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NYLA Webinar: Making Policies That Support Library Services
March 25, 2021 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm EDT
Description:
Good library policies set the stage for your library to provide relevant and effective services to your community.
At this webinar, we’ll look at why your policies matter, and how you can make sure they’re supporting your staff and your patrons.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the importance and value of library policy for providing library services
- Be able to apply best practices to develop and maintain effective library policy
Presenter: Casey Conlin, Library Sustainability Coordinator, Mid-Hudson Library System
Casey Conlin has held positions in libraries large and small as a clerk, librarian, assistant director, and library director.
At these libraries, he helped increase the visibility, accessibility, relevance, and use of the library by helping the organization listen to and build authentic connections with the people and organizations in the community.
As library sustainability coordinator at the Mid-Hudson Library System, Casey and the library sustainability teamwork to help 66 member libraries build their capacity to create more resilient communities through consulting services to help libraries comply with relevant laws and regulations and create effective relationships in their communities.
He also has created professional development opportunities that build library leaders’ and stakeholders’ skills and knowledge in project management, leadership, compliance, and personnel management, and trends in library services, and cohort programs and grants that provide local library leaders with space and time to explore ways to deliver new library services and evaluate new ways to deliver existing services.
Casey currently serves as coordinator for the American Library Association’s Sustainability Roundtable, which provides resources and support for the library community in creating a more equitable, healthy, and economically viable society through the development and administration of events, courses, resources, and connections.
Casey is a founding member of the New York Library Association’s Sustainability Initiative, which created and supports a first-of-its-kind interactive tool to help libraries ensure the sustainability of their organizations using the triple bottom line of sustainability to measure and implement library policy and operations that are socially equitable, environmentally sound, and economically feasible.
