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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Resource Sharing SIG
This event was originally scheduled for 6/11/2025 and has been moved to 7/9/2025
Join us for the next Resource Sharing SIG, in-person at the Sojourner Truth Library at SUNY New Paltz. Our topic for this SIG will be inter-library loan policies. We will touch on some of the elements that are common in ILL policies for both library patrons and borrowing libraries. We will also have plenty of time for open discussion on other resource sharing topics.
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.
Is AI on the Test? A Symposium for Educators Who Weren’t Ready for Robots
Online via Zoom: July 11, 2025
9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Free for all ESLN members and affiliate members in NYS
The PILLARS Symposium: Preparation, Information Literacy, Libraries, Academic Resources, and 21st Century Skills for Transitioning from Secondary School to College
This is a virtual one-day symposium that will bring educators and librarians together to share knowledge on the topic of student readiness for college and beyond.
This symposium is designed to introduce educators to a wide range of teaching and learning resources for practical use in the 21st-century classroom. This year’s theme, Is AI On The Test? A Symposium for Educators Who Weren’t Ready for Robots, focuses a critical lens on Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) in the classroom, including creating policies, practical methods, evaluating AI tools, user privacy, and legal issues.
Reference Special Interest Group
Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2025 Tuesday, August 5, 2025 (new date!)
Time: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Facilitator: Lara Sibley, Goshen Public Library
Location: Southeastern NY Library Resources Council, 21 S. Elting Corners Rd., Highland, NY
The Reference Special Interest Group is open to library workers who provide reference services or want to learn more about it. The group is not limited by library type and comprises academic, special, public, school, and hospital library staff. You do not need to be a degree-holding librarian to attend. The facilitator will bring an agenda, and attendees are welcome to share their thoughts, ideas, experiences, and questions.
This month’s topic is: Promoting database selection and use in reference interactions
We will discuss how we talk about and encourage specific databases while working with patrons. To take advantage of the in-person format, we will do a group activity so that everyone can participate. The meeting is open to library workers from all types. We will discuss issues relevant to both academic and public librarians.
We will also follow up on the conversation from the April 29, 2025 SIG: https://libguides.senylrc.org/SIGs/20250429Reference
The Topic for this meeting is Archivematica, a powerful, standards-based Digital Preservation tool Southeastern uses as part of our Digital Dark Archive service. Following a brief overview of the software, Zack Spalding (Southeastern’s Systems Manager) will demonstrate how he uses Archivematica to process and package files before sending them to long-term storage.