COVID-19 Announcement

Update: March 25, 2020

We held our member all-call yesterday. Please see the call notes here for the list of links and ideas we generated on the call.
The next call will be on March 31, 2020 at 1:00pm. If you think you can attend, please register here: https://senylrc.regfox.com/southeastern-member-all-call-2
We are in the process of scheduling SIGs and other online meetings, and you can sign up for them here.

Update: March 18, 2020

Southeastern is committed to supporting members during this difficult time. Due to concerns around the spread of Coronavirus (COVID-19),  we have closed our office and suspended in-person events and meetings. Southeastern staff are working remotely, and our services remain operational. We are accessible via email and voicemail during normal business hours, Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 4:30pm. 

All call for members: So that we can connect to talk about strategies for providing service during an extended break, and to check in to see how everyone is doing, we have scheduled an all member webinar for Tuesday, March 24, 10 am. Everyone is welcome.

Share your library/organization service status: We created an open spreadsheet for members to share the status of their organization’s operations during the COVID-19 challenge. The information you provide will help other Southeastern members. Access to the document is here: https://tinyurl.com/sy9tkfo

Professional development:  SENYCon, scheduled for April 3, 2020, will be online this year. Some of the details will change over the next few weeks. In the meantime,  you can register for the event here: https://www.senylrc.org/SenyCon. We are working with members to create un-regularly scheduled and informal virtual Special Interest Group meetings so that we can keep in touch with our networks. We will update you with times and dates for these and other programs to be held online as we schedule them. 

Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) resources: Southeastern has compiled a list of resources to help you and your patrons learn about and prepare for the impact of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19): https://libguides.senylrc.org/InCaseOfEmergency
Thank you for your patience and understanding during this unprecedented situation. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Tessa Killian, killian@senylrc.org.

March 16, 2020

Emergency Preparedness LibGuide

Southeastern has compiled this list of resources to help its members and their patrons learn about and prepare for the impact of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) in their communities. This is a rapidly developing situation, so please re-check the websites regularly for updated information.

Please keep an eye on this space, we will update you with any information about closings or cancelations should they have to occur.

Big News in Digital Collections!

HRVH has migrated to New York Heritage!

We are pleased to announce that Southeastern members’ digital collections are now discoverable through New York Heritage. Cross search our region’s collections with collections from across the state and learn more about the rich history of the Hudson River Valley. New York Heritage is a collaborative project of the Empire State Library Network, of which Southeastern is a member.

Hundreds of cultural organizations have contributed collections to New York Heritage resulting in over a quarter of a million historical resources. Those resources are as diverse as the organizations that participate. Visitors can learn about a countless number of topics and explore a wide variety of original formats.

To find resources, you can keyword search across all of the digital resources from the home page. You can also explore via contributing organization or digital collection. Once in the digital collections, there are options for filtering a set of results by subject, format, or location.

View the entire announcement here
 

2020 Census

We want to thank Mario Garcia and Carol Reiser from the US Census Bureau for joining us on Wednesday, August 14 for a short and deeply informative presentation on the role libraries and librarians will have in ensuring everyone in New York State is counted. If you would like more information on what was covered, please see the presentation and notes below.