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SCRLC NEWS
November 3, 2023
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Cherry Friday Greetings!
Last Friday (October 27) was our annual meeting. Dr. Rachel Ivy Clarke presented an excellent and engaging workshop on the topic of librarianship as a design profession. Those working in libraries and other cultural organizations design programs, exhibits, learning opportunities, information literacy curricula, perhaps digital strategies, etc.--so many things—and yet in the case of librarianship, we call it library and information science. She mentioned how few LIS programs offer even one specific course on design. To learn more, visit Dr. Clarke's research page.
The workshop was followed by the best lunch (Word of Mouth Catering) ever and then the annual business meeting. We attempted to do the business meeting as a hybrid, but our OWL video/mic worked only so-so at the best. Apologies to those of you who were online and not always able to hear the proceedings.
At the meeting, Fiona Patrick (Corning, Inc.) was elected to a second term on the Board of Trustees and Mary Ann Munroe (GST BOCES School Library System) was elected to her first term. Congratulations to both!
Also at the business meeting, the new bylaws were approved, which are located here.
Many SCRLC staff have been at the New York Library Association conference this week. It has been a great few days of learning and networking with our colleagues from around the SCRLC region and beyond!
Yours in partnership,
Mary-Carol Lindbloom
Executive Director
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Thanks to everyone who attended our 57th annual meeting of the membership and first in person meeting since 2019! Here are more photos if you would like to see. | |
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Many SCRLC members presented at the NYLA Conference this year:
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Brian Hildreth, Southern Tier Library System
Communication Skills for Developing Leaders
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Claire Lovell, SCRLC and Kelly Povero, Watkins Glen Public Library (STLS)
Disability Access for Digital Access
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Leah Dodd, Cornell University Libraries and Caitlin Kenney, WNYLRC
Make Real Connections with 24/7 Chat Cooperative Reference
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Erika Jenns, Southern Tier Library System
Digital Literacy Training Made Easy with DigitalLearn
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Josias Bartram and Laura Haynes, Broome County Public Library
Facilitating Peer Support at Public Libraries
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Leslie Tabor, Tompkins County Public Library
Pushing Boundaries without Pushing Buttons
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Kathy Starks, Owego Free Academy (BT BOCES School Library System)
You Can Do This! (a session on public speaking)
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Neyda Gilman, Binghamton University Library
Climate Action: Small steps, big impact
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Thank you to everyone who answered our microfilm survey! Collections ranged from just a few microfilm reels to over 1,000. If you need a reader, we can now point to some all over the region, from Otsego to Allegany. Libraries like Corning’s Southeast Steuben County Library still hold physical newspaper collections for lack of a microfilmed copy.
If you have a newspaper that you don’t think is microfilmed or freely available online, please reach out to Claire Lovell.
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Wednesday night following a NYLA Conference Ambassador's meeting, Jessica and Claire got to hang out with colleagues from other library councils, as well as former SCRLC Digital Services Librarian Julia Corrice, now the Metadata Operations Librarian at Cornell University. This was the business meeting and social gathering for NYLA's Academic and Special Libraries Section (ASLS), and we're proud to note that Jai Blackburn of the NYS Academy of Fire Science is the incoming ASLS President Elect.
The conference is still happening today and tomorrow. Here are some highlights so far:
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Emily Drabinski gave an inspiring keynote at the conference, describing how librarians do good work and that shouldn't be, but has somehow become, controversial. | |
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Claire Lovell and Kelly Povero (Watkins Glen Public Library) gave an excellent presentation full of actionable steps to make any library's physical or virtual space more accessible.
This was part of the DJ4DJ project, which included four recorded webinars, available here: Disability Justice 4 Digital Justice - YouTube.
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Stephanie Cole Adams of Ask the Lawyer did a singular job pinch hitting at the ESLN Luncheon for Alison Macrina of the Library Freedom Project who fell ill. Cole says the law has our backs when it comes to book bans and she led a spirited Q&A session. | | |
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The Cayuga Museum of History and Art has a new creative play space for kiddos, so Claire and her son Bill went to check it out. After he finished an architecture scavenger hunt throughout the museum, Curator Haley Boothe helped Bill make a spooky spider. He also got to bring home a coloring sheet of the gorgeous Tiffany stained glass window. | |
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Among other takeaways from our annual meeting, Dr. Rachel Ivy Clarke shared her work on Uncovering Invisible Labor with the True Value Project. The True Value Calculator takes library advocacy one step beyond finding out how much patrons save when they check out library materials to include the cost of labor involved with selecting and processing those materials. | |
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LIBRARIES ADDRESSING HEALTH INFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION
November 15, 11:00am - NOON
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THE SOUTHWORTH LIBRARY PRESENTS: TWO ROW WAMPUM TREATY
co-sponsored by SCRLC
November 16, 6:00pm - 7:00pm
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LUNCH AND LEARN: THE HAZARDS IN PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS
December 7, NOON - 1:00pm
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WEBINAR RERUN: ALL ABOUT TICKS | |
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Webinar viewers say:
"Now I won't freak out if I'm removing a tick and the head separates from the body."
"I suppose if we were having outdoor activities, e.g., a nature walk, we'd be careful to have repellent on hand for those who wanted to use. I might hot have thought about that if not for this program, but it would be a way to keep people safer."
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New Collection: Citadel Yearbook Collection
SUNY Broome has a wonderful digital collection on their LibGuides. Many thanks to librarian Noah Roth for sending us copies to include on NYHeritage.org. We’ve uploaded their Citadel Yearbook Collection, which represents the college from 1949 to 1986, from Broome County Technical Institute to SUNY Broome and every name in between.
New Collection: Historical Homer Collection
Cortland Free Library opened up their archives room for a visit and we discovered a whole manuscript from 1879 about the village of Homer, New York! Provenance is a mystery, especially since the library has never been chartered to serve Homer, but we’ve uploaded the OCR’d pages as it describes the earliest white settlers in Cortland County. This collection also includes "Lists of Letters Remaining in the Post Office of Homer Village," 1819 through 1829, an informal and partial census of presumed residents.
New Collection: Newfield Scrapbooks
These scrapbooks were compiled by longtime teacher Margaret Van Riper, historian Edith Horton, and others. The clippings come from newspapers printed in Newfield, Ithaca, and Syracuse, and chronicle births, weddings, deaths, events, and news in Newfield and nearby communities like Danby.
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