LibraryWorks Webinar: Bully-Proofing Your Library
2022-03-17 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online via LibraryWorks, NY, United States
CLRC is offering up to 20 seats at the upcoming LibraryWorks webinar, Bully-Proofing Your Library.
Whether you call it bullying, harassing, intimidating, stalking, threatening, tormenting, browbeating, needling, or pushing people around, commonsense calls it bad behavior. What steps need to be taken during your library’s employment cycle and regarding the culture of your library to prevent bullying behavior? To address incidents with staff and library users, particularly young people? If managers and leaders don’t step up in a timely fashion, it’s easy for library personnel to think that the higher ups are intimidated, or, at worse, support bad behaviors.
Topics include establishing enforceable policies that focus on addressing behaviors in a timely fashion, norms for evaluation, preparing for pushback, the “reasonable” test, the role of supervisors and managers, codes of ethics, conflicting cultures regarding workplace and customer behavior, hiring for emotional maturity, and ensuring everyone is subject to the same guidelines and consequences.
Agenda

Introduction: What is Bullying…And Other Forms Of Bad Workplace Behavior?
The Key Idea: Make Your Library Safe From Bad Behavior
Don’t Get Sucked In: The Conflict Triangle
Fix the Foundations: Employment Policies
Start Off Right: Recruitment and Probation
Prevention: Employee and Supervisor Education
When Mistakes are Made: Setting Consequences

Outcomes

Create a workplace culture that discourages bullying and harassment.
Review and strengthen orientation of new employees regarding unacceptable behaviors.
Establish ethical, legal, and respectful ways to deal with workplace mistakes.
Provide a bully-free space for young people.

Presenter: Pat Wagner has been a trainer and consultant for libraries for over 40 years. She focuses on personnel, management, and leadership issues, including marketing, project management, and tech services productivity.
Registration closes on March 15 at 5 p.m. You will be sent a link to the webinar within 24 hours of the start time.

WNYLRC Webinar: Robert's Rules of Order - Meetings From Agendas to Adjournment
2022-03-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Welcome to another edition covering Robert’s Rules of Order and Parliamentary Procedure! This session will go in depth on correct procedures for agendas, order of business, minutes, reports, and any general questions you may have. Many professional organizations, including WNYLRC, use Robert’s Rules and parliamentary procedure to conduct their meetings. It’s a flexible method that is adaptable for any type of meeting, and knowing the basics of parliamentary procedure can improve both participation and efficiency in your meetings. Bring your questions to be answered by a certified expert in parliamentary procedure.
About the Presenter:
Steven Anderson is a retired Air Force officer, high-school teacher, and since 2005, a credentialed working parliamentary consultant, helping individuals and organizations get the most out of their meetings time.

Webinar: Best Practices for Serving LGBTQ+ Patrons
2022-03-16 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Learn the latest pronouns, flags, vocabulary and laws within the LGBTQ+ community. Discover free resources to help you in your Alllyship and inclusive services beyond just PRIDE Month in June. Explore best practices from other industries to support your mission at your site. Come with questions, walk aways with answers on what it truly means to serve the LGBTQ+ population.
About the Presenter:
Lisa Koenecke is an award winning author of “Be an Inclusion Ally: ABCs of LGBTQ+.” She has presented at the ALA Conference in Chicago and knows the vital role your profession has on allowing the LGBTQ+ community to thrive. After 12 years as a middle and high school counselor, she is now a Counselor Educator at Lakeland University and also holds a Diversity & Inclusion Certificate from Cornell University. She has given a TEDx Talk and has presented in 45 states and globally.
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: Media Manipulation - Do You Know It When You See It?
2022-03-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Media manipulation is not new. However, in today’s 24/7 online world, media is relentlessly pervasive and invasive. Media manipulation is easy and provides income for practitioners. It can create misinformation that can harm and mislead. Awareness of media manipulation tactics has a critical role in our lives. Learn some basic clues to look for to identify media manipulation. Knowledge is power.
PRESENTER: Joanna Burkhardt is a faculty librarian at the University of Rhode Island. She has taught, presented and written about Information Literacy for more than 25 years. Her forthcoming book focuses on media manipulation.

Library Assistants and Support Staff - LA SIG
2022-03-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Third Tuesdays at 2:00 pm
CLRC offers a communication network among our region’s Library Assistants, Paraprofessionals and Support Staff through a Special Interest Group (LA SIG).
Our interests include:
* recognizing all library support staff employed in CLRC member libraries
* furthering the professional development & job enrichment of support staff
* enhancing the professional image of support staff within the library community
Join us on Zoom for our March get-together.
This month’s topic will be App Sharing.
REGISTER HERE
Contact Anna Dobkowski with any questions.

LILRC Webinar: Accessibility and Hidden Disabilities
2022-03-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
If someone uses a wheelchair, or is visually impaired, it can be easier to understand the difficulties they might face and to support them. For those individuals with hidden disabilities, it’s often a different story. People might not spot the challenges they are experiencing and may find it hard to comprehend or believe someone with a “hidden” impairment genuinely needs help.
Learn about some of the hidden disabilities you may encounter during your events, including Long COVID. You will be offered strategies that you can employ to ensure you are providing an inclusive program with suitable accommodations for all your audience members.
Presenter
Laura Jean Checki is the President and Director of Disability Programming at Interstellar Inspirations, LLC. She is a Science Education and Public Outreach Specialist and an effective Motivational Speaker. Laura is currently an Environmental Specialist of Educational Programs for the Department of Health for the County of Bergen. She is an avid volunteer and focuses her volunteer efforts on NASA, the American Museum of Natural History, mentoring students, accommodating those with disabilities, supporting veterans, transporting and rescuing wildlife, and exposing the wonders of science to everyone she meets.

METRO Webinar: Abolitionist Futures - A PLSN Discussion Group (March Edition)
2022-03-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Want to learn more about prison abolition? Looking to explore the role of information in the prison industrial complex? Excited to discuss ways we can collectively offer resources to address violence caused by mass incarceration? Join the club (literally!). This monthly discussion group with Prison Library Support Network will look at a rotating calendar of media resources for discussion, meeting the 2nd Monday of each month at 7:30pm.
While the group’s facilitators (and host) are affiliated with libraries, you do not need to be a librarian or information professional to attend this group. We will share our discussion calendar regularly through METRO and the PLSN listserv, so that folks can plan ahead to attend the months that sound interesting to them.
Join us this month for a discussion on the realities of motherhood and pregnancy while incarcerated.
– Digitized issue of Tenacious Zine #5 Mothers Day issue: https://azinelibrary.org/trash/tenacious.pdf
– Excerpt from Tenacious Issue 27: https://issuu.com/poczineproject/docs/tenacious_excerpt_27_2012
– Tutwiler: A Marshall Project/Frontline documentary (30 minutes, video): https://www.themarshallproject.org/2020/05/06/the-separation
– The Realities of Pregnancy and Mothering While Incarcerated (PDF article – recommended): http://jaapl.org/content/early/2020/05/13/JAAPL.003924-20
Optional:
– Pregnant Behind Bars: What We Do and Don’t Know About Pregnancy and Incarceration, NPR Radio Interview (4 minutes, audio): https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/03/21/705587775/pregnant-behind-bars-what-we-do-and-dont-know-about-pregnancy-and-incarceration
– Mothers leaving prison try reconnecting with family (7 minutes, video): https://www.pbs.org/video/searching-for-justice-1611791934/

RRLC Webinar: Cataloging and Processing ABC's
2022-03-10 14:30 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
New to cataloging and processing, or looking to brush up your skills? This webinar will teach library staff the basics of cataloging and processing books, such as creating specs on file. Specs on file (AKA vendor specification cataloging requirements) are required by each book vendor. There is no need to fill out a new form for each vendor if you have your own ready to send. Participants will be walked through the steps to create their own and gain an understanding of the importance of each choice. We will also discuss importing records (using Follett Destiny) and how to add additional resources to records to enhance student engagement.
Presenter: Melissa Frost, Rochester City School District
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 not be recorded.
If you have any questions, please contact Tina Broomfield at cbroomfield@rrlc.org

SIG: Academic Librarians
2022-03-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Campus conversations and library luck in March. Join us for the CLRC Academic Librarians Special Interest Group meeting via Zoom.
All academic librarians are welcome in this group to discuss research, department liaison roles, grants, collection development, and other topics related to the areas and responsibilities in academic libraries.
REGISTER HERE

Contact Kathleen Salsbury with any questions.

Webinar: Digital Navigators Training
2022-03-09 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Digital technology is a conduit to many critical services (such as health, financial, and residential support systems), but not all people are able to use it. To ensure digital technology is a path rather than a barrier to service, CLRC is developing a Digital Navigator program to connect library users to assistance from library staff. In this workshop participants (library employees) will be trained to be Digital Navigators so that they may provide digital technology assistance with due attention to legal compliance, privacy/confidentiality, and data security. In this session Attorney Stephanie “Cole” Adams will engage participants in a hands-on training where they will gain the knowledge and skills they need in order to offer and handle requests for digital technology assistance to library users, in a way that minimizes risks for all parties and promotes optimal encounters for this type of service.
About the Presenter:
Stephanie A. Adams, Esq. (Nickname: Cole), is an attorney practicing from her own law office in Buffalo, NY. Adams chose a career in the law so she could focus her professional life on the law’s impact on creativity and communication. She has also worked as a print and broadcast journalist. Adams’s extensive writing on legal issues facing today’s libraries, including issues impacting the freedom to read, can be seen regularly on the “Ask the Lawyer” service hosted by the Western New York Library Resources Council.
Adams’s focus on speech-related legal issues started with her final project at her alma mater, Hampshire College in Massachusetts. While completing her B.A., Adams also had an internship at the Northampton-based Comic Book Legal Defense Fund in 1996, an experience she would reprise while working on her J.D. the summer of ’98. She was a page during high school at the New Hartford Town Library, worked in the Hampshire College library transcribing archives, and worked in the library at her law school.
Prior to working at the firm she founded in 2017, Adams spent over 10 years serving as an in-house counsel at Niagara University, where her work demanded consideration of not-for-profit, risk management, student, and labor law issues, along with deep respect for academic freedom. At the University, she also worked on ADA issues, including adaptive technology, universal design, and accommodations requests. Prior to that, (as “Stephanie Cole”) she was a partner in the firm of Bloom, Cole, & Shonn, LLP.
For more information on Adams’ experience, visit the website for The Law Office of Stephanie Adams (LOSA), PLLC.
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 Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

LILRC Webinar: The Future of Serials Publishing - An Update
2022-03-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The LILRC Resource Sharing and Management Committee invites you to attend its 8th Annual Technical Services Open Forum. The 2022 forum will explore the impact of the pandemic on the serials publishing industry with presentations by Deb Knox, Director of Federal Sales, Cox Subscriptions, Inc. and by Bowen Thagard, Senior Vice President of Operations & Finance, Americas, Ebsco. Topics addressed will include shifts in the information marketplace, changes in formats and publication frequency, the impact of the pandemic on small publications, troubleshooting claims, changes in collection sizes and formats, and pricing trends (freezes and increases).

LILRC Webinar: Growing Healthy Passions at Your Library
2022-03-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This program will cover the bases on how to start a garden and create garden centered programming that engages the young people in your community.
Presenters:
Syntychia Kendrick-Samuels
A 2016 Library Journal Mover & Shaker, Ms. Kendrick-Samuel has had considerable success working for the people of Uniondale by creating a dynamic teen department, has won numerous grants, awards and presented at local, city, state and national conferences. Notable library journals have published her articles about her experiences as a Teen Librarian. She expanded her role at Uniondale Public Library in the Spring of 2021 when she was promoted to Assistant Director.
Christina Hirsch, Head of the Children’s Department at Uniondale Public Library.
My Name is Chrissy Hirsch. I am a children’s librarian and a nature lover. I grew up in Rosedale Queens for most of my childhood. My Grandma and Grandpa had a small container stoop garden in Queens and would grow zucchini, tomatoes and peppers. They used to fry the zucchini flowers for us to eat as treats. We moved to Long Island and I started my own garden in my early teenage years.
I love when I see families come together in our library garden and relive their childhood memories of their family gardens.
We hope to grow and learn with the community and become a family garden together.
Tamelee Young, Children’s Librarian – Uniondale Public Library.
My name is Tamelee Young. I am a children’s librarian and a garden enthusiast. I grew up here on Long Island and my parents always had a garden. I want to share and learn new ideas with the community. We can learn so much from each other. Gardening is universal. My favorite part of gardening is, watching a seed grow.

Onondaga Historical Association Event: A Pocketful of Progress Exhibit Opening
2022-03-03 17:30 - 19:30 | Onondaga Historical Museum, 321 Montgomery Street, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
We’re launching a new exhibit, A Pocketful of Progress: A Retrospective Look at the Machines Found in our Smartphones! This new exhibition opens on Thursday, March 3rd at 5:30. Come join us downtown at the Onondaga Historical Museum to explore this fascinating new display of machines from the past 150 years which performed functions that, today, can be done on a smartphone. The impressive array of machines, many which originated right here in Syracuse, offer a stark juxtaposition to the incredible technological tool you carry every day in your purse or in your pocket.
Up for a double feature? The A Pocketful of Progress exhibit opening is taking place just after a book talk the same evening. Author M.C. Antil will be discussing his book, Floor Burns: Love, Passion and the 1967 Syracuse All-City Championship. This work is a non-fiction account of a high school championship basketball game, and “love letter” to our city.
The is a free event! Please RSVP to ohamuseum@cnyhistory.org if you will be coming to one or both of these events! For the safety of all our staff and patrons, you must show proof of vaccination in order to attend.

Onondaga Historical Museum Event: “Floor Burns” Book Talk with Author M.C. Antil
2022-03-03 16:30 - 18:30 | Onondaga Historical Museum, 321 Montgomery Street, Syracuse, NY, 13202, United States
Join OHA as we welcome M.C. Antil, author of Floor Burns: Love, Passion and the 1967 Syracuse All-City Championship. The book has been described as “a sprawling, affectionate…portrait of a city being transformed by the 1960s, the people who lived there, and the game they loved”. This work is a non-fiction account of a high school championship basketball game.
Floor Burns is a basketball story, to be sure. But it is also a “virtual love letter” to Syracuse, the story of a small working-class city, its people, and the turbulent times they shared.
Come to the Onondaga Historical Museum on March 3rd to listen to M.C. Antil’s book talk and learn about the story of the 1967 Syracuse All-City Championship. The event, from 4:30 to 6:30, includes an author presentation, refreshments, and the chance to browse our Gift Gallery. Of course, we’ll also have plenty of copies of Floor Burns ready for the author to sign!
Want more history? Enjoy the second half of this double feature, the gallery opening of our new exhibit, A Pocketful of Progress: A Retrospective Look at the Machines Found in our Smartphones! The gallery opening will take place at the museum directly after the book talk, and celebrates this new, technology-focused exhibit. A Pocketful of Progress demonstrates the advancements we’ve made in technology in the past 150 years. It showcases a wide range of machines – many of which were built right here in Syracuse – that have been necessary to complete the myriad tasks now done on our smartphones.
The is a free event! Please RSVP to ohamuseum@cnyhistory.org if you will be coming to one or both of these events! For the safety of all our staff and patrons, you must show proof of vaccination in order to attend.

ESLN Webinar: Introduction to the Affordable Connectivity Program
2022-03-03 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In this session, you will learn how the ACP works so that you can encourage and assist your patrons to enroll in the program.
The Affordable Connectivity Program is an FCC benefit program that helps ensure that households can afford the broadband they need for work, school, healthcare and more.
The benefit provides a discount of up to $30 per month toward internet service for eligible households and up to $75 per month for households on qualifying Tribal lands. Eligible households can also receive a one-time discount of up to $100 to purchase a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet from participating providers if they contribute more than $10 and less than $50 toward the purchase price.
The Affordable Connectivity Program is limited to one monthly service discount and one device discount per household. For more information, visit https://www.fcc.gov/acp
This webinar will be recorded and shared with registrants only with the permission of the presenter.

CDLC Webinar: Sustainability in Collections Care
2022-03-01 09:30 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
All are welcome to join this discussion via Zoom with University at Albany Preservation Librarians, Ann Kearney, Karen Kiorpes, and their colleague Bridget Collins, Dewey Graduate Library.
Learn the basic concepts of sustainability when caring for collections in libraries, archives, museums, and historical societies. We will focus on practical, doable affordable actions that can save money and reduce climate impacts.
We will also spend a few minutes discussing what preservation-related topics you would like the group to discuss at upcoming meetings, so this is your chance to provide your suggestions!
This session will NOT be recorded, but notes will be posted on the LibGuide after the event.

NNYLN Webinar: Academic Library Student Employee Management
2022-02-28 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Student employees provide invaluable support in academic libraries but it takes time to show them the ropes. Some training and management techniques have been successful and some have not. We all learn from our mistakes right alongside our students and delight in their victories as they grasp new material. Join us as we explore topics regarding student management and training challenges.
Topics include:

Training games and modules
Multimodal learning
Effective student management
Successes/Failures
Future plans for student management

There will be time for Q&A. You may also submit questions ahead of time using this form: https://forms.gle/U5sMjpecXHSRtQmU6

LILRC Webinar: Archival Arrangements for Beginners
2022-02-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Why do archivists insist that collections not be broken up and stored chronologically or by subject or type? What are the basic principles of provenance and original order? This workshop will explain why archivists process through incoming donations and existing collections by group, series, subseries, file and item. If you are new to archival arrangement or simply curious, this introduction will help explain the thinking behind the work involved.

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

LILRC Webinar: Coffee+Conversation: Social Media Librarians Virtual Meetup
2022-02-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join your fellow social media librarians for our next virtual meet up. We will have an open conversation about new and ongoing challenges. All are welcome!
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This program will not be recorded

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

RRLC Webinar: New and Upcoming Kids Books
2022-02-17 16:30 - 17:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Hundreds of new books are published every month. But who has the time to read so many books?
In the form of book talks, Charlie Kelly will highlight new and upcoming culturally relevant kids books which include picture books, chapter books, novels, graphic novels, poetry, biography, and nonfiction titles. Ms. Kelly has attended webinars by School Library Journal, American Library Association, BookList, and numerous book publishers focusing on culturally relevant books. She also visits bookstores, public libraries and reads Advance Readers Copies from publishers. To be classified as culturally relevant, a piece of literature needs be authentic, realistic, and uphold a culturally conscious ideology and message. Culturally relevant books mirror different aspects of identity (e.g. race, setting, beliefs, cultures) so students/patrons can imagine themselves in the story. By having culturally relevant books in libraries, students/patrons can choose books where they see themselves in the books. The books will also help the students/patrons expand their understanding of others in this multicultural world.
In this webinar, attendees will learn about new and upcoming books their students or patrons might be interested in reading! This workshop will connect librarians to culturally relevant books for their library and have the resources for future library purchase orders. Attendees will also have time to ask questions about the books discussed.
Presenter: Charlie Kelly, Teacher Librarian, Dr. Walter Cooper Academy (Rochester City School District)
This webinar will not be recorded. Live transcription will be available.
We are committed to offering inclusive, diverse, and equitable services to all of our members. To request specific accommodations, please contact rrlc@rrlc.org at least five business days ahead of the program you’d like accommodations for.
If you have any questions, please contact Tina Broomfield at cbroomfield@rrlc.org

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

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

Library Assistants and Support Staff - LA SIG
2022-02-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Third Tuesdays at 2:00 pm
CLRC offers a communication network among our region’s Library Assistants, Paraprofessionals and Support Staff through a Special Interest Group (LA SIG).
Our interests include:
* recognizing all library support staff employed in CLRC member libraries
* furthering the professional development & job enrichment of support staff
* enhancing the professional image of support staff within the library community
Join us on Zoom for our February get-together.
This month’s topic will be Advocacy: Elevator Speeches.
REGISTER HERE
Contact Anna Dobkowski with any questions.

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