Webinar Description: Are you interested in learning how to share your experiences as a library staff member in a creative and powerful way? Come join a panel discussion with three contributors to the ACRLog as we discuss the benefits of blogging! Three key takeaways will be: Best & worst practices for blogging Recommended tech, services,…
Join your fellow social media librarians for our next virtual meet up. We will have an open conversation about new and ongoing challenges. All are welcome! ~~~~~~~~~ This program will not be recorded
About This Session Libraries understand the headache of storing materials. How do you create room for an ever-expanding collection? What if you don’t want to weed materials to make room? Enter decentralized storage—a network of P-2-P servers that store materials across a global network in exchange for cryptocurrency. What problems does this solve? What problems…
Why do archivists insist that collections not be broken up and stored chronologically or by subject or type? What are the basic principles of provenance and original order? This workshop will explain why archivists process through incoming donations and existing collections by group, series, subseries, file and item. If you are new to archival arrangement…
Student employees provide invaluable support in academic libraries but it takes time to show them the ropes. Some training and management techniques have been successful and some have not. We all learn from our mistakes right alongside our students and delight in their victories as they grasp new material. Join us as we explore topics…
All are welcome to join this discussion via Zoom with University at Albany Preservation Librarians, Ann Kearney, Karen Kiorpes, and their colleague Bridget Collins, Dewey Graduate Library. Learn the basic concepts of sustainability when caring for collections in libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies. We will focus on practical, doable affordable actions that can save…
In this session, you will learn how the ACP works so that you can encourage and assist your patrons to enroll in the program. The Affordable Connectivity Program is an FCC benefit program that helps ensure that households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more. The benefit provides a discount…
Join OHA as we welcome M.C. Antil, author of Floor Burns: Love, Passion and the 1967 Syracuse All-City Championship. The book has been described as “a sprawling, affectionate…portrait of a city being transformed by the 1960s, the people who lived there, and the game they loved”. This work is a non-fiction account of a high school championship basketball game.…
We’re launching a new exhibit, A Pocketful of Progress: A Retrospective Look at the Machines Found in our Smartphones! This new exhibition opens on Thursday, March 3rd at 5:30. Come join us downtown at the Onondaga Historical Museum to explore this fascinating new display of machines from the past 150 years which performed functions that, today, can be…
This program will cover the bases on how to start a garden and create garden centered programming that engages the young people in your community. Presenters: Syntychia Kendrick-Samuels A 2016 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, Ms. Kendrick-Samuel has had considerable success working for the people of Uniondale by creating a dynamic teen department, has won…