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LILRC Webinar: Girls Who Code - Cost-Free Library Curriculum and Programs
2023-09-01 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Computer science skills are some of the most sought-after and highest-paying in the US job market, with demand growing 3X the national average. In 1995, 37% of computer scientists were women. Today, only 24% of computer scientists are women. Attrition for CS interest in girls is heightened between the ages of 13 and 17.
This is where Girls Who Code steps in: We are on track to close the gender gap in technology 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.
During this presentation, we will provide an overview of Girls Who Code’s educational philosophy and impact, and introduce our free Clubs Program. We’ll engage participants in a deep dive into the Clubs experience with Girls Who Code. 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. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss how to incorporate our curriculum into their communities.
Presented by: Michaela Burger, Senior Associate, Community Partnerships & Outreach, Girls Who Code

LILRC Webinar: Workplace Productivity Skills - Presentation Software
2023-08-30 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Using PowerPoint, attendees will learn the basics of using presentation software including creating individual slides, adding text and graphic images, creating transitions, and running presentations. Other presentations applications may also be included such as Google Slides and Prezi.
Presented by Albert Tablante, MLS, MALET.
Registration is Required

LILRC Webinar: Pandit Dasa - Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind
2023-08-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Written by a monk-turned-leadership-guru, Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind offers unique insight on how you can focus your mind, become more resilient, respond better to conflict, and build stronger professional (and personal) relationships. It’s all possible when you begin to understand how your mind works and take control of this complicated mechanism. This book will show you how to identify and close the “apps” that are constantly running in your own mind, so you can eliminate distractions and find greater peace and productivity in your daily life.
In this book, you’ll find specific meditation processes and actions you can take to help you succeed as you begin or continue your journey. Through presentations and talks across the country, Author Pandit Dasa has offered his wisdom on applying mindfulness in the workplace. In this book, he shares his wisdom with you, revealing that, no matter what your external circumstances or environment, you can find the time and space to reflect and unlock the benefits of mindfulness.

Reduce stress and anxiety by eliminating unnecessary distractions and closing unused “apps” in your mind
Harness the principles of forgiveness, patience, compassion, and selflessness to improve work-life balance and mental health for yourself and your employees
Break through the stigma surrounding mental health concerns and identify the obstacles that are keeping you from happiness and fulfilment
Complete reflection questions and exercises to develop a deeper awareness of how your mind works―and what you can do to improve it

Mindfulness For the Wandering Mind is for anyone who is looking for a solution to the constant feelings overwhelm, distraction, and anxiety that plague us in today’s fast-paced, media-saturated world. Teach your brain how to block out the noise and find focus, and observe the radical transformation that mindfulness can make in your life.
Registration is Required

LILRC Webinar: Departures and Arrivals - Succession Planning for Libraries
2023-08-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Libraries are like airports with continual arrivals and departures of key staff. In order to have takeoffs and landings go smoothly, directors and trustees need to prepare for the departure of a director in times of crisis and otherwise by creating a succession plan. After covering what the current director and board must put in place prior to the landing of a new director, learn how to prepare for the arrival of a new director and the role of trustees in successfully onboarding a new director and gain strategies for how to transition the new director. Attendees will receive a flight plan and onboarding checklist for new library directors and a sample succession plan for a little light reading during your flight.
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.
Registration is Required

NNYLN Webinar: A Reintroduction to NYS Historic Newspapers
2023-08-16 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This early access session will provide a tour of the soon to relaunch NYS Historic Newspapers web site. We’ll look at the new searching interface including boolean searching and faceting. We’ll explore the new ways to browse the collection!

LILRC Webinar: Partners in Science
2023-08-15 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join LILRC as we welcome Patricia Garvey, Library & Publications Manager at Brookhaven National Laboratory to speak about “Partners in Science,” an annual program for local high school students. The BNL Research Library co-sponsors this program with the Eastern Suffolk BOCES School Library System to encourage scholarship in science and math through the use of reference and research materials not readily available in school or public library collections. In the daylong program students are introduced to research activities at BNL, listen to lectures by scientists, and learn the latest techniques for searching literature from the librarians.
This program is being presented in cooperation with NASA’s Solar System Ambassador program. For more information on the program, visit Events | Solar System Ambassadors – NASA Solar System Exploration.
Registration is Required

CLRC's Sustainability SIG Meetings
2023-08-11 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.
At our August 11 meeting, we’ll be hearing from Lauren Darcy! Lauren Darcy is an environmental Planner at the CNY Regional Planning Board. One of her many roles is facilitating the CNY Stormwater Coalition which is a cooperative effort by Syracuse Area municipalities to prevent stormwater pollution and meet NYS requirements. An important part of this effort is public education and creating opportunities for public involvement in managing the stormwater problem. Everyone has a role to play, Lauren will provide background on local stormwater challenges and some ways libraries can get involved in the solutions.

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.

LILRC Webinar: Coffee+Conversation - Social Media Librarians Virtual Meetup
2023-08-10 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!
Registration is Required

RRLC Event: Sign Language for Library Staff
2023-08-10 13:00 - 16:00 | Rochester Regional Library Council, 3445 Winton Place, Suite 204, Rochester, NY, 14623
Event Description:
*This is an in-person workshop in Rochester NY*
This workshop will introduce library and cultural heritage staff to visual communication and basic library related sign language. Participants will learn a variety of things including: basic tips in communicating with Deaf patrons, simple signs related to the library, strategies to make your library more Deaf friendly and resources to help participants continue their sign language and Deaf culture education. The workshop includes group instruction, demonstrations, and activities.
Through this interactive workshop, participants will:
Understand the nuances of communicating visually
Recall methods to make a library more Deaf/HH friendly
Recognize and practice basic sign language vocabulary words
Presenter: Miranda Stefano is a librarian, technologist, and bibliophile. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland iSchool and RIT School of Print Media. 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.
Free to RRLC & ESLN Members. This is an in-person workshop.
All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance for 3 hours of CE credit.
We are committed to offering inclusive, diverse, and equitable services to all of our members. To request specific accommodations, please contact RRLC at least five business days ahead of the program you’d like accommodations for.
RRLC Registration & Program Attendance Policies
If you have any questions, please contact Tina Broomfield.
If the class reaches capacity and you are still interested in attending, please reach out to join the waiting list.

Webinar: Embodying DEI and Cultural Humility in Workplace Wellness
2023-08-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
In the last three years, we’ve experienced and witnessed the need for organizations that center their employee’s well-being and how vital diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural humility are to our wellness and work. In Fostering Wellness in the Workplace, I stated, “No matter where you work, you have a right to a physically and emotionally healthy and supportive workplace” (p. 48). During the course of this webinar, I will delve into how diversity, equity, inclusion, and cultural humility are essential to workplace wellness, along with strategies and resources. You will gain:

An overview of cultural humility and connections to wellness.
Critical concepts related to barriers and challenges.
Questions to help you assess your wellness needs.

Presenter Bio:
Twanna Hodge is a Ph.D. student in the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds a BA in Humanities from the University of the Virgin Islands and a Master’s in Library and Information Science from the University of Washington. Her previous position was the diversity, equity, and inclusion librarian at the University of Florida. Her research interests include the mental health literacy and mental health information-seeking behavior and needs of BIPOC Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museum (GLAM) employees and LIS students; mental health literacy and mental health information-seeking behavior of Afro-Caribbean immigrants; cultural humility in LIS education and librarianship; Afro-Caribbean students and professional experiences in LIS and the retention of Black students in LIS programs. She is a 2013 American Library Association (ALA) Spectrum Scholar, a 2018 ALA Emerging Leader, and a 2022 ALA Spectrum Doctoral Fellow.
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

LILRC Webinar: I Kick and I Fly - Ruchira Gupta on Human Trafficking
2023-08-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join LILRC as we welcome author Ruchira Gupta for a moderated conversation about her Young Adult novel, I Kick and I Fly (Scholastic, 2023), a story of the human trafficking of young girls.
In I Kick and I Fly, Ruchira Gupta has given young readers an irresistible story, and also one that could save lives. This book is a gift.” — Gloria Steinem
“Any work from Ruchira Gupta is sure to further the cause of liberating women, especially, and in this novel, girls. It takes a strong belief in us, and especially in our young ones, to persevere as she does in both art and politics. The absolute belief that if the heart is moved, so might be the positive activities for justice and freedom of the mind.” — Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple
“I Kick and I Fly is a powerhouse of a debut. Ruchira Gupta has crafted a page-turner of a read, stepped in place and full of indelible characters, managing to be at once propulsive and enlightening, infuriating and inspiring. But maybe most important, Heera’s story is a beacon of hope to a generation of young people trying to transform an unjust world.” — Gayle Forman, New York Times bestselling author of If I Stay and We Are Inevitable
Ruchira Gupta is an Emmy winning journalist and founder of the anti sex trafficking NGO, Apne Aap that helps women and girls exit systems of prostitution. I Kick and I Fly is her debut fiction novel.
Ruchira has been given the French Ordre National du Mérite, Clinton Global Citizen Award, and the UN NGO CSW Woman of Distinction among other honors for her contribution to the establishment of the UN Trafficking Fund for Survivors, the passage of the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act and her grassroots activism with Apne Aap. She holds a Doctor of Humane Letters from Smith College. Ruchira has worked for the United Nations in Nepal, Thailand, Kosovo, Iran, and USA. She teaches occasionally as a visiting professor at New York University. She divides her time between New York and Forbesganj, her childhood home in the foothills of the Himalayas, where she paints her mother’s garden.
www.ruchiragupta.com
Registration is Required

LILRC Webinar: The Culturally Competent Manager - Leadership and Teambuilding Skillsets
2023-08-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In our diverse and multi-cultural workplace, it is essential that we have the necessary skill sets to responsibly manage, lead, and work collaboratively with others. This workshop will provide participants with the tools to be both a transformational leader and a team player with a focus on diversity, inclusiveness, sensitivity and the role of being culturally aware.
Presented by Prof. Joshua E. Bienstock, JD., LLM., Associate Professor of Business Law, New York Institute of Technology, School of Management.
Registration is Required

SENYLRC Webinar: AI in Education and Libraries: Taking Privacy, Security, and Equity into Account
2023-07-28 11:00 - 12:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
About the webinar:
Everyone is talking about Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning lately. In the valley between “AI is going to destroy life as we know it” and “AI is going to revolutionize our lives” lies the fact that the future isn’t yet written, and these tools will only be as good as we let them be.
This technology is now widely available to the public and professionals alike, and it’s time to understand how it works and how it is marketed to us. That way, we can make educated choices about using AI in the classroom, at work, and in the library. In this moderated panel discussion, you will hear from educators in the field who are approaching AI technology through the lens of privacy, security, equity, and intellectual freedom.
All attendees will receive a certificate for CE Credit.
The webinar will be recorded and a link will be sent to registrants when it is ready.

LILRC Webinar: Elizabeth Castellano - Save What's Left
2023-07-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join LILRC when we welcome author Elizabeth Castellano to discuss her debut novel, Save What’s Left (Anchor, 2023), which takes place in a beach town on Long Island!
An outrageously funny debut novel about a woman who moves to a small beach town looking for peace, only to find herself in an all-out war with her neighbors.
When Kathleen Deane’s husband, Tom, tells her he’s no longer happy with his life and their marriage, Kathleen is confused. They live in Kansas. They’ve been married thirty years. Who said anything about being happy? But with Tom off finding himself, Kathleen starts to think about what she wants. And her thoughts lead her to a small beach community on the east coast, a town called Whitbey that has always looked lovely in the Christmas letters her childhood friend Josie sends every year.
It turns out, though, that life in Whitbey is nothing like Josie’s letters. Kathleen’s new neighbor, Rosemary, is cantankerous, and the town’s supervisor won’t return Kathleen’s emails, but worst of all is the Sugar Cube, the monstrosity masquerading as a holiday home that Kathleen’s absentee neighbors are building next door to her quaint (read: tiny) cottage. As Kathleen gets more and more involved in the fight against the Sugar Cube and town politics overall, she realizes that Whitbey may not be a fairytale, but it just might be exactly what she needed.
Save What’s Left can best be described as the “un-beach read.” It pulls back the curtain on life in a beach town, revealing the true cost of a pretty view. Told from the candid and irreverent perspective of a newcomer turned local, this is a story of forgiveness, fortitude, and second chances.
Registration is Required

METRO Webinar: Understanding And Sharing The Implications Of Artificial Intelligence With Learners Of All Levels
2023-07-25 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
No doubt you’ve heard of artificial intelligence (AI). Perhaps you’ve even mulled over the implications of these new technologies on teaching, learning, and even our social lives. In this webinar, Julia Stoyanovich, director of the Center for Responsible AI (R/AI) at NYU Tandon, will discuss how we might democratize the process of understanding how AI can and should be created, utilized, and regulated. We will also learn how to make the behind-the-scenes aspects of AI legible and understandable to all learners.

Register here

LILRC Webinar: A Sky Full of Poems
2023-07-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join LILRC as we welcome science writer Dava Sobel to talk about the intersection of poetry and science.
Dava Sobel, a former New York Times science reporter, is the author of Longitude (Walker 1995 and 2005, Penguin 1996), Galileo’s Daughter (Walker 1999 and 2011, Penguin 2000), The Planets (Viking 2005, Penguin 2006), A More Perfect Heaven (Walker / Bloomsbury 2011 and 2012), And the Sun Stood Still (Bloomsbury, 2016) and The Glass Universe (Viking, 2016). She has also co-authored six books, including Is Anyone Out There? with astronomer Frank Drake. A longtime science contributor to Harvard Magazine, Audubon, Discover, Life, Omni, and The New Yorker, she wrote about leap seconds and the transit of Venus for the on-line Aeon.
Ms. Sobel received the 2001 Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board “for fostering awareness of science and technology among broad segments of the general public.” Also in 2001, the Boston Museum of Science gave her its prestigious Bradford Washburn Award for her “outstanding contribution toward public understanding of science, appreciation of its fascination, and the vital roles it plays in all our lives.” She currently edits “Meter,” the monthly poetry column in Scientific American.
This program is being presented in cooperation with NASA’s Solar System Ambassador program. For more information on the program, visit Events | Solar System Ambassadors – NASA Solar System Exploration. Dava Sobel has been a Solar System Ambassador since 2004.
Registration is Required

METRO Webinar: Finding Work Outside of Libraries - A Panel Discussion
2023-07-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
We at METRO believe firmly in the value of libraries and archives as institutions that provide conscientious and meaningful services to members of our communities. Libraries can and do change lives. That said, working in the profession can be a difficult proposition for many, and for a lot of different reasons.
Join us for a panel discussion with library workers who found positions in other industries. We will be joined by Miraida Morales, Dana Munsch, Andy Steinitz, and Katie Wolf for a conversation about how they knew they needed to look to other industries for their next steps and how they made these changes happen.

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NNYLN Event: Community Outdoors! Paul Smith's College VIC ecology tour
2023-07-17 10:00 - 15:30 | Paul Smith’s College, 7777 NY-30, Paul Smiths, NY, 12970, United States
Event Description:
This is an IRL/in person event, with easy walking along groomed trails and boardwalks expected. Lunch and reflection time will be in the Joan Weill Adirondack Library at Paul Smith’s College.
Come explore the bog life at Paul Smith’s College Visitor Interpretive Center with this environmental education professional development opportunity for our members: librarians, archivists, and museum culture workers in Northern New York. Learn about and reflect on the natural environment where we live, enjoy time with colleagues exploring connections with each other, and with our ecological communities.
Registration is Required

METRO Webinar: ChatGPT And Other AI Tools Impacting Academic And Research Libraries - Questions to Consider
2023-07-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Heard of ChatGPT? Not sure what to make of it? In this interactive session, Ray Pun and Dr. Leo S. Lo will highlight how AI tools have already been embedded in libraries long before the arrival of ChatGPT in November 2022. This webinar offers a critical perspective on the issues that will start occurring from the use of such technologies.

Register here

Second Tuesday at Ten!
2023-07-11 10:00 - 11:00, 2023-06-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online second 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 monthly online Zoom meeting every second Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87256143578
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 872 5614 3578

METRO Webinar: The Business Of Publishing - Designing A Workshop For Professional-Level Graduate Students
2023-07-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Do you work with students who would like to publish? Three librarians who developed a 90-minute workshop to strengthen students’ knowledge and confidence in finding publishing platforms for their work will share examples of those activities in this workshop, and then examine the results of their assessment from participants. Join us to learn how to conduct a version of this workshop at your home institutions.
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Lunchtime Lecture: The Amazing Story of William Wells Brown
2023-06-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
Patrick Ryan from the Buffalo History Museum will discuss William Wells Brown, who escaped slavery and risked his life to help others find freedom. In his spare time, he taught himself to read and write, lectured on the evils of slavery, and was the first African American to publish a novel and, later, a play.
Available in person and via Zoom. Registrants will receive a recording of the talk.
Register at: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/store/product/lecture/

Library Assistants and Support Staff - LA SIG
2023-06-20 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Third Tuesdays at 2:00 pm
CLRC offers a communication network among our region’s Library Assistants, Paraprofessionals and Support Staff through a Special Interest Group (LA SIG).
Our interests include:
* recognizing all library support staff employed in CLRC member libraries
* furthering the professional development & job enrichment of support staff
* enhancing the professional image of support staff within the library community
Join us on Zoom for the June get-together to share our summer programs.
Note: This will be the last meet-up before the summer break. See you in September.
REGISTER HERE
Contact Anna Dobkowski with any questions.

CLRC's Sustainability SIG Meetings
2023-06-09 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.

Health@CLRC 2nd Annual Health Literacy Conference
2023-06-08 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This is a two-day conference.
Thursday, June 8 (9:15 am to 4:00 pm) and Friday, June 9 (9:15 am to 12:15 pm)
The conference will be recorded and distributed to all registrants.
A Zoom link will be shared with you prior to the start of the event.
Your registration will cover both days of this event.
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: The 2nd Annual Health@CLRC & Upstate Health Sciences Library Professional Development Event is available free of cost to interested professionals. Join us on Thursday, June 8th and Friday, June 9th. This year, the conference will focus on maternal mortality and graphic medicine.
Maternal mortality is defined by the World Health Organization as “the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy” and is a major issue in the United States.
Graphic Medicine is the term used to discuss comic book style discussion of health care topics. The stories explored in graphic medicine are engaging, powerful and accessible to people inside and outside of healthcare. Throughout the conference, participants will learn about services and resources to help you feel empowered to offer a patient or patron a referral to an appropriate resource or organization.
THURSDAY, JUNE 8
9:15 – 9:30 AM:
Welcome – Sarah Lawler, MSLIS
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM:
Maternal Mortality and Doulas as Health Literacy Professionals – SeQuoia Kemp
SeQuoia will provide a multimedia presentation with an overview of full-spectrum community-based doula care and its impact on improving health literacy, body literacy, and maternal and infant outcomes.
SeQuoia Kemp, BSN, certified doula, and community educator from Syracuse, NY. SeQuoia is a community organizer, health justice advocate, and public health educator as well as the Founder of Doula 4 a Queen and Founding Member of Sankofa Reproductive Health and Healing Center.
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM – Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
What About Mom? Health Literacy and Postpartum Education – Teresa Wagner
Maternal Mortality has been recognized as a global health issue. The U.S. considers it a crisis in which most maternal deaths are preventable. Health-care solutions to prevent or manage complications are well known. However, few studies have looked at the effect of health literacy on mom’s ability to recognize postpartum warning signs that might warrant emergent care that could save their own lives. This presentation will focus on our study which examined health literacy of postpartum education from the perspective of new moms using the Integrated Model of Health Literacy. As a result of the study, a team including two universities, community health workers, and interprofessional students developed the “What About Mom?” App to improve postnatal education for all postpartum moms but especially in underserved communities at high risk for maternal mortality while assisting moms and families in potentially saving moms’ lives.
Teresa Wagner, DrPH, MS, CPH, RD/LD, CPPS, CHWI, DipACLM, CHWC is an Assistant Professor in the School of Health Professions. Wagner also serves as Clinical Executive for Health Literacy at SaferCare Texas and as Director of the Community Health Worker Training Program. She’s certified in Public Health, Patient Safety, Lifestyle Medicine, Health Coaching and a certified Community Health Worker Instructor. Dr. Wagner has delivered multiple programs, speaking engagements and trainings on health literacy issues. Additionally, she established both a multi-stakeholder health literacy collaborative with the DFW Hospital Council Foundation and Health Literacy Texas, a statewide nonprofit to build community around health literacy efforts in Texas. As a result of her work, she has received both the 2018 Texas Health Literacy Hero Award as well as the 2020 Distinguished Alumni Award from Texas Christian University.
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM:
Continuing Education: Drawn to Graphic Medicine: Bringing Comics into Medical Librarianship – Kathryn Houk and Ariel FitzGerald Pomputius
1.5 Hour Recorded Webinar
Graphic medicine, the intersection of health care and comics, has emerged over the last ten years as a growing field in the health sciences, particularly in relation to health humanities and education. Librarians can play a vital role in supporting graphic medicine by collecting and distributing graphic medicine materials and including graphic medicine in their work or instruction efforts. In this webinar, we will discuss where graphic medicine came from and why it is valuable, how you can start collecting graphic medicine at your library, and how you can integrate it into your work in the library. #MLAComics.
At the end of this session, attendees will be able to:
• Define Graphic Medicine
• Learn at least one activity for encouraging drawing or critical engagement with comics
• Access and use resources that support collection development and programming
• Explain how comics can be used to support clinicians and health consumers in various ways
• Discuss how comics can amplify marginalized voices or ideas in health and healthcare

Kathryn Houk, AHIP, is assistant professor and health sciences librarian at the University of Nevada–Las Vegas Health Sciences Library. She began developing a graphic medicine collection two and a half years ago due to her interest in health humanities, health literacy, and innovative educational practice. Houk is a member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals, is a member of the 2019–2020 MLA Rising Star cohort, and has the Level I Consumer Health Specialization. She is currently enrolled in a master of public health degree program concentrating in community health education and hopes to eventually contribute to the field by furthering research on the use of comics as a health literacy tool.

Ariel FitzGerald Pomputius is a health sciences liaison librarian at the Health Science Center Libraries, University of Florida–Gainesville. She leads a graphic medicine book club for the geriatric clerkship students and teaches courses to undergraduates on dying and women’s health using graphic medicine materials.
2:30 PM – 3:00 PM: Break
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM:
GraphicMedicine.org – MK Czerwiec and Matthew Noe
What began as a humble blog to accompany Dr. Ian Williams’ graduate work has grown over the years to become an internationally renowned resource for the burgeoning graphic medicine community. Join two of the site’s editors, MK Czerwiec and Matthew Noe, for a dive into the site’s growth, what it can offer today, and where it could go in the future.
MK Czerwiec is a nurse, cartoonist, and educator. She is the creator of the graphic memoir Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371, editor of the two-time Eisner Award winning Menopause: A Comic Treatment, and a co-author of Graphic Medicine Manifesto. MK regularly teaches graphic medicine at the University of Chicago and Northwestern Medical School. See more of her work at www.comicnurse.com.
Matthew Noe (he/his) is Lead Collection & Knowledge Management Librarian at Harvard Medical School and a Part-Time Instructor in Library Science at the University of Kentucky. Most well-known for mixing comics and health sciences librarianship, Matthew serves on several professional organization boards, as well as on the Worcester Public Library Board of Directors. He is an author on several book chapters, a scoping review on graphic medicine, and is a regular contributor to Diamond Bookshelf and Booklist. Find him most easily on Twitter, @NoetheMatt.
4:00 PM – 4:00 PM:
Wrap Up and Final Details for Friday – Sarah Lawler, MSLIS
FRIDAY, JUNE 9
9:15 – 9:30 AM:
Welcome – Sarah Lawler, MSLIS
9:30 AM – 10:30 AM: Graphic Health Literacy: Expanding the Graphic Medicine Canon – Soha Bayoumi

Graphic Medicine is defined as the intersection of the discourse of healthcare and the medium of comics. As a field, Graphic Medicine has been praised for facilitating a better understanding of patients’ experiences with illness and enabling more empathy between healthcare providers and recipients. This talk explores the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has invited us to expand our understanding of the field of Graphic Medicine and argues that health literacy needs to go beyond the clinical to encompass the social and political dimensions of health and illness.
Soha Bayoumi is a Senior Lecturer in the Medicine, Science, and the Humanities Program at the Johns Hopkins University’s Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Her work focuses on the medical humanities, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Critical Visual Science Studies, and the medicine-politics nexus. She is working on two book projects, one (with Sherine Hamdy) on doctors’ roles in the Egyptian uprising of 2011 and its aftermath and the other on doctors’ social and political roles in relation to health and justice in postcolonial Egypt. She is the editor of the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and associate editor of the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies.
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM: Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Book Talk: Graphic Public Health: A Comics Anthology and Road Map – Meredith Li-Vollmer
All registrants will receive a copy of the book (Physical materials will not be mailed Internationally)
Book Description
As we confront the challenges of emerging diseases, environmental health threats, and gaps in health equity, medical professionals need versatile communication tools that help people make informed decisions and engage them in constructive conversations about the health of their communities. This book illuminates the power of comics to meet that need.
Graphic Public Health demonstrates the range and potential of comics to address topics such as immunization promotion, outbreak prevention, gun violence, opioid addiction prevention, and climate change. It features the work of acclaimed cartoonists Ellen Forney, David Lasky, and Roberta Gregory, pieces by up-and-coming artists, and comics that Meredith Li-Vollmer produced as a communications specialist for Seattle’s public health department. More than a collection of cartoons, this book connects comics with fundamentals of health communication and discusses why the form can be uniquely effective for these purposes. Each chapter focuses on the use of graphic public health in the context of four specific goals: health literacy, risk communication, health promotion, and advocacy. Li-Vollmer also includes guidance for practitioners getting started in creating comics for any form of public information, and especially for public health.
Practical and purposeful, Graphic Public Health is a clarion call for the current era and an invaluable resource for public health professionals and advocates, scholars of comics and graphic studies, and fans of the graphic medicine genre.
Meredith Li-Vollmer is a communications manager at Public Health – Seattle & King County and author of Graphic Public Health: A Comics Anthology and Roadmap. In her role at the health department, she has collaborated on comics with many indie comics artists since 2008. Her own comics have been published in The Stranger, Illustrated PEN, and the American Journal of Public Health. Meredith is a board member for the Short Run Comix and Arts Festival, a public health liaison for the nonprofit Graphic Medicine, and a clinical assistant professor in Health Services at the University of Washington School of Public Health. She received a doctorate in communications from the University of Washington.
12:00 PM – 12:15 PM:
Wrap Up and Final Housekeeping Items – Sarah Lawler, MSLIS
If you have any questions or concerns please contact Olivia Tsistinas or Sarah Lawler

Lunchtime Lecture: Just a Painting of a Man and a Horse
2023-05-25 12:00 - 13:00 | Erie Canal Museum, 318 Erie Boulevard East, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
Join Erie Canal Museum Director of Education & Public Programming Derrick Pratt in exploring what he at first thought was just a fairly normal painting of man leading a team of horses pulling a canal boat that instead revealed an intriguing tale of political corruption and the waning days of the towpath era canal.
Available in person and via Zoom. Registrants will receive a recording of the talk. Register at: https://eriecanalmuseum.org/event/lunchtime-lecture-just-a-painting-of-a-man-and-some-horses/

Library Security and Privacy 101 or Is There Really Any Privacy?
2023-05-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Event Description:
This is a starter session for librarians and librarian-adjacent staff (that means everyone who works in a library) who want to know more about personal and patron privacy and information security.
This class is designed for a cybersecurity and privacy beginner who fills any role in your library.
The workshop will explain and show you:
* How do you explain to your customers (and your fellow staff) the importance of information vigilance and the power of skepticism?
* Is there a difference between information privacy and data security?
* Practical (and easyish) first steps to managing personal privacy and data security.
* Why it is important to have a cybersecurity plan.
In the security and privacy journey of a thousand steps, this class will get you (and your library) moving in the right direction.
About the presenter:
Maurice Coleman [he/him/his] is the Principal of Coleman & Associates. As a trainer, coach, and keynote speaker, Maurice helps organizations improve their human processes and use of technology, expand their internal/external communications, and broaden their focus and implementation of EDI activities.
He has facilitated experiences for organizations such as Lyrasis, the American Library Association, Texas Library Association, WebJunciton, Library 2.0, the San Antonio Public Library, Urban Librarians Unite, the Library of Virginia, and PCI Webinars.
Since 2008, he has hosted and produced the long-running (and oldest) training/education and empowerment podcast T is for Training and is the Technical Trainer at a county library system located in Maryland. He was named a Library Journal Mover and Shaker in 2010.
REGISTER HERE

Library Assistants and Support Staff - LA SIG
2023-05-16 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 the May get-together. Ben Hogben from Ithaca College will be speaking on working with volunteers and student workers.
REGISTER HERE
Contact Anna Dobkowski with any questions.

SIG: Academic Librarians
2023-05-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
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.
At the May meet-up, we’ll have a presentation on the pros and cons of Chat GPT’s impact on information literacy and pedagogy.
FYI…ALA is hosting a webinar on May 17
Using ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence
The cost is $71.10 for members/$79.00 for non-members.
This will be the last AL SIG meeting of the academic year. Hope to see you in the fall.
Note: The group is looking for a SIG Chair for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Contact Ryan Perry with any questions.
