LILRC Webinar: Ask an Archivist - Establishing a Local History Collection
2024-03-20 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
An updated version of the program given in May of 2021.
So much time is spent talking about managing existing collections, but what if you are a library just beginning to create a local history collection? This presentation offers thoughts on what to consider when planning your strategy and how to take those first steps. The discussion will include:
-Collections development policies
-Creating the right environment
-Public access and research
This program is being recorded at Sachem Public Library’s Local History Room. Who should register: individuals who wish to grow their local history collections, or need some direction for an existing collection in a historical society or small archive.

SCRLC Webinar: Raven Steals the Sun - Native American Eclipse Stories
2024-03-25 10:00 - 11:00 | NY
Storyteller Perry Ground (Turtle Clan, Onondaga Nation) brings Native American Sun and Eclipse legends to life in this engaging and interactive presentation for all ages.
Tribes across North America have stories to explain these solar events and view them in many different ways – as a signal or a transformation, as omens, as sacred, and as a celebration. Through this story-filled presentation, learn about the beliefs, traditions, and protocols of several Native American tribes related to Sun and Eclipse events. From the Cherokee to the Navajo to the Inuit to the Haudenosaunee (and many other tribes), these traditional legends have been told for hundreds of years and continue to be important to Native American culture today. A brief understanding of each tribe’s location and environment will be shared in addition to the stories.

This event will be livestreamed from the Tompkins County Public Library. It is part of SCRLC’s Moon Mondays: Get Ready for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse, which is supported in part by the American Astronomical Society’s Jay M. Pasachoff’s Solar Eclipse Mini-Grants Program.

WNYLRC Webinar: The 411 on 211 - Reentry Services
2024-03-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Learn how to use 211 to identify services available for people returning to your community from a jail or correctional facility. See what guides and guided searches 211 offers for this population as well as opportunities to partner with 211 in your community.
About the Presenter:

Kelly Dodd, Chief Operating Officer of 211 NY Inc.
Kelly Dodd is the Chief Operating Officer of 211 NY Inc. and Vice President of the United Way of New York State. Kelly has been working in the field of information and referral since 2007 when she was hired as a member of the team that launched with 211 in WNY. Kelly is active in the WNY community serving on the boards of the WNY Coalition for the Homeless, New York State Alliance of Information & Referral Systems Inc., Erie County Disaster Preparedness Advisory Board, City of Buffalo Living Wage Commissioner, and volunteering as a free tax preparer.

This event is free!

NNYLN Webinar: Teaching with Hip Hop with Dr. Lauren Leigh Kelly
2024-04-02 10:00 - 11:05 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Description:
Exploring History, Media, and Culture through Geographic Literary Analysis:
This workshop relates to the Institutional theme of Equity Pedagogy and supports the development of Hip Hop literacies as well as sociohistorical understandings of cultures and communities through the examination of Hip Hop narratives in rap lyrics. Participants will work in groups to read diverse Hip Hop narratives rooted in particular times geographic locations. Using internet resources, each group will research the locations referenced in the songs and discuss the social, historical, and lyrical significance of this place both within and outside of Hip Hop culture, including local knowledge. We will also explore the relationship between time and these locations. Through research, geographic mapping, critical reading, and discussion, participants will work collaboratively to contextualize the authors and narratives of these Hip Hop texts through understandings of the histories, cultures, people, and locations that are embedded in them.
Agenda
10 minutes: Brief overview of Hip Hop Literacies
25 minutes: Group Work
15 minutes: Group Presentations and Q&A
10 minutes: Closing- How can we bring these ideas and activities into our work with students?
American Association of School Librarians Learning Standards
I. INQUIRE: Build new knowledge by inquiring, thinking critically, identifying problems, and developing strategies for solving problems.
III. COLLABORATE: Work effectively with others to broaden perspectives and work toward common goals. IV. CURATE: Make meaning for oneself and others by collecting, organizing, and sharing resources of personal relevance.
VI. ENGAGE: Demonstrate safe, legal, and ethical creating and sharing of knowledge products independently while engaging in a community of practice and an interconnected world.
Association for College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy
Authority Is Constructed and Contextual Information Creation as a Process
Information Has Value
Research as Inquiry
Scholarship as Conversation
Searching as Strategic Exploration
Common Core English Language Arts Standards » History/Social Studies » CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.2 Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.8 Evaluate an author’s premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them with other information.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.11-12.9 Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.1 Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.9-10.6 Determine an author’s point of view or purpose in a text and analyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance that point of view or purpose.
Presenter Bio:
Kelly is an Associate Professor of Urban Social Justice Teacher Education at Rutgers University and a Nasir Jones Hip Hop Fellow at Harvard University, and author of Teaching with Hip Hop and editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Hip Hop Pedagogy.

LILRC Webinar: Flag Preservation - Handling, Housing, and Display Best Practices
2024-04-04 10:30 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
As Memorial Day, 4th of July and Flag Day are soon to be upon us, it’s a good time to think about the flags in our historic collections. This program will discuss the proper handling, storage and short-term display of flags. Hosting the program is the Franklin Square Historical Society who have volunteered some of their flags for use in this program.

CDLC Webinar: Does Generative AI Infringe Copyright?
2024-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Generative AI will have a massive effect on copyright law. What that effect will be is unsettled. Our speaker, James Grimmelmann, will outline the issues within the context of existing copyright law and ongoing legal discussions regarding AI and copyright. He will also discuss various ways these issues may unfold in the future.
About the presenter: James Grimmelmann is the Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. He is the author of the casebook Internet Law: Cases and Problems and over fifty scholarly articles and essays on topics in computer and Internet law. He has also written for popular publications, including Slate, Salon, Wired, Ars Technica, and Publishers Weekly. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. in computer science from Harvard College.

SCRLC Webinar: Tree Selection and Care in a Changing Landscape
2024-04-09 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join us as Dr. Walt Aikman helps us think about selecting and caring for trees as our climate warms and invasive species challenge the sustainability of our yards, our parks, and our communities.
After this program, you will:

Understand the importance of trees in our communities
Understand the impact of invasive species on our local ecosystems
Know how to get involved locally, and have ideas for passive and active programs at your library

Webinar: Demystifying Misinformation
2024-04-10 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Misinformation has been around since ancient Egyptian times. It’s not new, but evolving technology has increased its spread exponentially. Similar to infectious diseases, we are all potential vectors in the spread of misinformation. Inoculate yourself to misinformation by participating in this introduction to identifying and fighting misinformation. During this workshop participants will utilize fact checking tools and pave a path to becoming a better digital citizen
About the Presenter:
Miranda Stefano is a librarian, technologist, and information wrangler. She is a program librarian for the Rochester city School District. She enjoys sharing knowledge with others and is always looking for new opportunities to do so. Her passions are information literacy, primary sources, technology, and sign language.
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 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

In-Person RRLC Workshop: Crisis Management & Critical Incident Stress Workshop
2024-04-11 13:00 - 16:00 | Rochester Regional Library Council, 3445 Winton Place, Suite 204, Rochester, NY, 14623
From book bans to natural disasters, libraries face a variety of crises that leadership and staff may have to manage — and recover from. These crises take a toll not only on our libraries and communities, but also ourselves. Crises require preparation, as well as recovery and recuperation. Join us for an interactive workshop exploring crisis management and critical incident stress!

Learning Objectives
This workshop will explore:
— Characteristics and elements of a crisis
— Anticipating areas of vulnerability or possible crises
— Designing procedures for responding to a crisis
— Planning for crisis recovery
— Critical incident stress
— How people and workplaces can be affected by the trauma of a crisis
— The effects of short term and long term stress on the body and mind
— Strategies for how organizations can be supportive of employees in the aftermath of a crisis
Presenter: Nellie Brown is the Director of Workplace Health and Safety Programs for the Worker Institute at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. A certified industrial hygienist, biologist and chemist, Nellie earned a master’s degree in a multidisciplinary program in natural sciences and applied science from the State University of New York College at Buffalo.
Free to RRLC & ESLN Members.
All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance for 3 hours of CE credit.
This is an in-person event; registration is required and the event will not be recorded.

LILRC Webinar: Learn Interactive Marketing with Augmented Reality Technology
2024-04-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Patchogue-Medford Library sits on Main Street in a bustling downtown with daily foot and vehicle traffic. An ongoing challenge has been how to entice these passersby through the front door. Using augmented reality technology, their sidewalk-facing windows were transformed for the summer into a stunning 30-foot “Oceans of Possibilities” interactive aquarium exploding with color! An intrigued community was invited to customize a fish to be uploaded then magically appear swimming in the tank. PML’s creative marketing successfully lured all ages and segments of their population inside. Library card sign-ups surged, summer reading registration soared, while over 5,000 fish were created!
In this program, you will:

Learn how to use augmented reality technology and scale it to any marketing campaign.
Master a new level of outreach and advertising by using by utilizing whatever you may have to create your own interactive advertisement.
Rock what you got! Learn how to scale your campaign to your community no matter the demographic or size.
Conduct data measurement using statistics, surveys, QR codes, social media and more.

Presenters:
Laura Accardi, Library Development Assistant, leads a group of super creative staff at The Patchogue Medford Library. As head of the Promotions & Development Department as well as the consultant and head of the Graphics Department, she has created a work environment that exudes the passion, forward thinking and creative juices of her team. Together, they have created innovative, unconventional, and effective events and marketing campaigns beyond the scope of the library world.
An accidental library marketer and graduating first in her class from the school of hard knocks, life lessons, hard work, and her drive to make library marketing no longer a ho hum, mediocrity standard, she has propelled her library to new heights of marketing with tangible outcomes. Proudly the recipient of the 2016 Suffolk Library Marketing Award and the ELSA Excellence in Library Service Award, and her team the recipients of the 2023 American Library Association/ John Cotton Dana Award for an outstanding effective strategic communication campaign that showed results. Coming up on an 18+ year career at the library and 40 years as a community shaker and maker, she loves all things family, food, gathering, and design.
Michele Cayea is the Head of Community Engagement for the Patchogue Medford Public Library. She began her work there as a Teen librarian 13 years ago and has now found her niche in Public Relations as the social media and email marketing manager and community relations liaison for the school district and Patchogue-Medford Community. She considers herself to be someone who thinks outside the box and is very forward thinking. She became a librarian because she feels strongly about connecting people with resources and experiences; helping them develop the literacy and communication skills that are necessary to navigate today’s fast paced society. She believes in helping our community expand their thinking through library experiences, and to empower them to reach their academic, vocational, recreational and emotional potential.
Karen McCahey is Library Development Assistant for the Patchogue-Medford Library. A 30 plus year employee and lifelong resident, she is dedicated to connecting the library with the community through participation and partnership. She has been instrumental in taking the library out the front door establishing significant alliances with local businesses and non-profits, local organizations and community events. With an avid interest in local history, she believes in the educational value of linking today’s community with its past. Using out of the box methods, she has developed unique library walking tours, bus tours, river ferry tours, historic pub and church tours, haunted trolley and cemetery tours.
Emily Spizzirri is a dynamic and energetic Community Engagement focused Librarian. She began her career as a Teen Librarian, but has always enjoyed working with other Library departments to expand her knowledge. She is currently the Sustainability Coordinator for our “green” Library and Public Services Pages Supervisor.

CDLC Webinar: Civil Service 101 for Public Library Job-Seekers
2024-04-17 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Please note: This program will NOT be recorded.
This program is aimed at those interested in working in public libraries governed by local civil service agencies. Direct employment with New York State is beyond the scope of this session and will not be covered. The program will help attendees understand the civil service framework, explore the types of public libraries that utilize the civil service system, provide information on how to access details about civil service library jobs in the Capital Region, and provide information on the civil service exam and hiring process.
Registrants can submit questions with their registration or email them to Susan D’Entremont at susan@cdlc.org. There will also be ample time for questions at the end of the program.
About the presenter: Geoffrey Kirkpatrick is the Director of Bethlehem Public Library in Delmar, NY. He is a former President of the New York Library Association and has served as a member or Chair of the NYLA Civil Service Task Force/Civil Service Committee since 2006.
This program is cosponsored by the Southern Adirondack Library System and the Upper Hudson Library System.

LILRC Webinar: Girls Who Code - Cost Free Library Curriculum and Programs
2024-04-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Girls Who Code is on a mission to close the gender gap in technology – and we are on track to do so by 2030! We have reached over 500 million people, served over 500,000 girls through our programming, and 50% of our participants are from historically underrepresented groups.
In collaboration with LILRC, we’re providing tools that make coding accessible to all youth-facing professionals – no prior coding experience necessary! We do this through our 100% free programming and resources available to all educators, librarians, and volunteers. During this presentation, we will introduce our free Clubs Program and our Summer Programs. We’ll engage participants in a programmatic coding tutorial to offer a deep dive into our program content as well as our educational philosophy. We’ll discuss the ways that we can directly support communities in growing their clubs, building their networks, and engaging with students at all levels of coding.
Presented by: Michaela Burger, Senior Associate, Community Partnerships & Outreach, Girls Who Code

CLRC Connections: Networking Night @ The Erie Canal Museum
2024-04-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
Join CLRC Staff and members for a night of light refreshments and hors d’ouevres upstairs at The Erie Canal Museum!
Drop in and network with your peers and colleagues and go on a museum tour.
We hope to see you there!
You can find information about parking here.
**Registration will close on April 9 at 5 p.m.**

LILRC Webinar: Applying the Learning - Practicing Giving and Receiving Feedback
2024-04-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Take what you learned in the first two sessions in this series and practice giving and receiving feedback. Participants will practice with each other and get feedback from presenters and other participants on their feedback. Participants are encouraged to bring their own feedback scenarios.
Presenters:
Kate Hall is the Executive Director of the Northbrook Public Library, after having served 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.

SCRLC Workshop: Resource Sharing Updates
2024-04-24 09:30 - 15:00 | NY
Join us to network with your Resource Sharing colleagues, learn about some updates in the field, and tour Cornell University’s Africana Research Center and Library.Location:
Finger Lakes Library System, 1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca &
Africana Studies and Research Center, 310 Triphammer Rd., Ithaca
The cost of the conference is $20 and includes lunch. Register at the bottom of this page.
Schedule:
9:30am-10:00am
Light breakfast & Networking
10:00am-10:50am
CrossLink with Mark Sullivan
CrossLink aims to improve the efficiency and lower the cost of resource sharing while promoting the interoperability among different systems using a customized discovery system and ISO18626 to broker requests. This session will go over the current status of the development of CrossLink, the different modules being built, and the plans for the future of resource sharing.
11:00am-11:50am
We can still get it: Adventuring outside the norm with Sarah Shank
Has your library been thinking about changing up their Resource Sharing practices? Come hear Ithaca College’s story about becoming the first North American library to migrate away from Worldshare to Rapido. Why would anyone choose to make this kind of switch? How does one prepare for the ‘unknowns’ associated with a brand-new product? What were some of the biggest struggles faced while transitioning to a brand-new product? How long does transitioning take? In this presentation you will learn the answers to these questions (and more).
12:00pm-12:50pm
Empire Library Delivery with Maria DeGaetano
Maria will provide an update to the Empire Library Delivery’s (ELD) policies and procedures. ELD makes resource sharing connections among all types of libraries affordable and streamlined. ELD provides return on investment for libraries by providing a convenient, affordable, and tailored delivery service to institutions, thereby supporting increased statewide resource sharing among ELD participants. By bundling shipments of library materials, ELD assists libraries in quickly getting items into the hands of users.
1:00pm-1:30pm
Catered lunch

1:30pm-1:45pm
Head to the Africana Studies and Research Center

2:00pm-3:00pm
Tour and presentation at the Africana Library
with Kofi Acree and Patricia Abraham
Learn more about the history of the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library; their collection and their ILL lending practices; the librarian’s liaison work on campus; and some of their special projects, including a quilting exhibit curated by Patricia, Ties That Bind: Quilting at the Clarke Africana Library and a display that will be at the library commemorating the Willard Straight Hall Student Occupation commencing on April 19, 1969, which led to the establishment of an Africana Studies curriculum at Cornell.

ESLN Webinar: Institutional Repositories - A Shared Experience
2024-04-25 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Whether you’re starting out with a new repository or are planning to migrate a legacy repository to a new platform, it’s likely you have a lot of questions. This workshop brings together librarians from across New York State to share their experience working with institutional repositories and addresses some common challenges. Through a series of case studies, our presenters will touch on a variety of popular topics. Repository strategy, policy development, staffing, and migration will be examined. The workshop will conclude with a question and answer session.
Topics:
Mid-sized public university with limited staffing by Joe Riggie
Buffalo State University is a mid-sized public university in Buffalo which uses Digital Commons as its institutional repository. The focus of the repository is on student scholarship, faculty run journals, and special collections. This presentation will touch on various issues relevant to mid-sized or smaller institutions. These include sustainable staffing, policies and long-term commitments, and creating distinctive collections.
Lessons Learned in Evaluating and Improving a Legacy IR by Frances Chang Andreu
Not all repositories are created under ideal circumstances, and inheriting an institutional repository can present challenges distinct from building one from scratch. This case study examines the process of auditing a legacy institutional repository and analyzes how various practical issues lead to better processes, documentation, and policy development for the existing repository, as well as new digital collections going forward.
Institutional Repository Use Cases Over Time by Joanna DiPasquale, Rebecca Fried, and Corinne Chatnik
Union College’s Schaffer Library began collecting student-focused work in 2008, and its institutional repository model has matured over time as needs have developed. With multiple system migrations, staff changes, and changes in the nature of student work, our repository has become more flexible in its functionality and offerings, while our services and our policies around it have continued to respond to these changes. We will discuss our repository strategies, software needs, lessons learned, and future plans for our student-focused IR.
About the Presenters:
Frances Chang Andreu is the Digital Initiatives Librarian at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where she manages RIT’s digital institutional repository and promotes other aspects of open access publishing on campus, along with supporting RIT Libraries’ other digital collections. She is also a managing editor for the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication.
Joe Riggie is the head of Information Management at Buffalo State University where he manages library systems, resource sharing, and library acquisitions. He holds a master’s in library science from the University at Buffalo. Joe’s research interests include augmented and virtual reality in libraries. Joe lives in Buffalo, NY with his family. He enjoys science fiction, gardening, and fantasy football.
Corinne Chatnik is the Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian at Union College, Schenectady, NY.
Becky Fried is the Digital Projects and Metadata Librarian at Union College, Schenectady, NY.
Joanna DiPasquale is the Director of Content and Digital Library Systems at Union College, Schenectady, NY.

Workshop: Deaf Awareness
2024-04-26 09:00 - 11:00 | CLRC, 5710 Commons Park Drive, East Syracuse, NY, 13057, United States
Workshop Description:
Join a representative of WHOLE ME, Inc. for this in-person workshop! Participants will learn:

The manual alphabet,
Tips for communicating with Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing individuals, including resources such as cell phone apps for on-the-spot communication,
Where to take ASL classes,
Resources on learning more ASL and
How you can support a Deaf/Hard-of-Hearing member with accessibility, such as providing interpreters for events hosted by the library, etc.

About WHOLE ME, Inc.:
WHOLE ME, Inc. provides programs and services focusing on the whole person; each participant is given an array of opportunities, including personal and professional skills that will enhance everyday living. Learn more about our programs here!
WHOLE ME believes that every person has the right to equal access to communication in order to make fully-informed choices and decisions in all aspects of life. We believe when the family, friends, school, and community members come together we all benefit!
This is an IN-PERSON workshop. Registration closes on April 24 @ 5 p.m.
**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for two 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

SCRLC Webinar: Alternative Vocabularies - What to do when LCSH isn't enough
2024-04-26 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Catalogers in the United States primarily use Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) to describe the resources in their libraries, but sometimes, there isn’t an LCSH term that is the right fit. Sometimes, terms are too broad or too narrow; occasionally, terms are simply outdated, and unfortunately, some are pejorative. When that happens, it’s time to introduce an alternative vocabulary into the cataloging workflow. This presentation will introduce four alternative subject heading vocabularies: Library of Congress Demographic Group Terms, Getty Art & Architecture Thesaurus, Rare Books and Manuscripts Controlled Vocabulary, and Homosaurus. Each vocabulary will be presented with a broad overview of where it can be found, what it’s particularly good at describing, and examples of what it would look like in a bibliographic record. The presentation will close with a decision tree to help catalogers decide when it might be time to look outside LCSH to describe their resources.

ESLN Webinar: The Future of IPEDS - The Need for Quality Library Data
2024-04-30 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The National Center for Education Statistics within the Department of Education collects data through a required Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) system of surveys on U.S. colleges, universities, and technical and vocational institutions. The IPEDS survey collection currently includes an Academic Library Component survey gathering information on collections, services, and expenditures for all academic libraries that meet the eligibility criteria. It is a freely available and comprehensive resource typically used by academic libraries across the country to justify new hires, funding, and purchases of library resources to help support their students, faculty, and staff.
On March 4, 2024, the U.S. Department of Education released a Comment Request on changes to the IPEDS 2024-25 Through 2026-27 and included a statement on the planned elimination of the Academic Libraries (AL) component survey beginning with the 2025–26 administration.
Join us for a panel and discussion covering:

How IPEDS data is currently used by academic libraries,
The impact of the proposed elimination of an academic libraries component survey,
Suggestions for improvements to the quality, utility, and clarity of information collected in the Academic Library Component survey, and
How to submit a comment on the proposal to eliminate the AL component.

We invite you to leave comments on the Federal Register notice regarding the future of IPEDS. The comment period ends on May 3, 2024.
Background information on the Academic Library Component survey is also available here: http://qualitymetricsllc.com/what-should-imls-do-to-support-the-academic-library-statistics-effort/
Panelists: Sara Goek, PhD, Project Manager, Data and Research, Association of College & Research Libraries; Martha Kyrillidou, PhD, MDe, MLS, QualityMetrics LLC; and Catherine Stollar Peters, PhD, Associate Director of Assessment and Data Analysis, SUNY Office of Library and Information Services

NNYLN 59th Annual Membership Meeting
2024-05-02 10:00 - 15:00 | The Wild Center, 45 Museum Drive, Tupper Lake, 12986, United States
This is an in-person member event for culture workers in Northern New York’s libraries, archives, and museums at The Wild Center in Tupper Lake. The day’s morning keynote will be live-streamed to a virtual audience and available to registrants outside of the region.
Morning keynote presentations by Kanienkeha:ká artist and director of the Six Nations Iroquois Cultural Center David Fadden and The Wild Center executive director Stephanie Ratcliffe, who worked together to redesign portions of The Wild Center’s permanent exhibits into Ways of Knowing: Haudenosaunee Stories and Culture. They will detail the relationship building, organizational process, and results of transitioning their exhibits to center Indigenous knowledge systems.
Attendees at our 59th annual meeting will gain deepened recognition of how to practice anti-racism as an information design principle and learn from The Wild Center’s efforts to remove Western points of view.

ESLN Webinar: Basic Book Repair for Libraries
2024-05-08 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Binding quality on books is inconsistent and with day to day handling and repeated circulation books can sustain significant damage. Don’t replace these volumes, fix them. This webinar will introduce participants to basic book repair for circulating or general collections.
Attendees will learn how to repair common types of damage, such as hinge repair, tipping in loose pages, page mending and spine repair. During the webinar, participants will be able to watch narrated action videos of the repairs with live step by step instructions.
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will:

Be familiar with different aspects of book repair for circulating collections
Be familiar with book repair tools, supplies, and equipment

About the Presenter:
Marianne Hanley is the Preservation Librarian for Syracuse University Libraries. She manages the preservation program by defining needs, establishing goals, implementing programs, and managing budget allocations in support of preservation activities. She is Principal Investigator the NYS Conservation/Preservation Grant Program which provides annual state funding to encourage the proper care and accessibility of research materials, by promoting the use and development of guidelines and technical standards for conservation/preservation work. She co-manages the libraries disaster response plan for collections and co-coordinates recovery efforts. She enjoys serving as an instructor for workshops on book repair and disaster preparedness. She holds a Master of Library Science from Syracuse University and a Bachelor of Arts from Canisius College, Buffalo, NY.
Live captioning will be provided.
This webinar will be recorded and a recording will be shared with all registrants afterward.

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one and a half contact hours**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

ESLN Webinar: ESLN AIR - Learn about Ubiquity Repositories
2024-05-13 13:00 - 14:00 | NY
ESLN Academic Institutional Repository (ESLN AIR) is a new service for our academic members. We’ve partnered with Ubiquity to provide an easy, flexible platform to house your institution’s public, private, and embargoed works.
Highlights:

Your own fully branded institutional repository at the domain or subdomain of your choosing.
Hosted service. Minimal IT support needed to get your repository up and running.
ESLN staff will provide training and help set up your repository.
Access to Ubiquity Knowledge Base with answers to FAQs and how-to articles.
Discounted pricing for ESLN members.

Join us for a demonstration of the Ubiquity Repositories platform and find out how your library can be part of ESLN AIR.
Presenter: Bin Walters is the Open Access Adviser at ]u[ Ubiquity. He works with libraries and societies to set up repositories and publish open access books and journals. He has previously been a publisher with Elsevier and Emerald. Bin was also responsible for Open Access in Asia for Springer Nature.
Free to ESLN Members. Registration is required. This webinar will be recorded.
This session is sponsored by the Empire State Library Network. If you have any questions, contact rhughes@rrlc.org.

LILRC Webinar: Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library - Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services
2024-05-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join librarians Kelsey Keyes and Ellie Dworak for insights from their new book, Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library: Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services (ALA 2024)
“Student parents are a socioeconomically, racially, and financially diverse group. What they have in common is the drive to work hard to overcome steep barriers in obtaining a college education.
Supporting Student Parents in the Academic Library: Designing Spaces, Policies, and Services is part toolkit, part treatise, and part call to action. In four parts:

The Higher Education Landscape
The Role of Academic Libraries
Looking Outward to Community, For-Profit, and International Organizations
Evaluating Needs and Measuring Success

It includes templates, sample policy language, budgets, survey instruments, and other immediately useful tools and examples. There are field notes from academic librarians from institutions of varying sizes and resources demonstrating different ways of supporting these students, and the voices of students themselves.
Student parents can feel unwelcome and invisible in their institutions. And for every student parent who is struggling to complete an education despite these hurdles, there are many others who have not been able to find a way. Supporting Student Parents is a guide to engaging with and aiding the student parents in your libraries and leading the charge in making your institutions more family friendly.”
Kelsey Keyes is an Emerita Professor at Boise State University, where she worked as a research and instruction librarian from 2012–2023. She holds a Masters of Library and Information Science and a Masters of English Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She served on Rise: A Feminist Book Project for Ages 0–18, including terms as co-chair, from 2017–2020. Her research is focused on supporting parenting students in higher education. She provides writing and editing support for academics, business, fiction and non-fiction writers (kelseykeyes.com). She lives in Europe with her family.
Ellie Dworak is an Associate Professor and the Research Data Librarian at Boise State University. She earned her Masters in Library and Information Services from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on higher education policy, human computer interaction, and the social impacts of living in a datafied society. She lives with her husband and three dogs in Boise, Idaho.

Facilities Management Meet-Up
2024-05-15 13:00 - 14:30 | Mid York Library System, 1600 Lincoln Ave, Utica, NY, 13502, United States
Meet-Up Description:
All organizations have facilities needs – but not all have a dedicated manager to handle the upkeep, improvements, and unexpected issues their facilities will inevitably face. These tasks often fall to staff, who must find the time and gain the know-how to maintain their buildings and grounds and to interface with vendors and contractors.
In this Facilities Management Meet-Up support staff, managers, and library workers can come together to exchange best practices, anecdotes, and problems and to seek help with specific needs. We can share information on local vendors, capital improvement strategies, and general tips for staying ahead of problems before they become disasters.
We’ll begin the meeting with a presentation from the Office Manager of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council. He’ll share strategies and tools for keeping up with the regular maintenance our buildings often need and the problems that pop up with no warning. The presentation will be followed by time for open discussion.
Presenter Bio:
Moshe Siegel has been the Office Manager for Southeastern NY Library Resources Council since 2014. During his tenure at the council he’s learned the facilities maintenance challenges that small/medium institutions face and has developed simple but effective tools and strategies to support his work.
This is an IN-PERSON workshop. Registration closes on May 13 @ 5 p.m.
We’ll be offering two facilities management meet-ups. You can register here if you’d prefer to attend at the CLRC Office.
**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one and a half contact hours.**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

RRLC Webinar: Making Inclusion Happy at Your Library
2024-05-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Libraries serve as a primary destination for many families with children and remain an essential hub for accessing valuable resources, information and social connection across the lifetime. With approximately 26% of Americans living with a disability, and over 300,000 individuals with disabilities residing in the Greater Rochester area alone, there exists a significant opportunity to ensure that the valuable services offered by our libraries are accessible to people with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities. In this session, we will take a close look at what the concept of “inclusion” looks and feels like and explore strategies to use a lens of inclusion to transform our libraries into inclusive places of destination and employment for people with disabilities.
Learning Objectives:

Participants will understand inclusion as a process rather than a checked off box.
Participants will learn how to reframe language so that it is used to promote an inclusive and empowering environment.
Participants will understand a model of Functional Ability to help reframe disability in a way that can result in the removal of barriers to participation by patrons/employees with disabilities.
Participants will learn at least three tangible strategies they can implement at their library that can result in enhanced participation by patrons with disabilities.

Presenter: Anita O’Brien, Executive Director, Rochester Accessible Adventures
Live transcription will be available. We are committed to offering inclusive, diverse, and equitable services to all of our members. To request specific accommodations, please contact rrlc@rrlc.org at least five business days ahead of the program you’d like accommodations for.
This webinar will be recorded, but you must register to receive the recording. A closed captioned recording will be available 1 month after the live event.

If you have any questions, please contact Tina Broomfield at cbroomfield@rrlc.org

SCRLC Webinar: Green Cleaning Principles and Alternatives
2024-05-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
What makes cleaning “green”? Can we reduce the need to clean? What is dirt?
Formulations:
ready-made: typical; greener
alternatives: ingredients & tools
General purpose cleaners
Heavy-duty grease cleaning: cooking aerosols
Hard-water scale: tile, toilets, tubs, sinks
Disinfectants
Laundry detergents and softeners
Drain cleaners

WNYLRC Webinar: LibAnswers for Public Libraries
2024-05-22 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Description:
LibAnswers is a mobile-first, complete reference solution allowing users to search FAQs, submit questions, and more in a multi-channel communication platform. The searchable knowledge base of FAQs is available 24/7/365, so your users can get the support they need, when they need it – even if it’s at 4 AM!
LibAnswers is a great resource for Public Libraries – from the easy-to-use ticketing functionality to live chat with backup from the WNYLRC AskUs 24/7 Cooperative, this feature-rich platform simplifies patron communication and provides detailed statistics to boot!
This session will cover:
Examples from Public Library clients
Patron experience
Admin interface walkthrough
Reference Analytics & statistics
This webinar will be recorded and disseminated to all registrants, regardless of attendance. However, to receive a certificate of attendance, registrants must attend live and participate.

Facilities Management Meet-Up
2024-05-22 10:00 - 11:30 | CLRC, 5710 Commons Park Drive, East Syracuse, NY, 13057, United States
Meet-Up Description:
All organizations have facilities needs – but not all have a dedicated manager to handle the upkeep, improvements, and unexpected issues their facilities will inevitably face. These tasks often fall to staff, who must find the time and gain the know-how to maintain their buildings and grounds and to interface with vendors and contractors.
In this Facilities Management Meet-Up support staff, managers, and library workers can come together to exchange best practices, anecdotes, and problems and to seek help with specific needs. We can share information on local vendors, capital improvement strategies, and general tips for staying ahead of problems before they become disasters.
We’ll begin the meeting with a presentation from the Office Manager of the Southeastern New York Library Resources Council. He’ll share strategies and tools for keeping up with the regular maintenance our buildings often need and the problems that pop up with no warning. The presentation will be followed by time for open discussion.
Presenter Bio:
Moshe Siegel has been the Office Manager for Southeastern NY Library Resources Council since 2014. During his tenure at the council he’s learned the facilities maintenance challenges that small/medium institutions face and has developed simple but effective tools and strategies to support his work.
This is an IN-PERSON workshop. Registration closes on May 20 @ 5 p.m.
We’ll be offering two facilities management meet-ups. You can register here if you’d prefer to attend at the Mid York Library System Office.
**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one and a half contact hours.**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

WNYLRC Webinar: LibGuides and LibCal for Public Libraries
2024-05-29 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Description:
LibGuides allows libraries of all types to create guides about different topics, subject areas, courses, services, collections – you name it! – and easily share them with their communities. Patrons can conveniently access library resources all in one place, including browsing databases through the newly redesigned A-Z Database List. Looking to update or redesign your current website? LibGuides and LibGuides CMS are perfect for library websites!
LibCal is Springshare’s calendaring, space reservation, and appointments tool that integrates beautifully with both LibGuides and LibAnswers! LibCal’s modules are fully interactive with each other, so creating an Event also books the Space – no need to do that separately. Flexible setup and customization options means that LibCal works for your library whether you’re managing a single building or a large multi-branch system.
This session will go over the basics of LibGuides and LibCal, including:
Live client examples
Patron experience
Admin interface walkthrough
Support & documentation
This webinar will be recorded and disseminated to all registrants, regardless of attendance. However, to receive a certificate of attendance, registrants must attend live and participate.

LILRC Webinar: Ask An Archivist - Archival Description For Beginners
2024-05-29 13:00 - 14:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This is a continuation of the series from LILRC’s Nicole Menchise that discusses the principles of collecting and maintaining archives.
Archival Description is more than using adjectives and one’s own perceptions about an object to determine its context like the subject of a photograph. This program will provied an overview of the different elements as laid out by the Society of American Archivist’s (SAA) Describing Archives a Content Standard, better known as DACS. DACS may have been designed for consistancy in creating Finding Aids, but these standards can be applied to describe collection materials you are cataloging from the general to the specific whether you are using a material management software or a spreadsheet.
From the SAA website: “Archival description enables archivists to distill masses of information about records…what they are, what they mean and the historical process by which they were created and maintained…Good archival description cannot just depict the physical and intellectual characteristics of documents. It must communicate how the accumulation of documents in a collection represents and provides evidence of the major functions of an organization or individual. This contextual description is key to meaning-making and gives users the tools necessary to effectively evaluate the value of records as evidence and information.”
Recommended for individuals who are new to processing archives.
