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CLRC Connections: Networking Night @ The Erie Canal Museum
Join CLRC Staff and members for a night of light refreshments and hors d’ouevres upstairs at The Erie Canal Museum!
Introducing 2024 Solar Eclipse Grants
On Monday, April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross North America, with many libraries in Central New York in the path of totality. CLRC wants to help support your eclipse programming! We’re offering mini-grants to help fund more supplies, programming already planned or in process, or anything else you might need to make the most of this event for you and your patrons.
Webinar: Library Security and Privacy 101 or Is There Really any Privacy?
Wednesday, May 24 at 3:00 pm Event Description: This is a starter session for librarians and librarian-adjacent staff (that means everyone who works in a library) who want to know more about personal and patron privacy and information security. This class is designed...
Important Announcement Regarding DPLA
For almost five years, CLRC has participated in the New York State Service Hub for the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Over these years, we’ve worked with our state partners to facilitate the addition of 443,200 records from about 200 organizations to DPLA,...
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Just Released – NYS Library Construction Aid Needs Survey
State Librarian Lauren Moore announced the results of a new statewide survey documenting construction and renovation needs of more than $1.5 billion over the next five years for public library facilities, including neighborhood branches. The survey report “Estimated...
Help Needed for BOCES SLS Battle of the Books
O²CM BOCES SLS is looking for help in writing their regional 2019-2020 Battle of the Book questions. If you have read any of these books, please consider submitting questions to ask the students. All questions should start with "In which book . . . " Please use the...
Grant Opportunity – Carnegie-Whitney Award for Guides to Library Resources
The American Library Association Publishing Committee provides a grant of up to $5,000 for the preparation of print or electronic reading lists, indexes or other guides to library resources that promote reading or the use of library resources at any type of library....
DEC Hosts Free Lunchtime Sustainability Webinar Series
Saving the planet can seem daunting. That's why the DEC is bringing the new GreenNY Sustainability Series of webinars to give simple tips and tricks to make a difference and save money! Topics will be presented by issue experts and cover the basics, such as recycling,...
Join a Virtual Book Club
You are invited to participate in a virtual book club to read and discuss the book, The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias, by Dolly Chugh. By making our libraries more inclusive, we can better serve all of our users. This book club is an opportunity to...
IMLS Public Libraries Survey Results
The Public Libraries Survey (PLS) examines when, where, and how library services are changing to meet the needs of the public. These data, supplied annually by public libraries across the country, provide information that policymakers and practitioners can use to make...
2019/2020 State Aid for Library Construction
The New York State Library is pleased to announce that an additional $20 million has been added to the 2019/2020 State Aid for Library Construction program. That brings the total for the program year to $34 million. For information about the FY2019/2020 State Aid for...
Congratulations to NYLA’s Incoming Council Members
The New York Library Association (NYLA) is pleased to announce the incoming council members for 2020 Claudia Depkin, President-Elect (2019-2020) / President (2020-2021): Claudia Depkin is currently the Director of the Haverstraw King’s Daughter Public Library. During...
Apply for “Coming to America” – Reading Groups for Public Libraries
The Yiddish Book Center’s Coming to America Reading Groups for Public Libraries is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about immigrants’ experiences encountering America. Public library workers can apply by August 16, 2019, to be...
Public and academic libraries invited to apply – host ‘Americans and the Holocaust’ traveling exhibit
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office invite libraries to apply to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped...
Free College Resources for Your Library
Free copies of the 2018 edition of Your College Search: Proof Positive, a guide to college admissions, financial aid and New York’s private colleges, and the 2019 Campus Locator Map are now available for librarians. These free resources have been updated for 2018-19...
Nominations Open for Hugh Farley Advocate Award
Know someone deserving of this NYLA Advocacy recognition? https://www.nyla.org/max/4DCGI/cms/review.html?Action=CMS_Document&DocID=39&MenuKey=career Purpose To recognize and honor an individual who, or a group that, has made a far reaching, sustained...
Apply for DHPSNY’s free Planning & Assessment Services by Friday, July 12
Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York (DHPSNY) currently offers FREE Planning & Assessment Services designed to support New York State collecting institutions in improving and advancing program efforts while forming strategies for future...