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ESLN Webinar: Basic Book Repair for Libraries
2024-05-08 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | 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

LILRC Webinar: Montauk to Manhattan with Novelist Thomas Maier
2024-06-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join award-winning author Thomas Maier when he discusses his upcoming novel, Montauk to Manhattan (Post Hill Press, July 9, 2024), which is both set on Long Island and drawn from our local history. Montauk to Manhattan is a rollicking murder mystery in which the protagonist’s own historical novel about the 1880s theft of Montauk Native-American lands by a LIRR tycoon is being filmed as a miniseries.
Maier will also discuss how his own books have been adapted into TV shows in this new era of streaming television, including his experience with MAFIA SPIES, a brand-new series coming out July 16 on Paramount+, and how his previous book about Masters & Johnson became an Emmy-winning Showtime drama series starring Michael Sheen, Lizzy Caplan, Jeremy Strong and Allison Janney. Those real life TV experiences inform the plot of Montauk to Manhattan, which was inspired by Maier’s 1998 Newsday investigation of the mistreatment of the Montauk tribe. That same Newsday investigation has been cited by the East End tribes in their legal attempts at official recognition. The novel also deals with today’s issues of the media, presidential politics, and #MeToo Hollywood.
“Yet another captivating work by Thomas Maier, who masterfully shares here his unique insider-lens on Hollywood, politics, crime, media and our often scandalous home base, Long Island.” —Claudia Copquin, Journalist and Founder of Long Island LitFest
Thomas Maier is the author of eight books, a television producer, and longtime award-winning journalist for Newsday in New York. His books about US history have been featured twice on the “Today” show, twice on “Morning Joe”, the CBS Evening News, ABC’s 20/20, NPR’s “Fresh Air” with Terry Gross, MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews, Cspan “Booknotes”, and at both the FDR Library and JFK Presidential Library. In 2022, Maier won the Columbia Journalism School Alumni Award for career achievement.

SCRLC Webinar: Shifting the Narrative - What does it mean to center BIPOC library worker needs?
2024-06-25 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In the last four years, library employees have experienced and witnessed the need for workplaces to center their employees’ well-being and how vital psychological safety, emotional intelligence, mental health, and trauma-informed care are. In Fostering Wellness in the Workplace, Twanna Hodge states, “No matter where you work, you have a right to a physically and emotionally healthy and supportive workplace” (p. 48). For Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) library workers in traditionally and predominantly white institutions, psychological and emotional violence is constant and harmful.

This session will focus on how institutions can center the needs of BIPOC library workers and how BIPOC workers can incorporate self-care and self-advocacy strategies into their practice.

CLRC Services Webinars
2024-07-10 10:00 - 11:15, 2024-07-17 10:00 - 11:15, 2024-07-24 10:00 - 11:15 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join the CLRC Staff for a series of webinars detailing what it means to be a CLRC member! We’ll discuss how to make the most of your membership. We’ll cover services from the Empire State Library Network (ESLN), funding opportunities, continuing education digitization services, resource sharing, networking, and more.
Here is what you can expect from each webinar:
July 10: Membership & ESLN Services
July 17: Funding Sources
July 24: Continuing Education, Cultural Heritage/Digitization Services, Health@CLRC, & Resource Sharing
Each webinar will be recorded but we encourage you to attend live to ask questions and let us know if there is anything else we can do for you!
Live captioning will be provided.

Attendees only need to register once to attend all three webinars.
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 Workshop: Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit - Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work
2024-07-16 09:00 - 13:00, 2024-07-17 09:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Presenters: Christina Chan-Park & Laura Palumbo for ACRL
Cost: $100 per seat
(only available to individuals in New York State. Registration is for individuals. Your fee includes materials for each person, and there is no group viewing option. There is a limit of 60 total participants, preference will go to liaison librarians.)
About the program:
Research data management has emerged as a need among academic researchers and liaisons are building skills in response. This two-day workshop will assist liaisons to identify their existing skills and mindsets that transfer to research data management services and then create a learning plan for the RDM specific knowledge needed to serve their subject disciplines. Tools, hints, and tricks will be shared that facilitate partnerships on campus with disciplinary faculty and with other RDM service providers.
Who should attend:
This workshop is intended for liaisons who are seeking to engage with research data management for the first time, or who have a very basic knowledge of research data management. This workshop is an introductory level experience. Attendees are not expected to have previous experience with research data management. The primary audience is subject liaison librarians, secondary audience include senior library administrators, middle management and department heads, and technical services librarians and staff. Other campus partners such as Office of Research, Sponsored Programs, Technology Transfer, IRB, or campus IT may be interested but would be a tertiary audience.
Learning Outcomes:
Workshop participants will be able to…

Identify data within the research process and lifecycle in order to articulate the role of the libraries in the management of data to researchers.
Learn how to develop expertise in the nuances of disciplinary requirements for data management in order to educate their faculty and students about data best practices for their discipline.
Articulate specific existing skills that they already possess as librarians which transfer to data services in order to begin building a toolkit of research data management skills.
Identify campus partners in research data management in order to create an environment of research data management support for their faculty.
Articulate the parts of a data management plan in order to describe its role as a living document within a research project.
Apply their relevant prior knowledge of their disciplines in order to create a research data management interview plan in order to facilitate faculty engagement

This program is produced by Empire State Library Network and SUNY Office of Library Information Services.

If you’re interested in attending, please consider applying for a Professional Development Award!

RRLC Webinar: Generative AI in Libraries - Implications, Adaptations, and Ongoing Discussions
2024-07-31 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This webinar brings together two library workers to share updates, implications, and ongoing discussions regarding generative artificial intelligence tools in libraries, especially in teaching, learning, and education. The talk will center on recent trends and research on generative AI in libraries and will provide insight on how library workers are adapting and understanding the implications of generative AI tools. In addition, there will be a discussion on ethical approaches to use of AI in an educational setting. Bring your questions and ideas to this virtual forum!
Learning Objectives:

Identify and understand generative AI tools and its impact on libraries, especially on ethical considerations such as copyright issues
Develop ideas to engage with your community to discuss generative AI matters
Develop the ability to evaluate the implications of generative AI in libraries, especially on teaching, learning, and education

Presenters: Raymond Pun (he/him) is the academic and research librarian at the Alder Graduate School of Education, a teacher residency program in California. Dr. Leo S. Lo (he/him) joined the University of New Mexico as Dean and Professor of the College of University Libraries and Learning Services (CULLS) in September 2021.
Free to RRLC & ESLN Members. This webinar will be held on Zoom Webinar; registration is required.
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.
If you have any questions, please contact Tina Broomfield at cbroomfield@rrlc.org.

LILRC Webinar: Developing a Compelling Teaching Philosophy Statement
2024-08-20 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In this 90 minute webinar presentation, the presenter will outline the components of a succinct teaching philosophy statement. Participants will reflect on their teaching methods, style, and personality. The teaching philosophy statement articulates your teaching beliefs, values, and assessment activities, and serves as a roadmap that will help navigate your teaching practices.
Learning outcomes:
At the end of this 90 minute presentation, participants will be able to:
1. identify their personal theory of learning;
2. articulate their teaching beliefs, practices, and values;
3. provide examples of assessment techniques that evaluate student learning;
4. develop self-reflective activities to analyze their own teaching; and
5. integrate their own unique personality with memorable, engaging teaching practices
Presenter: Mark Aaron Polger (they/them) Mark Aaron Polger is an academic librarian and information literacy instructor who has been working in libraries since 1992. They received their MLIS degree in 2000 from the University of Western Ontario (London, Ontario, Canada) and has worked as a librarian in public, hospital, and academic libraries. Currently, Mark is the Coordinator of Library Outreach at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York (CUNY). They have written about library marketing in journals and other publications and has presented nationally at library conferences. Mark is the author of 3 books; Engaging Diverse Learners: Teaching Strategies for Academic Librarians, co-authored with Scott Sheidlower (2017, Libraries Unlimited), Library Marketing Basics (2019, Rowman and Littlefield), and Library Signage and Wayfinding Design: Communicating Effectively with Your Users (2021, ALA Editions) Their research interests include library marketing, outreach, and UX (user experience) design. Currently, Mark is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the open-access, peer reviewed journal Marketing Libraries Journal, which was launched in Fall 2017. Their next book project will be on Library Marketing Post-COVID.

Webinar: Increase Religious Equity by Reclassifying Dewey 200's
2024-08-28 14:30 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
In 2019, OCLC provided an alternate arrangement for the Dewey Decimal System’s religion section (200’s), which organizes religious subjects more equitably by chronology and geography, rather than centering on Christianity. You’ll hear from OCLC about what the new arrangement is and how it was created. Also, you’ll hear from two public libraries (Lawrence, KS, and Springfield, MA) about how they implemented it as well as what tools are available to libraries interested in doing the same.
About the Presenters:
Alex Kyrios is Senior Editor of the Dewey Decimal Classification at OCLC. He oversees the continuous updating and revision of the classification, and works with partners and volunteers around the world to do so. He previously worked as a cataloguer at the University of Idaho and the Folger Shakespeare Library.

Emily McDonald is the Cataloging Librarian at Lawrence Public Library (Kansas). When she isn’t leading the cataloging department or cataloging children’s books, she is implementing optional Dewey arrangements, alternative subject headings, and empowering other catalogers to make local changes. She believes that everyone should see themselves on the shelf and in the catalog. She received her Master of Science in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin School of Information.
Matthew Jaquith has enjoyed a varied career spanning academic and public libraries in both technical and public services. He got a start at Amherst College with a variety of paraprofessional positions, moved to stack supervision at Brown University, and for the last decade and half has held a few posts at the Springfield City Library (Massachusetts) including reference, adult programming, and branch supervision. Since 2022, he has worked as Springfield’s Technical Services Supervisor, and it was there that he learned of OCLC’s Optional Arrangement for the Dewey 200’s. He has presented many times at state, regional, and national library conferences on topics as diverse as service to local authors; computer instruction in public libraries; and, most widely, the Dewey 200’s.
Elizabeth McKinstry is the Training and Programming Librarian at Springfield City Library in Massachusetts. She never met a special project she didn’t like.

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

RRLC In-Person Workshop: Empowering Through Language
2024-08-29 13:00 - 15:30 | Rochester Regional Library Council, 3445 Winton Place, Suite 204, Rochester, NY, 14623
Librarians know very well the power of language! Words and how they are used, whose words are heard, and how people access those words are at the foundation of every library’s mission.
Words are powerful. The words we use in our internal operations and in our public-facing engagements are extremely important because they can lift people up or push them down, inspire kindness and equity, or even unwittingly create an unwelcoming environment.
Join us for an interactive workshop and learn how to incorporate inclusive language into your everyday library operations – language that includes and empowers everyone in our communities!
Presenter: Anita O’Brien, Executive Director, Rochester Accessible Adventures. Anita O’Brien, M.A., is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist with 27 years of experience working with individuals with disabilities, and helped found Rochester Accessible Adventures. Anita serves as a member of the Community Advisory Committee at the University of Rochester’s Center of Excellence for People with Disabilities, and the DEC/APA Accessibility Advisory Committee. Anita has lived in Rochester since 2000, working to bring opportunities in sports and recreation to individuals and families with disabilities and medical conditions. She is passionate about building relationships within the community which serve to connect people with resources, remove systemic barriers to recreation and sports, and build communities that embrace inclusion.

Free to RRLC & ESLN Members.
All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance for 2.5 hours of CE credit.
This is an in-person event; registration is required and the event will not be recorded.
We are committed to offering inclusive, diverse, and equitable services to all of our members. To request specific accommodations, please contact RRLC at least five business days ahead of the program you’d like accommodations for.
RRLC Registration & Program Attendance Policies
If you have any questions, please contact Tina Broomfield. If the class reaches capacity and you are still interested in attending, please reach out to join the waiting list.
