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I'd like to rethink the SCHOAM meetups to be more useful for you all. To that end, on Wednesday, June 22 at 10 am, please join me to share (briefly!) what you're up to. I'd like this to imitate the casual chats you'd have at a conference: Did you hear about a really good project? See a useful webinar? Are you planning an exhibit on a particular topic? Are you struggling or succeeding with interns, outreach, funding, advocacy, processing, or preservation? Do you need to vent about some vocational frustrations?

New Collection: Flood of 1972 in Houghton

Hurricane Agnes swept across the Middle Atlantic states causing heavy, constant rain in June of 1972. Record-breaking floods followed, including in Allegany County, where the Genesee River crested at 23 feet on June 21 and crested again at 24 feet on June 23. Houghton College was largely spared because of its location on a hill, but these ten photos show the nearby flooding.

New Collection: Hurricane Agnes and the Flood of 1972 Collection

104 images collected and compiled by Kirk House of the Steuben County Historical Society, showing the widespread devastation caused by the 1972 flooding around Corning, Painted Post, and neighboring communities. Most of these images come from Kirk's fantastic book, The 1972 Flood in New York's Southern Tier, part of the Images of America Series. (I can't recommend the book enough!)

New Collection: Gravestone Art of Central New York

Volunteers with a passion for gravestone art are compiling their personal photographs and sharing them via the History Center in Tompkins County. This growing collection shows the development of gravestone art in CNY through the early decades of white settlement. Motifs like chubby angels, willows, and skulls appear across many counties, which provide these researchers some clues about early carvers, who they nickname things like "Sunburst Man" or "Open Urn Man" when names are unknown.

New Additions: The Cayuga & Seneca Lakes Craft Beverage Memory Project

This collection from the Edith B. Ford Memorial Library in Ovid (Seneca County) was funded by an IMLS grant. Archivist Monica Wilkinson Kelly interviewed dozens of vintners and brewers around the Finger Lakes and compiled this great set of oral histories. The library is also developing a traveling exhibit.

New Additions: COVID Memory Project of Chemung County

Archivist Rachel Dworkin continues to add oral history interviews, sharing the experiences of Chemung County residents during the pandemic. Recent additions talk about life as a SUNY Cortland student, the impact of the pandemic on outdoor recreation, and the local vaccination campaign.

Tru Vue, Inc. and the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation is offering grants of up to $3,000 for preservation and exhibitions, specifically for glazing applications and use of their Tru Vue laminated glass or museum acrylic. Read more here. Applications are due May 15.

Are you considering an afterschool program? Could you organize a day of service for kids on 9/11, MLK or Global Youth Service Day? Apply for a grant to support programs that involve more youth service.

Apply by July 15 to get a free, virtual consultation about your archival needs, preservation needs, or strategic planning. See a webinar about the assessments here.

These large scale grants can be used for all kinds of {large} projects, including digitization and inter-institution projects. Check out the list of last year awardees, too, for inspiration!

Teachers can earn CTLE credits in Oneonta this July at the History Day Boot Camp. Applications to participate are due May 15. Forward this flyer to someone you know!

Cortland County Historical Society was awarded a Bright Ideas grant by the CNY Community Foundation for the third year in a row. In 2022, they'll use the money to rehouse their photograph collection.

After more than a month of renovations, GOHS will reopen to show off their new first floor and exhibit, Small Community: Big Ideas. Join them on Friday, May 13 at 6:30 pm at 138 Main Street in Oneonta for opening remarks, tours, and live entertainment.

Who counts and who does the counting? Check out the History Center in Tompkins County's newest exhibit about the census. Beginning May 6, check out their new exhibit at the CAP ArtSpace Gallery called Unfolding: Timeline of Sexual Assault Activism in Tompkins County, which features Clothesline Project artwork from local survivors of sexual and domestic abuse.

CCHS has a charming new blog post by Monica, as she introduces herself as the new Museum Curator. She hails from Aurora (in Cayuga County). CCHS has also published a great video showcasing HistoryForge Elmira.

RSVP for tomorrow night's Spring Members' Reception at Fenimore Art Museum, featuring Victoria Wyeth, the guest curator for Fenimore's exhibition about her famously artistic family.

Many thanks to Richard Urban at Rakow Library for pointing this out: DLF is looking for proposals for their in-person events in Baltimore, October 9-13, 2022. Proposals are due May 9.

You might also be interested in the DLF's long list of special interest groups: DLF Community Calendar. Meetings are open to all, and cover topics like digital accessibility, inclusion, and metadata.

This list of projects was recently announced by the National Endowment for the Humanities and is a treasure trove of inspiration: NEH Announces $33.17 Million for 245 Humanities Projects Nationwide.

OCLC released a white paper in April called Reimagine Descriptive Workflows: A Community-informed Agenda for Reparative and Inclusive Descriptive Practice. George Mason University librarians published Ethical and Anti-Oppressive Metadata: A Collaboration Between Catalogers and Archivists at George Mason University Libraries. It's hard to know where to begin when tackling this subject, so these are helpful frameworks to start the work!

Thursday, May 5 at 1 pm

Thursday, May 5 at 2 pm

Thursday, May 5 at 6 pm, in Auburn or online

ACRL/NY User Experience: Journey Mapping : Getting into the Minds of Our Users

Friday, May 6 at 10:30 am

Tuesday, May 10 at 1 pm

Tuesday, May 10 at 4 pm

Wednesday, May 11 at 1 pm

Thursday, May 12 at 12 pm

Thursday, May 19 at 1 pm

Thursday, May 19 at 2 pm

Thursday, May 19 at 4 pm

Monday, May 23 - Wednesday, May 25

Tuesday, May 24 at 2 pm

Thursday, May 26 at 4 pm

Friday, May 29 at 10 am

SENLYRC's Annual Meeting, Keynote of Unbalanced: Censorship, Equity, and Freedom

Friday, June 3 from 10 am to 2 pm

Saturday, June 4 from 1 pm to 5 pm

Free virtual workshop by application, which are due May 23

Tuesdays, June 7, June 14, and June 21 from 5:30 - 7:30 pm

Free virtual workshops by application, which are due May 24

Tuesday, June 14 through Friday, July 15

That's all for this month! Send me an email if there's anything at your organization you'd like me to include in the next newsletter: clovell@scrlc.org | Claire Lovell, Digital Services Librarian