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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Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion SIG
New Date! Thursday, July 25, 2024
Time: 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Location: Online via Zoom
Facilitators: Tracy Dunstan & Morgan Strand, Nyack Library
Topic for this meeting: EDI Support Resources for Library Workers. The Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion SIG meets to discuss anti-racism and actions that library workers can take in order to create a more just library environment for all.
The Digital Preservation Special Interest Group (DigPres SIG) will continue a conversation started by the HRVH User’s Group about storing and managing digital files. The DigPres SIG will focus on strategies, activities and technologies relating to preserving digital content for the long-term.
At this meeting we will discuss how to create a digital content inventory and why it’s an important first step in Digital Preservation planning.
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.
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 session is sponsored by Empire State Library Network. If you have any questions, contact Tessa Killian: killian@senylrc.org.
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.