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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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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Information Literacy Instruction / HS to College Transition SIG
Date: Wednesday, August 14
Time: 10:00am – 11:00am
Location: online
Facilitators: Brittany Costa, Marist College
The meeting is open to you to share ideas, network, and re-connect. We will have a conversation between academic, public, and school librarians to talk about issues relating to how library instruction can help students transition to college. You can view the notes from the previous meeting here: https://libguides.senylrc.org/SIGs/Instruction
In this meeting, we will talk about plans for the coming 2024/2025 school year! Both secondary school librarians and academic librarians are invited to share knowledge about preparing high school students for college. We will also discuss this article about Information Literacy.
This event is free for all Southeastern members and affiliate members. (Members of members.) The group will meet via Zoom.
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.
Registration is required. This event will be recorded and posted online.
This session is sponsored by Empire State Library Network. If you have any questions, contact Tessa Killian: killian@senylrc.org.
Resource Sharing SIG
This month’s topic: Resources available from the New York State Library
Join us for the next Resource Sharing SIG, in-person at Southeastern’s office! We will be joined by Emily Wager and Danielle Rosenberg from New York State Library’s Inter-library Loan Department. They will be providing a short presentation on the resources that are available through ILL at the State Library.
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.
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Speaker Bios:
Emily Wager is the Associate Librarian of Acquisitions/Interlibrary Loan-Document Delivery Unit at the New York State Regent Joseph E. Bowman Jr. Research Library located in Albany, NY. As a library worker since 2010 Emily has always been involved in some aspect of resource sharing. Prior to the NYS Library she worked at Capital District Library Council (CDLC) and Empire Library Delivery (ELD). Being a part of the resource sharing community and seeing it evolve is part of what has kept Emily going.
Danielle Rosenberg is the Librarian 1 for Interlibrary Loan-Document Delivery Unit with the New York State Regent Joseph E. Bowman Jr. Research Library. Danielle started her career at the Sage colleges where she processed ILL borrowing requests. From there she worked with NYS Department of Corrections and Community Supervision. Danielle returned to the ILL world with St. Peter’s Hospital Library and then moved on to the State Library. Danielle enjoys ILL and providing access to materials that people didn’t otherwise have.
Conservation and Preservation Grant Writing Workshop
NYSED Conservation and Preservation Discretionary Grant Writing Workshop
A grant writing application workshop will be conducted by the New York State Education Department, New York State Library, Division of Library Development, Conservation/ Preservation Discretionary Grant Program to inform prospective applicants of available grants and aid them in preparing for 2024/2025 applications.
The purpose of the New York State Discretionary Grant Program is to encourage the proper care and accessibility of research materials in the State, to promote the use and development of guidelines and standards for conservation/ preservation practices, and to support the growth of local and cooperative preservation programs.
The Discretionary Grant Program provides modest financial support for projects that contribute to the preservation of significant research materials in libraries, archives, historical societies and other agencies within the State of New York, whether by conducting surveys, improving collections storage environments, reformatting or treating collections or other preservation activities described in the guidelines.
The workshop will include a review of the general guidelines and a step-by-step review of the instructions for preparing a Discretionary Grant application. Included will be a description of the types of activities and projects that will be able to be funded through the program. Considerable time will be allowed for questions, and representative examples of successful (and unsuccessful) applications from previous years will be discussed. By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to successfully write a grant application that meets program requirements.
Who Should Attend: Librarians, archivists, curators, and volunteers working in these types of organizations interested in applying for a Discretionary Grant are encouraged to attend the program.
This workshop is of no cost to all participants. However, registration is required online. The event will be recorded and posted online.
The DigPres SIG will focus on strategies, activities and technologies relating to preserving digital content for the long-term. This meeting’s topic: Fixity and Checksums. Description: After an introduction to the topic, Kim Gianfrancesco (Vassar College Digital Preservation Librarian) will provide a demo of Quick Hash GUI, the free tool she uses to incorporate fixity checking into her digital preservation workflow.
Leadership and Management Skills SIG
Date: Friday, October 25, 2024
Time: 9:30 am – 11:30 am
Facilitator: Crystal Middleton, Elting Memorial Library
Location: Southeastern NY Library Resources Council
This month we will be following up on “From DEI to IDEA: where have we been and where are we going (in libraries).” We will continue the conversation from the most recent meeting and hear from you about what kind of leadership training you want and need.
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.