CLRC

CDLC Webinar: Does Generative AI Infringe Copyright?
2024-04-09 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | 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.

LILRC Webinar: Shelf Help - The Librarian's Guide to Bibliotherapy
2024-02-15 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Whether we recognize it or not, librarians often become “accidental bibliotherapists” when providing book recommendations and readers’ advisory or running book discussions, either in person or online. You are invited to explore avenues turning a library collection into an infinite supply of resources to inspire users and harness the power of reading and reflecting.
Based on the recently published The Librarian’s Guide to Bibliotherapy co-authored by librarian Judit H. Ward and English literature professor Nicholas Allred, this presentation will help librarians understand bibliotherapy––the practice of guided reading for therapeutic purposes––and how they can facilitate it in their libraries. Although not licensed mental health professionals, librarians can—and do, even without knowing it—support mental health and personal growth by connecting patrons to books that heal.
Judit H. Ward, Science Reference/Instruction Librarian & Liaison To Center Of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University Libraries, is a research librarian with demonstrated interest in multidisciplinary and cross-cultural topics throughout her entire career. Her current scholarly activities cover broad but related fields with the main focus of facilitating research, publication, and education in addiction science. Her practice and research are directed to key areas of information science, providing a crucial part of the research infrastructure and assisting researchers with interpreting trends and identifying evolving needs. She has been instrumental in discovering and recommending resources and tools emerging in technology and scholarly communication, such as the latest opportunities scholarly social media provides. Currently Judit focuses on on promoting reading in various settings.
Judit H. Ward earned her doctoral degree in linguistics at the University of Debrecen, Hungary, after completing her master level studies in English and Hungarian literature and linguistics. She received her MLIS at Rutgers. She is senior member of the Academy of Health Information Professionals.

SCRLC Lunch & Learn: Health Disparities Discussion
2024-02-14 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
“Making the link between structural inequities and health disparities: Implications for community based helping professionals” was presented by Dr. Emily Spence, Associate Dean for Community Engagement and Health Equity at the UNTHSC School of Public Health on October 11, 2023. During this Lunch and Learn, we will view the recording of that program and there will be an opportunity to discuss it at the end.

CDLC Webinar: AI in Libraries - A Practical Guide for Non-Techies
2024-02-13 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
We’re told that the age of AI is here–but what does that mean for our libraries? An exploration of the promise and peril of the technology, along with what we’ll need to do to prepare ourselves and our organizations going forward. Bring your questions for an extended Q&A session!
About the Presenter: Nick Tanzi is a library technology consultant and author. He has written two books: Making the Most of Digital Collections Through Training and Outreach (2016) and Best Technologies for Public Libraries: Policies, Programs, and Services (2020), and many articles in publications such as Computers in Libraries and Library Journal. He is the Assistant Director of South Huntington Public Library on Long Island.

SCRLC Webinar: Meet Regional Observatories and Science Organizations
2024-02-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join us to meet a few observatories and science organizations from around SCRLC’s 14-county region. Find out what they are doing—and how you might engage.
The eclipse is a few-hours event, but the observatories and science organizations provide on-going involvement and nurture a love of astronomy and science. This is an opportunity to engage and to spark ideas for astronomical programming at your library.
All library staff and science educators are invited to these presentations and CTLE certificates are available.
Joining us:
Andrew (Drew) Deskur, Director of the Kopernik Observatory & Science Center, Binghamton/Vestal, will provide webinar participants with information about observatory programs (their observatory is considered one of the best-sited and best equipped public observatories in the Northeast US!)—and what they are doing for the eclipse.
The Eileen M. Collins Observatory, located at Corning Community College, provides monthly viewing sessions for the public and is home to the Elmira-Corning Astronomical Society. Founding member Dennis O’Connell will join us to tell us more!
Dr. Joshua Thomas, Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Director of Alfred University’s Stull Observatory, will discuss their Observatory, resources, and public observing nights.
Ali Jackson, Director of Programs & Partnerships at Ithaca’s Sciencecenter will share some of the Sciencecenter’s activities involving the upcoming 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.

A Sustainability Discussion with Claudia Depkin, Co-Creator of the Sustainable Libraries Initiative
2024-02-09 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join us to discuss libraries and sustainability with special guest Claudia Depkin.
Claudia Depkin is the Library Director at the Haverstraw King’s Daughters Public Library, Past-President of the New York Library Association and former Chairperson of the New York Regents Advisory Council on Libraries. She was named a Library Journal “Mover & Shaker” in 2019 for her work on building community around sustainability as a co-creator of the Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI), is a member of the SLI Advisory Board and mentors others in the certification program. Haverstraw Library received certification as a Sustainable Library in 2022.

All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.
All attendees are expected to follow CLRC’s Code of Conduct.

RRLC Webinar: Prevention in Action - Hate Crimes, De-Escalation, and Bystander Intervention
2024-02-08 14:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
With hateful speech and actions on the rise, it’s important that library staff learn how to recognize, interrupt, and de-escalate conflict and hate crimes in order to keep our libraries and communities safe. This webinar — led by trainers from the Arab American Association of New York and Malikah — will introduce library staff tools to de-escalate a hate incident and create safe library spaces. The Arab American Association of New York’s Hate Crimes Prevention Training focuses on combating the rise in hate crimes through education, providing community members with the tools needed to protect themselves, and equipping community members with preventative measures and resources to report a hate crime. Malikah’s Bystander Intervention Training focuses on teaching the five D’s of intervention and how we can all foster a safer, more inclusive environment. The goal of this webinar is to give us all the tools we need to be a part of the solution to defend dignity and inspire change in our communities — to put prevention in action.
Presenters: Maryam Khaldi is the Coalition Organizer at Arab American Association of NY. Deena Hadhoud is the Director of Program and Operations at Malikah.
This webinar will be recorded; you must be registered in order to receive the recording. 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.
Free to attend for RRLC and ESLN members.
If you have any questions, please contact Tina Broomfield at cbroomfield@rrlc.org.

Webinar: Free and Low-Cost Library Programming
2024-02-06 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Engage patrons while saving your budget by using free and low-cost resources. This timely webinar provides inspiration for showstopping library programs for all audiences from seniors to children along with makerspace and passive programming resources. Tools and materials range from free resources to teach financial responsibility to toddlers to STEM lesson plans from NASA to resources to host an Earth Day event incorporating a ‘free trees for kids’ program. Discover resources to host an amateur radio program at the library to contact the crew of the International Space Station, host a free retro game night, or host a financial protection workshop for senior patrons. Jam-packed with where to get free lesson plans, printables, downloadables, online learning resources, collaborative library programs, program grants, and donation resources, this webinar will show participants where to find a large collection of resources for costless library programming including resources for program planning, marketing, and assessment.
About the Presenter:
Ellyssa Valenti Kroski is the Director of Innovation & Engagement at the New York Law Institute as well as an award-winning editor and author of 75 books. She is a librarian, an adjunct faculty member at San Jose State University, and an international conference speaker. She can be found at: http://www.amazon.com/author/ellyssa
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
