Southeastern NY, Library Resources Council, offers ongoing professional development opportunities. These come in the form of in-person classes, workshops, lectures, and webinars. These classes help to enrich our members’ professional experience and can be used to fulfill some requirements needed to maintain public librarian certificates.
Are you looking for information about a past event? Click here for an archive of recent Southeastern events.
Are you looking for similar events? Click here for a calendar of all Empire State Library Network events.
Southeastern welcomes people of all abilities to programs. If ASL interpreter services, captioning or audio description are needed, contact Carolyn Bennett Glauda – carolyn@senylrc.org or leave a message in the notes field to request those services when you register. Please register as soon as you know you will be attending. Requesting accommodations as early as possible is critical. Requests made at least one week in advance will help to ensure availability.
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Exploring the SEAL Catalog Webinar
SEAL is Southeastern’s resource-sharing platform. SEAL connects libraries of all types in the Southeastern N.Y. region and allows them to easily share books, DVDs, and other resources. It is available at no cost to all libraries in the region. This webinar series will introduce you to how to use the service in your library and demonstrate best practices for finding and loaning materials.
Have you ever wondered how the SEAL catalog works? This upcoming webinar will provide a deep dive into the catalog, addressing everything you ever wanted to know (and more!).
Wednesday, May 22: 2pm-3pm
Facilitators: John Ansley, Marist and Margaret Stanne, Elting Library
Topic: Archival Policies
In this month’s meeting, we will talk about documents that help guide the operations of archives and special collections (deeds of gift, collection development, collection use and handling, etc.).
The Archives Special Interest Group meets to talk about the art and craft of working with archival materials. Individuals from libraries, archives, cultural heritage institutions, and other places with historic documents are welcome to join the conversation.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion SIG
Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Facilitators: Tracy Dunstan & Morgan Strand, Nyack Library
Topic for this meeting: EDI Support Resources for Library Workers. The Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion SIG meets to discuss anti-racism and actions that library workers can take in order to create a more just library environment for all.
Resource Sharing SIG
This month’s meeting topic: Niche Resources for ILL
Join us for the next Resource Sharing SIG, in-person at the Newburgh Free Library! The meeting will be held in the brand-new Tech Hub at NFL.
This SIG provides a friendly space for resource sharing professionals to meet, discuss workflows, and share resources. The Resource Sharing Special Interest Group (SIG) meets to discuss issues of Interlibrary Loan, delivery, union catalogs, and other related topics. The members of the group are a mix of full-time and part-time, degreed and non-degreed librarians, and come from all library types. Registration for this event is free and open to all.
Date: Thursday, June 20, 2024
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
online via Zoom
Topic: Storage and management of digital files.
Several members of our HRVH/NYH community have recently reached out to Southeastern to discuss storage and management of the files created through their digitization projects. So let’s talk about it! Whether you are feeling out of control or have it all under control, this meeting is for you.
Leadership and Management Skills SIG
Date: Monday, June 24, 2024
Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm
Facilitator: Crystal Middleton, Elting Memorial Library
Location: online via Zoom
This month’s topic is “From DEI to IDEA: where have we been and where are we going (in libraries).” This will be a continuation of the conversation we started during the March 2024 meeting. You can view the notes of that discussion here.
This group is for library workers of all library types who handle administrative tasks and are becoming leaders in the field. If you aspire to or are currently working as, a: director, assistant director, manager, program manager, trustee, or serve in a leadership role within a professional organization, this meeting is for you! Topics we will cover in this meeting may include:
- Supervising other staff, volunteers, and/or interns
- Introducing and running programs and services at the library
- Onboarding new employees
- Getting professional development for management skills
- Doing advocacy work on behalf of the library
- Creating and maintaining a budget
- Work/life balance in the light of growing work responsibilities
- Networking with other library workers who may become future colleagues
- Staying committed to social justice issues
- Working within union structures
- Influencing the culture of the library from within
- Deciding when and if to apply for different positions
The nature of the conversation will be based on the interests of the people who attend and may change from meeting to meeting. You can view the notes from previous meetings here.
RDM Virtual Workshop
Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work
Tuesday, July 16 & Wednesday, July 17, 2024
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Presenters: Christina Chan-Park & Laura Palumbo for ACRL
Cost: $100 per seat
(only available to individuals in New York State. Registration is for individuals. Your fee includes materials for each person, and there is no group viewing option. There is a limit of 60 total participants, preference will go to liaison librarians.)
About the program:
Research data management has emerged as a need among academic researchers and liaisons are building skills in response. This two-day workshop will assist liaisons to identify their existing skills and mindsets that transfer to research data management services and then create a learning plan for the RDM specific knowledge needed to serve their subject disciplines. Tools, hints, and tricks will be shared that facilitate partnerships on campus with disciplinary faculty and with other RDM service providers.
Who should attend:
This workshop is intended for liaisons who are seeking to engage with research data management for the first time, or who have a very basic knowledge of research data management. This workshop is an introductory level experience. Attendees are not expected to have previous experience with research data management. The primary audience is subject liaison librarians, secondary audience include senior library administrators, middle management and department heads, and technical services librarians and staff. Other campus partners such as Office of Research, Sponsored Programs, Technology Transfer, IRB, or campus IT may be interested but would be a tertiary audience.
Learning Outcomes:
Workshop participants will be able to…
- Identify data within the research process and lifecycle in order to articulate the role of the libraries in the management of data to researchers.
- Learn how to develop expertise in the nuances of disciplinary requirements for data management in order to educate their faculty and students about data best practices for their discipline.
- Articulate specific existing skills that they already possess as librarians which transfer to data services in order to begin building a toolkit of research data management skills.
- Identify campus partners in research data management in order to create an environment of research data management support for their faculty.
- Articulate the parts of a data management plan in order to describe its role as a living document within a research project.
- Apply their relevant prior knowledge of their disciplines in order to create a research data management interview plan in order to facilitate faculty engagement
This program is produced by Empire State Library Network and SUNY Office of Library Information Services.