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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SENYCon is an annual conference to highlight the unique talents and skills that library professionals in the Southeastern region hold. This event is made possible due to an outpouring of enthusiasm from our members, and the event is open to all Southeastern members.
This year’s event will take place on Friday, April 12 with an inclement weather date of Friday, April 19. Libraries of all types are represented, includes food, and is open to all. You may choose to attend in person or online.
Cost: In-person attendees: $10 (includes brunch)
Presenters: Free
Online attendees: Free
Schedule of presentations:
9:00 am: Social Media Success: How Our College Library Bridges Communities Through Engaging Content and Connections – Sharon Skopp, SUNY Orange Community College
9:20 am: Multicultural and Multilingual Communities- How could the library serve these community members? – Yoly Avella, Newburgh Free Library
9:50 am: I Have No Idea What I’m Doing: Lessons Learned from Building, Implementing, and Retooling a Rules-Based Chatbot – Lauren Dodd, US Military Academy Library
10:20 am: Aliens Are Coming! Connecting Past Hoaxes to Present Media Literacy – Kristin McClune, Coxsackie-Athens Central School District
10:45 am: Brunch Service
11:30 am: The Art of FAQs – Elizabeth Clarke, Emily Doyle, Marist College
11:50 am: Putting the Pieces Together: Creating, Editing and Publishing a Hospital History – Mary Jo Russell, Vassar Brothers Medical Center/Nuvance Health
12:15 pm “What Surprised You About This Project”: The New Paltz Historic Documents Project So Far – Josephine Bloodgood, Director of Curatorial & Preservation Affairs, and Donna Dixon, Digital Librarian/Project Manager, Historic Huguenot Street
12:45 pm: Books in the Museum, Art in the Library! A Pop-up Swap Pilot at SUNY New Paltz – Catharine Casey-Wagemaker, Noelle Sullivan, Abigail Rosenthal, Madeline Veitch, SUNY New Paltz
Poster Session: Social Media Stuffies – Margaret Roach, Marist College
Best Practices for Inter-Library Loan Webinar
SEAL is Southeastern’s resource-sharing platform. SEAL connects libraries of all types in the Southeastern N.Y. region and allows them to easily share books, DVDs, and other resources. It is available at no cost to all libraries in the region. This webinar series will introduce you to how to use the service in your library and demonstrate best practices for finding and loaning materials.
This webinar will closely examine Southeastern’s Regional Inter-library Loan Code and Procedures. These documents provide best practices for borrowing and lending materials, touching on topics like policies, dealing with lost items, billing, due dates and more!
Inclusive Metadata Follow-Up Session
As a follow up to her Inclusive Metadata webinar on January 24, 2024, Sharon Mizota will facilitate an open discussion. Do you have questions about Inclusive Metadata related to your organization and collections? Are you interested in sharing experiences and learning from others? If yes, please join us for what is sure to be a lively and informative discussion. If you were unable to attend Sharon’s webinar in January, please watch the recording before attending. This session is for staff at New York institutions only and we are limiting the number of participants to 25. The discussion will not be recorded.
If you have a specific question for Sharon, please include it on your registration! She will review them in advance of the meeting and research them if time allows.
Banned Books Symposium
Proactive, Reactive, and Supportive
Saturday, May 4
8:30 am – 1:00 pm
Dutchess BOCES Conference Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Cost: $25, includes lunch
This half-day conference will feature presentations in all capacities of banned and challenged books and programs. This Symposium is in partnership with Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, Ramapo Catskill Library System, Mid-Hudson Library System, Mount Saint Mary College, SUNY New Paltz and BOCES School Library Systems of Dutchess, Orange-Ulster, Rockland, Sullivan, and Ulster.
Keynote Speaker: Jeff Trexler
Jeff Trexler has served since 2020 as Interim Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting free expression and the legal rights of the comics community. He has extensive experience providing strategic advice to librarians, teachers, retailers, publishers, creators, legislators, and even law enforcement on responding to attempts to restrict access to graphic novels. An attorney himself, he is also the first CBLDF director since its founding in 1986 to provide direct legal representation in censorship cases, most notably the successful defense of Gender Queer against an unconstitutional attempt to prohibit the book’s sale or distribution in Virginia.
Breakout Sessions
Session 1:
- Programming Banned Books: Speaker Panels, Read-outs, and Positive Engagement (Academic) Susan Wood & Keith Pardini, Suffolk County Community College, Long Island
The presenter will provide an overview of the multiple events coordinated with a variety of college stakeholders, such as the LGBTQ+ Task Force and the College Seminar Service Learning Committee. This presentation will cover the planning process, structure, and outcomes of these events, as well as provide ideas for successfully planning events with stakeholders and avoiding common pitfalls associated with programming that addresses emotional and controversial topics in these politically-polarized times. - NYU Division of Libraries’ Days of Learning (DoL DoL) Program on Book Banning (Academic) Lauren Kehoe, New York University
This presentation will provide an overview of how the topic of book banning was organized as a DoL DoL including the LibGuide used to create a virtual community around this event and go into detail about the different activities (keynote speaker, banned book reading groups, local and national advocacy, and purchase banned books for our library) that were planned to engage with this topic synchronously and asynchronously across the Division of Libraries. Suggestions will also be made for adaptability at other libraries. - Censorship: Past and Present (General Audience) Mara Zonderman, Westhampton Free Library & Terry Lucas, Director, Shelter Island Public Library
Is the increase we’ve seen in censorship in the past few years just the latest turn of the historical wheel, or is it something qualitatively different from what we’ve seen before? Join Librarians Terry Lucas, former lawyer and bookseller, and Mara Zonderman, former lawyer and civil liberties lobbyist, as they bring their experience to bear on censorship past and present. - The Banned Books Trading Card Project (Public) Katie Karkheck & Caroline Siecke-Pape, Valley Cottage Library
Valley Cottage Library breaks down their 2023 Banned Books Week trading cards project from the community partnerships they formed down to the specifics of acting as an art jury. Learn how they accomplished this amazing project from creation to completion and everything they learned along the way.
Session 2:
- American Library Association (ALA) and Unite Against Book Bans (UABB): Perspectives on Messaging and Resources for Your Library (General Audience) Christopher Harris, Genesee Valley BOCES SLS and ALA Unite Against Book Bans Policy Corp
Dr. Christopher Harris, a Senior Policy Fellow with the American Library Association and Director of the Genesee Valley BOCES School Library System will facilitate a discussion on establishing a more library focused narrative around book banning using resources from the Unite Against Book Bans campaign. - ARE YOU READY FOR A CHALLENGE? How a library’s interactive immersion experience helped to train against the wave of book bans (Public) Eugenia Schatoff, Pearl River Public Library & Melissa Mounier, Summer 2023 Library School Intern
Learn about Pearl River Public Library’s Book Challenge Simulator. The Book Challenge Simulator was created to test the participants’ ability to persuade different members of the public in the name of protecting and advocating for educational freedom and to evaluate participants’ understanding of different facets of their communities and patron base. - Advocacy Matters: Protecting our LGBTQIA+ Picture Book Characters (Schools) Dorothy Luongo, Krieger Elementary School, Hudson Valley Writing Project
This session focuses on the unique position of picture books to deepen understanding of queer identities and how to meet New York State mandates for embracing diversity and providing Dignity for All Students. We will examine specific instances of censorship at the elementary level and peruse a selection of picture books and detail their role in combating a cycle of silence driven by fear and lack of knowledge. - Banned Books Go to College (Academic) Emily Doyle, Marist College, Elizabeth Clarke, Marist College, & Amanda Lowe, University at Albany, SUNY
This panel session with staff from Marist College James A. Cannavino Library and University Libraries at the University at Albany, SUNY promises a comprehensive exploration of two distinct journeys of engaging student communities in Banned Books Week initiatives and how each contributes to the broader conversation on the significance of intellectual freedom in libraries.
Exploring the SEAL Catalog Webinar
SEAL is Southeastern’s resource-sharing platform. SEAL connects libraries of all types in the Southeastern N.Y. region and allows them to easily share books, DVDs, and other resources. It is available at no cost to all libraries in the region. This webinar series will introduce you to how to use the service in your library and demonstrate best practices for finding and loaning materials.
Have you ever wondered how the SEAL catalog works? This upcoming webinar will provide a deep dive into the catalog, addressing everything you ever wanted to know (and more!).
RDM Virtual Workshop
Building Your Research Data Management Toolkit: Integrating RDM into Your Liaison Work
Tuesday, July 16 & Wednesday, July 17, 2024
9:00 am – 1:00 pm
Presenters: Christina Chan-Park & Laura Palumbo for ACRL
Cost: $100 per seat
(only available to individuals in New York State. Registration is for individuals. Your fee includes materials for each person, and there is no group viewing option. There is a limit of 60 total participants, preference will go to liaison librarians.)
About the program:
Research data management has emerged as a need among academic researchers and liaisons are building skills in response. This two-day workshop will assist liaisons to identify their existing skills and mindsets that transfer to research data management services and then create a learning plan for the RDM specific knowledge needed to serve their subject disciplines. Tools, hints, and tricks will be shared that facilitate partnerships on campus with disciplinary faculty and with other RDM service providers.
Who should attend:
This workshop is intended for liaisons who are seeking to engage with research data management for the first time, or who have a very basic knowledge of research data management. This workshop is an introductory level experience. Attendees are not expected to have previous experience with research data management. The primary audience is subject liaison librarians, secondary audience include senior library administrators, middle management and department heads, and technical services librarians and staff. Other campus partners such as Office of Research, Sponsored Programs, Technology Transfer, IRB, or campus IT may be interested but would be a tertiary audience.
Learning Outcomes:
Workshop participants will be able to…
- Identify data within the research process and lifecycle in order to articulate the role of the libraries in the management of data to researchers.
- Learn how to develop expertise in the nuances of disciplinary requirements for data management in order to educate their faculty and students about data best practices for their discipline.
- Articulate specific existing skills that they already possess as librarians which transfer to data services in order to begin building a toolkit of research data management skills.
- Identify campus partners in research data management in order to create an environment of research data management support for their faculty.
- Articulate the parts of a data management plan in order to describe its role as a living document within a research project.
- Apply their relevant prior knowledge of their disciplines in order to create a research data management interview plan in order to facilitate faculty engagement
This program is produced by Empire State Library Network and SUNY Office of Library Information Services.