DIRECTOR'S CUP
Cheery Friday Greetings,
Happy National Library Week in two days! I hope this edition of the News finds you well!
We have been fairly consumed with ARPA, a telehealth project, and some digitization efforts, including collecting some oral histories for the Flood of 1972 exhibit under development. If you or anyone you know experienced the Flood of 1972 and would like to be interviewed, Claire Lovell would love to hear from you.
As some of you know, last month we bid farewell to Molly Brown, our outreach services librarian, who worked closely with the Hospital Library Services Program and resource sharing. We miss her and wish her the best in all of her future endeavors.
We continue to wait for news about library funding—and we will not hear until next week because both the Senate and Assembly adjourned on Thursday afternoon until Monday. The New York Times indicates that bail reform is a major sticking point, as are some other components. Hopefully state library aid is securely in the final budget at $123M. Hopefully we'll know by Tuesday.
It does mean that you have a couple of days to write to your legislators in support of library funding, if you’ve not yet had time.
The fastest, easiest way to reach your legislators (and the Governor’s office, too), is through the New York Library Association’s Online Advocacy Center page, which is located here. You’ll find summaries for the Senate's and the Assembly's one-house budgets, as well as the form to fill in your name, address, and contact information. When you click on the "submit" button, you’ll reach the editable message, which you can personalize.
The editable message includes a section for a personal example or story of how increased funding will benefit your library or library system—perhaps how a patron or a school class benefited. Remember to delete that paragraph if you are not including an example/story.
At SCRLC, we write personalized thank you letters to each legislator after Library Advocacy Day, in the final couple of weeks of budget negotiations--even if we didn’t get to visit with them. Usually they send an automatic response that the email has been received, and sometimes we get emails or even paper letters back from the legislators or their staffers. For example, Senator Pamela Helming wrote:
“Thank you so much for reaching out, it was a pleasure! Please be assured that I will be strongly advocating for continued investment in our local and statewide libraries. I look forward to continuing to work together in the future. Thank you for all that you do!”
Senator George Borrello’s office wrote:
“We thank you for all that you do. Libraries provide valuable lifelong impacts for students and the public and have continued to demonstrate their resiliency and ability to adapt to changing circumstances, despite inadequate funding from New York State. Please know that Senator Borrello will continue to advocate and if you need anything in the future, please don't hesitate to reach out to our office.”
Such letters reinforce for me how important it is to advocate for libraries and library systems. They are reminders to keep our legislators in the loop, and how much they are our partners and stakeholders.
Yours in partnership,
Mary-Carol Lindbloom
Executive Director
|
|
Technology and Digitization Grants Now Available for SCRLC Members
We are looking for projects that improve regional access and resource sharing through technology or digitization projects that allow materials to be accessed regionally through New York Heritage, New York State Historic Newspapers, and the Empire Archival Discovery Cooperative.
Applications are especially encouraged for:
- partnerships increasing representation of and with communities that have been historically and systematically oppressed;
-
geographically underrepresented communities in the SCRLC region;
- innovative approaches to availing digitized collections such as walking tours, virtual tours (e.g. participation in the 360 degree Empire State Immersive Experience project), and HistoryForge participation.
Applications should be sent electronically to Claire Lovell clovell@scrlc.org by Friday, April 15, 2022.
Click here for the application packet in PDF format. It is also available in Word format on the website (note that the website also lists previous grant recipients' projects).
Is this your first time applying? Do you have other questions? Feel free to contact Claire!
|
|
TAKE ACTION
ACRL Membership Funding for BIPOC Library Workers
The ACRL Board of Directors has approved funding for one year of ALA and ACRL membership for up to 25 library workers who identify as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC). This membership amounts to an annual savings ranging from $123 to $219 per membership for the recipient. To apply, please submit this application by May 1, 2022. Awardees will be notified by June 1, 2022, and the free membership will begin on July 1, 2022. More details are available on ACRL Insider.
Tompkins County’s Office of Human Rights has a two-part series, Critical Race Theory: Fact vs. Fiction–2 part series. Part I aired on March 28 and is available here. Part II is coming up on April 13 at 7:00 p.m.
|
|
Happy National Library Week and #NYLibraryWeek next week, April 4-7. Check out NYLA's page for ideas on how to observe and celebrate the week. |
|
MEMBER NEWS
The Southern Tier Library System
|
|
SCRLC MEETINGS & COMMUNITY CALLS
Next SCHOAM (special collections, historical organizations, archives & museums)
Wednesday, April 6, 2:00pm-3:00pm
Meeting ID: 715 709 544 | Call in: 1-646-876-9923 | Passcode: SCRLC
|
|
Thursday, May 12, 12:00pm-1:00pm
|
|
(The BIPOC Community Call will be on hiatus until June 8.) |
|
|
|
How to Run Your First Fundraising Campaign with Vanessa Chase Lockshin
April 12, 2-3:30pm
|
|
|
|
Libraries and First Amendment Audits: Ask the Lawyer Webinar with Stephanie "Cole" Adams
April 26, 1-2:30pm
|
|
Join us for this webinar series exploring various services the Empire State Library Network has to offer. On the last Friday of each month at 10am, come meet ESLN staff and service providers. |
|
Empire State Immersive Experiences with Jason (Jay) Barone, April 29
Ask the Lawyer with Stephanie "Cole" Adams, May 27
Ask Us 24/7 with Caitlin Kenney
June 24
Academic Overdrive with Christi Sommerfeldt, July 29
Empire Library Delivery with Maria DeGaetano, August 26
Ask the HR Expert with Holly Nowak
September 30
|
|
|
|
How to Transition to the New Business Facebook
April 13, 3pm
Create Excel Dashboards to Make Key Decisions and Communicate Progress
April 27, 3pm
Perfect Your PowerPoint 365 Presentation with New Features
May 11, 3pm
20+ Glorious and Creative Ways to Find Free, Safe,& Legal Images
May 25, 3pm
|
|
EVENTS AROUND THE STATE & BEYOND
Events produced by the other councils are open for SCRLC members to attend!
|
|
Academic Libraries 2022 free Online Conference
Bouncing Back: Our Students, Ourselves
|
|
Save the Date: July 13, 2022 for
Preparation, Information Literacy, Libraries, Academic Resources and 21st Century Skills for Transitioning from Secondary School to College
This year's topic: Accessibility In Education with Keynote Speaker Judith Heumann
|
|
|
|
Library Juice Academy offers a range of online professional development courses for librarians, archivists, and other staff, focusing on practical topics to build new skills.
|
|
|
|
Send a request to jphilippe@scrlc.org for access to online classes in design, business, technology, photography, entrepreneurship, film and writing through Skillshare.
Certificates of completion are available.
|
|
|
|
In addition to the weekly Tech-Talk newsletter, SCRLC members have access to the Tech-Talk Database, which offers an up-to-date library of technology and communication articles and videos. Login & PW: scrlc.
|
|
|
|
ESLN Services Webinar Series
|
|
TRAVELING & ONLINE EXHIBITS |
|
Recognizing Women's Right to Vote in New York State is on display at the Seneca Falls Library in April. Pictured here last month, at the Southworth Library in Dryden.
These four panels are now available for SCRLC members to borrow for one month at a time. Please fill out this form if you would like to host this exhibit.
|
|
New & updated titles from our region:
Penn-Yan, Ontario County, N.Y.,
1822-1947
Dundee, N.Y., 1969-1971
Dundee, N.Y., 19??-current
|
|
Did you receive our newsletter as a forward? Would you like to subscribe directly? |
|
|
|
|
|
|
