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LILRC Webinar: The Role of Communication When Promoting Diversity
2020-09-17 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Diversity involves how individuals discern themselves, but also how they discern others. Those perceptions can affect the way in which people interact and communicate with the world around them. These interactions can be the primary reason why a person decides to engage with your institution (or not), can dictate where a person spends their time, and/or the people they choose to have relationships with.
This training will offer participants tools and strategies to create a diverse, inclusive environment by avoiding misunderstandings based on:
1. Stereotypes
2. Language/accent
3. Differences in communication styles and non-verbal communication
Presented by: Alyssa Cottone, MA Psychology and Organizational Psychology

Third Thursday at Three - CLRC LA SIG Meet Up
2020-09-17 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
CLRC has opened a communication network among our region’s Library Assistants, Paraprofessionals and Support Staff through a Special Interest Group (LA SIG).
Our interests include:
* recognizing all library support staff employed in CLRC member libraries
* furthering the professional development & job enrichment of support staff
* enhancing the professional image of support staff within the library community

Participation is open to all library support staff, regardless of title.
Meeting connection instructions will be emailed to registrants.
Contact Anna Dobkowski with any questions.

LILRC Webinar: Managing Tech Spaces in COVID 19 Panel Discussion
2020-09-18 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
As libraries reopen, librarians from across the spectrum must manage their tech spaces (STEM labs or maker spaces) in the age of COVID19. Please join us where our panel will discuss best practices and their thoughts for managing access to various technologies in the library while reducing the risk of COVID19 exposure.
Panel
James Hutter, Technology Librarian, Port Washington Public Library
Dr. Catherine Masrour, Director, Smithtown West High School
Fabio Montella, Instructor of Library Services, Suffolk County Community College Library – East
Nick Tanzi, Assistant Director, South Huntington Public Library
Christopher Van Wickler, Emerging Technologies Librarian, Great Neck Public Library

Tuesday at Ten!
2020-09-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online 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. Please join us for our weekly online Zoom meeting every Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88301759036
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 883 0175 9036

LILRC Webinar: Podcasting During a Pandemic
2020-09-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Hear from our panel of leading library podcasters on how they met the challenges of podcasting while libraries and workplaces shut down and how they are tackling the new issues facing libraries on their podcasts.
Moderator:
Chris DeCristofaro, The Library Pros
Technology Librarian, Sachem Public Library
Panelists:
Michelle Arbuckle, Library Land Loves
Programming and Outreach Librarian, Ryerson University
Tyler Byrd, Library Figures
Head of Product Design and Strategy, Meet Piola
Jessikah Chautin, Turn the Page
Community Engagement Specialist at Syosset Public Library
Bob Johnson, The Library Pros
Manager of Information and Technology Services, Emma S. Clark Memorial Library
Chris Kretz, Long Island History Project
Head of Academic Engagement, Stony Brook University Libraries
Phil Morehart, Dewey Decibel
Senior Editor, American Libraries
Carol Ann Tack, Top Shelf at the Merrick Library
Reference Librarian, Merrick Library

SCRLC Webinar: The Right to Loan Books - CDL, First Sale, and Digital Access to Collections
2020-09-24 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Description: Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) provides a legal option for libraries to explore as they reconfigure and reprioritize access to their physical collections and future digital collections in COVID era and beyond. Patrons desire more digital access to works, yet the e-book market is fraught with license-only limitations. CDL helps to preserve the power of the print; it allows a library to recapture the significant legal and fiscal value in its collections. In this one-hour presentation, Kyle K. Courtney (Harvard Library) and Matthew Kopel (Cornell University Library) will give an overview of both the law that underlies CDL and the practical questions libraries must ask before embarking on a CDL project of their own. Featuring a robust Q&A to help dispel common myths and misperceptions, this webinar is a great starting place for both academic and public library administrators and staff.
To help promote candor and create a safe environment for asking questions and sharing ideas, the session will not be recorded.
Presenters:
Matthew Kopel is a Copyright Specialist at Cornell University Library in Ithaca, NY.
Kyle K. Courtney is program manager and copyright advisor at Harvard Library’s Office for Scholarly Communications. His “White Paper on Controlled Digital Lending of Library Books” (co-authored with Dave Hansen) defined the legal and policy rationale for CDL: https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42664235

WNYLRC Webinar: What Libraries Need to Know to Survive a Ransomware Attack
2020-09-24 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Ransomware (software that blocks access to systems until money is paid to the attacker) can be disruptive and expensive. For some libraries it can be catastrophic, though it doesn’t have to be. Planning and preparation are key to surviving a ransomware attack. This presentation will focus on cybersecurity needs to help libraries protect their systems from ransomware. I will walk participants through the steps to take at your institution to ensure that you can survive a ransomware attack. The class will cover plans, tools, and techniques that can help lower the risk of a ransomware attack, regardless of your budget.
This webinar will not be recorded. Registrants will receive the link to the webinar one day prior to the workshop.
About the Presenter:
Blake Carver is Systems Administrator at LYRASIS Digital Technology Services, where he manages the servers and infrastructure that support their hosted ArchivesSpace, Islandora and CollectionSpace. Blake holds an MLS from SUNY Buffalo, and has worked as an academic librarian, as a programmer at a dot.com startup, and as a records manager. He’s also known as the guy behind LISNews, LISWire, and LISHost. Blake was one of the first librarian bloggers (he created LISNews in 1999) and is a member of Library Journal’s first “Movers & Shakers” cohort. Blake has presented widely at professional conferences, talking about open source systems, Drupal, WordPress, and IT security for libraries.

New York State Library Digital Equity Webinar Series
2020-09-24 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-10-01 14:00 - 15:00, 2020-10-08 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Digital equity is a complex set of conditions that requires that every New Yorker has access to affordable broadband, adequate devices, necessary software, digital literacy skills, and a community of support.
Persistent digital divides exist in communities — urban, suburban, and rural — across New York; in fact, more than 25% of students in New York lack access to the Internet and/or appropriate devices to participate in remote online education. The challenges to student connectivity can’t be considered in isolation, since they are part of larger systemic inequities disproportionately affecting people of color and people with lower incomes.
This webinar series is intended to bring together stakeholders from across sectors to:

establish an understanding of the challenges to digital equity and
develop a shared vision of how we can work together to achieve digital equity in New York.

The series is organized by the New York State Library and the New York State Education Department, in partnership with the METRO Library Council and the Northern New York Library Network.
Scheduled Events:
Metro Library Council, the Zoom host for these webinars, will be recording the sessions and making them available via YouTube. Links will be added to the table below as the archived sessions become available.

Thursday, September 10,
2-3 pm
Understanding Digital Inclusion and Digital Equity
Presenter Francella Ochillo, Executive Director of Next Century Cities, described the need for long-term solutions for local connectivity.

Slides from the September 10th webinar in PDF (373 KB)
The recording from the September 10th webinar is available on YouTube.

Thursday, September 24,
2-3 pm
Digital Bridge K-12 Initiative: Assessing Home Access Needs
Presenters Grace Ting and Ellen Goldich introduced the Digital Bridge K-12 Home Access Needs Assessment Playbook, a free step-by-step guide to help schools/school districts identify students who lack home digital access.

Slides from the September 24th webinar in PDF (0.97 MB)
The recording from the September 24th webinar is available on Youtube.

Thursday, October 1,
2-3 pm
Affordable Telephone and Internet Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Presenter Sam Faduski from the The Public Utility Law Project, provided an overview of the Lifeline low-income discount telephone program and low-income internet programs, also reviewing changes to these programs in light of the COVID-19 health pandemic.

Program evaluation survey (October 1 program)
Slides from the October 1st webinar in PDF (205 KB)

Thursday, October 8,
2-3:30 pm
Building Community Broadband Networks
Presented by Greta Byrum of Community Tech NY and Sharon Akkoul of NYSERNet, with speakers from The Point CDC and the Bronx Community Relief Effort, the Kingston Equitable Internet Initiative, and the Buffalo Digital Divide Initiative, this webinar will demonstate how three unique communities are building broadband ecosystems their own way.
Register for Building Community Broadband Networks

Thursday, October 22,
3:30-4:30 pm
Using Digital Navigators to Bridge Social Divides
Presented by National Digital Inclusion Alliance, this webinar will show how different affiliates are putting the Digital Navigator Model into action to add more digital equity to our social safety net and community institutions. Speakers include: Sabrina Roach and Paolo Balboa from NDIA; Shauna Edson and Justin Strange, from the Salt Lake City Public Library’s Digital Navigator project; and Margaret (Meg) Käufer, of the STEM Alliance of Larchmont-Mamaroneck.
Register for Using Digital Navigators to Bridge Social Divides

Thursday, October 29,
2-3 pm
Starting Your Own Digital Inclusion Coalition
Presented by Scott Kushner, Director of LaFayette Public Library, and Annabeth Hayes, Director of Tully Free Library, founders of the Central New York Digital Inclusion Coalition; and Stacey Martin, Digital Inclusion Coordinator at Finger Lakes Digital Inclusion Coalition. This program will interview members of newly formed coalitions, explore establishing and sustaining a coalition, and address the real work happening right now.
Register for Starting Your Own Digital Inclusion Coalition

Thursday, November 12,
2-3 pm
Capitalizing on OER for Equity in PK-12: Finding and Using Open Teaching and Learning Resources
Presented by Shawna M. Brandle, Associate Professor of Political Science, at Kingsborough Community College, Stacy Katz, Assistant Professor, Library, Lehman College, Jennifer Van Allen, Assistant Professor of Literacy Education, Lehman College, Nicole Williams, Instructor, Library, Bronx Community College. This webinar will introduce Open Educational Resources (OER) and how to customize these learning materials for students’ diverse needs.
Register for Capitalizing on OER for Equity in PK-12: Finding and Using Open Teaching and Learning Resources

Thursday
November 19,
2-3 pm
CanCode: Virtual Digital Literacy For All
Presented by AnnMaire Lanesy of AlbanyCanCode, this webinar will introduce CanCode’s Virtual Digital Literacy program which is designed to create a bridge for underserved populations to take their first steps towards careers in technology.
Register for Cancode: Virtual Digital Literacy for All

Thursday, December 3rd,
2-3 pm
Broader than Broadband: Brooklyn Public Library’s Digital Equity Strategy
Presented by Nick Higgins, Selvon Smith, Maya Wagoner, and David Giles from the Brooklyn Public Library.
Register for Broader than Broadband: Brooklyn Public Library’s Digital Equity Strategy

Additional programs may be added for December.

METRO Webinar: Digital Bridge K-12 Initiative - Assessing Home Access Needs
2020-09-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
With Grace Ting and Ellen Goldich, EducationSuperHighway
An estimated 550,000 students in New York lack reliable Internet connectivity outside of the classroom.
Identifying unconnected students is the first step in addressing the digital equity gap and being able to deliver remote learning. But inaccurate responses, inefficient collection processes, and incomplete datasets are common pitfalls for school districts when surveying families about home technology access.
In this webinar, we’ll introduce the Digital Bridge K-12 Home Access Needs Assessment Playbook, a free step-by-step guide to support you with collecting the data you need to understand which students lack home digital access. We’ll provide expert advice, tools, and best practices to help you:
1. Coordinate a family outreach and engagement campaign using our 10-day action plan.
2. Train your team on best practices and useful tools to support outreach to families
3. Organize and visualize your home digital access data and identify available provider options using our mapping tool.
Grace leads the Digital Bridge K-12 Initiative’s work with states, partnering with education leaders to increase access to Internet connectivity for all K-12 students. She has 15 years of experience in education and technology, working to close the digital divide and support equity in public education.
Ellen is a program director for Digital Bridge K-12, helping bring to life products and playbooks to support broadband infrastructure upgrades across the country. With a passion for closing the digital divide, she has spent the last decade working with school districts, state leaders, Internet service providers and ed-tech organizations to implement technology projects.
The Digital Equity webinar series is organized by the New York State Library and the New York State Education Department, in partnership with the METRO Library Council and the Northern New York Library Network.

Webinar: Systematic Searching - Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency
2020-09-24 14:00 - 15:30 | Online via MLA, NY, United States
CLRC will be offering access to the MLA webinar, “Systematic Searching: Improving Effectiveness and Efficiency.” We only have access to a limited number of licenses to please register below if you are interested! Information regarding accessing the webinar will be shared with registrants prior to the event.
Webinar Description:
Are you struggling with ever-more complicated systematic review searches? Do you have a basic knowledge of Boolean operators, thesaurus terms, and syntax and want to raise your search game? This webinar will give you guidance on creating high-quality searches in a faster way. Bramer and associates have taught his method at several filled-to-capacity annual meeting courses.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

identify important elements in the search
use the published method to create and optimize searches
use the shared macros to translate searches between databases

Audience
Participants should have basic knowledge of databases (boolean operators, thesaurus terms and syntax).
About the Presenter:
Wichor Bramer is an information specialist at the Erasmus Medical Center Medical Library in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In October 2019, he successfully defended his doctoral (PhD) thesis, “Serving Evidence Syntheses: Improving Literature Retrieval in Systematic Reviews,” in which he describes his method and his research on the effectiveness and efficiency of the method.

LILRC Webinar: Introduction to Google Slides
2020-09-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This workshop will demonstrate to staff the basics of creating a google slides presentation. Those who complete the workshop will learn how to create a slide show, format the slides, add media, collaborate and present the slides. The workshop will be presented by Tim Spindler.

NOT Lost in Transition: Resource Sharing in Changing Times Virtual Workshop
2020-09-29 09:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Calling all Resource Sharing librarians, paraprofessionals and staff.
Join us for a fun day of learning, networking and sharing.
This annual workshop will be free of charge and held virtually via Zoom.
The event is co-sponsored by CLRC, SCRLC, SENYLRC and CDLC.
REGISTER HERE

Program Schedule
9:00 – 9:10:
Welcome: schedule of day, housekeeping
9:10 – 9:30:
Empire Library Delivery (ELD), presented by Maria DeGaetano, Business Services Coordinator, CDLC.
9:30 – 9:40:
Treasure Hunt!
9:40 – 10:10:
ILLiad to Tipasa Changeover, presented by Brandon Martin, Instructor of Library Services, Systems Librarian & Resource Sharing Coordinator, Broken Arrow Library, Northeastern State University, Broken Arrow, OK.
10:10 – 10:20:
BREAK
10:20 – 10:50:
“A Day in the Life of…” presented by Martha Knuth, Reference Librarian for COVID-19, Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library.
10:50 – 11:30:
What we learned… Breakout Rooms for discussion moderated by Virgilio Pinto, ILL Lending Coordinator, Ithaca College
11:30 – 11:50:
Reinventing the Borrowing Wheel: Direct borrowing programs – where do they stand?, presented by Meghan Wakeman, Resource Sharing Librarian, CDLC.
11:50 – Noon:
Closing remarks
Noon – 1 PM:
Breakout rooms for Networking among attendees
REGISTER HERE
Co-hosted by:

LILRC Webinar: Grant and Proposal Writing 101
2020-09-29 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Building your grant seeking and writing skills is one of the best ways to help secure funding for your organization or department. Let’s review some basic approaches to finding the right grant funding opportunities, writing award-winning grant proposals and highlight common mistakes. Join Teresa Trammell, CPNP-AC, APRN, MSN, MHA, EBSCO Health Clinical Solutions Manager, to review the foundations of writing a successful proposal and learning how to turn a rejection into a personal growth opportunity.

LILRC Webinar: Reopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums during COVID - Scientific Research and Risk Management
2020-09-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Jacob Nadal, Director for Preservation at the Library of Congress, will present the outcomes of the REALM: Reopening Archives, Libraries and Museums project and discuss how libraries are using this scientific knowledge to inform safe operating practices. A remarkable amount of research has been conducted on the novel coronavirus but this is still a very new and rapidly developing body of knowledge. All libraries, the Library of Congress included, need to consider how scientific literacy, risk management, and mission play into their operating plans. This talk will help to frame these issues and provide an opportunity for discussion.
Presenter: Jacob Nadal is the Director for Preservation at the Library of Congress. He was appointed to the position in July 2017. Nadal manages the work of the Directorate’s five Divisions — Binding and Collections Care, Collections Management, Conservation, Reformatting, and Research and Testing — and provides leadership for the Library’s stewardship of the national collections.

METRO Webinar: Affordable Telephone and Internet Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic
2020-10-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This webinar will provide an overview of the Lifeline low-income discount telephone program and low-income internet programs in New York State, while explaining changes and updates to these programs in light of the COVID-19 health pandemic.
Sam Faduski (they/them/their) is the Staff Attorney for Western New York with the Public Utility Law Project. They specialize in public benefits and LGBTQ+ rights and inclusion in the context of public utilities. Mx. Faduski graduated from the University at Buffalo’s dual JD/MSW program, and worked with Legal Services of Central New York in Syracuse before starting at PULP. They are admitted to practice law in New York and are a licensed master social worker.
The Digital Equity webinar series is organized by the New York State Library and the New York State Education Department, in partnership with the METRO Library Council and the Northern New York Library Network.

SENYLRC Webinar: Developing RESILIENT Libraries
2020-10-01 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Developing RESILIENT Libraries: REady Steady In the Library: taking Initiative before an Emergency, Natural disaster, or Trauma
About the presentation:
We’re in the middle of a pandemic – so join us for a webinar on planning for emergencies and disasters in libraries! All of your pandemic policies are in place, but when was the last time you updated your plumbing diagram and IT inventory list? The webinar blends presentations with breakout discussions. Handouts include a one-page disaster preparedness plan and a risk management matrix. Learn about the differences between risks, emergencies, and disasters and how all types of libraries can help their communities be more resilient before – and after – a disaster.
About the presenter:
Michele Stricker is the Deputy State Librarian of Lifelong Learning at the New Jersey State Library where she is responsible for library trustee and director education and training, strategic planning, preservation best practices for special collections, disaster preparedness, and community resiliency. In addition to an MLIS from Rutgers University, she has an MFA in Museum Studies from Syracuse University, and an MA in Art History from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2019, she was selected as a Library Journal Mover & Shaker.
This event is free and open to all library workers.
All participants will receive a certificate for CE Credit

About the series:
This presentation is the first in a series of webinars to support and empower library staff and improve library resiliency in the preparation, response, and recovery phases of an emergency or disaster in their libraries or communities.
Webinar Schedule
Workshop 1: Opening Session: Developing RESILIENT Libraries – Thursday, October 1, 2020, 2-3:30
Workshop 2: Self Care, Self Defense & De-escalation – Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 10:30-12
Workshop 3: Planning for emergencies and disasters: Infrastructure – Nov 2020
Workshop 4: Planning for emergencies and disasters: Public Health – Dec 2020
Workshop 5: Communication skills and disaster communication plans – Jan 2021
Workshop 6: Wrap-up – Participant presentations – Feb 2021
These workshops are organized by Southeastern New York Library Resources Council with a Health Information Outreach Award from the National Library of Medicine. Developed resources reported in this project are supported by the National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health (NIH) under cooperative agreement number UG4LM012342 with the University of Pittsburgh, Health Sciences Library System. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

WNYLRC Webinar: Intersect 2020 - From Shushing to Shouting: Advocacy and Using Your Voice
2020-10-02 09:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
On behalf of the Western New York Library Resources Council, the Continuing Education Committee would like to thank everybody who made the past two Intersect Unconferences a success! We were inspired by the great ideas, creativity and support from the library workers of Western NY, and we are excited to continue this year with Intersect 2020: From Shushing to Shouting: Advocacy and Using Your Voice!
Due to the current restrictions on gatherings and events, and the uncertainties that face all of us on returning to our working spaces, the Continuing Education Committee has decided to hold this year’s Intersect Unconference virtually. We are trying to keep the spirit of learning from and collaborating with each other alive in our current telecommuting climate, and feel that a virtual unconference can still maintain the format integrity of small breakout sessions, large plenary discussions, and individual spaces for networking, casual discussion, and demonstrations.
The purpose of INTERSECT is to facilitate a culture of co-learning among librarians and other interested professionals in the region by bringing people together to network and share ideas in an interactive, engaging, informal setting where participants determine the content.
Sessions include:

Advocacy & Storytelling
Advocating for Library Staff During COVID-19
But *I Am* Faculty: Self Advocacy in the Age of Title-Questioning
Creating a Coordinated Advocacy Campaign From Nuts to Bolts
Health Literacy & the Library
An Intergenerational Book Club That Ignites Deep Discussion on Challenging Issues
Open Data Scavenger Hunt
Peer Sharing + Peer Learning = Community Empowerment
Prepare, Partner, Protect, Propose, and Persevere: Advocating for a Dedicated Information Literacy Classroom
The Right to Learn: Advocating for People Who Are Incarcerated

Full program to follow!
The registration price this year is $20.20, to commemorate this interesting and unprecedented year! If you are a library worker who would like to attend the 2020 Intersect Unconference but have been furloughed or otherwise economically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, please contact us, as we are currently working on financial assistance for our colleagues in need.

LILRC 25th Annual Archives Conference: Collecting and Preserving the Stories of U.S. Veterans
2020-10-05 10:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Scheduled presenters:
Kimberly Guise, Assistant Director for Curatorial Services, The National World War II Museum
Emily Hindin, Assistant Director for Digitization, The National World War II Museum
Mail Call from The National WWII Museum
Kathryn Heaviside, Community Service Librarian at the Northport-East Northport Public Library
Ink Stories: Symbols of Service
Edna Susman, Director, Veterans Testimonial Project on Long Island
The Key to Our Future is to Remember and Record Our Past
American Airpower Museum virtual tour with live commentary by Lawrence Starr
Greg Goodell, Museum Curator, Gettysburg National Military Park
Material Connections To Hallowed Ground: Linking Artifacts of Civil War Soldiers to a Present Experience
Christopher Gwinn, Chief of Interpretation and Education, Gettysburg National Military Park
What Gettysburg Meant: Union and Confederate Veterans Remember America’s Most Famous Battle

Tuesday at Ten!
2020-10-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online 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. Please join us for our weekly online Zoom meeting every Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84103802243
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 841 0380 2243

WNYLRC Webinar: Practicing Trauma Informed Approaches, Two Part Session
2020-10-07 10:00 - 11:30, 2020-10-15 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
*This will be a two part session, held on October 7th and October 15th at 10 am. Each session will be 90 minutes, with a 15 minute break.*
Webinar Description:
Trauma-informed care (TIC) approaches incorporate key principals to ensure that direct service and organizational supports are attentive to how trauma affects individuals and communities. By developing trauma-informed service systems, organizations can implement care approaches that address the lived and stated needs of staff, providers, and people seeking services. Participants will identify how to facilitate TIC strategies to mitigate the impact of traumatic stress by developing an understanding of the signs and symptoms of trauma, barriers and challenges to care provisions and ways to enhance empathic engagements. Through this series, participants will develop personal and organizational self-care strategies and ways to sustain TIC into the organizational culture and practices.
Objectives:

Participants will be able to provide a definition of trauma that includes collective traumatic stress, historical trauma, and complex trauma.
Participants will be able to understand the term “trauma informed care,” and its relevance in organizational culture, and the Six Principles of TIC
Conceptualize organizational strategies to move TIC forward in your organization.

Learn how to identify escalating situations using a trauma-informed lens and build empathy to enhance supportive responses.
*This will be a two part session, held on October 7th and October 15th at 10 am. Each session will be 90 minutes, with a 15 minute break.*

About the Presenter:

Caroline Sharkey is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and Program Coordinator/Clinical Supervisor for the TILT (Trauma Informed Library Transformation) program at the Athens Public Library in Athens, Georgia. She has 24 years working with youth, families, and communities to address trauma in the fields of education, social work, and community development. She has led trauma-informed organizations, trained agencies, and facilitated more than 350 community and professional presentations. Caroline is currently pursuing her doctorate in social work at the University of Georgia.

METRO Webinar: Building Community Broadband Networks
2020-10-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Greta Byrun, Community Tech NY with speakers from The Point CDC and the Bronx Community Relief Effort, the Kingston Equitable Internet Initiative, the Buffalo Digital Divide Initiative, and New York’s NYSERNet broadband consortium.
The pandemic has brought anxiety and chaos around the digital divide and inequities in access to remote education. With broadband priced out of reach for many low-income families and for overstretched cities and school districts, many communities are looking for solutions outside the current flawed market. What does it take to create a different kind of internet service, one that is equitable and imagined as a public good and a utility, not a luxury?
Some municipalities are lucky enough to have the capacity and resources to go it alone, building out conduit and fiber through their electric utilities or as a municipally-owned open-access resource. Other places are innovating to compose an original ecosystem of resources and capacities including organizing vision, bandwidth, funding, governance, and workforce. Each community’s broadband ecosystem is as unique as a fingerprint, but emerging practices and strategies can be replicated and shared. In this moment of potential and need, we will learn from three communities building broadband their own way: The Bronx, Buffalo, and Kingston.
The Digital Equity webinar series is organized by the New York State Library and the New York State Education Department, in partnership with the METRO Library Council and the Northern New York Library Network.

LILRC Webinar: 29th Annual Conference on Libraries and the Future - Diversity, Democracy, Engagement
2020-10-09 09:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Recent events have highlighted the structural racism and prejudices that continue to exist in society. The Long Island Library Resources Council recognizes and acknowledges the systemic discrimination that exists. The Council believes people have a right to be free from discrimination based on race, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other status.
This year’s Annual Conference on Libraries and the Future: Diversity, Democracy, and Engagement will confront these issues with three excellent speakers. Our keynote speaker, Nancy Kranich, special projects research librarian and faculty at Rutgers University, will examine engagement in libraries. V. Elaine Gross, President of Erase Racism, will discuss promoting diversity in libraries. Ryan Dowd, author of The Librarian’s Guide to Homelessness, will provide a condensed version of his workshop on how libraries can better serve the homeless. Each of these speakers will round out a program that brings attention to how libraries can serve different populations and how libraries can serve as community centers leading the way for change in society.

CDLC Webinar: Preservation Interest Group - Preservation During COVID-19 Times
2020-10-13 09:30 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
All are welcome to join this discussion with University at Albany Preservation Librarians, Ann Kearney and Karen Kiorpes.
Topics for discussion will include use of cleaners and disinfectants in cultural institutions, air quality guidelines for storage areas, and guidelines for safe handling. We will also hear from some member libraries on how they are managing preservation and security during this time.

Tuesday at Ten!
2020-10-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online 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. Please join us for our weekly online Zoom meeting every Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85171574501
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 851 7157 4501

LILRC Webinar: Librarians Are Teachers - Applying Theory to Help Adults Learn
2020-10-13 14:00 - 15:30 | Online via Webex, NY, United States
As a librarian, you are a teacher. In just about everything you do, from answering reference questions, doing library orientation sessions, and responding to search requests, to formal teaching, you teach. And you teach adults. This webinar will show you how to apply the work of major adult learning theorists, particularly Malcolm Knowles’s work on andragogy, to improve your teaching in all settings. You’ll leave with practical ideas that help you teach more effectively and with greater personal satisfaction.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this session attendees will be able to:
1) Apply learning theories to address specific problems and characteristics of adult learners in a range of settings
2) Create effective instruction for adults
3) Reflect on their own teaching strategies and modify them to be more effective
Audience
Librarians who teach, orient library users, or instruct staff on new tools and resources. Beginners are welcome.
This registration is for the live webinar only and does not provide MLA CE hours. This will NOT be recorded.
Medical librarians, please contact Sally Stieglitz @sstieglitz@lilrc.org to learn how to participate with a MLA site code that supports MLA continuing education contact hours.

Presenter
Lauren Hays, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology at the University of Central Missouri. Previously, she was the Instructional and Research Librarian at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe, KS where she enjoyed teaching and being a member of her institution’s Faculty Development Committee. Her professional interests include the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, information literacy, digital literacy, educational technology, and academic development. On a personal note, she loves dogs, traveling, and home.

LILRC Webinar: Making Space for Self - Developing Emotional Intelligence Skills in the Workplace
2020-10-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Confucius said: “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” There are those who are consistent high performers. There are those who excel at maintaining a sense of calm and rarely react to stress. Considering the on-the-job stress, interpersonal challenges at work, how do we hear the words of Confucius and have a job we love; so that ultimately, we can feel motivated and motivate others?
We will look at filling your EI toolbox with skills needed to build a bridge between the cognitive brain and the emotional brain to have higher workplace satisfaction.
Presenter: Maria Hensley-Spera, LCSWR, TF-CBT, is a clinical social worker and clinical instructor at Stony Brook University Department of Psychiatry, School of Health Sciences Physical Therapy, and a Field Placement, Instructor in the School of Social Welfare. She has worked with children, teens and families in community mental health centers and a school-based mental health program throughout her career. She specializes in Trauma-Focused CBT, Functional Family Therapy.

Library 2.020 Mini-Conference: Sustainability in Libraries
2020-10-14 15:00 - 18:00 | NY, United States
We’re excited to announce our third Library 2.020 mini-conference: “Sustainability in Libraries,” which will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 14th, from 12:00 – 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone).
This mini-conference will center on the concept of “Sustainable Thinking” which aligns the core values of libraries with the “Triple Bottom Line” definition of sustainability–i.e. the intersection of environmental stewardship, social equity, and economic feasibility–to inspire investment and build support for your library in the future.
Library leaders must mobilize to ensure libraries take an active, visible role in building sustainable and resilient communities, particularly in light of the events of 2020. Our future depends on citizens who are able to work together with empathy, respect, and understanding to adapt to the many challenges and opportunities facing society today. As we struggle with the concurrent challenges of COVID-19, the resulting financial crisis, the political landscape and the increasing effects of climate change, we also find opportunities in these moments such as the rise of the Black Lives Matter/Solidarity Movement in the face of the “I Can’t Breathe” protests and an increasing call for locally driven solutions to problems impacting us on a global scale.
Through this mini-conference we will explore the importance of infusing the new core value of sustainability into everything we do and demonstrate how libraries – of all types – that lead into the future using “sustainable thinking” to fulfill our mission as libraries in new and innovative ways.
Conference sessions will include topics related to:

Libraries as Inspiration & Catalyst – topics and examples related to how libraries may provide leadership and serve as a model for sustainable practices through facility stewardship, innovative service design, and outreach and partnership practices.
Libraries as Conveners & Connectors – topics and examples related to how libraries work collaboratively through visionary partnerships to facilitate collective impact work to address existing challenges and opportunities with a focus on community well-being and self-reliance
Libraries as Contributors to Community Resilience – topics and examples of how libraries contribute to future community resilience from disaster preparedness, & response and recovery efforts to work that contributes to creating a culture of respect, understanding, and empathy in the library’s service area.

This event is being organized in partnership with Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, the Executive Director of the Mid-Hudson Library System and co-chair of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Special Task Force on Sustainability, Learn more about Rebekkah at http://SustainableLibraries.org. Participants are encouraged to use #library2020 and #sustainabilityinlibraries on their social media posts leading up to and during the event.
This is a free event, being held live online and also recorded.
REGISTER HERE
to attend live and/or to receive the recording links afterward.
Please also join this Library 2.0 network to be kept updated on this and future events.
Everyone is invited to participate in our Library 2.0 conference events, which are designed to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among information professionals worldwide. Each three-hour event consists of a keynote panel, 10-15 crowd-sourced thirty-minute presentations, and a closing 30-minute keynote. A mini-conference FAQ (frequently asked questions) page is here.
The call for proposals is now open. We encourage all who are interested to submit to present a 30-minute session on the conference topic. More information here. You can view the current proposals that have been submitted here.
KEYNOTE PANELISTS (more to come!):
Rebekkah Smith Aldrich (@rebekkah)
Executive Director of the Mid-Hudson Library System
Opening Keynote (Moderator)
Rebekkah Smith Aldrich (MLS, LEED AP) is the Executive Director of the Mid-Hudson Library System. Rebekkah currently serves as the co-chair of the American Library Association’s (ALA) Special Task Force on Sustainability, as an advisory board member for the ALA Center for the Future of Libraries, and is the co-founder of both the ALA Sustainability Round Table and the New York Library Association’s Sustainability Initiative. Rebekkah was named a Library Journal (LJ) Mover & Shaker in 2010 and writes the LJ Sustainability column. A frequent international speaker on the topic of libraries and sustainability, Rebekkah is the author of Sustainable Thinking: Ensuring Your Library’s Future in an Uncertain World and Resilience, part of the Library Futures Series from ALA Editions.
