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METRO Webinar: Actively Anti-Racist Library Service, Part 3 – Discussing Anti-Racist Stewardship
METRO Webinar: Actively Anti-Racist Library Service, Part 3 – Discussing Anti-Racist Stewardship
Providing robust readers’ advisory service that values equity, diversity, and inclusion principles is essential to all library service. Moving from being a neutral, well-meaning library where systemic racism is acknowledged to an actively anti-racist organization involves work. In this program you will learn tangible skills to help build enthusiasm for reading and discovering diverse books, […]
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Free Digital Inclusion Webinar Series: What Every Library Needs to Know
Free Digital Inclusion Webinar Series: What Every Library Needs to Know
Please join the New York State Library and the National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) for a series of information-rich training webinars aimed at increasing awareness and providing a deeper understanding of digital inclusion across New York State’s libraries and library systems. Trainings in this series will include addressing digital equity barriers, building partnerships and coalitions, developing digital […]
ESLN Webinar: Libraries and First Amendment Audits – Ask the Lawyer
ESLN Webinar: Libraries and First Amendment Audits – Ask the Lawyer
Public libraries across the country are experiencing an increase in encounters of patrons conducting “First Amendment audits”. The asserted purpose of these “audits” is to record alleged civil rights violations in places open to the public, but the recording can impact patron privacy, workforce conditions, and library operations. This session will cover how libraries can […]
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CDLC Workshop: Geospatial Technology for Librarians: Hands-On GIS Exercises and Monroe Community College’s GIST Program
CDLC Workshop: Geospatial Technology for Librarians: Hands-On GIS Exercises and Monroe Community College’s GIST Program
NOTE: THIS IS AN IN-PERSON PROGRAM. It will be held in our NEW location in the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) building, 800 Troy Schenectady Rd, Latham, NY 12110. At this time, masking is required in our building. Our auditorium allows for distancing, and we have an upgraded ventilation system. This hands-on workshop will […]
METRO Webinar: Goodbye Facebook, Hello Decentralized Social Media? Can Peer-to-Peer Lead to Less Toxic Online Platforms?
METRO Webinar: Goodbye Facebook, Hello Decentralized Social Media? Can Peer-to-Peer Lead to Less Toxic Online Platforms?
Facebook, Twitter… we’ve seen them go awry when faced with the scourges of misinformation and trolling. In authoritarian regimes, entire platforms are easily blocked. Would decentralized social media, where there is no central controlling entity, be better? How do you take down damaging posts when there is no central command center? We walk you through […]
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LILRC Webinar: Astrobiology for the Incarcerated – Bringing Transformational Science into Prisons
LILRC Webinar: Astrobiology for the Incarcerated – Bringing Transformational Science into Prisons
Join us to learn more about one of NASA’s most unique educational programs: Astrobiology for the Incarcerated. Astrobiology for the Incarcerated is an educational program that teaches incarcerated communities about the resiliency and transformative history of life on Earth, and the search for life beyond our planet…which may be especially relevant to people within incarcerated […]
METRO Webinar: Info Lit 101, Part 2 – Evaluating Sources and Navigating Through Bias
METRO Webinar: Info Lit 101, Part 2 – Evaluating Sources and Navigating Through Bias
In this webinar, Information Literacy Librarian Kelly Delevan will discuss the multiple ways in which bias (implicit and explicit) complicates our search practices. Bias can reside in information systems, individual sources, or our personal perspectives. Navigating through this bias requires a dispositional shift – we need to accept that bias is pervasive and apply strategies […]
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RRLC Webinar: Crisis and Violence Prevention
RRLC Webinar: Crisis and Violence Prevention
It is no longer a question of whether a crisis will happen, but rather when, which type, and how it will occur. Managers need to think about the unthinkable in order to protect their organizations. The better an organization can anticipate areas of vulnerability, or possible crises, the better it can prepare to manage them. […]
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LILRC Webinar: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion in Planning and in Practice – 8th Annual Herbert Biblo Academic Libraries Conference
LILRC Webinar: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion in Planning and in Practice – 8th Annual Herbert Biblo Academic Libraries Conference
Cosponsored by: Nassau County Library Association, Academic and Special Libraries Division Long Island Library Resources Council Suffolk County Library Association, Division of Academic and Special Libraries Keynote: Corliss Lee and Brian Lym, Editors, Implementing Excellence in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Handbook for Academic Libraries (ACRL, 2022). Corliss Lee (she/her/hers) is the American cultures librarian […]
Webinar: What You Need to Know About the Civil Service Exam
Webinar: What You Need to Know About the Civil Service Exam
Webinar Description: Are you interested in working in a public library? Are you already working in a public library but want to move up through the ranks? We’ll hear from three panelists who will share what you need to know about taking these exams. They’ll share their personal experiences in the library world, best practices […]
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Erie Canal Museum Event: Infrastructure of Empire Exhibit Opening and Curator Talk
Erie Canal Museum Event: Infrastructure of Empire Exhibit Opening and Curator Talk
The Erie Canal was the engineering marvel of its day, but has had far reaching consequences that could never have been imagined. In this upcoming exhibit and Curator Talk, we will explore how the canal was built, how it has changed the physical and social layout of the region, and how it continues to influence New York […]
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Library Assistants and Support Staff – LA SIG
Library Assistants and Support Staff – LA SIG
Third Tuesdays at 2:00 pm CLRC offers a communication network among our region’s Library Assistants, Paraprofessionals and Support Staff through a Special Interest Group (LA SIG). Our interests include: * recognizing all library support staff employed in CLRC member libraries * furthering the professional development & job enrichment of support staff * enhancing the professional […]
LILRC Webinar: Restart – Designing a Health Post-Pandemic Life
LILRC Webinar: Restart – Designing a Health Post-Pandemic Life
Covid, and the resulting quarantine, has had a profound effect on our mental health and well being. This talk includes an informative review of where we were when quarantine hit, how the lock down impacted us behaviorally, interpersonally, and interpersonally, then gets to work addressing how to use the restart as an opportunity for growth […]
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RRLC Webinar: Wellness in the Library Workplace
RRLC Webinar: Wellness in the Library Workplace
As library workers, we love our jobs but working in a library can also be stressful. Libraries already help patrons improve their physical and mental health by providing access to reliable health information and programs and outreach focused on health and wellness. But what are doing to manage your own well-being? The well-being of library […]
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NYLA/SSL 2022
NYLA/SSL 2022
Calling all librarians, ELA teachers, literacy coaches, reading teachers, and other literacy and reading professionals! Please consider joining us for this amazing day of professional development, taking place at the Turning Stone Conference Center in CNY on Saturday, May 21, and part of the NYLA-SSL conference. The event will feature two inspirational authors/illustrators, noted below, […]
Erie Canal Museum Lunchtime Lecture: Winter Maintenance on The NYS Canal System with Ambrose Barbuto
Erie Canal Museum Lunchtime Lecture: Winter Maintenance on The NYS Canal System with Ambrose Barbuto
Join Ambrose Barbuto, Director of Waterways Maintenance with the New York State Canal Corporation, to get a brief overview of the maintenance activities that occurred on the NYS Canal System during the non-navigation season. This talk will take place one day before the beginning of the navigation season on the entire Canal System, a 197 […]
METRO Webinar: Preventing Digital Discrimination – How Libraries, Archives, and Their Allies Can Ensure Access and Equity
METRO Webinar: Preventing Digital Discrimination – How Libraries, Archives, and Their Allies Can Ensure Access and Equity
If these past two years have proved anything, it’s that having reliable access to the internet is a necessity. And yet access to the internet is far from assured in many homes across the country. For this and so many other reasons, the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act signed last November includes a directive to […]
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SCRLC Webinar: Universal Design for Libraries
SCRLC Webinar: Universal Design for Libraries
Learn how to make your facilities more usable, safer, and appealing to people with a wide range of abilities throughout their life spans using universal design, with Jonathan White, Director of Design Consulting at the Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access. This webinar will be recorded. This webinar is supported with federal American Rescue […]
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NNYLN Webinar: It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s a…Library Letter?! Reimagining Automated Library Communications
NNYLN Webinar: It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s a…Library Letter?! Reimagining Automated Library Communications
Description: It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... library letter?! Reimagining Automated Library Communication How many times have you received an email with a generic subject line that you’ve moved to your trash without opening? Admittedly, many of us are guilty of this. Automatically generated emails can feel impersonal or even negative in […]
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METRO Webinar: Decentralized Apps, the Metaverse, and the “Next Big Thing”
METRO Webinar: Decentralized Apps, the Metaverse, and the “Next Big Thing”
Why did Facebook rename itself for the Metaverse? What is the metaverse & how are people experiencing it? How are artists, nonprofits, even the NBA are racking up seven-figure payouts for otherwise mundane pieces of media called NFTs (non-fungible tokens)? Why are they so despised? In this session, we look at the crazy breakthrough apps […]
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LibraryWorks Webinar: Reverse Strategic Planning – Evaluating A Team’s Workplace Productivity
LibraryWorks Webinar: Reverse Strategic Planning – Evaluating A Team’s Workplace Productivity
CLRC is offering our members up to 20 seats at the upcoming LibraryWorks Webinar, Reverse Strategic Planning - Evaluating A Team's Workplace Productivity. Formal strategic planning usually starts with an overarching mission and vision statement to prioritize long term goals and guide management-level decisions for the workplace. Reverse strategic planning, on the other hand, starts […]
METRO Webinar: Info Lit 101, Part 3 – Misinformation and Disinformation
METRO Webinar: Info Lit 101, Part 3 – Misinformation and Disinformation
With the Center for an Informed Public at the University of Washington, facilitated by Iman Powe-Maynard The COVID-19 pandemic and the fallout from the 2020 U.S. presidential election have highlighted the acute impact of misinformation on democracy and public health. In addition, current global political crises have illuminated a new era of information warfare, with […]
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