an institutional repository can present challenges distinct from building one from scratch. This case study examines the process of auditing a legacy institutional repository and analyzes how various practical issues lead to better processes, documentation, and policy development for the existing repository, as well as new digital collections going forward.
Institutional Repository Use Cases Over Time by Joanna DiPasquale, Rebecca Fried, and Corinne Chatnik
Union College’s Schaffer Library began collecting student-focused work in 2008, and its institutional repository model has matured over time as needs have developed. With multiple system migrations, staff changes, and changes in the nature of student work, our repository has become more flexible in its functionality and offerings, while our services and our policies around it have continued to respond to these changes. We will discuss our repository strategies, software needs, lessons learned, and future plans for our student-focused IR.
About the Presenters:
Frances Chang Andreu is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where she manages RIT’s digital institutional repository and promotes other aspects of open access publishing on campus, along with supporting RIT Libraries’ other digital collections. She is also a managing editor for the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.
Joe Riggie is the head of Information Management at Buffalo State University where he manages library systems, resource sharing, and library acquisitions. He holds a master’s in library science from the University at Buffalo. Joe’s research interests include augmented and virtual reality in libraries. Joe lives in Buffalo, NY with his family. He enjoys science fiction, gardening, and fantasy football.
Corinne Chatnik is the Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian at Union College, Schenectady, NY.
Becky Fried is the Digital Projects and Metadata Librarian at Union College, Schenectady, NY.
Joanna DiPasquale is the Director of Content and Digital Library Systems at Union College, Schenectady, NY.

Workshop: Deaf Awareness
2024-04-26 09:00 - 11:00 | CLRC, 5710 Commons Park Drive, East Syracuse, NY, 13057, United States
Workshop Description:
Join a representative of WHOLE ME, Inc. for this in-person workshop! Participants will learn:

The manual alphabet,
Tips for communicating with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing individuals, including resources such as cell phone apps for on-the-spot communication,
Where to take ASL classes,
Resources on learning more ASL and
How you can support a Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing member with accessibility, such as providing interpreters for events hosted by the library, etc.

About WHOLE ME, Inc.:
WHOLE ME, Inc. provides programs and services focusing on the whole person; each participant is given an array of opportunities, including personal and professional skills that will enhance everyday living. Learn more about our programs here!
WHOLE ME believes that every person has the right to equal access to communication in order to make fully-informed choices and decisions in all aspects of life. We believe when the family, friends, school, and community members come together we all benefit!
This is an IN-PERSON workshop. Registration closes on April 24 @ 5 p.m.
**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for two contact hours.**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

SCRLC Webinar: Alternative Vocabularies - What to do when LCSH isn't enough
2024-04-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Catalogers in the United States primarily use Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to describe the resources in their libraries, but sometimes, there isn’t an LCSH term that is the right fit. Sometimes, terms are too broad or too narrow; occasionally, terms are simply outdated, and unfortunately, some are pejorative. When that happens, it’s time to introduce an alternative vocabulary into the cataloging workflow. This presentation will introduce four alternative subject heading vocabularies: Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms, Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Rare Books and Manuscripts Controlled Vocabulary, and Homosaurus. Each vocabulary will be presented with a broad overview of where it can be found, what it’s particularly good at describing, and examples of what it would look like in a bibliographic record. The presentation will close with a decision tree to help catalogers decide when it might be time to look outside LCSH to describe their resources.

ESLN Webinar: The Future of IPEDS - The Need for Quality Library Data
2024-04-30 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The National Center for Education Statistics within the Department of Education collects data through a required Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) system of surveys on U.S. colleges, universities, and technical and vocational institutions. The IPEDS survey collection currently includes an Academic Library Component survey gathering information on collections, services, and expenditures for all academic libraries that meet the eligibility criteria. It is a freely available and comprehensive resource typically used by academic libraries across the country to justify new hires, funding, and purchases of library resources to help support their students, faculty, and staff.
On March 4, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education released a Comment Request on changes to the IPEDS 2024-25 Through 2026-27 and included a statement on the planned elimination of the Academic Libraries (AL) component survey beginning with the 2025–26 administration.
Join us for a panel and discussion covering:

How IPEDS data is currently used by academic libraries,
The impact of the proposed elimination of an academic libraries component survey,
Suggestions for improvements to the quality, utility, and clarity of information collected in the Academic Library Component survey, and
How to submit a comment on the proposal to eliminate the AL component.

We invite you to leave comments on the Federal Register notice regarding the future of IPEDS. The comment period ends on May 3, 2024.
Background information on the Academic Library Component survey is also available here: http://qualitymetricsllc.com/what-should-imls-do-to-support-the-academic-library-statistics-effort/
Panelists: Sara Goek, PhD, Project Manager, Data and Research, Association of College & Research Libraries; Martha Kyrillidou, PhD, MDe, MLS, QualityMetrics LLC; and Catherine Stollar Peters, PhD, Associate Director of Assessment and Data Analysis, SUNY Office of Library and Information Services

NNYLN 59th Annual Membership Meeting
2024-05-02 10:00 - 15:00 | The Wild Center, 45 Museum Drive, Tupper Lake, 12986, United States
This is an in-person member event for culture workers in Northern New York’s libraries, archives, and museums at The Wild Center in Tupper Lake. The day’s morning keynote will be live-streamed to a virtual audience and available to registrants outside of the region.
Morning keynote presentations by Kanienkeha:ká artist and director of the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center David Fadden and The Wild Center executive director Stephanie Ratcliffe, who worked together to redesign portions of The Wild Center’s permanent exhibits into Ways of Knowing: Haudenosaunee Stories and Culture. They will detail the relationship building, organizational process, and results of transitioning their exhibits to center Indigenous knowledge systems.
Attendees at our 59th annual meeting will gain deepened recognition of how to practice anti-racism as an information design principle and learn from The Wild Center’s efforts to remove Western points of view.

ESLN Webinar: Basic Book Repair for Libraries
2024-05-08 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Binding quality on books is inconsistent and with day to day handling and repeated circulation books can sustain significant damage. Don’t replace these volumes, fix them. This webinar will introduce participants to basic book repair for circulating or general collections.
Attendees will learn how to repair common types of damage, such as hinge repair, tipping in loose pages, page mending and spine repair. During the webinar, participants will be able to watch narrated action videos of the repairs with live step by step instructions.
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will:

Be familiar with different aspects of book repair for circulating collections
Be familiar with book repair tools, supplies, and equipment

About the Presenter:
Marianne Hanley is the Preservation Librarian for Syracuse University Libraries. She manages the preservation program by defining needs, establishing goals, implementing programs, and managing budget allocations in support of preservation activities. She is Principal Investigator the NYS Conservation/Preservation Grant Program which provides annual state funding to encourage the proper care and accessibility of research materials, by promoting the use and development of guidelines and technical standards for conservation/preservation work. She co-manages the libraries disaster response plan for collections and co-coordinates recovery efforts. She enjoys serving as an instructor for workshops on book repair and disaster preparedness. She holds a Master of Library Science from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts from Canisius College, Buffalo, NY.
Live captioning will be provided.
This webinar will be recorded and a recording will be shared with all registrants afterward.

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one and a half contact hours**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

ESLN Webinar: ESLN AIR - Learn about Ubiquity Repositories
2024-05-13 13:00 - 14:00 | NY
ESLN Academic Institutional Repository (ESLN AIR) is a new service for our academic members. We’ve partnered with Ubiquity to provide an easy, flexible platform to house your institution’s public, private, and embargoed works.
Highlights:

Your own fully branded institutional repository at the domain or subdomain of your choosing.
Hosted service. Minimal IT support needed to get your repository up and running.
ESLN staff will provide training and help set up your repository.
Access to Ubiquity Knowledge Base with answers to FAQs and how-to articles.
Discounted pricing for ESLN members.

Join us for a demonstration of the Ubiquity Repositories platform and find out how your library can be part of ESLN AIR.
Presenter: Bin Walters is the Open Access Adviser at ]u[ Ubiquity. He works with libraries and societies to set up repositories and publish open access books and journals. He has previously been a publisher with Elsevier and Emerald. Bin was also responsible for Open Access in Asia for Springer Nature.
Free to ESLN Members. Registration is required. This webinar will be recorded.
This session is sponsored by the Empire State Library Network. If you have any questions, contact rhughes@rrlc.org.

LILRC Webinar: Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library - Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services
2024-05-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join librarians Kelsey Keyes and Ellie Dworak for insights from their new book, Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library: Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services (ALA 2024)
“Student parents are a socioeconomically, racially, and financially diverse group. What they have in common is the drive to work hard to overcome steep barriers in obtaining a college education.
Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library: Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services is part toolkit, part treatise, and part call to action. In four parts:

The Higher Education Landscape
The Role of Academic Libraries
Looking Outward to Community, For-Profit, and International Organizations
Evaluating Needs and Measuring Success

It includes templates, sample policy language, budgets, survey instruments, and other immediately useful tools and examples. There are field notes from academic librarians from institutions of varying sizes and resources demonstrating different ways of supporting these students, and the voices of students themselves.
Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despite these hurdles, there are many others who have not been able to find a way. Supporting Student Parents is a guide to engaging with and aiding the student parents in your libraries and leading the charge in making your institutions more family friendly.”
Kelsey Keyes is an Emerita Professor at Boise State University, where she worked as a research and instruction librarian from 2012–2023. She holds a Masters of Library and Information Science and a Masters of English Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She served on Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0–18, including terms as co-chair, from 2017–2020. Her research is focused on supporting parenting students in higher education. She provides writing and editing support for academics, business, fiction and non-fiction writers (kelseykeyes.com). She lives in Europe with her family.
Ellie Dworak is an Associate Professor and the Research Data Librarian at Boise State University. She earned her Masters in Library and Information Services from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on higher education policy, human computer interaction, and the social impacts of living in a datafied society. She lives with her husband and three dogs in Boise, Idaho.

Facilities Management Meet-Up
2024-05-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Mid York Library System, 1600 Lincoln Ave, Utica, NY, 13502, United States
Meet-Up Description:
All organizations have facilities needs – but not all have a dedicated manager to handle the upkeep, improvements, and unexpected issues their facilities will inevitably face. These tasks often fall to staff, who must find the time and gain the know-how to maintain their buildings and grounds and to interface with vendors and contractors.
In this Facilities Management Meet-Up support staff, managers, and library workers can come together to exchange best practices, anecdotes, and problems and to seek help with specific needs. We can share information on local vendors, capital improvement strategies, and general tips for staying ahead of problems before they become disasters.
We’ll begin the meeting with a presentation from the Office Manager of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council. He’ll share strategies and tools for keeping up with the regular maintenance our buildings often need and the problems that pop up with no warning. The presentation will be followed by time for open discussion.
Presenter Bio:
Moshe Siegel has been the Office Manager for Southeastern NY Library Resources Council since 2014. During his tenure at the council he’s learned the facilities maintenance challenges that small/medium institutions face and has developed simple but effective tools and strategies to support his work.
This is an IN-PERSON workshop. Registration closes on May 13 @ 5 p.m.
We’ll be offering two facilities management meet-ups. You can register here if you’d prefer to attend at the CLRC Office.
**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one and a half contact hours.**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

RRLC Webinar: Making Inclusion Happy at Your Library
2024-05-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Libraries serve as a primary destination for many families with children and remain an essential hub for accessing valuable resources, information and social connection across the lifetime. With approximately 26% of Americans living with a disability, and over 300,000 individuals with disabilities residing in the Greater Rochester area alone, there exists a significant opportunity to ensure that the valuable services offered by our libraries are accessible to people with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities. In this session, we will take a close look at what the concept of “inclusion” looks and feels like and explore strategies to use a lens of inclusion to transform our libraries into inclusive places of destination and employment for people with disabilities.
Learning Objectives:

Participants will understand inclusion as a process rather than a checked off box.
Participants will learn how to reframe language so that it is used to promote an inclusive and empowering environment.
Participants will understand a model of Functional Ability to help reframe disability in a way that can result in the removal of barriers to participation by patrons/employees with disabilities.
Participants will learn at least three tangible strategies they can implement at their library that can result in enhanced participation by patrons with disabilities.

Presenter: Anita O’Brien, Executive Director, Rochester Accessible Adventures
Live transcription will be available. We are committed to offering inclusive, diverse, and equitable services to all of our members. To request specific accommodations, please contact rrlc@rrlc.org at least five business days ahead of the program you’d like accommodations for.
This webinar will be recorded, but you must register to receive the recording. A closed captioned recording will be available 1 month after the live event.

If you have any questions, please contact Tina Broomfield at cbroomfield@rrlc.org

SCRLC Webinar: Green Cleaning Principles and Alternatives
2024-05-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
What makes cleaning “green”? Can we reduce the need to clean? What is dirt?
Formulations:
ready-made: typical; greener
alternatives: ingredients & tools
General purpose cleaners
Heavy-duty grease cleaning: cooking aerosols
Hard-water scale: tile, toilets, tubs, sinks
Disinfectants
Laundry detergents and softeners
Drain cleaners

WNYLRC Webinar: LibAnswers for Public Libraries
2024-05-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Description:
LibAnswers is a mobile-first, complete reference solution allowing users to search FAQs, submit questions, and more in a multi-channel communication platform. The searchable knowledge base of FAQs is available 24/7/365, so your users can get the support they need, when they need it – even if it’s at 4 AM!
LibAnswers is a great resource for Public Libraries – from the easy-to-use ticketing functionality to live chat with backup from the WNYLRC AskUs 24/7 Cooperative, this feature-rich platform simplifies patron communication and provides detailed statistics to boot!
This session will cover:
Examples from Public Library clients
Patron experience
Admin interface walkthrough
Reference Analytics & statistics
This webinar will be recorded and disseminated to all registrants, regardless of attendance. However, to receive a certificate of attendance, registrants must attend live and participate.

Facilities Management Meet-Up
2024-05-22 10:00 - 11:30 | CLRC, 5710 Commons Park Drive, East Syracuse, NY, 13057, United States
Meet-Up Description:
All organizations have facilities needs – but not all have a dedicated manager to handle the upkeep, improvements, and unexpected issues their facilities will inevitably face. These tasks often fall to staff, who must find the time and gain the know-how to maintain their buildings and grounds and to interface with vendors and contractors.
In this Facilities Management Meet-Up support staff, managers, and library workers can come together to exchange best practices, anecdotes, and problems and to seek help with specific needs. We can share information on local vendors, capital improvement strategies, and general tips for staying ahead of problems before they become disasters.
We’ll begin the meeting with a presentation from the Office Manager of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council. He’ll share strategies and tools for keeping up with the regular maintenance our buildings often need and the problems that pop up with no warning. The presentation will be followed by time for open discussion.
Presenter Bio:
Moshe Siegel has been the Office Manager for Southeastern NY Library Resources Council since 2014. During his tenure at the council he’s learned the facilities maintenance challenges that small/medium institutions face and has developed simple but effective tools and strategies to support his work.
This is an IN-PERSON workshop. Registration closes on May 20 @ 5 p.m.
We’ll be offering two facilities management meet-ups. You can register here if you’d prefer to attend at the Mid York Library System Office.
**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one and a half contact hours.**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

WNYLRC Webinar: LibGuides and LibCal for Public Libraries
2024-05-29 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Description:
LibGuides allows libraries of all types to create guides about different topics, subject areas, courses, services, collections – you name it! – and easily share them with their communities. Patrons can conveniently access library resources all in one place, including browsing databases through the newly redesigned A-Z Database List. Looking to update or redesign your current website? LibGuides and LibGuides CMS are perfect for library websites!
LibCal is Springshare’s calendaring, space reservation, and appointments tool that integrates beautifully with both LibGuides and LibAnswers! LibCal’s modules are fully interactive with each other, so creating an Event also books the Space – no need to do that separately. Flexible setup and customization options means that LibCal works for your library whether you’re managing a single building or a large multi-branch system.
This session will go over the basics of LibGuides and LibCal, including:
Live client examples
Patron experience
Admin interface walkthrough
Support & documentation
This webinar will be recorded and disseminated to all registrants, regardless of attendance. However, to receive a certificate of attendance, registrants must attend live and participate.

LILRC Webinar: Ask An Archivist - Archival Description For Beginners
2024-05-29 13:00 - 14:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This is a continuation of the series from LILRC’s Nicole Menchise that discusses the principles of collecting and maintaining archives.
Archival Description is more than using adjectives and one’s own perceptions about an object to determine its context like the subject of a photograph. This program will provied an overview of the different elements as laid out by the Society of American Archivist’s (SAA) Describing Archives a Content Standard, better known as DACS. DACS may have been designed for consistancy in creating Finding Aids, but these standards can be applied to describe collection materials you are cataloging from the general to the specific whether you are using a material management software or a spreadsheet.
From the SAA website: “Archival description enables archivists to distill masses of information about records…what they are, what they mean and the historical process by which they were created and maintained…Good archival description cannot just depict the physical and intellectual characteristics of documents. It must communicate how the accumulation of documents in a collection represents and provides evidence of the major functions of an organization or individual. This contextual description is key to meaning-making and gives users the tools necessary to effectively evaluate the value of records as evidence and information.”
Recommended for individuals who are new to processing archives.

SCRLC Webinar: Guided DEI Engagement - What We Learned in a Year
2024-05-30 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Three SCRLC members were awarded grant funding for expert consulting assistance with Dr. Kawanna Bright to make systemic changes within their organizations related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Join Dr. Bright and the project participants to learn about what they decided to work on over the past year, what advice they received, what worked and didn’t work as they put their knowledge into practice, and how this impacts their libraries.

CDLC Webinar: Digital Dialogues - Exploring the Intersection of Libraries and AI
2024-06-05 13:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join us for this webinar on how local libraries are using AI and how they are thinking about the future of AI in their institutions. Four panelists from different library specialties will discuss AI possibilities and challenges.
Panelists:
Doug Bixler – Schenectady County Public Library
Dr. Mila Gasco Hernandez – Center for Technology in Government, University at Albany
Asst. Prof. Traci Tosh – Albany Medical College
Assoc. Prof. David Walker – Albany Law School

Webinar: Libraries are for Everyone - Tools to Protect Our Values & Show Up For Our Most Vulnerable Patrons
2024-06-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
As public libraries find themselves on the frontlines of our nation’s homelessness crisis, they strive to serve their most vulnerable patrons – diverse folks of all ages, living their private lives in public – while facing challenges from all angles. In this webinar, former library director Jen Graney will speak about her experience and provide tools to help protect what public libraries stand for as institutions and to help advocate for and serve our vulnerable patrons.
After this webinar, you will:

Be able to affirm that libraries do this work and back up the claim by pointing to library values and ALA policy.
Know how to start assessing your library’s policies, procedures, and daily operations in terms of how they impact patrons experiencing poverty and homelessness.
Know where to find (1) valuable staff training and (2) crucial education for yourself, staff, trustees, and the general public about the experience of living with poverty and homelessness as well as some possible ways forward.
Remember to make your personal wellbeing your #1 priority.

About the Presenter:
Jen Graney holds an MLIS from Syracuse University and an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. From January 2020 to April 1, 2024, she was the library director at Cortland Free Library; prior to that she worked at the Fayetteville Free Library and CLRC. She recently taught a course on essay writing for young adults and continues to work on a manuscript and creative projects while seeking her next professional opportunity.

Live captioning will be provided.
This webinar will be recorded and a recording will be shared with all registrants afterward. The Q&A will not be recorded.

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one contact hour.**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

NYAC Watch Party at CLRC
2024-06-07 09:00 - 15:05 | CLRC, 5710 Commons Park Drive, East Syracuse, NY, 13057, United States
On Friday, June 7, the 55th Annual New York Archives Conference will bring together archivists, manuscript curators, local historians, local government record keepers, and other archives enthusiasts to discuss topics of interest to the stewards of historical records—live online! The full day program for NYAC 2024 incorporates sessions on a variety of topics, including “Converting legacy finding aids through Empire ADC,” “Working with Undergraduates to Diversify Collections,” and “Implementing Digital Preservation at a Small Institution.”
This year, the NYAC Board is excited to announce a new pilot project to bring NYAC members together during the virtual conference: NYAC Watch Parties! The Regional Connections Committee is pleased to provide seven dedicated Watch Party locations where you can view the conference with others from your area, including time for networking and discussion.
Registration for a Watch Party includes access to the conference; no separate registration is required. All Watch Party registrants will receive links to conference recordings via email.
We’ll be hosting a watch party at the CLRC office!

LILRC Webinar: 8mm Film Digitization and Preservation with Robert Anen
2024-06-11 13:00 - 14:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In addition to photographs, families captured their memories on 8 millimeter (mm) film beginning from the late-1930s into the 1980s (until videotape dominated the American consumer market). By the 1960s, it was superseded by Super 8mm film which allowed for a wider image to be captured. These films were generally captured at home around the holidays, at various celebrations, on vacation, or during any sort of leisure activity. There’s a good chance that your family or the library/historical organization you work at, also has films like this of your hometown. Now is the chance to pull them off the shelf and get them digitized.
LILRC’s Project Archivist Robert Anen will offer a program on how LILRC members can now submit digitization requests for both 8mm films and Super 8mm films. He will show you how we digitize films at LILRC, how to identify 8mm film formats when you encounter them in your collections, how to determine if you are looking at a film or a tape, how to properly store your films, what goes into inspecting a film before digitization, and show you the digitization process of a film in real time.

LILRC Webinar: King: A Life, with Author Jonathan Eig
2024-06-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join LILRC as we welcome Jonathan Eig to discuss his book, King: A Life, one of ten nominees in nonfiction for the National Book Award
“Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.―and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his movement but was rarely at peace with himself. He casts fresh light on the King family’s origins as well as MLK’s complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. King reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became our only modern-day founding father―as well as the nation’s most mourned martyr.
In this landmark biography, Eig gives us an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history’s greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime.”

Health@CLRC and Upstate Health Sciences Library Present: The 2024 Health Literacy in Focus Session
2024-06-14 09:30 - 12:45 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join Health@CLRC and the Upstate Health Sciences Library for a morning of Health Literacy information! The session will include a book talk followed by continuing education.
9:30 to 10:30 a.m.: Book Talk with Julia Soplop, author of Information Crisis
Book Description
The rapid and ubiquitous spread of information has failed to remedy one of humanity’s most enduring challenges: making accurate sense of the world. Instead, a constellation of factors influencing how we interact with information—and, in particular, scientific information—has prevented us from digesting and adequately confronting many of the greatest problems of our time, from climate change to pandemics.

The book, an essential read for non-scientists and scientists alike, offers both an analysis of this burgeoning crisis of (mis)information overload and a practical guide for navigating it. Soplop argues that becoming a more discerning and less vulnerable consumer, or producer, of health and science information is critical.

Soplop has created an indispensable primer for reimagining how we think about and communicate what science really entails, including its profound social value and its many limitations. She also presents a series of engaging case studies—the decades-long disinformation campaign to sow doubt in climate change, the schemes in the wellness industry, the push for pseudoscience in the science classroom, the century-old rhetoric of the anti-vaccination movement, and the nation’s unfathomable COVID-19 response—demonstrating how players across society employ common, and therefore easily identifiable, tactics of distorting scientific information to manipulate us for power and profit. In vivid prose, Soplop crafts a compelling and hopeful case that building a stronger foundation of science and media literacy can empower us to improve our lives both personally and collectively.

Author Bio

Julia Soplop is a science writer and the author of Information Crisis: How a Better Understanding of Science Can Help Us Face the Greatest Problems of Our Time, Equus Rising: How the Horse Shaped U.S. History (winner of an Independent Book Publisher (IPPY) Award and a Feathered Quill Book Award), and Documenting Your World Through Photography. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including National Geographic, Summit Daily News, and Skiing. She also develops thought leadership for organizations that address issues of scientific, social, or technological concern. She holds a bachelor’s from Duke University and a master’s from the medical journalism program at UNC-Chapel Hill. She lives in North Carolina with her husband, three daughters, and their pandemic rescue pup. You can visit her online here.
The first 200 registrants will receive a physical copy of Information Crisis.
10:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.: 4 Tools for Assessing Health Education Materials
Description
How do you know if health education materials are easy-to-read? This 2-hour webinar provides an overview of 4 free tools you can use to assess health education material. We’ll discuss the key elements, differences, and similarities of Clear Communications Index (CCI), Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM), Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT), and NLM’s Health Education Materials Assessment Tool (HEMAT). Learners will use NLM’s HEMAT to evaluate health education material in an exploratory exercise.
Learning Objectives:

Explain the benefits of assessing health education materials
Identify the key elements, differences, and similarities of 4 health education material assessment tools: Clear Communications Index (CCI), Suitability Assessment of Materials (SAM), Patient Education Materials Assessment Tool (PEMAT), and NLM’s Health Education Materials Assessment Tool (HEMAT).
Use the NLM’s HEMAT to evaluate health education materials.

Presenter Bio
Molly Knapp, MA, AHIP-D is a Training Development Manager for the Network of the National Library of Medicine Training Office. A medical librarian for over 20 years, Molly develops, consults and leads national level training initiatives and projects on resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine, including PubMed and MedlinePlus.gov.

This session will be recorded and the recording will be shared with all registrants.

SCRLC Webinar: Fatphobia - What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Fight It
2024-06-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In this talk, Kate Manne will delve into the definition of fatphobia, how it is a systemic form of oppression, and how it intersects with many others–including racism, misogyny, classism, ableism, and transphobia. She will discuss the harms of fatphobia across multiple areas of life, and what we can do to combat it, including by seeking out better fat representation in literature and designing our world to accommodate people of every size.

Webinar: The Power of Kindness with kindness.org
2024-06-20 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Who couldn’t use a little more kindness in their day? But kindness is more than simply “being nice.” Research shows that kindness has physical, mental, and social benefits—and is essential for thriving workplaces. Through rigorous research, the nonprofit kindness.org has made a mission of creating evidence-based programs and tools to spread kindness in schools, workplaces, and everyday life. Join kindness.org’s co-founder & CEO, Jaclyn Lindsey, and learn what they have discovered about the science of kindness, its impact on happiness and well-being, and the most effective ways to spread kindness. In this informative and immersive workshop, you’ll not only learn about the science of kindness and the impact it can have on your days at work and home, but you’ll leave having experienced the power of kindness firsthand.
About the Presenter:

Jaclyn Lindsey, co-founder and CEO of kindness.org, believes that kindness is humanity’s greatest asset. It was this ethos that inspired her to launch kindness.org, a global non-profit that combines rigorous science into applicable solutions for kinder classrooms, communities and companies. Jaclyn has spent almost twenty years in the nonprofit space, where she’s helped raise more than $100M for domestic and international missions. An author & keynote speaker, she sits on the board of Children in Conflict and is the host of the podcast, Why Kindness? Jaclyn loves adventuring around with her husband, Mancel, and two boys, Abel and River, and spending time with family, friends, or strangers around a dinner table.

Live captioning will be provided.
This webinar will be recorded and a recording will be shared with all registrants afterward.

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one contact hour.**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct
