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Contact Us
The MHLS Bulletin welcomes submissions from member libraries.
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Hard-To-Count Communities
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The New York State Complete Count Commission has released its final report recommending measures to reach hard-to-count (HTC) communities in the 2020 Census
. There are a number of challenges identified in the roadmap where libraries can help break down barriers to a complete count including a lack of motivation or fear in providing personal information to the federal government and a lack of digital connectivity for many populations. Recommendations related to how libraries can help to get a complete count include leveraging trusted voices and organizations in the community to talk about the importance of the Census; using youth-facing organizations to emphasize the importance of counting children under 5; forming complete count committees; and establishing "Census Assistance Centers" to increase internet access across the state and help people complete their Census questionnaires. HTC populations in our region include renters, New Americans, young children and families, people with limited internet connectivity and seniors with limited technology experience.
The Census Bureau has established a map where community members that want to work on the Census can post or locate complete count committees. To access the map please visit
http://bit.ly/2PZ1b4l
For help letting your community know about the Census including graphics, videos, newsletter articles and maps of HTC communities and Types of Enumeration planned in our region, visit
https://midhudson.org/census-2020/
or if you have questions please contact Casey
Conlin, MHLS Library Sustainability Coordinator,
[email protected]
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MHLS Announcements
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MHLS will be closed on Thursday, November 28th
in observance of Thanksgiving. There will be no deliveries and the MHLS ticket system will not be monitored.
MHLS will be closed on Friday, November 29th.
There will be no deliveries. MHLS staff will be available via the MHLS ticket system (
[email protected]
) from 8:30am to 4:30pm to support system-wide Sierra/catalog critical issues.
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MHLS Libraries
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MHLS member library director updates:
- Thomas Finnigan has been named interim director of Millbrook Library.
- Tiffany Lydecker has been named interim director of Saugerties Public Library.
- Jessica Kerr has returned as director of Woodstock Public Library District. Jessica will be working on a part-time schedule.
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(l-r)
Stephanie Harrison
, Patterson Library Director,
Michele Cappozella
, Mahopac Public Library Director and
Gina Loprinzo
, Brewster Public Library Director accept the Distinguished Service Award on behalf of the Putnam County Library Association.
Congratulations to the Putnam County Library Association (PCLA) for winning the Distinguished Service Award
for an organization from the Putnam Community Service Network. The award recognized the PCLA for making "outstanding contributions during the preceding three years or more to the communities within Putnam County."
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Resource Sharing & Sierra
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MHLS cataloging has made the following records available in the catalog
based on responses in Action Memo 19-07, where directors were asked about holdings of each eResource and the desire of the library to display them in the catalog. This project has more than doubled the resources available to patrons of the subscribing libraries and also made these new formats and lending models more findable.
- Kanopy: Loaded mid-October
- Hoopla: Loaded end of October
- Quello Loaded end of October
- Acorn: Loaded end of October
- Great Courses: Loaded end of October
Remaining titles, owned by less than five member libraries, will be loaded throughout November and December. The MHLS Cataloging team have worked hard to bring these records in efficiently while at the same time creating the individual access links for each library who wished to have their links in place. Any member library questions about cataloging should be directed to
[email protected]
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Reference & Collection Development
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Southeastern NY Library Resources Council members' digital collections are now discoverable through New York Heritage
(
https://nyheritage.org/
). New York Heritage is a collaborative project of the Empire State Library Network, of which Southeastern is a member. Hundreds of cultural organizations have contributed collections to New York Heritage resulting in over a quarter of a million historical resources. Cross search our region's collections with collections from across the state and learn more about the rich history of the Hudson River Valley. Visitors can learn about a countless number of topics and explore a wide variety of original formats. To find resources, you can keyword search across all of the digital resources from the home page. You can also explore via contributing organization or digital collection. Once in the digital collections, there are options for filtering a set of results by subject, format, or location.
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 The 2020 Summer Reading Program manuals are now available
online for all member libraries! All member library staff involved with your library's Summer Reading Program will have online access to all manuals and artwork. You will need to create a Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) account to access the manuals.
Please note if you already have an account on the CSLP website please login before December 31, 2019.
CSLP will be removing inactive users and if you do not login to your account by December 31st your account will be deleted. For instructions on how to access the 2020 manuals or how to create an account please visit
https://midhudson.org/summer-reading-program/
Questions should be directed to Courtney Wimmers, MHLS Outreach & Engagement Specialist
,
[email protected]
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