Join our the Library Assistants and Support Staff Association for an event on creditworthiness, financial planning, and other topics to help you get your financial ducks in a row. Topics include? - what constitutes a FICO score - does your credit score matter? - how to improve your creditworthiness, with or without a credit score…
Changes to subscription philosophies, reductions in library budgets, and adjusting to the needs of an evolving user community mean that libraries and vendors are working ever-closer to arrive at a solution that meets the needs of both parties. Through years of working with libraries, Amy Thurlow saw what she perceived as differences in treatment based…
This interactive and experiential course is designed to help you develop an understanding of implicit bias, its impact in libraries and health care, and how it stands in the way of workplace diversity and inclusion. You will leave the course with a deeper understanding of bias, implicit bias, stereotype threat, and microaggression; a greater awareness…
This series of brief webinars will illuminate the behind-the-scenes work that is done to make digital collections available on the New York Heritage Digital Collections website. Informal interviews with professional staff reveal stories from the archives, how materials were chosen as digital projects, and their impact on historical interpretations. Spies do exist in the archive!…
Join us for a two-part webinar series, “Archiving & Preserving Black Local History” on April 12 and April 19. Collecting and preserving local history requires trust, openness and self-awareness between cultural institutions and communities. “Archiving & Preserving Black Local History” is a 2-day workshop that will focus on building and strengthening partnerships that centers the…
Panelists: Carol McCrossen, Moffat Library, Washingtonville (RCLS), Daniela Pulice, Pleasant Valley Library (MHLS), Liz Potter, Phoenicia Library (MHLS) Preventing and Responding to Mold in Your Library: REady Steady In the Library: taking Initiative before an Emergency, Natural disaster, or Trauma Despite the best plans about what to do in the moment you experience a fire or flood or extended power outage, these random events still occur.…
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online second Tuesdays at Ten! Staying connected is important during this unprecedented time. CLRC is looking to stay engaged with our members by offering the library community an opportunity to chat, discuss, and check-in with colleagues around the region.…
Webinar Description: COVID-19 has been disruptive and impacted all sectors of society. What lessons can we draw from COVID-19 related to community engagement and student retention and how do we apply them in a post COVID-19 world? Universities are sorting out student retention, recruitment, and engagement strategies in remote and hybrid formats. Community anchors such…
The Symposium, sponsored by CDLC's Committee on Resource Sharing (CORS), will be a 3-hour virtual presentation pertaining to current issues in Resource Sharing. We are honored to have Ben Hogben from Ithaca College as our keynote speaker to discuss change management. We will then present on a variety of topics from professionals in the area…
Webinar Presenter: Lauren Lyons, Chartering Coordinator, New York State Museum Date: Thursday, April 15th Time: 1:00 - 2:00 PM Description: A museum or historical society in New York that wishes to organize as a nonprofit private education corporation must be issued a charter from the Board of Regents. But how does that process work? What are the different…