Join us at the Mid York Library System Office to watch a special webinar being offered by the Friends of the Library Section of the New York Library Association! Webinar Description: Can a nonprofit transform the way it attracts and utilizes volunteers? Volunteer service is a valuable strategy for community engagement, but traditional volunteer programs…

Join us at the CLRC office for a very special event with the folks from Awful Library Books! Workshop Description: Make your collection count! This session talks about the overall quality of a library collection, including the benefits and methods of taking a physical inventory, analyzing collection procedures and workflows, and the life cycle of…

The Onondaga-Cortland-Madison/Oswego School Library System together with the CNY School Librarians is sponsoring this free workshop at OCM BOCES in Liverpool.* A strong virtual prescence is extremely important for school libraries. While many are familiar with how to use website builders such as Google Sites, Weebly, and Wix, librarians have taken a variety of different…

You're invited to the Central New York Library Resource Council's 2019 Annual Conference! This special event will begin with light refreshments, coffee, and a morning conference followed by lunch and a keynote address by Lyndon Cudlitz on Thursday, October 10 at the Rome Campus of Mohawk Valley Community College. About Our Keynote Speaker: For over…

It's time, once again, to come meet and network with our local librarians and library-world personnel! Librarians' Night Out is event held by LISSA, the Library and Information Science Student Association of Syracuse University, once each semester at a local Syracuse spot, usually near campus. It is an opportunity for students, both on-campus and online,…

Join us at the CLRC office for a special workshop with the New York Library Association to help design learning experiences for our region! Workshop Description: NYLA Executive Director Jeremy Johannesen and President Michelle Young will join us to dream and scheme around the learning experiences we'd like to see available in Central New York.…

The Onondaga-Cortland-Madison/Oswego School Library System (SLS) will be holding a conference together with Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES SLS and Tompkins-Seneca-Tioga BOCES SLS. The theme for the conference is Total Immersion. Conference speakers: * Keynote Hall Davidson, Senior Director of Global Learning Initiatives for Discovery Education. Hall will show many exciting and available options to make education engaging…

Audience: Teachers, Administrators, Curriculum Coordinators, Technology Directors, School Librarians Join Hall Davidson from Discovery Education for this engaging workshop. Augmented Reality (AR) is already transforming industries from medicine to manufacturing. It creates a cloud or device-based layer of information that floats over and adds (augments) the reality around the user. Otherwise unseen, this layer can…

Date: Monday, November 4, 2019 Time: 1:15pm-2:15pm EST Presenters: Mary Thill, Northeastern Illinois University; Frank Lambert, Middle Tennessee State University; and James Rosenzweig, Eastern Washington University As we start a new year, it's a great time to update the way we think about source evaluation! The special guests will join us via webinar for a live discussion on their presentation…