LILRC Webinar: Stress Management & Self Care in a Pandemic
2020-09-14 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In this workshop, presented by Family Service League, we will be discussing the impact of stress, stress management, and self care that is important during this time as we work through the pandemic, but can also be applied to life after the pandemic.
We will be covering:
Pandemic Stress vs. Typical
Stress Impact of Stress
Dealing with Others
Coping Strategies
Co-Presented by: Robyn Berger-Gaston, LCSW-R, Division Director and Kathy Rosenthal, Senior Vice President of Programs; Family Service League

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Additional programs may be added for December.

METRO Webinar: Understanding Digital Inclusion and Digital Equity
2020-09-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
With Francella Ochillo, Executive Director, Next Century Cities
Thousands of school districts were unprepared to transition online when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted the school year. Approximately 17 million students nationwide are still struggling with reliable access to broadband. Aside from being unable to participate in online learning programs, these students are among those facing poverty, food insecurity, unstable housing, and limited access to health care.
Next Century Cities’ Executive Director Francella Ochillo will describe the need for long-term solutions that resource and remove obstacles for local connectivity solutions. Importantly, both state and local government entities have an important role in supporting the community-based partnerships that increase broadband adoption.
Francella is an attorney and digital rights advocate who has worked on a variety of technology and telecommunications issues with a specific focus on assessing the impact on underrepresented communities. As Executive Director of Next Century Cities, she leads efforts to help policymakers and lawmakers at every level of government recognize the importance of ubiquitous broadband and community partnerships. Her organization’s work supports a bipartisan coalition of local officials who are expanding high-speed Internet opportunities for their residents.
The Digital Equity webinar series is organized by the New York State Library and the New York State Education Department, in partnership with the METRO Library Council and the Northern New York Library Network.

LILRC Webinar: Your Connected Office
2020-09-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Build a collaborative, data-driven organizational culture with your constituents at the heart of everything you do by connecting your team to business processes.
Learn how to create a digitally connected office that will transform your library, so you can:
· Break down silos
· Inspire employee collaboration, engagement and productivity
· Provide a cohesive constituent experience
· Gain better insight into the impact of your work
Presented by: Michele Crepeau, Strategic Consultant- Nonprofits; Blackbaud

WNYLRC Webinar: Preservation Grant Writing - Tips and Guidance for Successful Preservation Project Proposals
2020-09-10 13:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The workshop will include introductions to various programs that offer grants related to collections preservation and collection assessments, as well as strategies for developing fundable projects within these programs. Programs discussed will include (but not be limited to):

National Endowment for the Humanities
Institute of Museum and Library Services]
Program through the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation
Documentary Heritage Program of the State of New York Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP)
The New York State Discretionary Program for the Conservation & Preservation of Library Research Materials

In addition, Mr. Linden will be available the following week, September 17, 2020, for a series of 30-minute one-on-one grant proposal consultation sessions for those who are interested in or who have already started a preservation proposal. Registration is separate for the workshop and the consultations. More information about the consultations will be forthcoming.

This workshop will be online. Registrants will be emailed with the Zoom link one day prior to the meeting.
This workshop will be recorded and the recording will be sent to all registrants.

About the Presenter:

Jeremy Linden has two decades of experience in the cultural heritage field, focusing on preservation and sustainability. He was formerly the Senior Preservation Environment Specialist at the Image Permanence Institute in Rochester, NY, and the Head of Archives and Special Collections at the State University of New York at Fredonia. This, combined with a decade of experience in the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) field, allows him to offer a unique perspective of the holistic operation of built environments for both preservation and sustainability. He has been sought out as a preservation and building operation expert, has taught and presented extensively both nationally and internationally, and has served on a number of professional and standards committees, including work with the International Standards Organization, the American Society for Heating, Refrigeration, and Air-Conditioning Engineers, and the Society of American Archivists.

Albany Book Festival
2020-09-10 - 2020-09-24 | NY, United States
Albany Book Festival 2020 Goes Online!
We’re going to have to do things a little differently this year. We have pivoted to a Virtual Writers Institute for our entire fall programming, with everything offered online, starting with our Albany Book Festival September 10-24.
The health and safety of everyone involved is paramount. Covid-19 protocols dictate it is not possible to come together in large gatherings on the UAlbany campus as in previous years.
We are inspired to make this year’s virtual Albany Book Festival the best experience possible with engrossing pre-recorded conversations with amazing authors, including Edwidge Danticat, Noam Chomsky, Gish Jen, Colum McCann and Sister Helen Prejean. It is a lineup that reinforces our commitment to diversity and inclusion and offering voices across the spectrum.
The coronavirus pandemic is an unprecedented and troubling time. But let us not forget that books possess a transformative power, perhaps more so during lockdowns and quarantine. Books can open our hearts. Books can change our minds. Books transport us to places and times and situations we would never be able to visit ourselves. Books deepen our empathy and help us imagine and respect the other.
Let us focus on what this fall’s Virtual Albany Book Festival offers all of us, be thankful for this opportunity, and hope that the fourth annual edition will be back on campus and in-person.
Happy reading,
Paul Grondahl, Director NYS Writers Institute

METRO Webinar: Overcoming FLUs - Practical Advice for Furloughs, Layoffs, and Uncertainty
2020-09-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Ping. The email hits your inbox. “We regret to inform you that…” Receiving news of a temporary or permanent separation is one of the unfortunate aspects of modern employment. While there’s only so much preparation one can do until it actually happens, we will share our personal experiences being impacted by employment separations. In this session, you’ll learn tips for navigating new financial circumstances, as well as ways to keep your job search moving forward under challenging circumstances.
As the Director of Library Assessment, Maurini Strub manages, leads, and collaborates on projects focused on gathering, analyzing, and using high-quality, actionable data to determine the value of library services, programs, learning spaces, and resources. She has a strong background in user-centered design, and recent assessment work has focused on spaces, services, and information literacy learning outcomes.
Tony Zanders is an award-winning software entrepreneur and library technology executive. He is the creator of Skilltype – a professional development platform for the library and information science community. Zanders is also the inaugural entrepreneur in residence at the Boston University Libraries, where he provides executive counsel to the University Librarian during the academic strategic planning process while designing new approaches to recruitment, retention and training.

Tuesdays at Ten!
2020-09-08 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online Tuesdays at Ten!
Staying connected is important during this unprecedented time. CLRC is looking to stay engaged with our members by offering the library community an opportunity to chat, discuss, and check-in with colleagues around the region. Please join us for our weekly online Zoom meeting every Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81744068630
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 817 4406 8630

2020 Digital Services User Group Meeting (Virtual)
2020-09-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This year we’re taking our annual Digital Services User Group Meeting online. This meeting will be an opportunity to get updates on our various repository platforms and services–including: New York Heritage Digital Collections, New York State Historic Newspapers, Empire Archival Discovery Cooperative, Digital Dark Archive, Access & Digitization Grants, as well as the services we offer through the CLRC DigLab. We’ll take a deeper dive into the Digital Dark Archive, explaining the process and benefits of preserving digital files. Finally, we’ll gather feedback on CLRC’s digital services that will inform our 2021 – 2026 Plan of Service.
If you’re a CLRC member and work with digitization projects or promoting access to cultural heritage resources, we hope you’ll join us for this meeting! We’ll start with a basic overview, so we also welcome folks who are interested in becoming involved in digitization or access projects. If you have any questions about this event, please feel free to email Ryan Perry at rperry@clrc.org
Agenda:

Overview: Ryan Perry, CLRC’s Digital Collections Librarian, will give a brief overview of CLRC’s digital services, and how they fit together
Updates: Ryan will give an update on NY Heritage, NYS Historic Newspapers, EmpireADC, and our other digital services. He’ll review recent changes to the platforms, as well as what’s in store for the future. Any and all questions are welcome.
Digital Dark Archive mini-workshop: Ryan will give an overview of digital preservation and how CLRC can help maintain your digital files for longterm storage
Plan of Service Focus Group: A discussion of priorities for digital services. How can CLRC better serve our members in this area? What should we be focusing on for CLRC’s 2021-2026 Plan of Service?

LILRC Webinar: Gender Queer - A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
2020-09-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Copresented by LILRC Health Sciences Information Committee, SCLA Health Concerns Committee, and NCLA Health Services Committee.
Meet Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: A Memoir (Lion Forge, 2019) for a discussion of the book, the 2020 ALA Alex Award winner and 2020 Stonewall-Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book.
Copies of Gender Queer: A Memoir are available to read through your library and on Hoopla.
About Gender Queer: A Memoir
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em.
Now, Gender Queer is here.
Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears.
Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
(Excerpt from the LionForge website.)
About Maia Kobabe: Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer author and illustrator from the Bay Area, California. Eir first full length book, GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR, was published in May 2019. Maia’s short comics have been published by The Nib and in many anthologies including THE SECRET LOVES OF GEEKS, FASTER THAN LIGHT Y’ALL, GOTHIC TALES OF HAUNTED LOVE, SHOUT OUT, ADVANCED DEATH SAVES and BE GAY, DO COMICS. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries. Eir work is heavily influenced by fairy tales, homesickness, and the search for identity.

Tuesdays at Ten!
2020-09-01 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online Tuesdays at Ten!
Staying connected is important during this unprecedented time. CLRC is looking to stay engaged with our members by offering the library community an opportunity to chat, discuss, and check-in with colleagues around the region. Please join us for our weekly online Zoom meeting every Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87311052817
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 873 1105 2817

LILRC Webinar: Managing Remote Library Teams
2020-08-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This webinar will offer concrete strategies for supporting remote staff, building successful online collaboration, facilitating online and phone meetings, and managing workflows and projects. This was a workshop offered by the Library Leadership and Management Association.
Presenter: Carli Spina, Head of Research & Instructional Services, SUNY’s Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

LILRC Webinar: Appalling Archives - Working with Offensive Collection Materials
2020-08-27 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
What should be done with images, documents and objects that put us face-to-face with the ugly side of history? Panelists Regina Feeney (Freeport Memorial Library), Melanie Cardone-Leathers (Longwood Public Library), Claire Bellerjeau (Raynham Hall Museum), and Nicole Menchise will discuss how their organizations, past and present, have used these materials to promote an open dialogue about uncomfortable subjects through responsible access and public programs. Themes include slavery, racism, antisemitism and torture.

SENYLRC Webinar: Privacy In & Out of the Library
2020-08-27 13:00 - 14:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In this session we’ll examine some of the things you can do in your library to increase privacy without implementing new technologies. Instead of talking about online solutions such as software upgrades, password management, and security, we’ll learn about real-world tactics both old and new — from drafting powerful privacy policies to implementing new ways of getting users their holds. The goal of this session is to help library workers understand that positive privacy practices are within their reach and give them meaningful ways of attaining them. The tools we will go over will be both appropriate for personal and professional use.
Outcomes include:
Creation of an individualized risk assessment profile
Understanding of privacy tools that are immediately available
Empowerment to advocate for improved privacy-forward solutions in your library
About the trainer:
T.J. Lamanna is an adult services librarian in New Jersey. His professional focus is on privacy and neutrality in libraries. A member of both the New Jersey Library Association, the American Library Association, and Library Freedom Project he has served on many committees working to improve privacy in libraries. He is excited to be able to share some of this work with you, especially as he works on crafting information on non-technical privacy practices you can easily apply to your own library!

WNYLRC Webinar: Trauma-informed Librarianship
2020-08-26 10:30 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
As libraries move to more interactions rather than transactions, developing Trauma-informed care (TIC) approaches incorporate key principles to ensure that direct service and organizational supports are attentive to how trauma affects individuals and communities. By developing trauma-informed service systems, organizations such as libraries can implement care approaches that address the lived and stated needs of staff, providers, and people seeking services. Participants will identify how to facilitate TIC strategies to mitigate the impact of traumatic stress by developing an understanding of the signs and symptoms of trauma, barriers and challenges to care provisions and ways to enhance empathic engagements. Participants will develop personal and organizational self-care strategies and ways to sustain TIC into the organizational culture and practices.
Objectives:

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

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

Tuesday at Ten
2020-08-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online Tuesdays at Ten!
Staying connected is important during this unprecedented time. CLRC is looking to stay engaged with our members by offering the library community an opportunity to chat, discuss, and check-in with colleagues around the region. Please join us for our weekly online Zoom meeting every Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82710802022
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 827 1080 2022

NYLA ASLS Briefinar Series
2020-08-24 11:00 - 11:30, 2020-08-17 11:00 - 11:30 | NY, United States
Ever wondered what makes Special Libraries so special? NYLA’s Academic and Special Libraries Section (ASLS) is conducting a series of short interviews with librarians from various Special libraries to give us all a sneak peek into this fascinating area of our profession. Learn more about the collections, clients, and daily operations of New York State’s special libraries and the interesting people who run them. Interviews will be broadcast live and recorded for future viewing. These are SHORT and easy to fit into your busy day! That’s why we call them “Briefinars”. Each interview will be less than 30 minutes, including time for questions from the audience.
The Strong Museum of Play – July 20th
Russian History Foundation – July 27th
The Frick Art Reference Library – August 3rd
Center for Inquiry Library – August 10th
Adirondack Experience Library – August 17th
Albany Institute of History and Art – August 24th

SIG: CNY Digital Inclusion Virtual Meetup
2020-08-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The CNY Digital Inclusion Coalition is a group of community stakeholders in Central New York working together to create a unified voice in support of digital inclusion. Join us to discuss the digital divide in CNY and the resources available in the community for affordable Internet and technology and digital literacy training.
To learn more visit the website of the Central New York Digital Inclusion Coalition.

CLRC LA SIG - Library Assistants & Support Staff Meet Up in Zoom
2020-08-20 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
CLRC has opened a communication network among our region’s Library Assistants, Paraprofessionals and Support Staff through a Special Interest Group (LA SIG).
Our interests include:
* recognizing all library support staff employed in CLRC member libraries
* furthering the professional development & job enrichment of support staff
* enhancing the professional image of support staff within the library community

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

LILRC Webinar: What's New with Medical Interlibrary Loans? - Updates on DOCLINE and EFTS
2020-08-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Learn about recent updates to DOCLINE and EFTS (Electronic Funds Transfer System) from Erin D. Latta NDCO Coordinator, SEA, NDCO.
About Erin D. Latta:
In her work as the National DOCLINE Coordinator, Erin ensures that affiliated and unaffiliated health professionals, researchers, librarians, and the public have equal access to biomedical and health information and provides assistance to DOCLINE participants with their day-to-day use of the system.

LILRC Webinar: Ask An Archivist - Create a Virtual Walking Tour with StoryMaps
2020-08-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
A start-to-finish look at creating “Haunted Huntington” – a walking tour that village visitors can follow virtually. From choosing suitable locations, researching stories, finding primary sources, using the ArcGIS StoryMaps software, and ‘walking the walk’, Nicole Menchise will show you how to create a project that you or your institution can share online.

Tuesdays at Ten!
2020-08-18 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online Tuesdays at Ten!
Staying connected is important during this unprecedented time. CLRC is looking to stay engaged with our members by offering the library community an opportunity to chat, discuss, and check-in with colleagues around the region. Please join us for our weekly online Zoom meeting every Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81108644462
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 811 0864 4462

Webinar: Learning About Cultural Humility & Implicit Bias - Understanding Our Responsibility
2020-08-17 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Cultural humility urges us to engage in critical, consistent self-reflection and critique to understand that being patron-centered is vital to moving through an equitable profession. This webinar will provide an overview of cultural humility, understand the importance of cultural humility in librarianship, adopt a cultural humility framework, delving deeper into how implicit bias affects how library staff perceives and interacts with patrons, and how to mitigate biased responses.
About the Presenter:
Twanna Hodge (she/her/hers) is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian at the University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries. She holds a BA in Humanities from the University of the Virgin Islands and an MLIS from the University of Washington. She is the National Conference of African American Librarians XI Conference Programming Committee co-chair, Spectrum Scholarship Juror, Association of College and Research Libraries Residency Interest Group – Social Media and Communications team leader and more. Her research interests are diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility issues and efforts in the LIS curriculum and workplace, library residencies and fellowships, cultural humility in librarianship, and the retention of minority library staff in librarianship. She is a 2013 Spectrum Scholar and 2018 ALA Emerging Leader.
**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one hour and 30 minutes of contact hours.

RRLC Tech Camp 2020
2020-08-17 - 2020-08-20 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Tech Camp 2020 is going virtual!
Join us August 17-20, 2020 for four half-days of interactive online learning!

Registration is now open for our annual Rochester Librarian Tech Camp conference! This FREE event is open to all school, public, academic, and special library staff!
Through a variety of online sessions, learn from industry professionals on topics related to technology, education, and collaboration (TEC) in library services and practices. Attend all of the sessions or just register for the ones that fit your schedule and learning needs best!
Conference attendees may earn up to 9.5 hours of continuing education credit. NOTE: Attendees will need to register for each session they plan to attend. Sessions will not be recorded.
Conference Schedule Overview
Monday, August 17

Information Literacy: Real Skills Our Students Need to Fight for Democracy | 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Session Registration
Truth Online: Inspiring Information Literacy | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Session Registration
Green Engineering Design Projects & Resources | 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Session Registration

Tuesday, August 18

Allyship and Racial Equity in the Children’s Library | 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Session Registration
Health Issues in the Headlines: Learning to Read Between the Lines | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Session Registration

Wednesday, August 19

Customize Destiny Discover | 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Session Registration
Donalyn Miller’s 40 Book Challenge/NFL Draft Mash Up! | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Session Registration

Thursday, August 20

Transforming Interest into Impact: Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing in Your Library | 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Session Registration
Best Practices for Working With Teachers This Fall | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Session Registration

If you have any questions, contact Tina Broomfield.

SCRLC Webinar: Academic Libraries in an Extraordinary Time
2020-08-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Online via Shindig, NY, United States
Description:
How is higher education responding to the global pandemic as well as the mobilization against antiblack racism? What role have libraries played, and how are they changing as a result? This presentation begins by examining the events of an extraordinary 2020, which saw libraries participate in a sudden migration away from in-person interaction while engaging racism in society and their history. We continue by exploring trends and plans for the next academic year, as colleges and universities decide to either resume remote education, reopen in some way, or hybridize the two. What challenges do we face as we seek to rethink our academic mission and operations? How are libraries supporting remote and HyFlex work? And what happens when 2020 accelerates previous trends acting upon the academy? Are we seeing a truly new, 21st century library emerge?”

Speaker: Bryan Alexander is an internationally known futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher, working in the field of how technology transforms education. Full bio here.If you have any questions in advance for Bryan, please enter them in this Google Form.

Register below and we will send you a link to the webinar by August 11th.

ESLN Webinar: Academic Reopening Panel
2020-08-12 10:30 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join us for a panel of academic librarians and administrators who will discuss their plans for reopening libraries when semesters begin this fall.
Panelists include:
* Gerald Beasley, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell
* Janet H. Clarke, Associate Dean, Research & User Engagement at Stony Brook University Libraries
Fantasia Thorne-Ortiz, Library Department Chair at SUNY Onondaga Community College
* Michelle Young, Dean of Libraries at Clarkson University.
Some questions for the panel include:
* How do you ensure equity for students?
* What unsolved questions about reopening have come up on your campuses?
* How are you dealing with staffing while keeping proper protocols in place?
* What do we do about course reserves?
* If you are not reopening the physical location, how are you continuing to offer 100% customer service satisfaction?
* How flexible is your collection development policy and finances due to pressure for e-resources?

METRO Webinar: Privacy Audits at the Library
2020-08-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Looking to understand how your library is protecting the privacy of your patrons? Wondering how you might identify areas for improvement in safeguarding sensitive information?
Join a webinar with Bill Marden (New York Public Library) and Erin Berman (Alameda Country Library) to hear how your library can audit its online and offline records, resources, databases, and more.

CLRC RS SIG - Resource Sharing Special Interest Group Meet Up
2020-08-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
CLRC has opened a communication network among our region’s resource-sharing, technical and access services library staff through a Special Interest Group (RS SIG)?
We each have unique department workflows, challenges and concerns but are similar in believing in the core library value of sharing.
Some of CLRC’s RS SIG interests include:
* familiarizing members with CLRC Resource Sharing services including ILL,
medical Information reimbursement, cataloging and delivery
* providing updates to subscription services such as OCLC, RDA and Docline
* providing an outlet for support from CLRC and member libraries
* furthering the professional development of resource sharing staff through
workshops and webinars
Join us for our next get-together.
Meeting connection instructions will be emailed to registrants.
Contact Anna Dobkowski with any questio

CDLC Webinar: Library Security
2020-08-11 09:30 - 11:00 | NY, United States
All are welcome to join this virtual program sponsored by CDLC’s Preservation Interest Group!
Library security is all about protecting patrons, property, and valued collections. The first course of action is the development of policies and procedures and implementing them into the daily work of your organization. Guest speaker Sarah Schmidt, Director of Special Collections & Archives, Union College, will lead the discussion. Sarah has over twenty years of experience working in large academic libraries and is a current member of the Rare Books and Manuscript Section of the American Library Association’s Security Committee.
