CLRC

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for 1.5 contact hours.**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All Attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This event is free!

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

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

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

CDLC Webinar: Grant Writing 101 - How to Write a Winning Grant
2024-03-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This workshop is designed for those who are relatively new to the world of grant writing or who have experience but want to brush up on their grant writing and submission skills. In this course, you will learn what makes a successful grant application. Successful grant writing is both a science and an art. The presenter, grant writing and management consultant Dr. Séan Philpott-Jones, will take workshop participants through each step of the grant writing process— from finding grants to prepping materials, writing budgets, and how to tailor an application to what the funders are looking for.
About the Presenter: Dr. Philpott-Jones has over twenty years of writing, securing, and administering over $140 million in publicly- and privately-funded projects. Most recently, he was the Vice President for Government Relations and Grants Management at Hudson Headwaters Health Network, a Federally Qualified Community Health Center (FQHC) serving the Adirondack and North Country regions of Upstate New York. During his four-year tenure there, he obtained nearly $48 million in federal and state grants to support Hudson Headwater’s mission to provide comprehensive primary care services and select specialty services to over 110,000 medically underserved New Yorkers, regardless of income, insurance, or ability to pay.

Webinar: Universal & Trauma-Informed Design
2024-03-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
The presentation provides basic level introduction to the concepts of universal and trauma-informed design for those with little or no prior knowledge of the concept. The presentation includes:

IDEA Center
Differences between Universal Design and Accessibility
The 8 Goals of Universal Design

Purpose and benefits of Universal Design
Beneficiaries of Universal Design

Defining Trauma-Informed Design

Purpose and benefits of Trauma-Informed Design
Beneficiaries of Universal Trauma-Informed Design

Examples of Trauma-Informed Design
Resources to implementation
Q&A

Presenter Bio:
Krista Macy, Assoc. AIA is an Architectural Design Research Associate at the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access with experience in design for accessibility, sustainable and universal design. She is engaged in diverse research projects intended to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse population. Her recent activities include designing home modifications, providing universal design consultation services and conducting accessibility and universal design assessments for industry partners.
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.

Webinar: Trauma and Censorship in the Library
2024-03-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
The rise of censorship attempts in libraries impacts more than just the patrons. Librarians are at the forefront and can experience trauma at all levels of the censorship battle. In this webinar, we’ll cover:

What is censorship? Definitions, types, challenges, and examples
What is trauma?
When censorship meets trauma – introducing the ULU library trauma cycle and additions in the book challenges context.
Open the floor up to idea sharing, experience sharing, and Q&A

About the Presenters:
Jieun Yeon is a Ph.D. candidate at Syracuse University School of Information Studies (iSchool). She is interested in studying public library governance, which refers to decentralized modes of governing to solve social problems through decision-making, agenda-setting, policy-making, implementation of policy, and other activities. She is currently focusing on controversies over material challenges in U.S. public libraries to understand power dynamics among participants of public library governance. She holds an M.A. in Library and Information Science from Yonsei University, South Korea. She worked as a reference librarian at Seoul National University Library before joining the doctoral program.
Leah T Dudak is a former librarian and current Ph.D. student at Syracuse University’s Information School. Dudak’s research looks at public libraries and the trauma that library staff encounter giving attention to supporting library workers, systemic issues contributing to trauma, trauma-informed care, and librarianship. She also pays attention to the embodied and gendered experience of library work. For methods, Dudak pulls on feminist qualitative methods, adding in art as method and knowledge making. She views her work situated in feminist, disability, and artistic lenses. She holds an MLIS from the University of Illinois.
Live captioning will be provided.
This first portion of this webinar will be recorded, and a recording will be shared with all registrants afterward. The Q&A will not be recorded.

**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: Best Selling Mystery Author Sara Paretsky
2024-03-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join LILRC when we welcome bestselling author Sara Paretsky to discuss her upcoming book, Pay Dirt A V.I. Warshawski Novel (William Morrow, April 2024). LILRC Members who attend are eligible to win door prize copies of the book!
Hailed by the Washington Post as “the definition of perfection in the genre,” Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including the renowned V.I. Warshawski series. She is one of only four living writers to have received both the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain. She lives in Chicago.”
HarperCollins
About Pay Dirt
“V.I. Warshawski is famous for her cool under fire, her sardonic humor, and her unflinching courage. All that changed when a case ended with a father killing the child she’d been hired to find. She’s second-guessing herself, forgetting to eat, forgetting her workout.
Her worried friends send her down to Kansas for a weekend of college basketball; Angela, one of her protegées, is a Northwestern star. And that’s when her troubles really begin.
One of Angela’s roommates disappears and V.I. agrees to stay behind to try to find her. Finding a missing person in a town where she doesn’t know anyone and has no snitches among the area’s lowlife is hard enough, but her search propels V.I. headlong into local land-use battles whose roots go back to the aftermath of the Civil War.
Today’s combatants are just as willing as the Reconstruction opponents of the 1860’s to kill to settle their differences. V.I.’s survival depends on keeping one step ahead of players in a game she doesn’t even know she’s playing.”
https://saraparetsky.com/biography/
Code of Conduct
For questions, please email Eliscia Cirrone, ecirrone@lilrc.org.
Professional Development Hours: 1 (0.1 CEUs)
The program will be recorded.

SCRLC Webinar: Lunch & Learn - Graphic Medicine: Engaging Communities in Health Literacy
2024-03-13 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
As an introduction to graphic medicine, graphic novels and comics with a health, wellness or disease theme, with an emphasis on graphic medicine and health literacy and community engagement, this webinar is a chance to discuss what graphic medicine is, what resources and titles are available, and how libraries are using graphic medicine to support health literacy for providers, patients, families and their communities.
Graphic Medicine is a wide-ranging category that includes graphic memoirs, graphic non-fiction, and fiction for all age groups including adults, teens, and children. Graphic medicine works often address stigmatized or misunderstood health conditions, as well as the health implications of racism, homophobia, and transphobia. Libraries have used graphic medicine to reduce feelings of isolation by helping community members feel seen while also introducing new health topics to a wider audience.

NNYLN Webinar: Loida Garcia-Febo on the Freedom the Read in 2024
2024-03-08 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This presentation will address real library anxieties of book banning. We will learn from national and international examples from libraries that effectively managed the uncertainty of self and imposed censorship with practical policies. Library workers attending will leave with renewed support and skills to ensure free access to information and freedom of expression of our patrons.
The Freedom to Read in 2024 recognizes the importance of intellectual freedom and the fight for equality of access to information. This talk will cover:

A bird’s eye view of intellectual freedom and censorship today.
Practical Matters: Self-censorship, Funding, Policies, Workplace dynamics
Q & A

In this session you’ll learn more about how the challenge climate has changed, and how to navigate this new environment which includes mass challenges, First Amendment audits, and concerted efforts to denigrate the profession and defund libraries.
Loida Garcia-Febo is an International Library Consultant expert in library services to diverse populations and human rights. Worldwide known for her passion about diversity, communities, sustainability, innovation and digital transformation, library workers, library advocacy, wellness, and new librarians about which she has taught in 45 countries.

For privacy, this session will not be recorded.

ESLN Webinar: Know the Path, Avoid the Pitfalls - Arranging Contracts for E-Resources
2024-03-07 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
From considerations of artificial intelligence, to non-disclosure (“NDA”), to mergers of academic institutions, contracts for e-resources are some of the most complex agreements contracts libraries have to negotiate. This sixty-minute session will review the essential elements and hidden risks of contracts for e-resources. Written materials will include sample RFP language, an assessment checklist, and sample contract language.
This session will cover:
• A review of institutional priorities for e-resource contracts (including ethics, safety, privacy, service stability, balance of liability, assignment, budget contingencies, communications, breach/disruption response, confidentiality, and intellectual property)
• How to assess and inventory your institution’s priorities for particular e-resource contracts
• How to develop RFP’s for e-resources that turn priorities into procurement criteria
• How to assess if vendor proposals meet stated criteria
• How to ensure criteria are confirmed in final contracts
Who should attend: anyone who is responsible for the purchase of e-content including procurement officers, directors, and library media specialists from library systems, academic libraries, public libraries and school libraries. The session will consider the perspectives of institutions bound by state procurement requirements, as well as those with fewer constraints and resources.

SCRLC Webinar: Eclipse Soundtrack & Dark Skies
2024-03-04 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The Eclipse Soundscapes Project is a NASA Science Activation-funded project focused on the following science question: How does life on Earth, specifically wildlife, respond to eclipses? Participants will document changes in animal behavior and sounds during the eclipse. There are multiple ways to participate and earn certificates: learn, observe, collect data, and analyze data.
Then we will hear from a longtime member and Area Director of Dark Skies International, which works to restore the nighttime environment and protects communities from the harmful effects of light pollution through outreach, advocacy, and conservation. Dark skies are also a key to enjoying the eclipse.
All library staff and science educators are welcome and CTLE certificates are available.

This program is part of SCRLC’s Moon Mondays: Get Ready for the Great 2024 Total Eclipse, which is supported in part by the American Astronomical Society’s Jay M. Pasachoff Solar Eclipse Mini-Grants Program.

ESLN Webinar: Homeschoolers and the Public Library
2024-02-29 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
According to the US Department of Education, the homeschool population has doubled from one to two million in the last decade. For most school districts in New York State, the number of households providing home instruction has more than doubled since the start of the pandemic (NYSED).
Is your library prepared to assist the growing homeschool community? Deanna McGregor, Homeschool Liaison Librarian at the Liverpool Public Library, will explain NYS’s laws and requirements for homeschool students and why families are choosing this route. Discover ways your library can support the multiple literacy needs of K-12 students following an individualized home instruction plan (IHIP) through your collections, programs, and services.
We invite you to submit a question for the presenter – there will be a place to do that during the registration process. The deadline to submit questions is Feb. 22nd.
This webinar will be recorded and disseminated to all registrants, regardless of attendance. However, to receive a certificate of attendance, registrants must attend live and participate.
This session is sponsored by the Empire State Library Network. If you have any questions, contact Jenn Northup at jnorthup@wnylrc.org.

Webinar: Robert's Rules of Order Training
2024-02-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
This seminar will be a basic introduction to using Robert’s Rules of Order, a tool to improve participation and efficiency in meetings. We will also touch on refocusing Robert’s Rules for a virtual platform.
About the Presenter:
Steven Anderson is a retired Air Force officer and History teacher and a professional parliamentarian since 2006.
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

CDLC Webinar: Preservation Interest Group - Tools and Software for Digital Preservation
2024-02-27 09:30 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Please note: This program will NOT be recorded.
As your institution digitizes old photos or collects born digital materials, what software considerations should you make to ensure their longevity? Attendees will learn about software tools and systems that can aid in preserving digital assets over the long-term.
The program will begin with a presentation by Mark Wolfe, Curator of Digital Collections at the University at Albany, followed with time for questions and discussion.

SCLRC Webinar: Safe Solar Eclipse Viewing & Photography
2024-02-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Many of SCRLC’s 14 counties (and beyond) will experience a partial eclipse. How do you safely view a total or partial solar eclipse? What if you do not have eclipse glasses?
Join author, astronomy professor, and avid amateur astronomer Phil Harrington for this discussion. You will learn how to:

Be able to tell safe eclipse glasses from unsafe ( In the last solar total eclipse visible from the US on August 21, 2017, there were unsafe, counterfeit eclipse glasses sold)
Make pinhole viewers or even better, the Safe Solar Viewer (SSV) or Advanced SSV
Purchase and use solar filters with binoculars and/or telescopes (for those with this equipment)
Safely photograph the eclipse

This program is part of SCRLC’s Moon Mondays: Get Ready for the Great 2024 Total Eclipse, which is supported in part by the American Astronomical Society’s Jay M. Pasachoff Solar Eclipse Mini-Grants Program.

RRLC Webinar: Tackling Sex Ed and Menstrual Literacy in Libraries
2024-02-21 13:30 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In an era where library services promoting gender equality and social justice are under attack, it’s time to lean in rather than back away. In this new webinar, Rakisha Kearns-White will demonstrate how libraries can be places for menstrual literacy and advocacy and underscore the importance of providing unbiased and accurate access to sexuality education to tweens and teens!
Nearly half of the states in the U.S. have mandated sex education classes, but only 13 states require that sex education be medically accurate. In 2022, about 20.82 million women were living below the poverty line in the United States, and two-thirds of the low-income women in the US could not afford menstrual products in 2021. Nearly half of those women had to choose between menstrual products and food. The number of Americans living in poverty is rising and the current political climate is making it more difficult for young adults to access sex education relevant to them.
This event will show you how your library can contribute to closing the economic and political divide, one patron at a time!
Learning Objectives

Learn how libraries can help patrons and communities separate discussions of menstruation from sex/pregnancy
Gain an understanding what period poverty is and how it manifests
Learn how we can broaden the idea of sex education beyond biology
Examine what sex ed and menstrual literacy can look like in a library
Gain strategies for getting stakeholders on board

Presenter: Rakisha Kearns-White is a 2023 Library Journal Mover and Shaker; a 2022 recipient of the Brooklyn Public Library’s Dr. Lucille C. Thomas Excellence in Librarianship Award; and an 18+ year veteran as a YA Librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library. Rakisha has spoken about Menstrual Equity and Sex Ed in libraries at the New York Library Association, Metropolitan New York Council, Association of Children’s Librarians of Northern California, and Greenburgh Public Library’s 2022 FanCon. Rakisha has also presented at New York Comic Con in 2019 and 2023 and the Toronto Comic Arts Festival in 2022.

LILRC Webinar: Best Practices for Deconstructing Whiteness in the Academic Library - Antiracist Librarianship
2024-02-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Librarian Sam Berry-Sullivan provides an examination of how Whiteness and White supremacy culture have insinuated themselves into librarianship and academic libraries, and steps academic library staff can take to ameliorate it.
After graduating from the University at Albany with a Master of Science in Library and Information Science and a Master of Arts in English Literature, Sam Berry-Sullivan was hired as a part-time reference librarian for SUNY Adirondack Community College. While working part-time at ‘ACC’, Sam also enjoyed several stints as a Library Assistant at 5 of the 7 branches of Albany Public Library. An intense curiosity, love of learning and discourse, and desire to do more pushed Sam to apply for full time librarian positions at four-year institutions, ultimately earning their position as Reference Librarian and Coordinator for Health Sciences at Utica University. At Utica, Sam works with Health Sciences faculty and students to support their research and scholarship. Sam is an active member of the campus community, and, in line with their passion for social justice, works closely with the Division for Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Sam is in their second year of leading Utica University’s DEI Book Club.

NNYLN Webinar: AI & the Adirondacks - 2 part webinar series on how to create AI text + AI images to general speculative public history
2024-02-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This 2 part series addresses the interaction of human knowledge and “artificial intelligence” as generative and speculative tools in parsing the contours of our complex cultural heritage. Beginning with the textual speculation of large language models, writing tools for metaphor and syntax; and culminating in the visual speculation of local Adirondack public history, this series is designed to ask you to reframe the meaning human knowledge and the use of artificial intelligence.
2/5 10am – Poet and computer science scholar Dr. Katy Gero is a human-AI interaction researcher, with a focus on technology for impactful writing and understanding the limits and capabilities of large language models, whose work asks when and why writers turn to computers versus humans for support.
2/21 10am – Artist and programmer Doug Smith reimagines digital art and North Country tall tales using to AI to visualize Adirondack cultural heritage on the instagram account “ADK Legends.”
Both events will feature AI practitioners’ detailing their process and workflow in using generative technologies to speculate text or image, as well as time for Q&A to discuss content decisions and implications, application and audience, ethics and representation.

WNYLRC Webinar: New York History Primary Sources & More Through New York State Archives
2024-02-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The New York State Archives provides open access to digital collections of primary sources, lesson plans, document-based learning activities, and more to assist educators, students, genealogists, and researchers in uncovering the many facets of New York State history. Their virtual collections embody a wide range of stories of New York, from colonial to contemporary (1630 to the present), and Consider the Source New York helps educators use primary sources for student learning. Get ready to start creating or updating your lesson activities, browse the many online collections, or submit an article to the New York Archives magazine!
This session will provide attendees with an overview of how to navigate and locate the many resources available through the New York State Archives that enable people everywhere, especially educators and students, to uncover and connect to the people, events, and places that have made New York State what it is today.
This event is open to all Empire State Library Network members and will be recorded. The recording will be distributed to all registrants regardless of attendance. However, registrants must attend live to receive a certificate. CTLE credit is available upon request.

WNYLRC Webinar: Repatriating the Red Jacket Peace Medal and Cultivating Museum Partnerships
2024-02-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join Melissa Brown, Executive Director of The Buffalo History Museum, and Dr. Joe Stahlman, Director of the Seneca Nation Tribal Historic Preservation Office, for a discussion centered on the relationship between the one regional Indigenous community and the Buffalo History Museum. Executive Director Brown and Dr. Stahlman share their story and some of the complexities behind the Red Jacket Peace Medal, which was repatriated back in 2021. Together, they share this unique history and discuss how this one moment opened a set of doors that has allowed the WNY Indigenous arts and culture community to interact with the Buffalo History Museum, which has broadened how and the ways that we share our collective regional stories.
This webinar will be recorded and disseminated to all registrants, regardless of attendance. However, to receive a certificate of attendance, registrants must attend live and participate.
This webinar is provided at no cost to WNYLRC and ESLN members. Registration is required.
About the Presenters:
Dr. Joe Stahlman is the Director of Seneca Nation’s Tribal Historic Preservation Office. Joe is a scholar and researcher of Tuscarora descent. He has over 30 years of research experience working with First Peoples and allies. His research focuses on culture and history, as well as ongoing socio-economic and health & wellness related endeavors with Native communities. He takes an active role in addressing the spaces Native peoples occupy in North American museums, arts, archaeology, cultural resource management, and scholarship. Regularly, Joe talks on the need to promote equity, equality, and justice among all peoples in North American society through processes which are inclusive for all and empowers people to express agency through creative and intellectual endeavors.
Melissa Brown, Executive Director of The Buffalo History Museum, is an entrepreneurial leader seizing her passion for and expertise in material culture to create emotional connections. From collections storage to front-of-house, Melissa has served in many roles always maximizing the social network and energy the collection creates. Her 25-years of service at the Museum has strengthened her mindfulness of the presence of the past. This connection shapes the Museum’s guiding purpose- that history is a journey we take together, an act of exploration and information that helps us define our values and shape our future course.
