Peter L. Dumont was a Union soldier who was born in Schoharie County and had moved to Utica as a teenager. Over an eighteen-month period following his enlistment, he sent eighty detailed letters home to his wife Clarinda, writing with candor about military life and sketching pictures. He chronicled his harrowing experiences fighting for the […]

As data increasingly becomes key to driving policy design, programs, and decision-making, many communities continue to be marginalized and/or underrepresented in datasets. As the COVID pandemic has further revealed, critical data on race, ethnicity, gender, and other intersectional factors is not widely available, rendering many programs and actions insufficient to equitably address the realities of […]

Join Kate Hall and Kathy Parker, authors of The Public Library Directors Toolkit, as they discuss how to balance the responsibilities of being a director during a pandemic and three core areas of running a public library during a public health crisis and after. The individual sessions will include library director jenga, personnel, emergency planning, and […]

Have you been wondering how to handle those 3D objects in your collections? Are you afraid to have your patrons touch them? If so, join the CDLC Preservation Interest Group and learn about collecting, curating, caring for, and containing objects such as textiles, glassware, specimens, and other non-paper artifacts in libraries and archives. We will […]

The NASA and the Navajo Nation Partnership is an ongoing collaboration that has facilitated the co-creation of numerous educational materials, workshops, and camps for Navajo youth. Their work flows from the understanding that Indigenous knowledge systems and Western science reflect, resonate with, and reinforce one another, and affirm each other as valid, valuable, and vital. […]