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State Aid for Library Construction Online Application Open
Libraries must complete and submit project applications online by the due date set by their public library system. Public library systems set their own individual application due dates through the online portal. Public library system boards of trustees will review...
Speak Up for School Librarians!
For the first time in years, there is an active bill in both houses of the NYS Legislature. Add your name in support for ensure that every student in NYS has access to a certified school library media specialist. New York State Education Law denies primary school...
Grant Opportunity – Initiatives Supporting Women and Girls
The Women’s Fund of Central New York (Women’s Fund) invites grant applications from nonprofit organizations whose primary focus is to address key issues affecting women and girls in Central New York. Nonprofit charitable organizations determined as tax-exempt under...
Sustainable Tips and Tricks from OCPL
The OCPL Sustainability Committee offers recommendations to help you integrate sustainable practices into your libraries and communities. Plastic has a devastating impact on our environment. Time to reconsider the way we use them in and outside of work. Most of our...
Empire State Center for the Book Chooses Harriet the Spy for Its 2019 Selection
Harriet the Spy to Represent New York State at National Book Festival In celebration of the 55th anniversary of the publication of Harriet the Spy, The Empire State Center for the Book has selected Harriet the Spy to represent New York State at the 2019 National Book...
Sustainable Tips and Tricks – OCPL Monthly Info
Sustainable Tips and Tricks is full of recommendations to help you integrate sustainable practices into your libraries and communities. With winter coming to a end, it’s time to start thinking about your outdoor garden. Whether you’re planting at the library or at...
New York State Census Complete Count Commission Hearing
The New York State Complete Count Commission has announced seven public hearings across the state to gain public input and hear from Census experts and advocates. This is a great opportunity to let the Commission know how the 2020 Census will affect your library and your community.
Sustainable Library Certification Awarded to Two Libraries
The New York Library Association Sustainability Initiative (NYLA-SI) today announced that two public libraries in the state have been awarded SUSTAINABLE LIBRARY CERTIFICATION. Hendrick Hudson Free Library (HHFL) in Montrose and Saratoga Springs Public Library (SSPL)...
ALA Adds Sustainability to Core Values
The American Library Association (ALA) Council voted to add Sustainability to the list of Core Values of Librarianship. "The foundation of modern librarianship rests on an essential set of core values that define, inform, and guide our professional practice. These...
Congratulations to CLRC’s Most Recent Grant & Award Recipients!
New Initiatives Grant Have a project you want to pilot? Thinking of an innovative program or service you'd like to offer? Our New Initiatives Grant may be able to help. Learn More. Congratulations to last quarter's grant recipient: Elizabeth Hartnett from...
CLRC Office Closed for MLK Day
In observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, the CLRC office will be closed on Monday, January 21. We will reopen on Tuesday morning at 8:30 am.
MLA January Webinar – Maximizing the Return on Your Systematic Review Investment
From Protocol To Publication: Maximizing the Return on Your Systematic Review Investment Tuesday, January 29 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Are you buried under Systematic Review requests? Worried that your hard work at the beginning of a review project will be filed away, never...
OCPL Sustainability Tips – Cell Phones
Sustainable Tips and Tricks comes to you from the Onondaga County Public Library (OCPL) Sustainability Committee to help integrate sustainable practices into your libraries and communities. Get a sparkly new cell phone this holiday season? Here are some tips on what...
Anita Kuiken, CLRC Professional Development Award Recipient, Talks About the NESAWG Conference
The Central New York Libraries Resources Council (CLRC)’s Professional Development Grant enabled me to attend the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG) Annual Conference, It Takes a Region: Cultivating a Transformative Food System held in Philadelphia, PA.
NYS Historic Newspapers – January 2019 Newsletter
View the January 2019 newsletter New year, new titles!
WCNY accepting nominations for ‘Women Who Make America Awards’
WCNY is accepting nominations for its 7th Annual Women Who Make America Awards from all nineteen counties in its viewing area and includes the CLRC region - Herkimer, Madison, Oneida, and Onondaga. The nomination deadline is January 10, 2019. Nominees must be 18 or...
Census 2020 Support Information
New York Counts 2020 is a statewide coalition of community-based organizations working in partnership with state and local government to facilitate a complete count, focusing on hard-to-count (HTC) areas. Currently signed on to the coalition are NYLA, Queens Library,...
Western Region Legislative Breakfast – December 14
Over sixty library supporters, including librarians, trustees, administrators and students spent the morning at Pine Grove Middle School chatting with newly-elected and re-elected legislators about services offered by their community and school libraries and to ask...
Documentary Heritage Program Grants Available
The 2019-2020 Documentary Heritage Program Grants are currently open. Deadline for applications is January 15, 2019. DHP grants can be used for Documentation Projects (planning, surveying, and collecting historical records related people, groups, events, or political,...
Michelle Metcalf, CLRC Professional Development Award Recipient, Talks About the LMCC Conference
Thanks to a Professional Development Grant from the CLRC, I attended the Library Marketing and Communications Conference (LMCC) in St. Louis, Missouri. The conference has been held annually since 2015 and has grown every year as libraries recognize the need to improve their social media, branding, web design, and communications in order to better position themselves to have their messages heard, collections and services well-used, and programs well-attended.