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METRO Webinar: LASSA Presents - Retirement Planning and Social Security
2021-04-21 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This workshop walks participants through the basics of determining where their retirement income will come from and how-to best plan for a financially secure and happy retirement. Topics covered include:
> Social Security
> Pension Plans including 401(k)s or 403(b)s
> Self-Directed Retirement Savings Plans
About our presenter:
Kathleen Kalmes, CFA has served NYPL’s Business Library as a financial resources specialist since 2002. She creates and teaches financial literacy training programs for the public and staff. Previously, she was an investment vice president at NY Life Insurance Company, working as a securities analyst/portfolio manager. Ms. Kalmes holds an MBA from NYU and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

METRO Webinar: Learning from Long-Term Leading Web Archiving Initiatives
2021-04-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Learning from Long-term Leading Web Archiving Initiatives
featuring Sumitra Duncan (New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)) and Alex Thurman (Columbia University Libraries)
Tuesday, April 20, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Join us to hear from two leading voices in the web archiving world. Sumitra Duncan (New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC)) and Alex Thurman (Columbia University Libraries) will share lessons learned from the point of view of established web archives.

WNYLRC Webinar: Universal Design for Learning - Making Your Teaching Work for Everyone
2021-04-19 13:00 - 14:30 | NY, United States
Universal Design for Learning is a set of principles to guide instructors in creating truly accessible learning environments in which all learners can thrive. In this workshop, participants will gain a deeper understanding of the principles of Universal Design for Learning – multiple means of representation, multiple means of action and expression, and multiple means of engagement – as they apply to information literacy instruction. We will discuss how these guidelines can be applied to one-shot, embedded, and for-credit teaching contexts. Participants will have a chance to discuss potential barriers to implementing UDL and brainstorm ways of overcoming these barriers together.
Registrants will be emailed the workshop information one day prior to the webinar.
About the Presenter:
Molly Maloney, MLS (she/her/hers) is the Pharmacy Liaison Librarian at the University at Buffalo. She has employed Universal Design for Learning in both workshop and for-credit Information Literacy settings and presented on the methods and findings at LOEX, SUNYLA and the WNYLRC Unconference, among others. Her background is in second language acquisition and inclusive instruction.
Emily Carlin (she/her/hers) is a librarian at SUNY Erie Community College. She has presented on universal design and accessibility in libraries at LOEX, SUNYLA, and the WNYLRC Unconference. Emily has a master’s degree in Information Science and Learning Technology from the University of Missouri and a master’s in Philosophy from Indiana University.

RRLC Webinar: Archiving & Preserving Black Local History: A Two-Part Webinar Series
2021-04-19 10:00 - 16:00, 2021-04-12 10:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join us for a two-part webinar series, “Archiving & Preserving Black Local History” on April 12 and April 19.
Collecting and preserving local history requires trust, openness and self-awareness between cultural institutions and communities. “Archiving & Preserving Black Local History” is a 2-day workshop that will focus on building and strengthening partnerships that centers the perspectives and needs of creators and preservers of cultural heritage. In an open forum with community members, librarians, and archivists, this workshop series will cover archiving Black history and culture, capacity limitations, and non-custodial models. Participants are welcome to attend one or both sessions. Steven G. Fullwood, co-founder of the Nomadic Archivists Project (NAP), will lead the interactive webinars. NAP is an international initiative that bridges the gap between content creators, institutions, and archival practice.
April 12, 2021 – What’s Here, What’s Not and Why: Black Local History and Libraries
April 19, 2021 – The Politics of Preserving and Archiving Black Cultural Heritage
This program is open to library staff, archivists, and local history makers across New York state. The series is free to attend.
Attendees may earn up to 10 hours of continuing education credit.
NOTE: Attendees will need to register for each webinar they plan to attend.
If you have any questions, contact Tina Broomfield.

Archiving and Preserving Black Local History Part 1: What’s Here, What’s Not and Why: Black Local History and Libraries
Webinar #1 | Monday, April 12, 2021 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
A workshop for Black local history makers interested in partnering with libraries to assist them in identifying and building Black history resources.
Librarians, archivists, local history makers and interested individuals can attend one or both workshops, as subjects discussed impact cultural institutions and the communities they serve. In both sessions, the facilitator will emphasize that trust and transparency is germane in building and enhancing relationships between memory institutions and their communities.
Webinar Itinerary:
10 am – Introduction to topic
11 am – Discussion about strategies and resources
1 pm – 2 pm – Lunch break
2 pm – 3 pm – Vision planning
3 pm – 4 pm – Critical takeaways, feedback
Archiving and Preserving Black Local History Part 2: The Politics of Preserving and Archiving Black Cultural Heritage
Webinar #2 | Monday, April 19, 2021 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
A workshop for librarians and archivists interested in building their local Black history collections in ethical, equitable ways.
Librarians, archivists, local history makers and interested individuals can attend one or both workshops, as subjects discussed impact cultural institutions and the communities they serve. In both sessions, the facilitator will emphasize that trust and transparency is germane in building and enhancing relationships between memory institutions and their communities.
Webinar Itinerary:
10 am – Introduction to topic
11 am – Discussion about strategies and resources
1 pm – 2 pm – Lunch break
2 pm – 3 pm – Vision planning
3 pm – 4 pm – Critical takeaways, feedback

LILRC Webinar: 6 Documents Every Archive Needs - Incoming & Outgoing Loan Paperwork
2021-04-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In this four-part series, Nicole Menchise, LILRC Digitization and Archives Coordinator, will explain why these documents and policies are key to the operation of an archival repository. Examples will be shared.
The six documents are:
Collections Management Policy -January 15th
Temporary Custody Receipt & Deed of Gift – February 19
Incoming & Outgoing Loan Paperwork – April 16
Emergency/Disaster Plan – May 14
Having policies in place allow archives professionals guidelines for collections management, future acquisitions, lending archives to other organizations for exhibition, assessing preservation needs and planning for emergencies.
Who should attend: librarians serving local history rooms, directors and employees/volunteers of historical societies, house museums or other cultural institutions.

DHPSNY Webinar: Museum Chartering 101 - What is Chartering?
2021-04-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar
Presenter: Lauren Lyons, Chartering Coordinator, New York State Museum
Date: Thursday, April 15th
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Description: A museum or historical society in New York that wishes to organize as a nonprofit private education corporation must be issued a charter from the Board of Regents. But how does that process work? What are the different types of charters available? What are the benefits of being issued a charter? Join Lauren Lyons, Chartering Coordinator at the New York State Museum, to learn the answers to these questions and more.
Museum Chartering 101: What is Chartering? Is the first webinar in a series designed to help institutions better understand the processes involved in New York’s chartering program.
Click here to register.

About the Presenter: Lauren Lyons
Chartering Coordinator, New York State Museum
Pronouns: she|her|hers
Lauren Lyons is the Chartering Coordinator and Assistant to the State Historian. She interacts with municipal historians, museums and cultural organizations throughout the state. Her position includes reviewing museum charter applications, and completing research projects within the Office of State History. (line break) Lauren previously worked as a Legislative Assistant for the New York State Senate. She graduated from the University at Albany with a degree in history and is currently enrolled in the Public History MA program. Her current research is focused on architecture and iconography in New York State following the American Revolution.

CDLC Event: Resoure Sharing Symposium
2021-04-14 08:00 - 12:00 | NY, United States
The Symposium, sponsored by CDLC’s Committee on Resource Sharing (CORS), will be a 3-hour virtual presentation pertaining to current issues in Resource Sharing. We are honored to have Ben Hogben from Ithaca College as our keynote speaker to discuss change management. We will then present on a variety of topics from professionals in the area during our Lightning Round session. Join us for the last 30 minutes when we breakout into smaller discussion groups to connect with members from all library types across the Capital District.
This event is free and open to all CDLC and ESLN members!

Webinar: Post COVID-19 World on Community Engagement and Student Retention - An Online Discussion
2021-04-13 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
COVID-19 has been disruptive and impacted all sectors of society. What lessons can we draw from COVID-19 related to community engagement and student retention and how do we apply them in a post COVID-19 world? Universities are sorting out student retention, recruitment, and engagement strategies in remote and hybrid formats. Community anchors such as public libraries are redefining their services to their users. Vaccine distributions are being rolled out across the world and select libraries are serving as testing and vaccine deployment sites. However, there is still a growing concern. We may not return to pre-COVID-19 world. This interactive presentation will focus on key ideas and lessons on community engagement and student retention measures by such institutions and to reimagine what a post COVID-19 world may look like.
About the Presenter:
Ray Pun (he/him) is a librarian in the Bay Area, California. He has previously worked in public, special, and academic libraries. Ray has published and presented extensively on a variety of topics in LIS such as global librarianship, academic collaboration, sustainability, and diversity programming. Ray holds a doctorate in education and a Master of Library Science. Some of his professional service activities include serving as a member of the ALA Policy Corps, and as Vice President/President-Elect of the Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA).
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.

Second Tuesday at Ten!
2021-04-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online second Tuesdays at Ten!
Staying connected is important during this unprecedented time. CLRC is looking to stay engaged with our members by offering the library community an opportunity to chat, discuss, and check-in with colleagues around the region. Please join us for our monthly online Zoom meeting every second Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
For this Tuesday at Ten, we’ll start with our normal check-in before our executive director, Marc Wildman, discusses our new Recovery Grant. He’ll explain the approval process, what we’re looking for in your application, and answer any of your questions.
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87256143578For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923Meeting ID: 872 5614 3578

SENYLRC Webinar: Planning for Recovery
2021-04-12 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Panelists: Carol McCrossen, Moffat Library, Washingtonville (RCLS), Daniela Pulice, Pleasant Valley Library (MHLS), Liz Potter, Phoenicia Library (MHLS)
Preventing and Responding to Mold in Your Library: REady Steady In the Library: taking Initiative before an Emergency, Natural disaster, or Trauma
Despite the best plans about what to do in the moment you experience a fire or flood or extended power outage, these random events still occur. And then what? The focus of this webinar is about helping libraries plan for recovery after a catastrophic event. This session is structured as a panel discussion with three library directors who have experienced disasters at their libraries. They will briefly explain what happened and then describe how they and their staff transitioned from the immediate response to rebuilding. They will share lessons on what they wished they had known or done before the disaster, what they learned during the rebuilding, and any steps they took to review what happened that inform new plans or policies.

New York Heritage Bits & Bytes: Kristen Nyitray (Stony Brook University)
2021-04-09 10:30 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This series of brief webinars will illuminate the behind-the-scenes work that is done to make digital collections available on the New York Heritage Digital Collections website. Informal interviews with professional staff reveal stories from the archives, how materials were chosen as digital projects, and their impact on historical interpretations.
Spies do exist in the archive! Our next guest is Kristen J. Nyitray from Stony Brook University Libraries. Kristen will discuss the history and process of stewarding two American Revolutionary War-era, Culper Spy Ring letters authored by George Washington. Significant to regional and national historical narratives, she will provide context for the letters and detail the measures taken from acquisition to digitization in New York Heritage to ensure they are true public documents.
Kristen J. Nyitray is Associate Librarian and Director of Special Collections and University Archives, and University Archivist at Stony Brook University. Among her publications are the books Long Island Beaches and Stony Brook: State University of New York. Her current research is focused on Indigenous Long Island. A Certified Archivist and Digital Archives Specialist (SAA), she is recipient of the Chancellor’s Award (State University of New York) and the President’s Award (Stony Brook University) for Excellence in Librarianship.
New York Heritage Digital Collections, created and maintained by the Empire State Library Network, promotes access to the wealth of historical resources held by cultural heritage institutions—so that inquiring minds can learn more about the people, places, and events that contributed to the making of New York State. Visit us at nyheritage.org

WNYLRC Webinar: Implicit Bias Training for Information Professionals
2021-04-08 13:00 - 17:00 | NY, United States
This interactive and experiential course is designed to help you develop an understanding of implicit bias, its impact in libraries and health care, and how it stands in the way of workplace diversity and inclusion. You will leave the course with a deeper understanding of bias, implicit bias, stereotype threat, and microaggression; a greater awareness of your biases; and practical strategies to overcome biases and incorporate cultural competence into your library services.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, students will be able to:

define bias, implicit bias, stereotype threat, and microaggressions
define implicit associations
utilize the implicit association test to understand personal biases
understand the link between implicit bias and health disparities
cite examples of how implicit bias impacts hiring practices and the workplace environment
utilize the C.H.E.C.K. framework to consciously mediate personal biases
articulate practical strategies to overcome biases and incorporate cultural competence into library services

Registrants will be emailed the workshop information one day prior to the webinar.
About the Presenters:

Shannon Jones (she/her/hers) is Director of Libraries and Professor for the Medical University of South Carolina, where she has worked since 2014. Shannon is the co-editor of Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries: A Call to Action and Strategies. Her research interests include staff recruitment, retention and reward, diversity, equity, and inclusion in libraries, and leadership in academic health sciences libraries. She earned her MLS from North Carolina Central University and an M.Ed. in Adult Learning from Virginia Commonwealth University. She is currently pursuing an Ed.D in Educational Leadership at Charleston Southern University.
Kelsa Bartley, MSI, is Education & Outreach Librarian in the Learning, Research, and Clinical Information Services Department of the Louis Calder Memorial Library, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL. Her role includes teaching and providing other library education and research services, as well as outreach and promotion of library services and resources. She is currently the 2020-2021 Chair of the African American Medical Librarians Alliance Caucus (AAMLA) and serves on MLA’s DEI Committee. Her research interests include diversity, equity and inclusion in libraries, library marketing, outreach and social media, technology for health information promotion, and library instruction and instructional design.
Kimberly L. Reynolds, M.D., is a board-certified pediatrician who has dedicated her life’s work to improving the lives of children in south Florida. She has published in premier journals, such as Pediatrics and Hospital Pediatrics, and has conducted training on cultural competence and implicit bias for faculty, staff, residents, and students at the University of Miami.

LILRC Webinar: Perceived Gender Issues in Library-Vendor Negotiations and Beyond
2021-04-07 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Changes to subscription philosophies, reductions in library budgets, and adjusting to the needs of an evolving user community mean that libraries and vendors are working ever-closer to arrive at a solution that meets the needs of both parties. Through years of working with libraries, Amy Thurlow saw what she perceived as differences in treatment based on gender from both the library side and from vendors. As Thurlow delved through survey results, and then through the literature, she hoped to learn this was just a misperception on her part. Instead, Thurlow and her co-researcher, Anne Cerstvik Nolan, learned about the factors at play causing these gender portrayals. In this program, they will discuss situations and experiences that happen on a daily basis, and how we can overcome those in an effort to change society and move toward equality.
Presenters: Amy Thurlow is the Regional Sales Manager for Academic Libraries in New England and has been at EBSCO for over 16 years, mostly in the role of a vendor. She has developed close relationships with many of her customers allowing her to have deep conversations about issues such as gender issues. She is a single mother of a strong 23 year old and they often coach each other on fair treatment by society. She is passionate about equality and teaching others to identify mistreatment and how to approach the situation toward a solution.
Anne Cerstvik Nolan has been at the Brown University Library for 28 years, first as Assistant Head of Reference and Head of Interlibrary Loan. She was also the Electronic Resources Librarian for several years before attaining her current position as Collection Strategist for Licensing and Assessment. Anne has worked with library vendors for over 20 years and this project was born from that work. She is also the proud mom of two very cute Chihuahuas.

METRO Webinar: LASSA Presents - Financial Planning for the Future, FICO Score and Credit Worthiness
2021-04-07 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join our the Library Assistants and Support Staff Association for an event on creditworthiness, financial planning, and other topics to help you get your financial ducks in a row. Topics include?
– what constitutes a FICO score
– does your credit score matter?
– how to improve your creditworthiness, with or without a credit score
Carol O’Rourke is a Certified Financial Planning Professional with extensive experience in personal finance, ranging from budgeting, managing credit, reducing debt to building retirement savings and investing. A graduate of NYU Stern School of Business (MBA), she worked on Wall Street for 25 years and later ran a non-profit presenting financial literacy classes throughout NYC.

CDLC Webinar: Preservation Interest Group - Topic A/V Colletions, Preservation and Access
2021-04-06 09:30 - 11:00 | NY, United States
All are welcome to attend this Preservation Interest Group meeting with Mark Wolfe, Curator of Digital Collections, Special Collections & Archives, University at Albany. Mark will share his expertise in preserving and reformatting audiovisual collections and answer participant questions.
Please note: This program will NOT be recorded.

METRO Webinar: Economics & Business Interest Group Spring Townhall - Resilient Futures
2021-03-31 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join our Economics & Business METRO community for our Spring Townhall event–we want your input! We’ll be sharing updates from our member libraries, debriefing our poster session event, brainstorming future directions for our group, and discussing plans for fall reopenings. Please share this event with colleagues who may be interested in attending, and be sure to join our new email list: https://lists.metrolists.org/mailman/listinfo/econbiz
Lucy Heckman (St. John’s University) and Dan Hickey (New York University)
Co-Conveners, METRO Economics & Business Group

METRO Webinar: Ethics and Archiving the Web - How to Ethically Collect and Use Web Archives
2021-03-30 16:00 - 17:00 | NY, United States
This event features presentations and a Q + A session with Muira McCammon (University of Pennsylvania), Michael Nelson (Old Dominion University) and Lorena Ramírez-López (Archivist, Developer and Translator contributing to multiple projects). Our three speakers will share their perspectives on bringing an ethical lens to the work of web archiving, including how we might view the work collecting, displaying, and sharing material archived from the web.
Register here.
Ethics and the expansion of access to web archiving tools via translation (from English to Spanish)
Lorena Ramírez-López
It’s hard for web archives to serve and be used by the public when web archiving interfaces, tools and documentation are being predominantly created with the assumption that users have fluency in the English language. It’s also problematic for web archives to not only be housed in the US, but also described, accessed and processed in English only.
The expansion of access to web archiving tools and information via translation of documentation and resources into different languages opens opportunities to do web archiving to a much larger group of users including many in underserved communities. The ethics surrounding translation methods and the ways web archiving tools, documentation, and resources are shared are essential to explore and consider as this important work continues. In this presentation we will learn more about how it’s not only about language, but also about lowering the barriers of entry, support, and collaboration that facilitates collecting among English and Spanish speakers alike.
Ethical approaches to research and scholarship using web archives
Muira McCammon
Using web archives for research and scholarship can be fraught, especially when exploring contested knowledge and issues surrounding governmental transparency. This presentation will include an examination of deletion practices and controversies surrounding information infrastructures that support long-term cultural memory (including social media). The analysis and processes covered are influenced by experience as an investigative journalist and as an academic studying a broad range of issues including dead and dying digital platforms. Ethical approaches are integral to understanding the past and present, as well as perhaps anticipating the future. In this presentation one will learn more about how ethics guide research, scholarship and communications surrounding this work.
Uncertainty in Replaying Archived Twitter Pages
Michael L. Nelson
@phonedude_mln, @WebSciDL
Archiving Twitter pages in public web archives like the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and archive.today are often preferable to taking screenshots of Twitter pages, but there are real concerns about the fidelity and authenticity of replaying archived Twitter pages. We cover
some of the well-known problems in archiving and replaying Twitter, including: support for foreign languages, the impact of Twitter’s user interface change in the Summer of 2020, replaying pages that never existed on the live web, inconsistent replay of “fact-check labels”, and artifacts introduced in archival replay by competing scripts. Individually and in aggregate, all of these issues could contribute to either misinformation (confusion on replay) or disinformation (cherry-picked examples being used to support an untrue narrative). Those who would use archived Twitter pages for historical analysis must be aware of uncertainties introduced by replay systems and ethical implications associated with these factors.

LILRC Webinar: Ask An Archivist - Scrapbook Preservation
2021-03-30 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Scrapbooking is the art of decorating pages with mementos, hand written and printed materials, and ephemera from the events that have touched our lives. Unfortunately, your collection’s scrapbooks might be at risk due to the types of materials used or from improper storage.
This workshop will discuss common materials found in scrapbooks and options for long term preservation.

Webinar with ENY/ACRL: Academic Libraries & Open Educational Resources (OER)
2021-03-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
As colleges and universities look to Open Educational Resources to provide students with affordable academic materials, libraries and librarians are key partners. This hour-long webinar will include practical experiences, challenges, and observations of four panelists moderated by Jean-Paul Orgeron of the James M. Milne Library at SUNY Oneonta.
About the Panelists:
Carli Spina is an Associate Professor and the Head of Research & Instructional Services at SUNY’s Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City. She holds a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, an MLIS from Simmons GSLIS, and an M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She frequently writes, presents, and teaches on copyright, Universal Design, accessibility, and inclusion in libraries.
Elvis Bakaitis is currently the Interim Head of Reference at The Graduate Center’s Mina Rees Library. They are a member of the University LGBTQ Council, CLAGS: The Center for LGBTQ Studies, and LACUNY Diversity & Multicultural Roundtable. Bakaitis coordinates the Open Pedagogy Fellowship, Mina Rees Conversation Series, and Spring 2021 Open Knowledge Intensive.
Emily Kilcer (she/her) is the Scholarly Communication Librarian at the University at Albany where she works to educate, support, and connect open efforts on campus. Before joining UAlbany, Emily spent several years at Harvard’s Office for Scholarly Communication on projects that supported outreach and education around open access, copyright, licensing, and electronic theses and dissertations.
Jennifer M.K. Jensen is a scholarly communications librarian at SUNY Oneonta, where she co-leads the campus OER Initiative and promotes the use and creation of Open Access scholarship. She is a new librarian, graduating in May 2020 from the University of Kentucky with an MSLS. For that degree, she conducted a practicum at the University of Nairobi College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences in Kenya, where she experienced the value of Open Access materials from the international point of view. Prior to living in Kenya, Jennifer worked with a community development institute at Cornell University for six years. She has a Master’s in Public Affairs from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a B.A. from Boston College.
Do you have questions you’d like our panelists to answer? Feel free to email them to Jean-Paul Orgeron at Jean-Paul.Orgeron@oneonta.edu.
This webinar is presented by both CLRC & the Eastern New York Chapter of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ENY/ACRL).
ENY/ACRL is one of 42 local chapters of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Members represent private and public college and university libraries, and special libraries in the Eastern New York region. ENY/ACRL follows the mission of its parent organization to “lead academic and research librarians and libraries in advancing learning and scholarship.”
Live captioning will be provided.

**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:
CLRC strives to support an open exchange of ideas within a safe and respectful environment. We value your attendance at CLRC conferences, meetings, and events, and are dedicated to providing a positive event experience for all participants and members. We want all CLRC events to be welcoming, supportive, and comfortable for all members of the library community.
Treat CLRC staff, event attendees, and speakers with respect.
Participation in discussions and activities should be respectful at all times. All are expected to exercise tolerance of the perspectives and opinions of all present and use discretion with photographs, recordings, and sharing. Be aware of your presence, and be thoughtful in sharing, listening, and knowing when to do which.
We do not tolerate harassment in any form. If a participant engages in disruptive or harassing behavior, CLRC may take any action it deems appropriate, including warning the offender or expulsion from the event. Event organizers will assist participants in contacting building/venue security or local law enforcement, or otherwise assist those experiencing harassment to feel safe for the duration of the event. If you are being harassed, or have any other concerns, please contact a CLRC staff person immediately.
This is a working document. We welcome ideas, suggestions, and proposed revisions based on your needs and experiences. Please contact rkluberdanz@clrc.org to get involved.

CDLC Webinar: Census Essentials - Understanding the American Community Survey and Decennial Data
2021-03-26 10:00 - 11:15 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The American Community Survey (ACS) is an ongoing survey of the U. S. Census Bureau. It provides much more detailed information than the decennial census.
This program will explore the American Community Surve, decennial census data and datasets on data.census.gov. We will learn about background informatoin on the data, such as frequency of datasets, geography, data thresholds, and margin of error. Then we will delve into data.census.gov to learn how to retrieve ACS and the forthcoming 2020 Census.data.
This program will be presented by David J. Kraiker of the Datat Dissemination and Training Brach of the U.S. Census Bureau.

WNYLRC Webinar: Black Women Librarians...Experiences in White Spaces
2021-03-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Moderated by Jeremy Lyman (School Library Media Specialist, Buffalo Public Schools)
Join us for a panel discussion, as Black women librarians share their perspectives on academic, public, school, and prison librarianship. These discussions will reveal their complex and varied lived experiences while navigating a predominantly white profession. Let’s have an open and honest dialogue.
Some interesting topics of discussion include:
What’s in a name? Challenges in applying for jobs
Code-Switching
Imposter Syndrome
Why have we stayed in a profession that doesn’t love us back?
Panelists: Sandra Blackman, Afiya Farrell, Ayodele Ojumu, Taheera Shaheed-Sonubi, and Hadeen Stokes

NYLA Webinar: Making Policies That Support Library Services
2021-03-25 14:00 - 15:00 | NY, United States
Description:
Good library policies set the stage for your library to provide relevant and effective services to your community.
At this webinar, we’ll look at why your policies matter, and how you can make sure they’re supporting your staff and your patrons.
Learning Objectives:

Understand the importance and value of library policy for providing library services
Be able to apply best practices to develop and maintain effective library policy

Presenter: Casey Conlin, Library Sustainability Coordinator, Mid-Hudson Library System
Casey Conlin has held positions in libraries large and small as a clerk, librarian, assistant director, and library director.
At these libraries, he helped increase the visibility, accessibility, relevance, and use of the library by helping the organization listen to and build authentic connections with the people and organizations in the community.
As library sustainability coordinator at the Mid-Hudson Library System, Casey and the library sustainability teamwork to help 66 member libraries build their capacity to create more resilient communities through consulting services to help libraries comply with relevant laws and regulations and create effective relationships in their communities.
He also has created professional development opportunities that build library leaders’ and stakeholders’ skills and knowledge in project management, leadership, compliance, and personnel management, and trends in library services, and cohort programs and grants that provide local library leaders with space and time to explore ways to deliver new library services and evaluate new ways to deliver existing services.
Casey currently serves as coordinator for the American Library Association’s Sustainability Roundtable, which provides resources and support for the library community in creating a more equitable, healthy, and economically viable society through the development and administration of events, courses, resources, and connections.
Casey is a founding member of the New York Library Association’s Sustainability Initiative, which created and supports a first-of-its-kind interactive tool to help libraries ensure the sustainability of their organizations using the triple bottom line of sustainability to measure and implement library policy and operations that are socially equitable, environmentally sound, and economically feasible.

LILRC Webinar: Coffee+Conversation - Social Media Librarians Virtual Meetup
2021-03-24 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!

NNYLN Webinar: Stop Being Clever with Your Passwords - An Introduction to Lastpass and Password Management
2021-03-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The biggest threat to your online accounts is you!
Most people have more than 15 online accounts.
That’s just too many passwords to remember!
What’s a good netizen to do?
Come up with a clever way to remember those passwords, of course!
So that’d be ‘p@55w0rd!23’, right? STOP! You’re not that clever.
The best way to protect your online accounts is to remove the weakest security link: you.
This session will discuss why you’re a security weakness, how password managers can help, and the basics of the password manager LastPass.
The presentation will be about 45 minutes long followed by Q&A time.
About the presenter:
Chuck Henry is the Integrated Technologies Coordinator at the Northern New York Library Network. A former NYS certified teacher, Chuck routinely provides professional development and software training to teachers, librarians and administrators in the North Country region. As Technical Project Lead, he manages the newspaper digitization process, provides server maintenance, and web development for the NYS Historic Newspaper Project. Chuck also serves as primary web developer for the newly redesigned NY Heritage.

Webinar: Tips and Tricks - Giving a Presentation and Engaging Your Audience
2021-03-24 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Have you been asked to give a presentation and do not know how to prepare for it? Have you given a presentation and are unsatisfied with how it went? Are you interested in ideas on how to engage the audience? If yes, then this webinar is for you! Come and learn how to think about your online and face-to-face presentations and training sessions. You will leave with new skills, including a few easy tips and tricks, in effective presentation design and powerful workshop delivery.
Learning Objectives: After this session, participants will be able to:

Think about the role of the proposal and what it should include.
Consider the needs of their audience and what that means for the session’s design (and your style/setting).
Understand the roles (e.g., producer, tech support, moderator, or host) involved in a presentation and their effect on its outcome.
Envision methods for audience engagement.
Prepare for the unexpected – technical and otherwise – during the webinar.

Intended Audience: Anyone who is interested in giving a conference presentation, webinar or face-to-face training session, or who wants to improve their techniques. In other words, first-time and experienced presenters are welcome.
About the Presenter:
Jill Hurst-Wahl is a consultant, speaker, writer, and educator. She has given many conference presentations and keynotes, classroom and online lectures, and webinars…and helped others to do the same. She knows that being “at the front of the room” can be uncomfortable, but also knows that the correct preparations can help any presenter deliver what the audience needs and desires. Jill can be found online at www.HurstAssociates.com and www.Digitization101.com.
Live captioning will be provided by Rev.com.
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 and a half contact hours**
All CLRC events are open to CLRC members and members of the Empire State Library Network.

RRLC Webinar: Misinformation & How to Fight It
2021-03-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Misinformation has been around since the times of Ancient Egypt. 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 webinar, participants will review the modern misinformation landscape, learn about and utilize fact checking tools, and pave a path to becoming a better digital citizen.
Learning Outcomes
– Understand the landscape of misinformation today.
– Identify and utilize tools to assist in the identification of misinformation and disinformation.
Presenter: Miranda Stefano is a librarian, technologist, and bibliophile. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland iSchool and RIT School of Print Media. She enjoys sharing knowledge with others and is always looking for new opportunities to do so. Her passions are information literacy, primary sources, technology, and sign language.
Free to RRLC & ESLN Members. This webinar will be held on Zoom Webinar; registration is required.
All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance for one hour and 30 minutes of CE credit.
Please note that 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, including sign language interpretation, 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.

LILRC 7th Annual Technical Services Open Forum
2021-03-19 09:30 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
LILRC 7th Annual Technical Services Open Forum

Program Schedule
9:30 AM – Program opens on Zoom for sign in and welcome
10:00 AM – Not Just a Location: Library Technical Services, Remote Work, and COVID-19
Anna R. Craft, Coordinator of Metadata Services, University Libraries, UNC Greensboro
While the specific tasks accomplished in academic library technical services units can vary across institutions, “technical services” has traditionally been thought of as a physical location (or locations), not just a category of work. Electronic resources and online systems–which can often be used or managed from anywhere with a reliable internet connection–have steadily grown in importance within many libraries and technical services units; but the published literature offers few examples of explorations of remote work placements for library technical services personnel.
But what happens when physical library technical services spaces aren’t available? Library personnel around the world have grappled with this question with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has brought serious impacts to lives, communities, and organizations at all levels. This presentation will briefly look at the pre-pandemic history of remote work in library technical services and will discuss how previously identified challenges and lessons can help personnel navigate some of the issues that technical services units are confronted with as a result of the pandemic.
Bio:
Anna R. Craft is an associate professor at UNC Greensboro, where she serves as Coordinator of Metadata Services in the University Libraries. In a role that integrates aspects of metadata and scholarly communications, she coordinates institutional repository services, supports users of UNCG’s open access journal installation, provides scholarly communications training and development opportunities for students and faculty, and works collaboratively with personnel in and beyond Technical Services to ensure that the Libraries’ resources are discoverable and available for patrons worldwide. She is active in service and scholarship within the library profession and is a regular columnist for the journal Serials Review. She started her library career at the North Carolina State University Libraries, served as Metadata Librarian at Western Carolina University, and earned her MSLS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
11:00AM – Let’s Talk: A Panel Discussion on COVID’s Impact on Tech Services
Long Island academic and public librarians will share their varied workplace experiences during COVID 19 shutdowns and reopenings.

METRO Webinar: What we talk about when we talk about "equity" - from essential workers to George Floyd to Nice White Parents
2021-03-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
2020 saw a huge uptick in colloquial usage of the word “equity.” However, in most corners of the information professions, from libraries to archives to usability, we’ve been having this conversation for a long time. During this interactive session, we unpack some of the ways equity has been used (and misused) during the pandemic and protests, and how this is impacting our workplaces and communities. Come prepared to discuss your experiences.

LILRC Webinar: Meeting People Where They Are - Service Design in Rapidly Changing Libraries
2021-03-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Callan Bignoli and Lauren Stara will present an exploration of service design – what is it and how can it make your library better tomorrow? Services and the way we deliver them are changing very quickly and unpredictably. Being intentional about what and how we do is what we mean by service design. Digital, physical, and even philosophical: it’s all about service.

Learning objectives:
– Learn how to harness rapid change and community feedback to provide more responsive, user-centered library service
– Understand the ways in which libraries straddle the physical and the digital, in areas such as service provision and collections, illuminating how they overlap and can be improved using similar philosophies
– Embrace an openness to change as a foundation for project management, problem solving, preparing for future challenges, personal reflection and self-care, and leadership
CALLAN BIGNOLI is the director of the library at Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts. She gathers inspiration from everywhere to inform user-centered practices and push the profession forward. Callan studies and speaks about user experience design, library management, and social issues in technology, challenging students and colleagues to fight for a more just and human future.
LAUREN STARA is a library building specialist with the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, helping public libraries around the Commonwealth improve their physical spaces. A registered architect and a librarian, she has worked in and/or consulted for libraries in eight US states, three Canadian provinces, and three Eastern European countries. She has taught at library schools in Canada and Bulgaria, and she speaks and presents frequently on library design, design thinking, and service design.
