METRO Webinar: In an Ever-Expanding Library, Using Decentralized Storage to Keep Your Materials Safe
2022-02-24 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
About This Session
Libraries understand the headache of storing materials. How do you create room for an ever-expanding collection? What if you don’t want to weed materials to make room? Enter decentralized storage—a network of P-2-P servers that store materials across a global network in exchange for cryptocurrency. What problems does this solve? What problems does this create? Where is the state of decentralized storage today?
About This Series
The World Wide Web started with so much promise: to connect people across any distance, to allow anyone to become a publisher, and to democratize access to knowledge. However, today the Web seems to be failing us. It’s not private, secure, or unifying. The internet has, in large part, ended up centralizing access and power in the hands of a few dominant platforms.
What if we could build something better—what some are calling Web 3.0 or the decentralized web?
In this series of six workshops, we’ll explore the ways in which moving to decentralized technologies may enhance your privacy, empower you to control your own data, and resist censorship. Join us to hear from experts in the leading peer-to-peer technologies, from identity to data storage. We’ll see demonstrations of blockchains, cryptocurrency, NFTs, and decentralized storage projects in action. Learn how Web 3.0 might yet create systems that empower individuals by eliminating central points of control.
This series is a partnership between Internet Archive, DWeb, Library Futures, and Metropolitan New York Library Council.

LILRC Webinar: Coffee+Conversation: Social Media Librarians Virtual Meetup
2022-02-24 15:00 - 16:00 | 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!
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This program will not be recorded

Webinar: Blogging as Librarians
2022-02-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Are you interested in learning how to share your experiences as a library staff member in a creative and powerful way? Come join a panel discussion with three contributors to the ACRLog as we discuss the benefits of blogging! Three key takeaways will be:

Best & worst practices for blogging
Recommended tech, services, or tools
Advice to begin your journey

About the Presenters:
Alex Harrington (she/her) is the Access Services and Instruction Librarian at the Harrell Health Sciences Library at the Hershey campus of Penn State University. She has been contributing to ACRLog since September 2018, at which time she was a reference and instruction librarian at the Tidewater Community College / City of Virginia Beach Joint-Use Library in Virginia Beach, VA. She is currently serving as the Series Coordinator for ACRLog.
Hailley Fargo (she/her) is the Head of Education & Outreach Services at Northern Kentucky University. In this role, she leads a team of librarians to provide information literacy through course-based instruction, credit-bearing courses in the Library Informatics bachelor’s degree program, and through outreach efforts across campus. Her research interests include undergraduate research, student engagement and academic libraries, middle management, and reference services. Blogging has been a big part of Hailley’s life, starting as an undergraduate at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Since then, she has blogged for New York Public Library, YALSA, Hack Library School, and ACRLog. Hailley is also a co-founder and Editorial Board member of LibParlor (libparlor.com), a platform for building a community of researchers in LIS.
Emily Hampton Haynes (she/her) is a Public Services Librarian at Carroll Community College in rural Maryland, and has been blogging with ACRLog since 2018. Her research interests include critical librarianship and outreach. After two years of hybrid education, Emily is working on re-building community in her library through low-stakes, self-directed programming. She’s obsessed with her black Labrador named Persephone.
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

METRO Webinar: Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals, Part 2 - Exceptions and Limitations
2022-02-22 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Copyright affects so much of the creative content we interact with and create… not just a painting we may see in a museum or a novel we are reading, but also the emails we ourselves send, the blogs and articles we write, and the photos we take and post.
“Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals” is a three-part series focusing on basic principles of U.S. copyright law and its impact on us as library professionals, and in our own creative lives.
Part 2 will focus on exceptions and limitations in U.S. copyright law, and the ways they play a part in how libraries operate. These include the first-sale doctrine, library exceptions under Section 108 of U.S. copyright law, and fair use. We will also discuss protections for digital content under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Some key takeaways from the presentation will be:
– How exceptions in U.S. copyright law grant libraries the ability to lend physical materials and make copies for patrons
– An examination of the four factors of fair use, and how they apply to specific copyright cases
– Ways in which copyright law has adapted to the digital age

LILRC Webinar: Footprints - Jewish Books Through Time and Place - A Digital Humanities Project
2022-02-22 12:30 - 13:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Footprints:Jewish Books Through Time and Place is a project dedicated to collecting information about individual copies of Jewish books printed between 1450 and 1800. Based on a range of material sources and through a wide network of collaborators and contributors, Footprints collects and aggregates information about the movement of copies of Jewish books printed in the long early modern period (roughly corresponding to the hand-press era), and follows evidence of their movement into the twenty-first century. In this presentation we will explore how Footprints derives its information, how its data is linked to other authorities, and how it represents its findings to offer exciting opportunities to encounter big questions about the ownership of books and the transit of knowledge about Judaic topics in a global view from the early modern period to the present.
Presenters:
Michelle Margolis Chesner is the Norman E. Alexander Librarian for Jewish Studies at Columbia University and a co-director of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place. Michelle is also the Vice President/President-Elect of the Association for Jewish Libraries, and she works at the intersection of Jewish book history and digital humanities.
Joshua Teplitsky is an associate professor in the Department of History at Stony Brook University (SUNY), where he researches and teaches about Jewish about Jewish life in Central Europe in the early modern period. His book, Prince of the Press: How One Collector Built History’s Most Enduring and Remarkable Jewish Library was published in 2019 and was named the winner of the Salo Baron Prize of the AAJR for best first book in Jewish Studies in 2019, the 2020 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award of the Association for Jewish Studies, and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. He is currently at work on a book reconstructing a plague epidemic in eighteenth-century Prague and its impact on the lives of Jews and Christians. He has been interviewed for his research on epidemics and Jewish life in Times Higher Education and Time Magazine. He is one of the co-directors of the Digital Humanities project: Footprints: Jewish Books through Time and Place.

The CLRC Sustainability SIG Presents: Introduction to Drawdown
2022-02-18 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Climate change is upon us and presents the biggest challenge of our time. Our survival and the survival of future generations on this planet depends on finding solutions to the full range of issues that climate change affects. Drawdown, an international project, seeks to find those solutions. While it is impossible to cover everything involved in this project in one sitting, this presentation will give a basic introduction to Drawdown, with the hope of inspiring the participants to dig deeper.
About the Presenters:
After graduating from Rutgers University in 1999, Scott Kushner moved to Syracuse in 2000. After a short stint at Gaylord Bros. (2000-2002), he became the director of the LaFayette Public Library, where he remained for 19 years, from which he retired in September of 2021. Scott was part of the New York Library Association’s Sustainability Initiative and along with his colleague Maggie Foster (also part of the NYLA SI), cofounded and co-chairs what is now a Central New York Library Resource Council Special Interest Group (SIG) on Sustainability.
B. Maggie Foster is the Community Engagement and Adult/Teen Programming Coordinator for Liverpool Public Library, in Liverpool, New York. Her accomplishments include leading an awesome team of people, all passionate about libraries, from alphabetizing to weeding. Weeding time is the best, because then Maggie takes the books and gives them away as prizes during outreach! Or saves hardcovers from the trash bin to use during sustainability programs as a lesson in what libraries can and cannot recycle. Maggie enjoys and encourages others in the library profession to advocate for libraries, their role in the community, and our unique ability to motivate and inspire lifelong learners. She lives in Syracuse with her husband, three teenagers, and a cat.
Saptarshi Lahiri is a recent LIS graduate from Syracuse University’s iSchool, and he works as Library Clerk II at OCPL’s Beauchamp Branch in Syacuse’s Southside neighborhood. He is passionate about public libraries, helping people gain free-at-point-of-service access information, library technology and library services. He brings past expertise as a field ecologist and scholarly experience in the sustainability field, and is excited to explore the intersection of public libraries and sustainability issues for the benefit of the library community and the patrons they serve.
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

The New York State Library Digital Equity Summits
2022-02-18 09:00 - 10:00 | NY, United States
The State Library has created an email listserv to allow digital equity stakeholders to share news, ask questions, and facilitate opportunities for collaboration. If you would like to be part of these ongoing conversations, we encourage you to sign up for our e-mail listserv: https://listserv.nysed.gov/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=digitalequityny&A=1 .
The State Library will be convening a series of three roundtable discussions on Digital Equity in 2021 and 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted inequities in the access and use of information and communication technologies. These disparities impact individuals within a broad range of areas including education, workforce development, and healthcare. These roundtable conversations are intended to be an opportunity for digital equity practitioners across New York to connect and communicate with one another. Everyone is welcome to attend and listen.
Register: Friday, December 17th, 2021 from 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Register: Friday, February 18th, 2022 from 9:00 am to 10:00 am
Register: Friday, April 15th, 2022 from 9:00 am to 10:00 am
If you would like to give a short, 10-minute presentation at one of the roundtable conversations, please send an email to jessica.golden@nysed.gov with your interest and the topic of your presentation, e.g. digital fluency training, accessible online services, etc.

RRLC Webinar: New and Upcoming Kids Books
2022-02-17 16:30 - 17:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Hundreds of new books are published every month. But who has the time to read so many books?
In the form of book talks, Charlie Kelly will highlight new and upcoming culturally relevant kids books which include picture books, chapter books, novels, graphic novels, poetry, biography, and nonfiction titles. Ms. Kelly has attended webinars by School Library Journal, American Library Association, BookList, and numerous book publishers focusing on culturally relevant books. She also visits bookstores, public libraries and reads Advance Readers Copies from publishers. To be classified as culturally relevant, a piece of literature needs be authentic, realistic, and uphold a culturally conscious ideology and message. Culturally relevant books mirror different aspects of identity (e.g. race, setting, beliefs, cultures) so students/patrons can imagine themselves in the story. By having culturally relevant books in libraries, students/patrons can choose books where they see themselves in the books. The books will also help the students/patrons expand their understanding of others in this multicultural world.
In this webinar, attendees will learn about new and upcoming books their students or patrons might be interested in reading! This workshop will connect librarians to culturally relevant books for their library and have the resources for future library purchase orders. Attendees will also have time to ask questions about the books discussed.
Presenter: Charlie Kelly, Teacher Librarian, Dr. Walter Cooper Academy (Rochester City School District)
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@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

METRO Webinar: Facebook Going Meta - The Future for Online Interaction and What to Do About It
2022-02-17 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Facebook broke news in 2021 that it is creating an umbrella company through which it is poised to create a virtual reality. Living life through avatars in a new world has long been the subject of science fiction; now, though, technology is moving closer to making virtual reality, well… a reality.
Join our data privacy + security experts Dan Ayala and Gary Price for a discussion on what the Metaverse could mean for library services, how we might prepare for a new mode of human interaction, and how data privacy issues could fare as folks begin to imagine life as citizens of the Metaverse.
In this session, you will learn:
> How and why data privacy issues will be impacted in virtual reality settings
> How library services might change should virtual reality become a thing
> The implications for a continued shift in how humans interact with the internet
We hope to see you there!

LILRC Webinar: Just Pursuit - A Black Prosecutor's Fight for Fairness with Laura Coates
2022-02-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
“A firsthand, eye-opening story of a prosecutor that exposes the devastating criminal punishment system. Laura Coates bleeds for justice on the page.” —Ibram X. Kendi, National Book Award–winning author of Stamped from the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist.
When Laura Coates joined the Department of Justice as a prosecutor, she wanted to advocate for the most vulnerable among us. But she quickly realized that even with the best intentions, “the pursuit of justice creates injustice.”
Through Coates’s experiences, we see that no matter how fair you try to fight, being Black, a woman, and a mother are identities often at odds in the justice system. She and her colleagues face seemingly impossible situations as they teeter between what is right and what is just.
On the front lines of our legal system, Coates saw how Black communities are policed differently; Black cases are prosecuted differently; Black defendants are judged differently. How the court system seems to be the one place where minorities are overrepresented, an unrelenting parade of Black and Brown defendants in numbers that belie their percentage in the population and overfill American prisons. She also witnessed how others in the system either abused power or were abused by it—for example, when an undocumented witness was arrested by ICE, when a white colleague taught Coates how to unfairly interrogate a young Black defendant, or when a judge victim-blamed a young sexual assault survivor based on her courtroom attire.
Through these revelatory and captivating scenes from the courtroom, Laura Coates explores the tension between the idealism of the law and the reality of working within the parameters of our flawed legal system, exposing the chasm between what is right and what is lawful.
About Laura Coates:
Laura Coates is a CNN senior legal analyst, SiriusXM host, and adjunct professor at the George Washington University School of Law. A former federal prosecutor, Coates served as Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia and a Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, specializing in the enforcement of voting rights throughout the United States. As a civil rights attorney, she traveled throughout the nation supervising local and national elections and led investigations into allegations of unconstitutional voting practices. In private practice, Laura was an intellectual property litigator with an expertise in First Amendment and media law. A graduate of Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs, and the University of Minnesota Law School, Coates resides outside of Washington, DC, with her husband and two children.
Source: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Just-Pursuit/Laura-Coates/9781982173760

Library Assistants and Support Staff - LA SIG
2022-02-15 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 February get-together.
This month’s topic will be Advocacy: Elevator Speeches.
REGISTER HERE
Contact Anna Dobkowski with any questions.

METRO Webinar: Abolitonist Futures - A PLSN Discussion Group (February Edition)
2022-02-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Want to learn more about prison abolition? Looking to explore the role of information in the prison industrial complex? Excited to discuss ways we can collectively offer resources to address violence caused by mass incarceration? Join the club (literally!). This monthly discussion group with Prison Library Support Network will look at a rotating calendar of media resources for discussion, meeting the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:30pm.
While the group’s facilitators (and host) are affiliated with libraries, you do not need to be a librarian or information professional to attend this group. We will share our discussion calendar regularly through METRO and the PLSN listserv, so that folks can plan ahead to attend the months that sound interesting to them.
Join us this month for a special Valentine’s Day podcast discussion about love and romance behind bars. Ear Hustle episodes (45 minutes) can be listened to directly from the website https://www.earhustlesq.com/, Spotify, or however you get your podcasts. For our discussion please listen to the following episodes:
– Prime Real Estate
– Hold That Space
– I Want the Fairy Tale
Optional:
– The Boom Boom Room*
* note that this episode is about sex and while not explicit, listener discretion is advised

CLRC's Sustainability SIG Meetings
2022-02-11 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.

METRO Webinar: Facebook + Data Privacy - How Facebook Mismanages Information and What It Means for Users
2022-02-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
2021 was quite a year for Facebook. New details that emerged from leaked documents proved that, as nefarious as Facebook is for users here in the United States, the reality for other countries is far worse.
Join our data privacy + security experts Dan Ayala and Gary Price for a discussion on how Facebook functions behind the scenes, how their corporate decision-making makes its users vulnerable, and the implications of these decisions on populations around the world.
In this session, you will learn:
> How likes, shares, and thumb-stoppers create an online environment where mis- and dis-information spreads rapidly
> How recent revelations shed light on how Facebook prioritizes the needs of governments over the needs of residents
> Why we as library workers should stay informed on the way Facebook (mis)uses information, and what it means for library patrons
We hope to see you there!

LILRC Webinar: Barrier Busting - Designing Truly Accessible Services for Youth
2022-02-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Twenty percent of the children you serve have a disability. Welcoming them into your library is easier than you think. Learn about the culture of inclusion, the materials that expand access and the tools you need to reach your community.
Explore:

Universal Design for Learning
Representing children with disabilities
Supporting families
Virtual accessibility
And much more.
Libraries are for everyone!

Presenter:
Carrie Banks has been in charge of Brooklyn Public Library’s (BPL) Inclusive Services since 1997 and taught “Including Youth with Disabilities: at Pratt Institute from 2013 to 2015. Active in ASGCLA and ALSC since 2000, she was president of ASGCLA in 2020. From 2017 to 2019, she was part of ALA President Loida Garcia-Febo’s EDI Presidential Team. In 2014, she substantially revised Including Families of Children with Special Needs: A How to Do It Manual for Librarians. Libraries and Garden: Growing Together, written with Cynthia Mediavilla, was published in the Spring of 2019. Library Programming for Adults with Developmental Disabilities, written with Barbara Klipper, will be published in Spring 2021.

SIG: Academic Librarians
2022-02-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Campus conversations and library love in February. Join us for the CLRC Academic Librarians Special Interest Group meeting via Zoom.
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 Kathleen Salsbury with any questions.

METRO Webinar: Innovative Approaches to Serving Vulnerable Patrons
2022-02-08 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Oak Park Public Library in Illinois has built a comprehensive, combined social services and public safety model over the past six years. Rob Simmons, Oak Park’s Director of Social Services and Public Safety, has been instrumental in creating innovative programs such as free mental health assessment and counseling services, educational support for low-income students, supportive housing advocacy, and employment assistance. Rob will share insights on what’s worked best, highlighting the engagement strategies and strategic partnerships that play a crucial role in serving the library’s most vulnerable patrons.
Attendees can expect to:
> Understand how a public library system can integrate a social services model into its organization
> Learn best-practice engagement strategies that are effective with vulnerable patrons
> Learn ways to engage community-based partnerships to help serve vulnerable patrons
Rob Simmons started his role as Director of Social Services and Public Safety at Oak Park Public Library (IL) in March 2016. Rob is one of the first social workers hired to integrate a social services model into a public library system in the United States. His innovative work has resulted in programs that provide resources such as: free mental health assessments and counseling, educational support for low-income students, supportive housing advocacy, and employment assistance. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Human and Organizational Development from Vanderbilt University, and a Master’s degree in Social-Service Administration from The University of Chicago.

Webinar: Mental Health & Wellness 101 with the Mental Health Association in New York State
2022-02-08 15:00 - 16:30 | Online via MHANYS, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Mental Health and Wellness 101 helps participants to understand mental health in a holistic context and utilize basic mental health awareness in order to self-care and help others.
Mental Health and Wellness 101 participants will:

Increase basic knowledge of mental health to help reduce stigma.
Understand Mental Health as a continuum of wellness that defines us every day — it is illness, recovery, and all of the space in between.
Promote wellness, treatment seeking behavior, recovery, and self-care.
Identify and understand various signs & symptoms of mental illness.

Why is this important?
Consider this: the median time between the onset of mental illness (when symptoms first appear) and when an individual gets appropriate treatment is 10 years. During that time, a person is likely experiencing periods of increased symptomology and periods of wellness. Mental Health and recovery are dependent on an individual’s ability to recognize and manage where he/she is each day on the continuum between wellness and illness and take care accordingly, an important piece to quality of life.
This webinar is being presented by the Mental Health Association in New York State.

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for 1.5 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

LILRC Webinar: Transforming Teen Services in Your Library
2022-02-03 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Does your library have a hard time getting teens through the door? Are you having a hard time engaging with the young adult population? While there may be no one-size-fits-all solution, this webinar will share some tools and approaches to engage with teens in your library.
Transforming Teen Services (T3) is a series of trainings designed to help improve library services for teens across four basic content areas:

Connected Learning
Computational Thinking
Child and Youth Development
Educational Equity

Learn about this series based training and transform teen services in your library.
Shauntee Burns-Simpson (MLIS) currently serves as the 2020-2022 President of BCALA. She is the Associate Director of School Outreach for The New York Public Library. An ambassador for libraries and Youth Librarian, President Burns-Simpson enjoys connecting people to the public library and its resources. She works closely with at-risk teens and fosters a love of reading & learning with her innovative programs. In addition to leading BCALA, she chairs the American Library Association Office of Diversity, Literacy, & Outreach Services (ODLOS) Committee on Diversity.

LILRC Webinar: Dear William - A Father's Memoir of Addiction, Recovery, Love, and Loss with Author David Magee
2022-02-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The last time David Magee saw his son alive, William told him to write their family’s story in the hopes of helping others. Days later, David found William dead from an accidental drug overdose. Magee addresses his poignant story to all those who will benefit from better understanding substance misuse so that his hard-earned wisdom can save others from the fate of his late son, William.
With honesty and heart, Magee shares his family’s intergenerational struggle with substance abuse and mental health issues, as well as his own reckoning with family secrets—confronting the dark truth about the adoptive parents who raised him and a decades-long search for identity. He wrestles with personal substance misuse that began at a young age and, as a father, he sees destructive patterns repeat and develop within his own children. While striving to find a truly authentic voice as a writer despite authoring nearly a dozen previous books, Magee ultimately understands that William had been right and their own family’s history is the story he needs to tell.
About David Magee: David Magee is an award-winning columnist, author, inspirational speaker, and the Director of Institute Advancement at the University of Mississippi. He is a change-maker on alcohol and other drug wellness education and support and wellbeing. He helped inspire and create the William Magee Center for Wellness Education at the University of Mississippi, named for his late son and designed to improve lives with new solutions.
Formerly a columnist for Newsweek, and a former daily newspaper and magazine publisher and a vice president of Alabama Media Group, David is the author of a dozen books including How Toyota Became #1, named a Top 10 Business Book of the Year from the American Library Association, and The Education of Mr. Mayfield, a best book of the South (2009), and he has been a regular guest on CNBC.

Communication for Health Literacy: A Health@CLRC & Upstate Health Sciences Library Professional Development Event
2022-01-28 09:00 - 16:00, 2022-01-27 09:00 - 16:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Are you a librarian, nurse, social worker, or professional who wants to enhance their health literacy proficiency? Sponsored by Health @ CLRC and Upstate Medical University’s Health Sciences Library and presented via Zoom, the Communication for Health Literacy: a Health @ CLRC and Upstate Health Sciences Library Professional Development Event is available free of cost to interested professionals. Join us on January 27th and 28th to gain expertise in how to offer services to communities with nuanced needs like those who live in rural areas, LGBTQ+ persons, and refugees. On day two, representatives from organizations that specialize in health literacy will speak about available services and resources so you feel empowered to offer a patient or patron a referral.
This conference will be recorded and distributed to all registrants.
All registrants will receive a copy of the book Searching for Health: The Smart Way to Find Information Online and Put It to Use, a reusable tote, and a power bank.
**Physical materials will not be mailed Internationally**
Thursday, January 27
9 AM – 9:15 AM: Welcome – Sarah Lawler, MSLIS
9:15 AM – 10 AM: Health Literacy for Rural Populations
Margot Malachowski, MLS, AHIP, Education and Outreach Coordinator, Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 7
In this talk, Margot will describe current demographic trends in rural America. Attendees will learn how to download data sets and visualizations from rural health resources
and how to find information on health conditions, demographic groups and social issues.
Margot Malachowski is an Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Network of the National Library of Medicine in Region 7. Margot has 23 years of experience working
in public, hospital, and university libraries.
10 AM – 11 AM: What Did the Doctor Say?: Advancing Health Literacy through Joint Commission Standards and Initiatives
Christina L. Cordero, Ph.D., MPH, Project Director, Department of Standards and Survey Methods, Division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation
This presentation will provide an overview of The Joint Commission’s requirements supporting health literacy and discuss the impact of language and culture on patient-provider communication. Participants will also hear about available tools and resources to improve their organization’s ability to address health literacy.
Christina Cordero is a Project Director in the Department of Standards and Survey Methods, Division of Healthcare Quality Evaluation at The Joint Commission. Dr. Cordero is focused on standards development projects for the hospital and laboratory accreditation programs. She developed the patient centered communication standards and The Joint Commission monograph Advancing Effective Communication, Cultural Competence, and Patient- and Family-Centered Care: A Roadmap for Hospitals. Dr. Cordero has also provided research and technical support to The Joint Commission’s Hospitals, Language, and Culture: A Snapshot of the Nation study, and she is a contributing author ofOne Size Does Not Fit All: Meeting the Health Care Needs of Diverse Populations. Prior to joining The Joint Commission, Dr. Cordero conducted basic science and public health research at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Cordero earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Immunology and Microbial Pathogenesis, and her Master of Public Health degrees from Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
11 AM – 12 PM: Health Literacy for Refugee and Immigrant Populations
Eric Johnson, MLS, Adult Literacy and Refugee Services Librarian
Attendees will learn tried and true methods for enhancing health literacy skills amongst refugee and immigrant populations. Eric will also speak about his extensive experience
with the refugee community in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Eric Johnson is the program coordinator for Milwaukee Public Library’s (MPL) Adult Literacy and Refugee Services program. His professional focus is working with adult
learners, refugees, and new arrivals. Eric has worked for MPL for over 30 years.
12 PM – 1 PM: Lunch
1 PM – 2 PM: Tools to Help People Understand and Act on Health Information
Cindy Brach, MPP, Senior Healthcare Researcher, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
This presentation will provide an overview of tools that improve spoken and written communication and support the adoption of health literacy universal
precautions.
Cindy Brach is a Senior Health Care Researcher at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Cindy is the Co-Chair of the HHS Health Literacy Workgroup.
2 PM – 3:30 PM – MLA Continuing Education: Enhance Your Teaching with the ACRL Framework
If you teach or plan to teach, the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education will help you promote deep
learning for your students. This framework incorporates threshold concepts, in other words, the ideas in any discipline that are passageways to enlarged understanding or
ways of thinking and practicing in the discipline.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

integrate information literacy threshold concepts into one class or training they are teaching or wish to teach.
use best practices for the development of learning outcomes.
identify classroom assessment techniques for assessing student progress with information literacy concepts.

Xan Y. Goodman, AHIP, is the co-editor of the ACRL publications, Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts and Faculty Librarian Collaborations: Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses, and the author of a chapter on the social
determinants of health as a threshold concept. Goodman is a librarian and associate professor at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas Libraries, where
she supports four schools in the Division of Health Sciences: the School of Integrated Health Sciences, School of Public Health, School of Nursing, and
School of Dental Medicine.
Samantha Godbey is the coeditor of the ACRL publications, Disciplinary Applications of Information Literacy Threshold Concepts and Faculty
Librarian Collaborations: Integrating the Information Literacy Framework into Disciplinary Courses. She is an experienced educator and facilitator of professional development
for instructors and librarians. She is currently part of the presenter team for the official ACRL-licensed workshop, “Engaging with the ACRL Framework: A Catalyst for Exploring
and Expanding Our Teaching Practices.” Godbey is an education librarian and associate professor at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas Libraries, where she serves as the
library liaison to the College of Education and Department of Psychology.
3:30 PM – 4:30 PM: Eliminating HIV Stigma “Togethr”
Jerron Totten, Social Outreach Coordinator and Legislative Advocacy Specialist, LGBT Detroit
Jerron Totten is a native of Reidsville, NC. A graduate of James Benson Dudley High School and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Totten currently resides in Detroit, Michigan. Professionally, he has spent over 7 years in political organizing having served on both the Obama and Hillary Clinton presidential campaigns. He is the current Social Outreach Coordinator and Legislative Advocacy Specialist at LGBT Detroit, North America’s largest African American found and led LGBT non-profit organization.
Friday, January 28
9 AM – 9:15 AM: Welcome – Sarah Lawler, MSLIS
9:30 AM -11 AM: Book Talk: Searching for Health: The Smart Way to Find Information Online and Put It to Use by Kapil Parakh, MD, Ph.D.
Searching for Health – Book Description
We’ve all been there. Late at night, staring into the glow of a phone trying to make sense of some health-related issue that we know nothing about. In Searching for Health, Dr.
Kapil Parakh, with Anna Dirksen, brings to life knowledge he gained from working at Google and practicing medicine. Helping readers avoid common pitfalls, get the
information they need, and partner effectively with their health team to figure out a path to good health together, the book distills decades of scientific research into a set of
easy-to-follow tips. It also incorporates

firsthand accounts of common challenges on the path to good health;
an inside look at how doctors approach and assess health-related information;
techniques that consumers can use to locate evidence-based information online, whether in blogs, social media postings, forums, or news stories;
guidance on how individuals can make the best use of new technologies, such as health trackers and other applications;
recommendations to help patients assess health information for themselves and make decisions based on what they find;
brief summaries of the scientific studies underpinning the recommendations; and
online and offline resources—including handy checklists and worksheets—to help readers prepare for appointments, discuss tough topics with their doctors, and take control of their health.

Dr. Kapil Parakh is a cardiologist who has spearheaded efforts at Google to provide high-quality health information to more than a billion users. Before Google, Kapil served as a White House Fellow and was the principal health advisor to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. He is also the co-
founder of an award-winning non-profit on health innovation. He was previously Director of Heart Failure at Johns Hopkins Bayview where he
developed novel care delivery models. As a clinician-scientist, he has published dozens of papers, many on psychosocial factors in heart disease.
Kapil is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Advanced Heart Failure and holds a MD, MPH, and Ph.D. Kapil sees patients part-time
at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in DC and is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and at Yale University. His book, Searching for
Health, was published by Johns Hopkins Press.
11 AM – 11:20 AM: Health Literacy Organization Lightning Talks: Alzheimer’s Association
11:20 AM – 11:40 AM: Health Literacy Organization Lightning Talks: Food Bank of CNY
11:40 AM: – 12 PM: Health Literacy Organization Lightning Talks: PEACE, Inc.
12 PM – 1 PM: Lunch Break
1:00 PM – 1:20 PM: Health Literacy Resources from the Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM)
1:40 PM – 3:25 PM: Effective Health Communication and Health Literacy: Understanding the Connection
Sean Corning, MLIS, Education and Outreach Coordinator, Network of the National Library of Medicine (NNLM) Region 7
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 one-hour webinar introduces the concepts of health literacy and health communication, outlines components of clear health communication, and
identifies online resources from the National Library of Medicine, government agencies and other recognized resources for health literacy and health communication.
3:30 PM – 3:40 PM: Wrap Up
A Zoom link will be shared with you prior to the start of the event.
Your registration will cover both days of this event.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact Olivia Tsistinas or Sarah Lawler.

SENYLRC Webinar: Culture, Identity, and Experience: Learning with the Arab American National Museum
2022-01-27 17:00 - 18:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join Teaching the Hudson Valley and Southeastern NY Library Resources Council as we engage, dialogue, and learn with the Arab American National Museum (AANM). AANM will introduce to you who the Arab American community is and share online educational and cultural resources available for classrooms, libraries, community centers, and the general public!
David Serio is an Education and Public Programming Specialist at the Arab American National Museum (AANM). He holds a M.A. in Near Eastern Studies and Arabic from Wayne State University. Mr. Serio joined the AANM in January of 2011. As an Educator and Public Programmer, Mr. Serio conducts educational presentations and workshops both in person and online. Mr. Serio also helps in the planning and implementation of youth programs and cultural events, such as the SURA Arts Academy, a youth photography program. Like many of us, he wears multiple hats, including Volunteer Coordinator and Curator of the Arab Film Festival and is in charge of all subsequent film programming at the AANM. He also proudly serves on the board of the Anton Art Center, Macomb County Pride, Friends of the Detroit Film Theatre and DAFT. On a more personal note, Dave identifies as a third-generation Arab American, whose family comes from Lebanon. He dabbles a little in the film industry, is a proud cat dad of 2 and is always up for a good political debate.

METRO Webinar: What is Web 3.0? The Decentralized Web - An Introduction
2022-01-27 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
What is the decentralized web, why is it important, and where is it along the path of development? How does Web 3 differ from Web 2? How does blockchain and cryptocurrencies fit into the ecosystem? Who are the players working to realize this vision? Why is the Internet Archive, a library, a leader in the decentralized web movement?
Join us to hear from Wendy Hanamura, Director of Partnerships at the Internet Archive, and Brewster Kahle, founder and Digital Librarian of the Internet Archive on what the decentralized web means for library and archives workers.
About This Series
The World Wide Web started with so much promise: to connect people across any distance, to allow anyone to become a publisher, and to democratize access to knowledge. However, today the Web seems to be failing us. It’s not private, secure, or unifying. The internet has, in large part, ended up centralizing access and power in the hands of a few dominant platforms.
What if we could build something better—what some are calling Web 3.0 or the decentralized web?
In this series of six workshops, we’ll explore the ways in which moving to decentralized technologies may enhance your privacy, empower you to control your own data, and resist censorship. Join us to hear from experts in the leading peer-to-peer technologies, from identity to data storage. We’ll see demonstrations of blockchains, cryptocurrency, NFTs, and decentralized storage projects in action. Learn how Web 3.0 might yet create systems that empower individuals by eliminating central points of control.
This series is a partnership between Internet Archive, DWeb, Library Futures, and Metropolitan New York Library Council.
About Our Presenters
Wendy Hanamura is the Director of Partnerships at the Internet Archive, one of the world’s largest digital libraries. She helps to steward the DWeb community (GetDWeb.net) that now encompasses ten global nodes of technologists, policymakers, artists and activists all working to build a better

Free Digital Inclusion Webinar Series: What Every Library Needs to Know
2022-01-27 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Please join the New York State Library and the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) for a series of information-rich training webinars aimed at increasing awareness and providing a deeper understanding of digital inclusion across New York State’s libraries and library systems.
Trainings in this series will include addressing digital equity barriers, building partnerships and coalitions, developing digital navigator programs, and collecting, analyzing, and using local data to conduct asset mapping. See below for more detailed information about webinar topics and dates or visit the New York State Library website for more information about recent and ongoing digital equity initiatives.
This training is intended for library workers from all types of libraries and their digital inclusion partners from other sectors, including schools and community based organizations.
Training Schedule:
Digital Equity Barriers and Strategies
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 11:00-12:30 PM Eastern
In this webinar, participants will gain a stronger understanding of digital equity, broadband technology basics, and how the gaps in broadband availability impact broadband options. Presenters will share solutions, including current and potential state and federal funding opportunities.
Register for Digital Equity Barriers and Strategies

Partnerships and Coalitions
Date: Thursday, November 18, 2021, 11:00-12:30 PM Eastern
Using research-based partnership and coalition models, this webinar will provide New York State regional and local libraries with strategies for developing relationships with community partners to address digital inequities.
Register for Partnerships and Coalitions

Digital Navigators (Parts 1 and 2)
Upon completion of this two-part webinar, participants will gain in-depth knowledge of the Digital Navigator model and its associated tools, its impact, and how this field-tested program can be added to a library’s existing portfolio of services.
Part 1: Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 11-12:30 PM Eastern
Register for Digital Navigators Part 1
Part 2: Thursday, January 27, 2022, 11-12:30 PM Eastern
Register for Digital Navigators Part 2

Data Collection and Analysis
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 11-12:30 PM Eastern
Building strong and lasting digital inclusion and digital navigator programs require programmatic data collection, analysis, and management. Participants in this webinar will gain skills in finding and accessing data collection sources.
Register for Data Collection and Analysis

Asset Mapping
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2022, 11-12:30 PM Eastern
Participants in this webinar will learn how to gather local asset information and visualize social characteristics of the digital divide on local, regional, and state levels using publicly available data and analysis tools.
Register for Asset Mapping

Attendance at these webinars is required for any libraries or library systems participating in a Reference and Research Library Resources Councils (3Rs) American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) -funded digital inclusion initiative project. Webinars also count toward public librarian certification professional development requirements.
For any questions about the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), please contact Amy Heebner, Library Development Specialist, Division of Library Development, New York State Library with any questions.
Please contact Kristi Zappie-Ferradino, Director of Programs and Initiatives, National Digital Inclusion Alliance, with any questions about the webinars.
The New York State Library works in partnership with the State’s 72 library systems to bring cost-effective, high quality library services to the millions who use New York’s some 7,000 academic, public, school, and special libraries.
The National Digital Inclusion Alliance is a community of digital inclusion practitioners and advocates working collaboratively to craft, identify and disseminate financial and operational resources for digital inclusion programs.
Digital Inclusion: What Every Library Needs to Know is supported with federal American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds allocated to the New York State Library by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).

LILRC Webinar: Play in the Classroom - Active Learning and Gamification Ideas for Academic Librarians
2022-01-26 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Students tend to engage best with material when they’re having fun with it. In this workshop, we’ll talk about ways that you can gamify both physical and virtual classrooms to engage students in more active learning techniques, especially when it comes to leading information literacy sessions. From simple tools like buzzers or dry erase boards to creating augmented reality games or choose your own adventures, you’ll learn about a wide range of easy to complex activities you can implement in your own classes.
Presenter Holly Jackson is the Student Success Librarian at Mansfield University and enjoys using hands-on and/or gamified techniques in her classroom sessions, both in library sessions and in full semester courses she’s taught in First Year Experience, English, and Honors.

METRO Webinar: Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals, Part 1 - The Whats and Whys
2022-01-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Copyright affects so much of the creative content we interact with and create… not just a painting we may see in a museum or a novel we are reading, but also the emails we ourselves send, the blogs and articles we write, and the photos we take and post.
“Copy That! Copyright Basics for Library Professionals” is a three-part series focusing on basic principles of U.S. copyright law and its impact on us as library professionals, and in our own creative lives.
Part 1 will get into what intellectual property is, what copyright law in the U.S. protects (and what it doesn’t), and how long it lasts. We will also briefly touch on how U.S. copyright connects to other countries through treaties. Some key takeaways from the presentation will be:
– An understanding of the types of rights granted to creators under U.S. copyright law
– How the law determines copyright ownership of a particular work
– The duration of copyright protections and how works enter the public domain

SCRLC Webinar: Building the Past - Celebrating Ithaca's Neighborhoods in Photographs
2022-01-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Donna Eschenbrenner and Eve Snyder of The History Center in Tompkins County will talk about The History Center’s unique photo collections and their use in the innovative program HistoryForge, where images, maps, and census data merge to tell the story of Ithaca’s built environment and the people who lived there.

LILRC Webinar: Preventative Conservation of Taxidermy at the American Natural History Museum with Marisa Surovy
2022-01-21 10:00 - 11:15 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Topics to be discussed are:

The collection at the museum’s Department of Mammalogy
Preservation of small mounted animals (mammals, reptiles and birds)
General care and handling Mitigating environmental hazards
When you need a conservator

Marisa Surovy is currently a Museum Specialist for the Department of Mammalogy at The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), with over 10 years of museum experience. Marisa holds a bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from Alfred University and a master’s degree in Museum Studies from George Washington University. Her current work in the Department of Mammalogy at AMNH is focused on the care of the Museums’ mammal collection (approximately 290,000 specimens) and includes rehousing, inventorying, monitoring environmental conditions of collection spaces, pest control/ abatement, facilitating scientific research for study, processing loans, filing permits for international transport and data management of the Museum’s database.

Webinar: Introduction to Writing for the Web
2022-01-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
We will start off by talking about how people read online and the way they look for information to answer their questions. After understanding how people read online, we will discuss what the inverted pyramid style is and how it can be used to write effective content. Next, we will take a look at some examples of well-formatted content and deconstruct them. Along the way, we will be doing some short exercises where we will rewrite the content to make it easier to be read online. The webinar will help provide you with practice in how to format content and create something that is a bit more concise and user-friendly for people. During the webinar, we will explore how people read online and how writing content can make it easier for them to find the information they need. It will involve looking at content examples that are difficult to understand and read online and to reformat it to make it easier for people to read.
About the Presenter:
For the past several months, Patrick Patterson has been working as the Web Services Librarian at the University of Oregon. Prior to moving during the pandemic, he did a variety of different things from working as an Adjunct Instructor for the Art Institute of Pittsburgh along with working for a nonprofit organization managing websites. When not working you will find him outside doing different things from going for a hike in the mountains or spending a quiet day by the ocean.
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
