CLRC

Webinar: Transformational Assessment - Measuring What Matters
2022-08-18 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
This introductory webinar provides an overview of library assessment including strategies for developing an effective library assessment program and projects.
Topics include:

an introduction to the phases of assessment,
an outcomes-based approach to assessment,
developing and implementing an assessment plan,
method selection, and
communicating results to key stakeholders.

About the Presenter:
As the Director of Performance and User Engagement, Maurini Strub applies critical thinking, user insight, and best practice measurement methodology to manage, analyze, and apply high-quality, actionable data that improves organization performance, informs decision making, and shapes value propositions. She employs strategies that rely upon incorporating user research, evaluation, assessment, and improvement into all River Campus Libraries (RCL) programs, services, and resources. Maurini is also responsible for building an organizational culture of assessment by coaching RCL staff as they develop their knowledge and competencies in assessment and evaluation.
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

Erie Canal Museum Event: Beers, Bikes, and Barges - Utica
2022-08-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Bagg’s Square Brewing Company, 300 Main Street, Utica, NY, 13501, United States
Join the Oneida County Historical Center and the Erie Canal Museum for this hour-long cycling tour around Utica looking at the city’s Erie Canal and brewing history as you ride along the historic Mohawk River. The ride begins and ends at Bagg’s Square Brewing Company where you will be treated to a beer as part of your ride as well as a brief history of the brewery itself. Register at: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/beers-bikes-and-barges/

Erie Canal Museum Event: Tuesday on the Towpath
2022-08-23 18:00 - 19:00 | Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
Join staff of the Erie Canal Museum on this recreational bike ride along the route of the Erie Canal in Syracuse, New York. Learn about the 19th century Canal in downtown Syracuse, and explore some of the city’s historic and contemporary Canal systems, including the Onondaga Creekwalk and the Inner Harbor. Meet at the Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse. Helmets are required. The bike ride is free and open to the public.

LILRC Webinar: A Conversation with Novelist Jamie Ford - Author of The Many Daughters of Afong Moy
2022-08-30 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join LILRC to meet bestselling author Jamie Ford and to discuss his work, including his new acclaimed novel, The Many Daughters of Afong Moy (Atria, August 2, 2022), in a moderated conversation. LILRC members who attend will be eligible to win hardcover copies of the book as door prizes.
About the Book:
“Dorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living.
As Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help.
Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers; Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules; Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic; Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app; and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America.
As painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn’t the only thing she’s inherited. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. A stranger who’s loved her through all of her genetic memories. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price.”
Source: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Many-Daughters-of-Afong-Moy/Jamie-Ford/9781982158217
About Jamie Ford:
Jamie Ford is the great-grandson of Nevada mining pioneer Min Chung, who emigrated from Hoiping, China to San Francisco in 1865, where he adopted the western name Ford, thus confusing countless generations. His debut novel, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list and went on to win the 2010 Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature. His work has been translated into thirty-five languages. Having grown up in Seattle, he now lives in Montana with his wife and a one-eyed pug.

LibraryWorks Webinar: Dealing with Hostile and Potentially Dangerous Library Users (and Staff) Behaviors
2022-09-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Online via LibraryWorks, NY, United States
CLRC is offering our members up to 20 seats at the upcoming LibraryWorks Webinar, Dealing with Hostile and Potentially Dangerous Library Users (and Staff) Behaviors.
Good manners and a friendly demeanor will ensure that frontline library personnel can handle most library customer issues. But what if being courteous is not enough? Do you and your co-workers know what to do if someone is emotionally bullying or physically threatening to staff or library visitors? Belligerent? Acting out because of drugs, alcohol, illness, stress, or cognitive issues? Refusing to leave? Caught stealing or damaging property?
The first step is to build the foundation for a safe and welcoming library. Addressing hostile and potentially dangerous behaviors begins with planning, which includes engaging your community in conversations about principles and values, creating policies that are reasonable and enforceable, and evaluating the physical plant. Training your library’s personnel means establishing guidelines for consistent behavior that ensures both staff and visitors are treated fairly and with respect. The awareness, attitude, and actions of library employees are the first defenses against customers who are AOA (Angry on Arrival). However, to be successful employees need support from supervisors and managers, working together to protect library employees, customers, vendors, and visitors as well as your workplace’s property.
Topics include how we influence the behaviors of others; setting limits on what is acceptable; preventing escalation: don’t engage emotionally; distractions, alternatives, and disengagement; and trusting your gut: when to call authorities.
Following this webinar, you will know how to:

Ensure everyone on the staff knows what to do in emergencies.
Lower the drama of difficult encounters with library customers.
Develop consistent responses to challenging customer behavior.
Improve basic security features of your workplace.

Presenter: Pat Wagner is a trainer and consultant with over 40 years of experience working for libraries, universities, local government, nonprofits, and small businesses.
Registration closes on August 30 at 5 p.m. You will be sent a link to the webinar within 24 hours of the start time.

CDLC Webinar: Introduction to OpenRefine
2022-09-13 10:30 - 12:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This event will be held via Zoom webinar.
Do you deal with library data or metadata? Perhaps in your library catalog records, digital repository metadata, or even spreadsheets? As the amount of data we deal with grows, so do the errors and inconsistencies in that data, and the manual correction of these issues becomes even more time-consuming. To help you with your data clean-up needs, this course will review OpenRefine, the software which allows users to quickly view, identify inconsistencies in, and enhance a variety of data.
Learning objectives for this session include:

Learn how to download and install the OpenRefine software
Understand OpenRefine’s data-editing capabilities
Determine ways OpenRefine can be useful in your daily library work

CDLC is offering this workshop in cooperation with Amigos Library Services. Emily Nimsakont is the presenter. She is the Digital Librarian at RStudio, a data science software company. She holds a master’s degree in library science from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the current president of the Nebraska Library Association.
This workshop is sponsored by CDLC’s Regional Automation Advisory Committee (RAAC).

LILRC Webinar: Your Management Philosophy
2022-09-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Your Management Philosophy [Session 1]
Before you can craft overarching HR philosophies for your organization, you need to know who you are as a manager. Participants will learn how to determine what their management values are and how their values relate to the library’s values before crafting a management philosophy statement.
Laying the Foundation: Developing Your HR Philosophies
Personnel is usually over 50% of a library’s budget, but few libraries have dedicated HR professionals navigating the ins and outs of HR. In this 4-part series, participants will learn how to lay a foundation for what type of manager they want to be and how to create an HR philosophy for their library that aligns with their library’s mission, vision, and values. This program is the first in a four part series, all of which can be attended as a stand alone or as a continuous learning experience.
Presenters:
Kate Hall is the Executive Director of the Northbrook Public Library after serving as Director at the New Lenox Public Library and in various library positions in the Chicagoland area for over 20 years. In her 11 years as a library director, Kate has been in leadership positions in state and national library groups including the American Library Association, Illinois Library Association, and Reaching Across Illinois Library System. She has served on the committee and chaired Director’s University, an intensive training for new Illinois Public Library Directors. Kate is the recipient of the 2021 Illinois Library Association Librarian of the Year Award and has just launched Illinois Libraries Present, a new statewide joint programming cooperative.
Kathy Parker was the director of the Glenwood-Lynwood (IL) Public Library District from 2002-2018 after serving as Assistant Director at the Harvey (IL) Public Library.
She has worked in public and private libraries for over 40 years in nearly every department and co-founded Director’s University. She has served on numerous state committees including the Illinois Library Association and has served as library trustee for her local library and the regional library system, Reaching Across Illinois Library System. She was the 2016 recipient of American Library Associations Trustee Citation award. After retiring in 2018, Kathy launched the kathyparker consulting firm which provides training to trustees and new directors.
This program will not be recorded.

SENYLRC Webinar: Public Student Loan Forgiveness Workshop
2022-09-13 15:30 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This session, provided by nationally recognized PSLF expert Betsy Mayotte from The Institute of Student Loan Advisors, will explain in detail the eligibility requirements for the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. The session will also go into detail as to the temporary waivers for PSLF announced in October that opens up eligibility for borrowers who may have been on the wrong plan or had the wrong loans in the past.

Webinar: Sustainable Living Library Programs
2022-09-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Kroski is one of many who opted for the freedom of building a self-sufficient and sustainable way of life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn just what it takes to plan, organize, and run sustainability programs for patrons in libraries, both rural and urban. Programs range from gardening topics to teaching pioneer crafts, to homesteading events, and to hosting preservation programs.
About the Presenter:
Ellyssa Valenti Kroski is the Director of Information Technology and Marketing at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 75 books. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University, and an international conference speaker. She can be found at: http://www.amazon.com/author/ellyssa
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

Erie Canal Museum Event: Beers, Bikes, and Barges - Seneca Falls
2022-09-15 18:00 - 19:00 | Seneca Falls Museum of Waterways and Industry, 89 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, NY, 13148, United States
Join the Seneca Falls Museum of Waterways and Industry and the Erie Canal Museum for this hour-long cycling tour around Seneca Falls that looks at its unique canal history! The ride begins at the Seneca Falls Museum of Waterways and Industry and ends at Fall Street Brewing, right down the street, where you will be treated to a beer as part of your ride as well as a brief history of the brewery itself.
Register at: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/beers-bikes-and-barges/

SCRLC Webinar: Effective Health Communication and Health Literacy - Understanding the Connection
2022-09-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
How are health communication and health literacy connected? How can you be more effective in providing health information to consumers, patients, clients, library patrons and your community? This 1 hour webinar introduces the concepts of health literacy and health communication, outlines components of clear health communication, and identifies online resources from NLM, government agencies and other recognized resources for health literacy and health communication.
Learning Objectives:
Define health literacy​
Describe universal precautions for health literacy​
Name 3 components of clear health communication ​
Identify 3 online resources you can use as tools to promote health literacy​​​
Presenter: Sean Corning (they/them), Education & Outreach Coordinator | Network of the National Library of Medicine, Region 7

Library Assistants and Support Staff - LA SIG
2022-09-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Third Tuesdays at 2:00 pm
CLRC offers 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
Join us on Zoom for our September get-together.
This month’s topic: Welcome Back – How Was Summer in Your Library?
REGISTER HERE
Contact Anna Dobkowski with any questions.

WNYLRC Webinar: NY State's Budget and You: A Primer on Libraries and the State Budget Process
2022-09-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Does it sometimes feel as if State Aid for Libraries is a mystery until it pops out of the oven on April 1st each year? Would you like to know more about how the cake is baked? What’s in the mix? When are good times to add yeast and turn up the heat? In this noontime webinar we’ll explore:

How the economy affects the size of the State’s revenue pie each year;
How the State funding pie is sliced and where Libraries fit in;
Following the State Budget Calendar to time and target advocacy;
Finding State Library Aid in the Governor’s Proposed Operating and Capital Budgets;
Following the Legislative process – timing and importance of Senate and Assembly “one-house” budget resolutions
Quickly finding the result in the Adopted Budget Bills

About the Presenter:
Ken Stone has been heavily involved in governmental finance for over 40 years, beginning as an Evaluator for the U.S. General Accounting Office (now known as the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and moving on to responsible positions in City and County governments. Upper management positions included service as Program Development and Audit Manager (budget and internal audit) for the City of Anaheim, California; Budget Director for the City of Spokane, Washington; and currently, Deputy Director – Chief Financial Officer of the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System, a regional library system serving the citizens of Erie County, New York through 37 library facilities and 2 high-tech mobile library vehicles covering a territory of 1,043 square miles. Mr. Stone possesses a Master of Public Administration Degree from California State University at Fullerton and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the same institution.
Mr. Stone enjoys teaching and interacting with students learning about public budgeting concepts and realities in PAD 601 Public Budgeting at SUNY Buffalo State. He also actively participates in the Buffalo-Niagara Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), serving as Chapter President in 2018 through June 2019 and Treasurer from January 2020-present.

LILRC Webinar: The End of Her - Racing Against Alzheimer's to Solve a Murder with Author Wayne Hoffman
2022-09-21 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join LILRC to hear author and journalist Wayne Hoffman speak on his recent memoir, The End of Her: Racing Against Alzheimers to Solve A Murder (Heliotrope Books, 2022).
The End of Her, Hoffman’s nonfiction debut, is a true crime memoir about his efforts to uncover the facts about his great-grandmother’s murder, while watching his own mother’s decline from dementia. One reviewer called the book “a murder mystery wrapped like a delicious knish around a familial love story,” while a historian praised it as “meticulously researched and skillfully written.” Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, calling it “riveting” and “a unique addition to the cold case subgenre, and a powerful mix of true crime and family memoir.”
From: http://waynehoffmanwriter.com/index.php?/about-the-book/
About Wayne Hoffman:
Wayne Hoffman has published three novels: Hard and its sequel An Older Man are both published by Bear Bones Books, while the Stonewall Book Award-winning Sweet Like Sugar is published by Kensington Books. He is also a contributor to several anthologies. By day, Wayne is a journalist: His cultural reporting has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Village Voice, The Nation, The Forward, Billboard and The Advocate. He is executive editor of Tablet Magazine.

ESLN Webinar: Using VA Video Connect in the Library: What You Need to Know!
2022-09-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Libraries play many important roles in their communities, but none as important today in helping people access the healthcare and health information they need, especially with telehealth needs of those who lack internet, devices, and or the digital skills to obtain health services and health information. The Veteran’s Affairs Office has created a service to assist veterans and their families with telehealth services called VA Video Connect. This webinar will show library staff how to assist and help Veterans learn to use VA Video Connect App to video conference with their providers.
Objectives:
– Overview of how VA Video Connect works
– What does a Veteran need to participate
– How to Setup a Device, (Apple/ Android/ Tablet)
– Ways to test a Device is Properly Setup
– What Veteran and their families can expect in an actual appointment
– Common Troubleshooting
– Help Numbers
Presenter: Paul Galantowicz, Facility Telehealth Coordinator VHAWNY Healthcare System
We invite you to submit a question for the presenter – there will be a place to do that during the registration process. The deadline to submit questions is September 15, 2022
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 (Event Organizer).

Erie Canal Museum Event: Lunchtime Lecture - The Canal and the Continent: Imagining, Creating, and Understanding a Pivot of Change
2022-09-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
What did the original Erie Canal mean to those who imagined, built, and tried to understand it? Decisions made at various levels, including the local, impacted, and were impacted by, wider historical transformations. This presentation will explore some of these connections between decisions, meanings, and consequences. This talk will be presented both in-person and via Zoom. Attendance is FREE with a recommended $10 donation.
You can register here: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/lecture/

This program was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities

LILRC Webinar: Coffee+Conversation - Social Media Librarians Virtual Meetup
2022-09-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join your fellow social media librarians for our next virtual meet up. We will have an open conversation about new and ongoing challenges. All are welcome!

LibraryWorks Webinar: Creating Standards for Successful Customer Service (for Frontline Staff)
2022-09-22 14:00 - 15:00 | Online via LibraryWorks, NY, United States
CLRC is offering our members up to 20 seats at the upcoming LibraryWorks Webinar, Creating Standards for Successful Customer Service (for Frontline Staff).
One of the most difficult issues for frontline library staff to navigate is the balance between personalized service, which can devolve into special favors for well-liked customers, and even-handed consistency, which can become volumes of rigid rules. The key is to establish guidelines for how you treat all library users, regardless of who they are. The welcome for everyone, services that anyone can use, and common courtesy is something that you can apply to every library visitor, including strangers, difficult customers, and people who are different from you.
Topics include examples of written standards, the importance of strategic planning and job descriptions that support customer services, and why consistency and civility can solve many customer behavioral issues.
Following this webinar, you will know how to:

Improve customer service with consistency, fair treatment, and access for all.
Determine if staff are making exceptions for friends, family, and otherwise favored customers.
Create a draft of a written set of standards for your library, to test and review.

Presenter: Pat Wagner has been a trainer and consultant for libraries for over 40 years. She focuses on personnel, management, and leadership issues, including marketing, project management, and tech services productivity.
Registration closes on September 20 at 5 p.m. You will be sent a link to the webinar within 24 hours of the start time.

RRLC Webinar: Student Employment 2022 - Where Are We Now?
2022-09-29 10:30 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This webinar will focus on student employment practices since the pandemic and managing the next generation of student workers. How has student employment changed in the last few years? What are some expectations of student employees, or student supervisors? Is job burnout a concern with student employees? How do we empower, train, and retain student employees? Join us for an interactive presentation that will tackle these topics and more!
Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to:
– identify how student employment has changed since the pandemic
– identify what supervisors of student employees might want to consider to attract, empower, and retain student employees
– recognize how job burnout might affect not only student employees, but supervisors as well
Presenter: Ben Hogben is the Access Services Manager for the Ithaca College Library. Ben has a BA from Ithaca College and training that includes employee and student coaching, and MBTI certification. He has written articles on coaching employees, conducting performance evaluations, hiring and training student employees, and co-authored an article on Animal Assisted Activities at the Library.
Free to RRLC & ESLN Members. This event will be held on Zoom Webinar; registration is required.
All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance for 1 hour of CE credit.
This webinar will not be recorded. 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 at least five business days ahead of this program.
RRLC Registration & Program Attendance Policies
If you have any questions, please contact Tina Broomfield.

CDLC Webinar: Preservation Interest Group - Weather Disasters
2022-10-04 09:30 - 11:00 | NY, United States
Join the Preservation Interest Group in a conversation about the challenges our libraries and archives face when the weather changes, and how we can best prepare our storage environments so that our collections are protected.
Ann Kearney, Interim Head of Preservation for the University at Albany Libraries, will lead the discussion and offer suggestions for easy-to-implement and safe options for protecting and storing various types of library materials.

WNYLRC Webinar: Empowered Against Book Bans
2022-10-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Get to know the current state of book challenges across the US with a look at what led to this particular censorship movement. This presentation will offer not only the terminology and groups associated with book challenges in public schools and libraries within and beyond New York, but it will also offer insight into how to build strong challenge policies, craft effective responses to book challenges, and connect your community allies to ensure your public institution remains committed to information access for all. All attendees will walk away with a set of resources to put this knowledge into action immediately.
This webinar will be recorded.
About the Presenter:
Kelly Jensen is an Editor at Book Riot, the largest independent book website in North America. She covers all things young adult literature and has written about censorship for nearly ten years. She is the author of three critically-acclaimed and award-winning anthologies for young adults.

LibraryWorks Webinar: Recruiting, Hiring, Orienting, Maintaining and Saying Goodbye to Library Volunteers
2022-10-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Online via LibraryWorks, NY, United States
CLRC is offering our members up to 20 seats at the upcoming LibraryWorks Webinar, Recruiting, Hiring, Orienting, Maintaining and Saying Goodbye to Library Volunteers.
About 60 years ago, the professional nonprofit community came to the conclusion that volunteers needed to be treated like paid employees, meaning that they needed to be subject to the same scrutiny and oversight. The result was that nonprofit agencies became more skilled at recruiting and signing up volunteers who were productive, and the volunteers were treated with the respect they deserved.
Everyone benefited as did the agencies and communities they served. Unfortunately, some libraries and library-allied organizations have not yet adopted this professional model. Instead, recruitment is hit and miss, with no guidelines and burdened with an attitude of desperation and guilt.
The biggest myth regarding volunteers is that they are “free.” They need supervision and encouragement. They might not receive a paycheck, but their compensation is the time, attention, appreciation, and recognition of co-workers, managers, and leadership, companionship, and the knowing that they have accomplished something.
Volunteers have the same lifecycle as paid employees and many of the same legal conditions for working for the library. Are they a right match for a library? Do they have technical, clerical, or professional skills? How are they at dealing with conflicts with library customers? Have you screened them for financial problems, a criminal background check, or anything that might flag them for being around children? Have they received the same orientation as the paid employees, as well as periodic reviews and consistent positive reinforcement? And what happens when you need to say good-bye?

Evaluate your library’s volunteer program: How do you treat your volunteers and how do volunteers contribute to your library?
Create and maintain a welcoming, rewarding, and goal-oriented environment for volunteers.
Broaden your outreach to more potential volunteer candidates.
Partner with nonprofits and other agencies to build volunteer pools and share candidates.

Presenter: Pat Wagner
Registration closes on October 4 at 5 p.m. You will be sent a link to the webinar within 24 hours of the start time.

Erie Canal Museum Event: The Haudenosaunee and the Origins of the Erie Canal - Ditches, Defense, and Dispossession
2022-10-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
The creation of the Erie Canal is considered to be one of the great engineering feats of the nineteenth century. One historian has even compared the technological achievement of building this canal with NASA’s going to the moon in the 1960s. As a result of the canal’s substantial cultural, economic, political and social impact, New York became the “Empire State,” the leader of the nation in so many areas. Until the publication of Laurence M. Hauptman’s Conspiracy of Interests: Iroquois Dispossession and the Rise of New York State (1999), no historian had previously examined the devastating effect of the canal era on Indigenous peoples in the Empire State. In this talk, Hauptman, the author of numerous books on the Haudenosaunee, will focus on the half century before the opening of the Erie Canal, specifically on state canal policies on three of the Six Nations—the Cayugas, Onondagas, and Oneidas. He will show that even before the establishment of the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company in the 1790s, the Erie Canal’s predecessor, state politicians in Albany, transportation interests, and speculators were working hand-in-hand at separating the Haudenosaunee from their extensive territories.
Join the Erie Canal Museum and Skä•noñh Great Law of Peace Center for this free virtual discussion on October 8th at 11AM on Zoom. Register here: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/the-haudenosaunee-and-the-origins-of-the-erie-canal/

Erie Canal Museum Event: Pathway of Resistance Walking Tour
2022-10-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
We are pleased to announce the return of the Pathway of Resistance walking tour, examining African-American experiences on and along the banks of the Erie Canal, from the waterway’s beginnings to contemporary times. While the legacies of slavery and systemic racism can be uncomfortable to discuss, it is crucial for these issues to be be addressed and to understand how these legacies continue to impact our society today. Space is limited, so please try to reserve a space in advance at eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/pathway-of-resistance-walking-tour/

LILRC Webinar: Haunted Libraries and How to Coexist with Your Ghosts - A Study in Adaptive Reuse with Cortney Orme
2022-10-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This program explores how to incorporate the history of your existing library building into your new designs without compromising the integrity of the building while also creating a design that is current and relevant in today’s library culture. Ultimately you extend the life of your buildings by activating these basic principles. Plus, there may be a ghost story or two along the way to keep things super interesting.
Presenter: Cortney Orme is a Commercial Interior Designer, specializing in
Libraries. She is also the creator of the Off the Shelf Library Design Academy online design program that teaches Library Professionals how to take back their creative control and save tons in design fees by designing their own Library through her extensive online course and live coaching program. When she isn’t in the studio, she’s spending time with her husband, two children and two Irish Setters in the beautiful foothills of the Northeast Georgia Mountains.

CDLC Webinar: A Diversity Audit of Juvenile Picture Books - What We Did, What Went Well, What We Would Never Do Again!!
2022-10-13 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This event is being held online via a Zoom meeting.
Stephanie Anderson of Albany Public Library will share the library staff’s experiences and lead a discussion on doing a diversity audit of their picture book collection.
From Stephanie:
After attending multiple webinars and training sessions related to creating diverse collections, I was frustrated by a lack of information on the “How To”. I chose to use an outside vendor for APL’s overall collection, but with picture books, genres and subjects are not always listed in the record of the book. A hands-on approach appeared to be a good way to assess what was in APL’s collection. A working group of Youth Services Librarians and I would have to figure out how to structure an audit from the ground-up, without any solid examples to guide us.
In this discussion, I am going to go over what our working group at APL created, what went well, and what absolutely did not work at all. I have several suggestions for “what to do the next time”, based on what we learned throughout this process. This discussion will be less about outcomes, and more about “how do I start” with information on the pitfalls you may encounter along the way. The outcomes of our audit were encouraging.
About the Presenter: Stephanie Anderson has been the Head of the Collection Management Services Department of Albany Public Library since 2018. Prior to joining APL in 2014, she spent time as a Children’s Dept. Lead Bookseller and Merchandising Manager for Barnes & Noble. She has an MSIS in Archives and Records Management from SUNY-Albany. To encourage the CMS Staff’s professional development, she often enrolls them in collections or cataloging courses, as a group, for fun!

RRLC Webinar: Composting and Beyond for Library Staff
2022-10-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join us for a webinar on composting and zero waste behavior changes for library staff! In this webinar, library staff will learn how to make individual changes in their own lives – like composting and recycling – as well as changes they can make at a business level at their libraries to help the environment.
This webinar will cover:
– Why food is not meant to be thrown in the landfill
– The basics of backyard composting and the difference from commercial composting
– How to recycle common items as well as how they recycle
– What libraries can do at a business level to help the environment, such as bucket swap locations, childhood education on zero waste, and more.
Presenter: Abigael Rice, Impact Earth’s Education Manager, teaches how to be more sustainable in your own life with simple and small changes that have a lasting effect.
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

SIG: Academic Librarians
2022-10-13 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Fall back with great conversation at the CLRC Academic Librarians Special Interest Group meeting.
All academic librarians are welcome in this group to discuss research, department liaison roles, grants, collection development, and other topics related to the areas and responsibilities in academic libraries.
REGISTER HERE

Contact Marc Wildman with any questions.

CLRC's Sustainability SIG Meetings
2022-10-14 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join us for a meeting of CLRC’s Sustainability Special Interest Group!
We meet every other month on the second Friday at 10 a.m.
This group meets to discuss how best to reach our community to convey a sense of urgency regarding the state of our planet. Our focus is on the three pillars of sustainability: sustainable practices are environmentally sound, socially equitable, and economically feasible.

Meeting ID: 885 7044 8340
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: Creating a More Inclusive Catalog
2022-10-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In this session the speakers will present on the individual projects their libraries and institutions have undertaken to reach the goal of creating a more inclusive library catalog. Within this work, there are multiple ways to enact change, in this presentation three varying perspectives will be shared followed by a facilitated panel discussion. Major topics will include: research and decision making processes for subject heading changes, individual project outlines and goals, and open discussion on the challenges of enacting these changes.
About the Presenter:
Emily O’Neil, Technical Services Manager, Deschutes Public Library (Bend, OR), Rachel Fischer, Member Services Librarian for Technical Services, CCS (Illinois) and Scott Brandwein, Bibliographic Services Manager, SWAN Library Services (Illinois)
