Continuing Education
Lecture: More Than Books – Libraries, Community, & Historic Preservation
Cazenovia Public Library 100 Albany Street, Cazenovia, NY, United StatesJoin as at the Cazenovia Public Library for a special lecture on the history of libraries! Lecture Description: This program traces almost 200 years in American library practice with a special focus on New England and its many municipal, historic, and specialty research libraries. As a museum scholar, preservationist, and photographer, Bill Hosley has visited […]
Webinar Viewing Party: Accessibility and Online Multimedia Content
Join us at the CLRC office for a webinar viewing party! We'll be learning about accessibility and online multimedia from this NYLA provided webinar. Webinar Description: As information providers, we increasingly use video and audio to disseminate information. This poses challenges but also unique opportunities for reaching people with disabilities. Providing transcriptions, captions, and audio […]
Workshop: Creating Imaginative Displays at Your Library
Baldwinsville Public Library 33 East Genesee Street, Baldwinsville, NY, United StatesCome to the Baldwinsville Public Library to get special insight into creating new displays for your library! Workshop Description: Do you find yourself recycling the same old displays over and over? Has your creativity run dry when it comes to display ideas every month? Look no further! Come listen as Meg Van Patten shares her […]
Webinar: Game Mastery for Teaching and Learning
Online Via Zoom NY, United StatesWebinar Description: Libraries have been at the forefront of the games for learning movement, both digital games and more recently as part of the tabletop renaissance of the past few years. Tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons have never been more popular, but getting started can seem daunting to the uninitiated. This webinar will offer a […]
2019 Digital Services User Group Meeting
CLRC's digital services and platforms continue to grow and evolve. New York Heritage Digital Collections has a new Metadata Dictionary and Exhibit platform. New York State Historic Newspapers has added several new titles from our region. Empire Archival Discovery Cooperative is graduating out of its beta phase and poised to begin accepting new contributors. Our […]
Webinar Viewing Party: Dealing with Challenging Patrons Workshop
Join us at the CLRC office for a webinar viewing party! We'll be learning best practices for dealing with challenging patrons from a webinar provided by the ALA. Webinar Description: Every library employee encounters challenging patrons and users from time to time. Whether it's a group of patrons causing disruption, a loud patron, or possibly […]
Workshop: Keep It Growing! Strengthening Your Friends of the Library Group
Community Library of DeWitt & Jamesville 5110 Jamesville Road, Jamesville, NY, United StatesJoin us at the Community Library of DeWitt & Jamesville for a follow up of last year's popular workshop, "Getting Started: Creating and Sustaining a Friends Group for your Library." The event will start at 10 a.m. but registration begins at 9:30 a.m. Workshop Description: Continuing to develop your library’s Friends group is vital to […]
Workshop: Managing Work Stress
Join us at the CLRC office to learn best practices for managing and alleviating work stress. Workshop Description: This training explores common causes for work related stress and strategies for alleviating and managing stress. This training addresses the importance of identifying both avoidable forms of stress and strategies for alleviating and managing stress to promote […]
Webinar Viewing Party: Security for Rural Librarians
Mid York Library System 1600 Lincoln Ave, Utica, NY, United StatesJoin us at the Mid York Library System office to watch the webinar, "Security for Rural Librarians: Staying Safe at Work When Help is Far," together! Webinar Description: If you define yourself as a Rural Librarian, see if these scenarios sound familiar: A man comes in and asks you for the time. You tell him […]
SIG: Early Career Professionals August Meetup – Advocate for Yourself!
Fulton Public Library 160 S 1st St, Fulton, NY, United StatesAre you an Early Career Library & Information Professional? Then we want YOU to join us at the August meeting of CLRC's Early Career Professionals Special Interest Group (SIG)! For this month's meeting we're talking about advocating for yourself! As early career professionals there's a lot to navigate while applying, accepting, and starting new jobs. […]