NNYLN Webinar: Creative Art Therapy - Mindful Mandalas
2021-08-31 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Description:
Everyone is always talking about mindfulness, but what is it really? How can it help us lead a more purposeful, creative, and content life? How can practicing mindful art-making help us gain clarity, focus, and improved communication in the workplace?
In this morning art therapy workshop you will:
> Learn how to use art as a mindfulness practice.
> Learn how to create a mandala even if you have no artistic “talent”!
> Engage in a guided art experiential designed to reduce stress and increase creativity and flexibility.
> Walk away with 3 practical applications of mindful practice to bring to your everyday life.
> Learn 3 questions to ask to gain insight through your artwork.
Read more about this program here: https://nnyln.org/events/mindful-mandalas-art-therapy-workshop/
View more programs at the Northern NY Library Network: https://nnyln.org/explore-events/

RRLC Webinar: Library Data in Context
2021-08-26 11:00 - 12:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This webinar will cover how to use a combination of public and local data sources to make decisions through context evaluation, visualization, and data analysis. Case studies incorporating data analysis tools such as R, Tableau Public, ArcGIS, and PolicyMap will be discussed.
Workshop learning objectives:
– Understand the research lifecycle as a continuum
– Understand how context shapes data collection, analysis, and presentation
– Discover practical applications of common data analysis tools
– Create actionable insights from public and local data
About the presenter:
Catherine Stollar Peters, Ph.D is the Assistant Director of Operations at Bethlehem Public Library and an adjunct instructor at the University at Albany College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security and Cybersecurity. In 2017, She earned a Ph.D. in Information Science studying the socio-technical interactions of public library computers and computer users. Her research focuses on digital archives, public libraries, and data science.
Free to RRLC and 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.
Live transcription will be available. This webinar will be recorded.
We are committed to offering inclusive, diverse, and equitable services to all of our members. To request specific accommodations, including sign language interpretation or closed captioning, please contact rrlc@rrlc.org at least five business days prior to the session.
Contact Ryan Hughes (rhughes@rrlc.org) with any questions.

ESLN Webinar: Coordinated Collection Development Aid Update & Info Session
2021-08-25 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join Barbara Lilley, Library Development Specialist at the Division of Library Development, for an overview of the NYS Coordinated Collection Development Aid program. Barbara will review how libraries should complete and submit the CCDA print and online forms, review when a library needs to submit a waiver, and share tips for libraries to track their CCDA funds once it is received on their campus.
Melissa Jadlos and Kate Ross from St. John Fisher College and Jane Kessler from University at Albany will also share how they are using CCDA funds, with time left for Q&A.
Free to ESLN Members. Registration is required. This session will be recorded.
This session is sponsored by the Empire State Library Network. If you have any questions, contact Kathleen Gundrum (kgundrum@cdlc.org) or Laura Osterhout (losterhout@rrlc.org).

DHPSNY Webinar: Finding Aids - Tools and Tips for Basic Description
2021-08-25 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join Kate Philipson, Archives Specialist, DHPSNY, as she explores practical steps to help you create finding aids on a basic level. In this webinar, Kate will discuss how to prioritize the required elements of a finding aid so that archival description feels attainable, while building upon the 2017 DHPSNY webinar about finding aids. She will also share further details about Describing Archives: A Content Standard (DACS) by discussing the DACS update process, and examining how the DACS Principles help to frame description work. We will look at some examples of finding aids and take questions, but we will also invite you to a future conversation on September 22, 2021 where we can more directly address your active description challenges and questions about producing finding aids for your organization.

METRO Webinar: Compassionate Career Services, Part Three - When and How to "Teach People to Fish"
2021-08-23 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
We’re finally emerging from the worst of this historic pandemic, and current economic trends finally favor workers. Businesses are hiring again and benefits are ending. Meanwhile, the digital divide is still an issue we have to contend with and many of the patrons we work with need us more than ever.
Libraries are uniquely positioned to provide essential services to those who are looking for work. We’ve got the skills, the resources, and the ideals to truly help our communities. During this time of compassion fatigue, this workshop series presents a call for empathetic job and career services for those who need it most. We will work through the current state of library-based career services, share specific advice for providing career services across the digital divide, and discuss how library staff can assist patrons with their job searches while keeping their mental health in mind.

Presented by NYPL’s Ricci Yuhico, art three of this series will cover:

The limits of emotional labor / avoiding burnout on the part of library staff
When and how to “push people out of the nest”
Knowing your community resources and when to make referrals

METRO Webinar: Data Breaches - What Libraries Can Do To Prevent Them
2021-08-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Data breaches are terrifying, and cause for a lot of consternation. Join this session with our experts Dan Ayala and Gary Price to talk through what can be done on an individual level as well as by library IT staff to avoid having sensitive information compromised. We will also discuss resources libraries can share with their communities to help them avoid such a fate as well.

RRLC Webinar: That Happened Here?! - Using Local Primary Sources in the Classroom
2021-08-18 13:30 - 14:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Primary sources can ignite a passion for history and sharpen critical information literacy skills. In this webinar, participants will discuss how to bring primary sources to life in the classroom.
Part presentation, part discussion, participants will understand:
– where to find primary sources
– how to use the Library of Congress analysis tool
– how using primary sources in the classroom gives students the opportunity to practice critical observation skills necessary to confidently navigate today’s information world
Presenter: Miranda Stefano
We are committed to offering inclusive, diverse, and equitable services to all of our members. Live transcription will be available. To request specific accommodations, please contact rrlc@rrlc.org at least five business days ahead of the program you’d like accommodations for.
If you have any questions, please contact Tina Broomfield at cbroomfield@rrlc.org

First Meeting of CLRC's *NEW* Sustainability SIG!
2021-08-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join us for the first meeting of the CLRC’s *new* Sustainability Special Interest Group!
This group meets to discuss how best to reach our community to convey a sense of urgency regarding the state of our planet. Our focus is on the three pillars of sustainability: sustainable practices are environmentally sound, socially equitable, and economically feasible.

Meeting ID: 826 8703 7370Passcode: [REDACTED]
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: Exploring Inclusive Public Service
2021-08-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
This interactive webinar will cover some of the core assumptions of libraries and how this impacts our public service. We will discuss what inclusive public service is and explore the possibilities it opens up.
About the Presenter:
Sofia Leung is a Chinese American librarian, facilitator, and educator. She is a founding editor at up//root: a we here publication, and the co-editor of Knowledge Justice:Disrupting Library and Information Studies Through Critical Race Theory. Sofia holds a Master’s in Library and Information Science and a Master’s in Public Administration, both from the University of Washington, and her B.A. in English from Barnard College.
Live captioning will be provided.
This webinar 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: Coffee+Conversation - Social Media Librarians Virtual Meetup
2021-08-11 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!

MLA Webinar: What's Needed to Make a Literature Search Reproducible? An Introduction to PRISMA-S
2021-08-10 14:00 - 15:30 | Online via MLA, NY, United States
PRISMA-S is a new reporting guideline designed to help librarians, information specialists, and teams conducting systematic reviews and evidence syntheses describe their methods and results in a transparent and reproducible manner. In this session, we’ll go through the 16-item PRISMA-S checklist and discuss how to use the checklist and the corresponding explanation and elaboration document to your advantage. We’ll look at examples of good reporting–and reporting that could be improved in this interactive session.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

use the PRISMA-S checklist and the corresponding explanation and elaboration document
understand the most commonly needed PRISMA-S checklist items and will know how to find additional guidance
practice improving transparency of search reporting using PRISMA-S as guidance

Audience
Librarians, information specialists, and people conducting methods-based literature reviews who want to learn about best practices for literature search reporting should attend. Some familiarity with systematic review methods or the PRISMA Statement is helpful, but not necessary.
Presenters
Melissa Rethlefsen, AHIP, is the Associate Dean, George A. Smathers Libraries and Fackler Director, Health Science Center Libraries at the University of Florida. Previous to her position at the University of Florida, she worked at the University of Minnesota Bio-Medical Library, the Minnesota Department of Health R.N. Barr Library, the Mayo Clinic, and the University of Utah’s Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library. She is interested in systematic review methodology, particularly in reproducibility of search strategies and the librarian’s role in reporting quality, and she has published several journal articles on this topic, including the article, “Librarian Co-Authors Correlated with Higher Quality Reported Search Strategies in General Internal Medicine Systematic Reviews,” in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, for which she and her coauthors received the Public Health/Health Administration Section Research Award in 2016. In 2015, she was awarded the Estelle Brodman Award for Academic Medical Librarian of the Year.
Jonathan Koffel, MSI is currently the Emerging Technology and Innovation Strategist at the University of Minnesota Health Sciences Library. Prior to moving into this role, Jonathan was the library’s Clinical Information Librarian and worked closely with systematic review teams to create comprehensive and reproducible search strategies. His research has looked into how often systematic review authors collaborate with information professionals and (with Melissa Rethlefsen) how often systematic reviews include well-reported and reproducible searches. He is a founding member of the PRISMA-S Group.

To Request a Seat Email Sarah Lawler at health@clrc.org.

Webinar: Working, Earning, Learning, Growing - Why and How to Do Learning-Focused Student Employment
2021-07-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
As institutions invested in supporting learning, how can we more intentionally foster the learning of the learners who work for us—whether part-time student staff or interns?
In this interactive webinar we’ll explore why we should approach student employment as part of our educational mission, and the benefits that accrue to both us and our part-time or temporary staff as a result of providing them with more than just a paycheck and some undefined “experience.”
We’ll also investigate a range of ways in which to implement a more learning-oriented approach to student employment, from no muss, no fuss tweaks that can be made immediately, to larger, more programmatic interventions.
You’ll leave the webinar with a handful of guiding principles for approaching student employment from a learning perspective, and developing more valuable and rewarding student work experiences in your organization.
About the Presenter:
Dr. Liz Vine is the Student Employment Coordinator at the IUPUI University Library in Indianapolis, and researches, publishes on, and wrestles with the daily practice of student employment as an engaged learning experience. She has a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a Master’s degree in Women’s Studies and a BA in Modern History and English, both from Oxford (UK), and draws on nearly a decade of college teaching experience in her student employment work.
This webinar will be recorded and a recording will be shared with all registrants afterward.
**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one contact hour.**

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

METRO Event: XFR Collective Presents - Downtown Tonight
2021-07-22 20:00 - 21:30 | NY, United States
If you were bored in the late 80s/early 90s you could always catch something weird on public access television. XFR Collective and METRO bring you a selection of oddities from the weekly arts-oriented show Downtown Tonight. First a stream of consciousness rant on the eve of the 1992 presidential election… “You kids do not know how much we waited for computers.” Then Craig Silver interviews poet Elizabeth Rogers on living in China through the 1980s followed by a “Cool Couture Fashion Show” at Tompkins Square Park. Last but not least Downtown tonight brings you scenes from the June 11th, 1988 March for Peace held in Central Park and an opening at the Helio Gallery for Jose Ortega.
This program will be hosted by Spectacle Theater on Thursday, July 22nd at 8:00 pm. You can stream it here: https://stream.spectacletheater.com/
Program Notes
From 1987 to 1993, artists Craig Silver and Lynn Seeney produced Downtown Tonight. They interviewed and profiled visual artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers and documented the cultural scene of New York’s Lower East Side. They also presented original experimental video work. The videotaped programs were aired on Channel D on Manhattan Cable TV, which evolved into Manhattan Neighborhood Network.
These episodes of Downtown Tonight were lovingly transferred by XFR Collective from big ‘ol U-matic tapes on a rack built for the Metropolitan New York Library Council community. The tapes are among the shelf stock of the Monday Wednesday Friday Video Club, which was a video store and distribution network founded in 1986 by artist Alan Moore. Sort of like a DIY Blockbuster, the idea was to bypass the gallery system of a screen in a white box, and bring video art directly to viewers at home at affordable prices. In 2018, XFR Collective began working with Moore to slowly digitize each tape in the MWF collection.
XFR Collective partners with artists, activists, and community organizations to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media – especially unseen, unheard, or marginalized works – through digitization, screenings, educational workshops, and pop-up events. Operating through a non-hierarchical model, we work to create an inclusive environment in which to explore practical methods for media preservation, archiving, and access.

LILRC Webinar: Letter to a Young Female Physician - Dr. Suzanne Koven in Conversation with Roxana Robinson
2021-07-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join LILRC in welcoming Dr. Suzanne Koven, author of Letter to a Young Physician: Notes from a Medical Life (W. W. Norton & Company, May 4, 2021) in conversation with Roxana Robinson. “Suzanne Koven’s Letter to a Young Female Physician is so wise, beautifully written, tender, and full of heart that it should be required reading for every person—young, female, physician, or otherwise. This is a transporting memoir, and an instructive one.” (Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance).
Suzanne Koven was born and raised in New York City. She received her B.A. in English literature from Yale and her M.D. from Johns Hopkins. She also holds an M.F.A. in nonfiction from the Bennington Writing Seminars. After her residency training at Johns Hopkins Hospital she joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School and has practiced primary care internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston for over 25 years. In 2019 she was named inaugural Writer in Residence at Mass General. Her essays, articles, blogs, and reviews have appeared in The Boston Globe, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, The New Yorker.com, Psychology Today, The L.A. Review of Books, The Virginia Quarterly, STAT, and other publications. Her monthly column “In Practice” appeared in the Boston Globe and won the Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Medical Writing from the American Medical Writers Association in 2012. Her interview column, “The Big Idea,” appears at The Rumpus. Suzanne conducts workshops, moderates panel discussions, and speaks to a variety of audiences about literature and medicine, narrative and storytelling in medicine, women’s health, mental healthcare, and primary care.
Roxana Robinson is the author of ten books – six novels, three collections of short stories, and the biography of Georgia O’Keeffe. Four of these were chosen as New York Times Notable Books , two as New York Times Editors’ Choices. Her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Best American Short Stories, Tin House and elsewhere. Her work has been widely anthologized and broadcast on NPR. Her books have been published in England, France, Germany, Holland and Spain. She is the recipient of many awards, the most recent the Barnes & Noble “Writers for Writers” Award, from Poets & Writers.

LILRC Webinar: Fostering a Culture of Creativity in Libraries
2021-07-20 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In the 21st century there is a constant rise in library patron needs and expectations. As dwindling budgets and less staff prevail, libraries are looking at new models of outreach and engagement to prove their value. Looking through a “creative” lens focuses on “what is possible” and encourages individuals and organizations to work in unconventional ways while using tools which are readily and easily accessible for teaching, learning, or solving problems.
Creativity and playful experiences can be freeing and allow for spontaneity, which is crucial when performing scholarly research, solving problems, or honing life-long learning skills. But also, these casual teaching moments provide opportunities for patrons to engage with library staff in non-traditional ways. Playful learning is a dynamic and creative way to highlight collections and services which can also be assessed to help capture and share the value and importance of an organization.
Throughout this presentation viewers will learn more about creativity in libraries, the skills and tools needed to “be creative”, and how to implement and embrace a culture of creativity within their own work lives.
Presenter: Megan Lotts is the Art Librarian at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, where she teaches research workshops, builds collections, facilitates programming and events, and closely engages with students and faculty researching in the Arts. Lotts has presented her research both nationally and internationally and has published articles in portal: Libraries and the Academy, Art Documentation, Journal of Library Administration, and College and Research Libraries News. Her first book titled, Advancing a Culture of Creativity in Libraries: Programming and Engagement, will be published by American Libraries Association and available in July of 2021. Her research interests include creativity, outreach & engagement, makerspaces, play, and the work of library liaisons. She is known for her work implementing LEGO® play, curating the exhibition spaces at the Rutgers University Art Library, as well as teaching a semester long seminar “Playing to Learn in Higher Education.”
Megan earned her MFA (2004) and MLIS (2007) from University of Wisconsin-Madison and has a BFA in Painting (2000) and BFA in Art History (2002) from the University of Illinois- Champaign-Urbana. She currently lives in New Brunswick, NJ where she continues to explore, make, and engage in daily activities involving creativity and play.

LILRC Webinar: The Sea We Swim In - How Stories Work in a Data-Driven World with Author Frank Rose
2021-07-14 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
LILRC welcomes digital anthropologist Frank Rose, speaking on his new book, The Sea We Swim In: How Stories Work in a Data-Driven World, a practical guide to “narrative thinking,” and why it matters in a world defined by data.
“Whether we’re aware of it or not, stories determine how we view the world and our place in it. That means the tools of professional storytellers―character, world, detail, voice―can unlock a way of thinking that’s ideal for an age in which we don’t passively consume media but actively participate in it. Building on insights from cognitive psychology and neuroscience, Rose shows us how to see the world in narrative terms, not as a thesis to be argued or a pitch to be made but as a story to be told.”
About Frank Rose:
Frank Rose is the best-selling author of The Art of Immersion, hailed as “a grand trip” by Britain’s New Scientist and “an essential overview” by the International Journal of Advertising. He is a leading thinker on the impact of technology on media, entertainment, and society — a theme he has explored as a contributor to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, as a former contributing editor at Wired, and as a keynote speaker at marketing conferences and film festivals worldwide.
A senior fellow at Columbia University School of the Arts, Frank is faculty director of its Strategic Storytelling seminar, presented in partnership with Columbia Business School Executive Education, and director of the Digital Dozen: Breakthroughs in Storytelling awards at its Digital Storytelling Lab.

PILLARS Symposium
2021-07-09 10:00 - 16:30, 2021-07-08 10:00 - 17:00, 2021-07-07 10:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The PILLARS Symposium: Preparation, Information Literacy, Libraries, Academic Resources, and 21st Century Skills for Transitioning from Secondary School to College
Registration now open! https://www.esln.org/pillars/

Why: A three-day symposium that will bring educators and librarians together to share knowledge on the topic of student readiness for college and beyond.

When: Wednesday, July 7 – Friday, July 9, 2021 (exact start & end time TBD)

Where: Virtually, from your computer.

What: This symposium is designed to introduce educators to a wide range of teaching and learning resources for practical use in the 21st-century classroom. Presenters will share their knowledge on teaching information literacy instruction, writing, using primary resources, bridging the digital divide, and related topics that will prepare secondary students for success in college and beyond. The format will include formal presentations, breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect with educators around New York State. This symposium is presented by and for educators in New York State, and we welcome the perspective of guests from other regions who will join as presenters and attendees.

Who: Presenters and target audience include but are not limited to:

Secondary school teachers, librarians, administrators
Academic librarians, professors, administrators
First year college transition specialists
Public librarians – both YA and Adult Services
Public historians and cultural heritage institution educators
Students (recent HS graduates and first-year college students)
Others invested in student success with High School to College Transition

PILLARS Symposium
2021-07-09 09:30 - 16:30, 2021-07-08 09:30 - 17:00, 2021-07-07 09:30 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The PILLARS Symposium:

Preparation, Information Literacy, Libraries, Academic Resources,
and 21st Century Skills for Transitioning from Secondary School to College

Why: A three-day symposium that will bring educators and librarians together to share knowledge on the topic of student readiness for college and beyond.

When: Wednesday, July 7 – Friday, July 9, 2021

Where: Virtually, from your computer.

What: This symposium is designed to introduce educators to a wide range of teaching and learning resources for practical use in the 21st-century classroom. Presenters will share their knowledge on teaching information literacy instruction, writing, using primary resources, bridging the digital divide, and related topics that will prepare secondary students for success in college and beyond. The format will include formal presentations, breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect with educators around New York State. This symposium is presented by and for educators in New York State, and we welcome the perspective of guests from other regions who will join as presenters and attendees.

Who: Presenters and target audience include but are not limited to:

Secondary school teachers, librarians, administrators
Academic librarians, professors, administrators
First year college transition specialists
Public librarians – both YA and Adult Services
Public historians and cultural heritage institution educators
Students (recent HS graduates and first-year college students)
Others invested in student success with High School to College Transition

The PILLARS Symposium
2021-07-07 - 2021-07-09 | NY, United States
The PILLARS Symposium:

Preparation, Information Literacy, Libraries, Academic Resources,
and 21st Century Skills for Transitioning from Secondary School to College is Calling for Proposals!

Why: A three-day symposium that will bring educators and librarians together to share knowledge on the topic of student readiness for college and beyond.

When: Wednesday, July 7 – Friday, July 9, 2021 (exact start & end time TBD)

Where: Virtually, from your computer.

What: This symposium is designed to introduce educators to a wide range of teaching and learning resources for practical use in the 21st-century classroom. Presenters will share their knowledge on teaching information literacy instruction, writing, using primary resources, bridging the digital divide, and related topics that will prepare secondary students for success in college and beyond. The format will include formal presentations, breakout sessions, and opportunities to connect with educators around New York State. This symposium is presented by and for educators in New York State, and we welcome the perspective of guests from other regions who will join as presenters and attendees.

Who: Presenters and target audience include but are not limited to:

Secondary school teachers, librarians, administrators
Academic librarians, professors, administrators
First year college transition specialists
Public librarians – both YA and Adult Services
Public historians and cultural heritage institution educators
Students (recent HS graduates and first-year college students)
Others invested in student success with High School to College Transition

We encourage applications from inter-disciplinary presenters (e.g. faculty & librarian, teacher & student, or public & school librarian).

DHPSNY Webinar: Environmental Monitoring - Getting Started
2021-07-06 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
What should you think about when establishing an environmental monitoring plan? What is a datalogger, and how do you select the right one? What are the basic tools needed to implement an environmental monitoring plan? Join Chloe Houseman, Paper Conservator at the Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts, as she explores the importance of managing the environment in collections spaces and offers guidance on how to do so.

SCRLC Webinar: Naviating the New Normal - Emotionally Adjusting to Pandemic Re-entry
2021-07-02 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In this workshop, we’ll take a deep breath and gently explore the fact that it will “never be 2019” again. What impact does this new reality have on how we work, live, play, and dream? Assuming that the “old 2019 ways of working” will eventually return is usually a set-up for undue stress-yet there are powerful reasons that we cling to the past while ignoring current realities. The only permanence we find is indeed impermanence.
For many of us, the multiple unknowns and interpretations, conflicting information about COVID-19 and its impacts, can cause stress and/or anxiety. Whether through enhancing resiliency, building new coping mechanisms, or leading the workforce of tomorrow, many of us “rallied,” but may still be left feeling fatigued, exhausted, and/or ambivalent. And some of us are tired of being told we need to be “resilient.” What’s a busy, often overtasked employee to do?
Since we cannot go backward nor forward, the power of “right now” has never been more important for leaders at this moment in time.
Learning objectives of this interactive course are as follows:
(a) Participants will gain increased confidence and skill in “navigating the new normal,” during this particular moment in time;
(b) Through an effective set of mindfulness-based questions and gentle inquiry, workshop participants will gain a more robust understanding of how the body and mind react to stress and change and learn ways to re-train the mind related to thoughts and the stress our minds can create for us as we adjust to pandemic re-entry;
(c) An exploration of the benefits and deficits of nostalgia will be explored; and
(d) Best practices will be offered to look at what this “new normal” will mean for individuals, teams, workplaces, and societies. A variety of prompts, break-out sessions, discussions, and interactive activities will allow for building a mindful approach to managing stress, change, differences, challenges, and opportunities in this “new normal” as together, we prepare ourselves and our teams for pandemic re-entry.
Outcomes/Take-Aways –
• More confidence in navigating stress, change, and difficulties in the “new normal.”
• Increased understanding of the impact of stress, runaway thoughts, and tension on the body, mind, and spirit and ways to interrupt stressful patterns.
• Ability to identify best practices for reducing stress and anxiety in the face of impermanence and navigating “return to work” scenarios.

Bio: Michelle Courtney Berry is an expert in marketing, brand management, organizational communication, and the science behind creating mindful workplaces. Internationally recognized as a meditation teacher, workplace wellness consultant, and inspirational health and wellness evangelist, Michelle is a highly regarded expert on the psychology of workplace behavior and its impact on employee retention, image, and your bottom line. Her track record of success spans over 20 years of deep experience helping visionaries lead happier, healthier, more productive lives. From speaking to training to coaching, performing, and writing, Michelle has impacted over 350,000 people worldwide. In so doing, she’s collaborated with some of the world’s top business leaders, athletes, entertainers, corporations, start-ups, and nonprofits. Michelle has taught communications to undergraduate and graduate students at some of our nation’s leading community colleges, colleges, and universities. She holds a graduate degree in Organizational/Risk Communication from Cornell University and has been a 2x SWSW and 2x TEDx speaker who has spoken over 4,500 times since 1990. Find out more at: michellecourtneyberry.com.

ESLN Webinar: The CASE Act for Libraries
2021-06-30 14:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement Act, known as the CASE Act, was enacted on December 27, 2020. The act creates a three member panel, the Copyright Claims Board to handle small copyright claims. Join this program to learn more about what this means for libraries.
Our speaker, Dr. Tomas A. Lipinski, will review the CASE Act provisions and procedures. The session will include general liability and protections for libraries under existing law. In addition, he will target the CASE Act provisions designed to address fears of copyright trolling. The advantages of participation in the process will be discussed. He will briefly review the existing service provider protections that are available to libraries, as well as the new small claims process that allows copyright holders and users to send a take-down notice or counter-notification to bring the matter before the new Copyright Claims Board. He will touch on the likely regulations the Copyright Office may issue in the coming months.
Professor Lipinski is the Dean of the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. He completed his Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Marquette University Law School, received the Master of Laws (LL.M.) from The John Marshall Law School, Chicago, and the Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Lipinski has worked in a variety of legal settings including the private, public and non-profit sectors. He has written many articles, book chapters, and monographs on the law and libraries.
There will be time for Questions & Answers during the webinar. Registrants are also invited to submit their questions prior to the webinar. Questions received by June 23 will receive priority.
Free to ESLN Members. Registration is required. Please note that this webinar will not be recorded.
If you have any questions, contact Susan D’Entremont at susan@cdlc.org.

DHPSNY Webinar: Identifying Endangered Media Formats
2021-06-30 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Endangered media formats such as floppy disks, u-matic tapes, and data tapes pose difficult preservation questions for collecting institutions. These increasingly obsolete media formats are sometimes pushed to the side when organizing and preserving archival collections, simply because we often don’t know what to do with them. Join Julia Novakovic, Archivist at The Strong National Museum of Play, as she shares her experience with identifying and caring for endangered media formats. This webinar will also address topics such as developing surveys for media collections, finding reference information on these formats, and determining next steps for what you might want to do once you have these numbers.

NNYLN Webinar: Virtual Private Networks - Your Virtual Home Away from Home
2021-06-29 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Description:

You’ve heard this on the news or in that pesky Youtube sponsored Ad: The Internet is full of hackers, rogues and villains! Quick! Subscribe to our Super Safe (TM) VPN service to protect yourself now!

Do you really need a VPN to stay safe on the Internet? The answer is: probably not.

This session will answer the following:

What are Virtual Private Networks?
What situations are they typically used in?
What can they protect against?
And if you’re going to subscribe and use a VPN service, what should you look for?

This session will be recorded.

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: Defend Yourself - Safer Libraries, Two-Part Series
2021-06-23 10:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Libraries and their employees face challenges in handling difficult or threatening situations while providing good service to their communities. Defend Yourself helps libraries address these challenges with a comprehensive training that covers de-escalation, active bystander skills, boundary setting, and empowerment self-defense.
This training is experiential, trauma-informed, and will help:

Promote a safe and respectful workplace for all staff,
Maintain good, productive relationships with patrons,
Create a shared toolbox of skills for dealing with difficult patrons and any harassment among staff,
Build relationships in which staff can rely on each other for help in dealing with harassment and other stressful situations, and
Address organizational challenges around safety, including communication and building design.

Over the course of the two-part series staff will learn the following skills:

Avoidance and prevention
Assertiveness, direct communication, and boundary-setting
De-escalation
Bystander intervention

About the Presenters:
Farah Fosse is a Licensed Graduate Social Worker with a focus on trauma-informed care as well as group and community-based work. Farah brings more than 15 years of experience leading a team of community organizers working with low-income D.C. residents. She also brings clinical experience working with people with serious mental illness as well as co-occurring issues including homelessness and substance abuse. Farah has been an instructor with Defend Yourself for almost 15 years and has led the Safer Libraries trainings since their beginning over four years ago.
Xitlalli Velasquez (she/her/hers)
I am originally from Los Angeles, Tongva Land, and have been living in the DMV-Piscataway Land for the past eight years. I come to Defend Yourself with a background in housing/tenant organizing. I am committed to loving and caring for myself and my communities. I am honored to be able to teach with Defend Yourself and bring community solutions to community problems, and learn from each other about ways to keep us safe. I strongly believe that intervening in harmful situations instead of relying on policing is a path toward abolition and reinvesting in life giving institutions.
Live captioning will be provided.
Registrants are expected to attend both sessions. They will not be recorded.

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for four 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.

LILRC Webinar: NASA and the Navajo Nation - A 16 Year Collaboration Based on Relationship, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination
2021-06-22 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The NASA and the Navajo Nation Partnership is an ongoing collaboration that has facilitated the co-creation of numerous educational materials, workshops, and camps for Navajo youth. Their work flows from the understanding that Indigenous knowledge systems and Western science reflect, resonate with, and reinforce one another, and affirm each other as valid, valuable, and vital. NASA’s Culturally-Based, Dual-Learning methodology prioritizes Indigenous knowledge – which is taught first in the programs, always and only by Indigenous educators and Elders, using Indigenous languages and pedagogies, in Indigenous places. Afterward, corresponding Western STEM concepts are conveyed by experts in those fields. This method reinforces for Native youth that their cultural knowledge systems, practices, and technologies, are important, sophisticated, alive and well, and hold information that is just being explored by the Western STEM fields today. This provides a critical lens and asset-based perspective from which to be grounded as they approach the learning of Western STEM.
Presenter Daniella Scalice is the Education and Communications Lead for NASA’s Astrobiology Program. Her background is in molecular biology and filmmaking. Her work is devoted to ensuring youth of all colors, cultures, genders, abilities, walks of life, and ways of loving and praying have equal access to opportunities in STEM, and are supported to excel in everything they do, especially toward healthy social, cultural, and economic lifeways. Daniella lives and works on the lands of the Piscataway People in the occupied territories known today as Annapolis, Maryland.
This program is being presented in cooperation with NASA’s Solar System Ambassador program. For more information on the program, visit https://solarsystem1.jpl.nasa.gov/ssa/home.cfm
