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Cheery Friday Greetings,
The SCRLC Board of Trustees held its first meeting of the year today. During the meeting, the Board approved some updates to the Employee Handbook, approved the December and January financials, looked at committee assignments, and discussed SCRLC’s Draft Plan of Service 2026-2031, which is now available for member review.
The Plan of Service Design Team invites you to make comments, suggestions, and to share any ideas, between now and February 25. If you are unable to access the Plan in Google Docs linked above, please email me and I will be happy to send you a Word version.
So many thanks to the Design Team for their extraordinary work!
Design Team members:
Megan Biddle, Collection Services Manager, Four County Library System & President of SCRLC Board of Trustees
Mary Ann Munroe, School Library System Coordinator, GST BOCES & Chair of SCRLC Board’s Planning & Purpose Committee plus Chair of the Plan of Service Design Team
Julia Corrice, Metadata Operations Librarian, Cornell University Library
Heidi Eckerson, Member Services Librarian, Finger Lakes Library System
Gabriela Castro Gessner, Director of Assessment and Planning, Cornell University Library & SCRLC Board Member
Zac Greenfield, Archives & Collections Coordinator, Chenango County Historical Society & Museum
Erika Jenns, Assistant Director—Director of Librarianship, Southern Tier Library System & SCRLC Board Member
Marge Kappanadze, Director. Elmira College Gannet Library & SCRLC Board Member
Curtis Kendrick, University Libraries Faculty & Staff Mentor, Binghamton University Libraries
Jennifer Kronenbitter, Director of Libraries, Memorial Library, SUNY Cortland
Hugh McHarg, Chief Librarian, Rakow Research Library, Corning Museum of Glass & SCRLC Board Member
Matthew Roslund, Medical Librarian, Bassett Healthcare & SCRLC Board Member
Brian Sullivan, Dean of Libraries, Alfred University Libraries & SCRLC Board Member
Karin Wikoff, Board Member of Aurora Ledyard Historical Society & SCRLC Board Member
...plus, the entire SCRLC Staff!
Bibliographic & Referral Center (BARC) is open! For those of you planning to use BARC, there are two more training sessions coming up. Not to worry if you cannot attend—there will be a recorded option. See below for the registration information.
Advocating for Libraries is a continual practice. The quickest way to advocate is through the New York Library Association’s Advocacy Page. There, you can quickly take action by clicking on the Contact Your Elected Officials button. You can Become a Library Advocate to receive action alerts. There is a wealth of tools and information to help all of us become the most effective advocates possible. The specific action to take right now is to encourage both houses to include more state aid funding for libraries than what is in the executive budget. Thank you for being part of the effort to support libraries!
The Librarians. Have you seen The Librarians documentary that aired this past week on Independent Lens (or at one of the premieres)? It is now available via PBS Passport, the PBS app, and on YouTube.
There is a lot to unpack in that documentary, so we’ll be hosting a discussion on Tuesday, March 3 at 3:00 p.m. If you’ve not watched it, please do so at your convenience and join us. We considered a group screening followed by the discussion, but that would have made for a rather long session.
Register to attend, below--and remember to bring along a warm, comforting beverage!
Yours in partnership,
Mary-Carol
Mary-Carol Lindbloom
Executive Director
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