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.
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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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Meet the NYLA President
Date: Thursday, April 3, 2025
Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Location: Southeastern’s Conference Room
21 S. Elting Corners Rd., Highland, NY
This is an opportunity for academic library staff and others to meet with the President of the New York Library Association (NYLA), Tim Spindler, to discuss the statewide library association. Additionally, this is a chance to meet with NYLA Executive Director AnnaLee Dragon and Director of Government Relations and Advocacy Max Prime.
Registration is now open!
SENYCon is an annual conference to highlight the unique talents and skills that library professionals in the Southeastern region hold. This event is made possible due to an outpouring of enthusiasm from our members, and the event is open to all Southeastern members.
This year’s event will occur on Friday, April 4, 2025, with an inclement weather date of Friday, April 11, 2025. We received a record number of presentations and posters this year, so come prepared to fill your head with knowledge. This marks 10 years of SENYCon!
Cost to attend: $12 for all attendees (includes brunch, snacks, and giveaways!)
Livestream registration is free.
Please see our LibGuide for a full program of events, as well as the archives of previous years.
This year’s program at a glance – note that times are subject to change:
9:15 – 9:35: Sustainable Libraries – 10 Years Later, Claudia Depkin, Sustainable Libraries Initiative
9:40 – 9:50: Take Care update, Kate Bellody, SUNY New Paltz
9:55 – 10:05: Still Growing, Sara Scoggan, Newburgh Free Library
10:05 – 10:20: BREAK
10:20 – 10:40: Second Chance High School at Your Library, Richard Morbeth, Finkelstein Memorial Library, Laura Wolven, Finkelstein Memorial Library
10:45 – 11:05: Turning the Page for Pollinators, Sarah Holsted, Southeastern, Moshe Siegel, Southeastern
11:05 – 12:00: BRUNCH
12:00 – 12:15: Cutter Numbers and Racism: What You Can Do, Laura Streett, Vassar College
12:20 – 12:40: Wi-Fi Beyond the Library Building, Katie Scott-Childress, Rosendale Library, Laurie Shedrick, Mid-Hudson Library System
12:45 – 1:00: Google Earth: A Programmer’s Guide to the World (For Free), Mike Maggin, Monroe Free Library
1:00 – 1:20: BREAK
1:20 – 1:40: Pathway from a 2020 SENYCon Presentation to a Newly Created Position, Jen Park, Ramapo Catskill Library System
1:45 – 2:00: Presenting a Renovation Through Video, Veronica Reynolds, New City Library
2:05 – 2:20: “Aliens Are Coming! Assessing Student Understanding of the Connections Between Historical Hoaxes and Modern Misinformation”, Kristin McClune, Coxsackie-Athens Central School District
2:25 – 2:45: Update: Librarian Infiltration on Campus: Multi-faceted Outreach Methods, Tess Hartman-Cullen, Ulster County Community College
2:45 – 3:00: Stepping into 2025: The RCLS Step Challenge, Joanna Goldfarb, Ramapo Catskill Library System, Meaghan Doyle, Ramapo Catskill Library System
POSTER: From Closet to Collection: Saving Archival Analog Audio-visual Materials from Obsolescence in the Bard College Archives & Special Collections, Palash Bosgang, Bard College, Stevenson Library-Archives & Special Collections
POSTER: Breaking Barriers: Achieving Network Efficiency Beyond 100 MB, Zachary Spalding, Southeastern
POSTER: What You Can Really Do with a Seed Library, Bethany Vredenburg, Poughkeepsie Public Library
POSTER: Launching new products to staff, Laurie Shedrick, Mid-Hudson Library System, Kathryn Brew
POSTER: Editing and Publishing Two Histories – Getting to the Final Products, Mary Jo Russell, Vassar Brothers Medical Center/ Nuvance Health (West)
Impactful Mentoring (ESLN Academic Leadership Series)
Join us for the next event in this series, Impactful Mentoring! Many librarians can point to a mentor who significantly impacted their careers. Sometimes these are found through formal mentor programs or through other strategies. This session will focus on the goals of mentorship and how to create effective mentor/mentee relationships.
Topics discussed may include:
– Goals of the mentorship relationship: professional/organizational acclimation, career development, leadership development, etc.
– How to build a successful mentoring relationship.
– Types of external support needed for a successful mentoring relationship.
– How to find a good mentor
– How to know when it is time to end a mentorship.
Panelists: Melissa Jadlos (St. John Fisher University); Curtis Kendrick (Binghamton University); Carol-Anne Germain (University at Albany)
About this series: This series of six 90-minute panel discussions will feature academic library leaders from across New York State discussing various topics relevant to new and emerging leaders. Panelists represent a wide variety of academic institutions and provide a diverse set of experiences. As part of each session, participants will have opportunities to network with other new and emerging leaders through breakout rooms and small group discussions in addition to the larger panel discussion. These sessions will not be recorded.
Free to Southeastern & ESLN Members. This event will be held on Zoom Meeting; registration is required.
All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance for 1.5 hours of CE credit.
Live transcription will be available. We are committed to offering inclusive, diverse, and equitable services to all of our members. To request specific accommodations, please contact ESLN at least five business days ahead of this program.
This event is sponsored by Empire State Library Network.
This seminar is a chance to pose your “What ifs” “Whys” and “Howabouts” for employment practices in the future. Stephanie “Cole” Adams will answer your questions about HR-related issues in this session designed by you!
This is the fourth event in our 4-part “Ask the HR Expert” series.
About the presenter: Stephanie “Cole” Adams is an attorney who represents libraries, educators, students, and creative professionals. Cole provides the Ask the Lawyer service that New York State’s nine library resource councils provide to each library in the state. She is a member of the ALA Lawyers for Libraries faculty, the Vice Chair of the Erie County Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Committee, and served as the General Counsel of Niagara University for over ten years. Cole is a proud graduate of SUNY Buffalo School of Law and Hampshire College.
We invite you to submit a question for the presenter – there will be a place to do that during the registration process. The deadline to submit questions is Friday, April 11, 2025.
Free to ESLN Members. Registration is required. This webinar will be recorded.
This session is sponsored by Empire State Library Network.
Recruitment and Retention (ESLN Academic Leadership Series)
Join us for the next event in this series, Recruitment and Retention! This session will focus on the strategies libraries have used to attract staff members at all levels and on strategies our libraries and institutions have implemented to help retain employees.
Topics discussed may include:
– Strategies to recruit a diverse pool of job candidates
– How to work within limitations institutions may place on recruitment efforts
– Successful interview strategies
– Managing virtual versus in-person interviews
– Effective elements of onboarding plans for new employees
– Implementing plans or programs aimed at retaining or incentivizing employees
Panelists: Liz King (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute); Elaine L. Westbrooks (Cornell University); Andrea Falcone (Binghamton University)
Facilitator: Cara Howe (Colgate University)
This series of six 90-minute panel discussions will feature academic library leaders from across New York State discussing various topics relevant to new and emerging leaders. Panelists represent a wide variety of academic institutions and provide a diverse set of experiences. As part of each session, participants will have opportunities to network with other new and emerging leaders through breakout rooms and small group discussions in addition to the larger panel discussion. These sessions will not be recorded.
All attendees will receive a certificate of attendance for 1.5 hours of CE credit.
Free to Southeastern & ESLN Members. This event will be held on Zoom Meeting; registration is required.
Live transcription will be available. We are committed to offering inclusive, diverse, and equitable services to all of our members. To request specific accommodations, please contact ESLN at least five business days ahead of this program.
This event is sponsored by Empire State Library Network.