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New York State Library News & Events
November 2024
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Connect with Knowledge You Trust!
- The New York Culture and History Lecture Series is provided by the Research Library. Share this with your community!
- Tools for the Librarian Toolkit include resources to support library services. Learn new tools!
- DHPSNY provides Preservation Practices for Every Library, a service available to cultural institutions around the state to support the preservation of community history.
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Digital Equity Academy Registration is Now Open | |
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The NYS Library recently announced that registration is open for its Digital Equity Academy.
Are you passionate about bridging the digital divide and creating equitable access to technology for all? If so, the NYS Library invites you to join the Digital Equity Academy! Our Academy offers a unique learning experience to equip you with the knowledge and tools needed to make a real impact.
This class is free, and you don’t need any previous digital equity experience - just the desire to improve digital equity in your community!
Register for the NYS Library Digital Equity Academy. The kickoff session will take place on Monday, December 16.
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New York Culture and History Lecture Series | | |
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Rethinking Revolutionary New York: A Conversation about Haudenosaunee Histories and the Sullivan Campaign
Date: Thursday, December 12, 2024
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
| The Sullivan-Clinton Campaign is the Revolutionary War event most overtly commemorated in New York, with over 250 historical signs and markers -- and yet, the history told on the markers is misleading in many ways. In our conversation, we contrast this account with Haudenosaunee perspectives on the event and on the Revolutionary War more generally. The upcoming anniversary of the Revolutionary War offers a powerful opportunity to introduce varied experiences during the war as well as the wide range of positions held by different people today. By reading against the grain, by offering an unexpected use of existing sources, and by considering yet-untapped resources, we can develop a richer and more complex reading of this military expedition and other pasts. Moving beyond the Sullivan campaign, we ask how we can begin to understand and interpret indigenous history and consider why some people feel unprepared. | | |
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The Black Angels: Sickness & Stigma at Sea View Tuberculosis Sanatorium
Date: Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Time: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
| Join author Maria Smilios as she discusses her award-winning book The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis (Penguin Random House 2023), which shines a light on a group of unknown Black nurses who, in 1929, came to New York from the Jim Crow south and wagered their life for freedom and a professional career, fighting racism, sexism, and redlining while working at Sea View, a woefully understaffed and underfunded NYC municipal Tuberculosis sanatorium dubbed the "pest house," where they cared for people the city called, "immoral, uncouth, and undeserving consumptives,” mainly immigrants and Black people who were sent there to die. Their decades of work at Sea View led them to oversee the first human drug trials for isoniazid, which became the first drug to cure tuberculosis, the "plague of all plagues.” It was a galvanizing moment in global history, celebrated around the world, and the nurses should have received recognition. Instead, their contributions were completely erased from history, until now. | |
Tools for the Librarian Toolkit | | |
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What’s New with Britannica Escolar?
Date: Tuesday, December 3
Time: 1:00pm - 1:30pm
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Support native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish with Britannica Escolar! Join us for a quick overview of the resource and a tour of Teach Britannica, a new, open-access resource that helps bridge the gap between Britannica resources and classroom instruction!
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny is a Statewide Internet Library connecting New Yorkers to 21st century information.
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Preservation Practices for Every Library | | |
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DHPSNY Workshops and Webinars
Date: November 21 and 22
Time: Varies
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DHPSNY offers a variety of educational programs and services to qualifying New York institutions. Presented free of charge throughout the state, DHPSNY’s programs address the needs of professionals and volunteers responsible for the care and handling of historical records. DHPSNY’s workshops and webinars discuss emerging issues and best practices, with content scaled to apply to small- and medium-sized organizations with limited resources.
The following programs will be offered this month:
- Caring for Photograph Collections
- DHPSNY Dialogues: Unfinished Revolutions: Telling Complete and Inclusive Stories
DHPSNY is a service provided by the NYS Library and NYS Archives to support preservation practices at New York's cultural institutions.
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Resource Spotlight: Summer Reading News | |
Make the Summer Reading News blog part of your summer reading planning all year long!
You’ll find information on important Summer Reading announcements, programming resources, and opportunities to collaborate.
Subscribe to the blog to receive Summer Reading News in your inbox, or simply visit the blog to check out the latest and greatest in all things Summer Reading!
Check out the latest in Summer Reading News.
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DHPSNY Planning & Assessment Services | |
Applications are open for Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York (DHPSNY) Planning & Assessment Services, and the next submission deadline is Friday, November 22, 2024.
Offered to qualifying New York organizations at no cost, Planning & Assessment services pair accepted organizations with DHPSNY staff to discuss current practices and set recommendations and goals specific to your capacity and needs. Final reports can be utilized to obtain funding, increase the accessibility and use of your collections, and more.
Learn more about DHPSNY Planning & Assessment Services.
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