SCRLC NEWS

September 2, 2022

SCRLC will be closed Monday, September 5th in observance of Labor Day.

Have a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend.

Cheery Friday Greetings,

For many months, Claire and I have been participating in a NYS Archives Partnership Trust's Consider the Source New York: Teaching with Historical Records project that organized Diversity and Collaborative Knowledge Program and Institutes, made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. 

The project is not unlike SCRLC’s Teaching with Primary Sources of several years ago, which brought together historical societies and museums with social studies teacher-school librarian teams to develop lesson plans around primary source documents to be used by the wider community.

This project goes a step further in supporting the digitization of regional materials relating to historically oppressed, marginalized, and underrepresented groups. The digitized materials are added to both New York Heritage and Consider the Source, which means that the educators and librarians writing lesson plans will have more local/regional resources with which to work.

Consider the Source initially followed the state’s 10 economic development regions (SCRLC spans 5), so we’ve been involved with the Southern Tier group. Some of you reading this may be working with one of the other regional CTS projects. Our Southern Tier team consists of Nicole Waskie-Laura and Pat Wagner from Broome-Tioga BOCES School Library System, Diana Wendell from DCMO BOCES School Library System, Sarah Reid from Four County Library System, Project Coordinator Jordan Jace from the NYS Archives Partnership Trust, Claire, and me.

Our Regional Teachers’ Workshop is scheduled for November 22 in Johnson City. This one-day training is open to all School Librarians and Classroom Educators (CTLE Credit is available).

Wherever you are in the SCRLC region--if you have a teacher-social studies team that might be interested in participating, please let me know!

Are you a historical society or museum with material to contribute? We might be able to help you! Contact Claire or me for more information.

Have a happy and safe Labor Day weekend!

Yours in partnership,

Mary-Carol Lindbloom

Executive Director

From CBS Sunday Morning - A great story on The Library 2022

And another library-related story from NPR: Local libraries have become a major political and cultural battleground

After today, Kevin Reynolds will be leaving his position as Director of the Corning Museum of Glass Rakow Research Library to serve as Associate Provost for Library and Information Technology Services at the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. The move will be a homecoming for him--he had worked at Sewanee earlier in his career, and they have family in that area. We are happy for Kevin and Sewanee but will miss his engagement in the region. During his time at Rakow, he served on SCRLC's Plan of Service 2021-2026 Design Team, the Membership Dues & Fees Task Group, participated in the member meetups and conversations, and helped Jessica and Mary-Carol with career services. All the best, Kevin!

Houghton College is now Houghton University.

https://www.houghton.edu/community/the-wesleyan-churchs-oldest-established-college-becomes-houghton-university/

Save the Date for our Annual Meeting. Friday, October 28, 10am-Noon. Featuring our digital equity discussion with Lauren Moore, NYS Librarian and our annual membership business meeting.

Approaches to Trauma-Informed Medical Librarianship Seats are Available

Last month, SCRLC's Hospital Library Services Program sponsored a Medical Library Association continuing education course, Approaches to Trauma-Informed Medical Librarianship Seats. Participants gained an understanding of trauma, trauma-informed librarianship, and of the importance of trauma-informed health sciences librarianship.

We do have 12 seats available to watch the recorded webinar via MLA's MyLearning. Although designed for medical and health sciences librarians, the course would be useful to those working in all settings. Watching the recording still enables one to earn CE credit, if needed. If you would like one of the seats, contact Mary-Carol Lindbloom at mclindbloom@scrlc.org.

Join us for this webinar series exploring various services the Empire State Library Network has to offer.

Ask the Archivist, October 28, 10:00am

Ask the Archivist is a service for members of ESLN councils that provides answers to basic questions regarding archives and special collections. This is a pilot program that will be evaluated after July 2023.

Tech-Talk Webinars:

Transforming Ugly Duckling Documents Into Swans, September 14, 3pm

Stop Explaining Over and Over by Creating a Loom Video, September 28, 3pm

SAVE THE DATE

What Have You Been Dealt?: Resource Sharing User Group Workshop

Online - October 26 - 1:00 to 4:00 pm

Student with parent donning beanie in Egbert Union, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, group view taken September 6, 1966.

Ithaca College Archives & Special Collections

NEW COLLECTION

Eve Snyder, project manager for HistoryForge at The History Center in Tompkins County recently digitized a collection of Clock System maps with the help of intern Gillian.

Rural areas had circles applied to the nearest town, each circle was segmented into 12 slices (like a clock) with concentric rings, and each farm within each slice was given a different letter. The effect was an address like "3-1-F" for a farm due east of the town, not as close to town center as 3-0-F and not as far as 3-2-F (seen in this picture). See others here.