$100 for Your Library

Elting Memorial Library in New Paltz, Kingston Library, Pleasant Valley Library, and West Hurley Public Library will all be receiving checks for $100 for their trustees' attendance at the Spring Trustee Education Programs offered by MHLS.

Your library can also receive a $100 check! There is a $100.00 MHLS Incentive Grant being awarded to libraries that send least three trustees in 2009 to a MHLS 'Essential Trustee Duties & Responsibilities' session and/or an 'Advanced Trustee Education Session'.

Comments from 2009 attendees:
"Overall very informative, great to hear questions from other libraries of things that haven't occurred to me, but is very helpful to know. Knowledge is empowering."

"Very good and thought provoking."

"Great session! We got lots of ideas and I am looking forward to using the resources to pursue them."

Upcoming sessions:
Essential Trustee Duties & Responsibilities:
- Thursday, September 17th, 6:00 - 8:00pm @MHLS Auditorium
- Saturday, September 26th, 10:00am - 12:00pm @Town of Esopus Library.

2009 Advanced Trustee Education Session:
Dealing with the Current Economic Situation
- Saturday, October 24th, 10:00am - 12:00pm @Germantown Library
-Thursday, October 29th, 6:00 - 8:00pm @Mahopac Library
- Thursday, November 5th, 6:00 - 8:00pm @MHLS Auditorium

Registration is required: http://calendar.midhudson.org

MHLS Libraries
The Mahopac Library SmartNet Program Launched: SmartNet is a series of classes that will cover topics ranging from social networking and identity theft to finding legitimate information online. The first class, held April 30, focused on Internet-savvy kids and their online activity. Two Carmel police officers ran the class and approximately 40 people attended. "The program evolved as the library and community members looked for a way to raise awareness of danger on the Internet following the arrest of a Southeast man who, police said, had been downloading child pornography on the library's computers. After the arrest, library officials and community members formed the Internet-Use Task Force. The coalition's goal was to examine the library's Internet policies and run a series of community education programs."
[The Journal News, 5.26.09]

Professional Development
The New York Library Association's Library Leadership and Management Academy is an educational program for emerging leaders in the library profession. Participants will gain the skills and knowledge they need to advance up the career ladder in library management. Enrollees are required to complete ten courses over a three year period to receive a Leadership and Management Academy Certificate. Qualifying courses will be held at the NYLA Annual Conference (Oct. - Nov.) and during the month of June. The Academy cost is $750 if pre-paid for all ten courses or $125 per course. The Summer Session of the Leadership and Management Academy is scheduled for June 10-12th at the Courtyard by Marriott in Saratoga Springs. June courses:

The courses offered are:
- Communication & Presentation Skills
Presenter: Carla List-Handley
Wednesday, June 10, 2009 | 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

-Time Management and Organizational Skills
Presenter: Julie Jansen, HR Consultant
Thursday, June 11, 2009 | 8:30 am - 12:30 pm

- Conflict Resolution & Team Building
Presenter: Julie Jansen, HR Consultant
Thursday, June 11, 2009 | 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm

- Facilty/Building Management
Presenter: Jesse Holland, President, Sunrise Management
Friday, June 12, 2009 | 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

To find out more info or register for the Summer Session visit http://www.nyla.org/index.php?page_id=1039

Resource Sharing & Millennium
Libraries using locking media cases are sending these items unlocked. Movement in delivery can cause the cases to return to their locked state. If you should receive it in the locked state, please package the item up and clearly label it "DO NOT CHECK IN - Unlock case and return to [your library's name here]". Unlocking the cases requires a key. Libraries may choose to purchase their own key (Midwest tapes $75.99). The owning library will unlock and return the item.

ILL patrons, ptype 5, should not have manual fines. All manual fines on these records will be removed by MHLS staff. Please let your staff know they should not be adding manual fines for this ptype. These patron records have been set up to facilitate Inter library loaning for schools, libraries, hospitals and other facilities. Thanks for your cooperation!

Marketing, Advocacy & Funding
"Be Attentive to Your Donors. A study of high net worth American donors conducted late in 2008 by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University for Bank of America revealed that the No. 1 reason donors stopped giving to a particular charity was "no longer feeling connected to the organization." This is no surprise. All donors need to feel appreciated. They need to feel informed. Their confidence in the charity needs to be constantly reinforced. At no time can a nonprofit operate as though its donors will continue giving no matter how they're treated." ["Fundraising in Tough Times: How to survive in a challenging economy," Mal Warwick, Spring 2009, Stanford Social Innovation review]

Reference & Collection Development
Playaway To Give Away Preloaded Digital Audiobooks: Until July 10, Findaway World, creators of Playaway, will be giving away 15 titles in the preloaded digital audio format to three public library entrants daily - a prize valued at $1,200 plus marketing materials. Enter online at http://www.playaway.com/giveaway/

Trend Spotting: The number of online adults who have used online classified ads has more than doubled in the past four years. Almost half (49%) of internet users say they have ever used online classified sites, compared with 22% of online adults who had done so in 2005. On any given day about a tenth of internet users (9%) visit online classified sites, up from 4% in 2005. These are among the main findings of an April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project survey. They highlight the growing importance of such sites to internet users and reflect the changes in the audience for classified ads - both those who place them and those who make purchases. For more information: http://pewinternet.org/

Youth Services
SRP PR Gets a Boost from the NYS Assembly: The NYS Library has announced the coordination of the 2009 New York Statewide Summer Reading Program (SSRP) with the NYS Assembly Summer Reading Challenge (SRC). The SRC is the Assembly's free reading program which offers kids who read and submit their reading record to the Assembly person a signed certificate. Soon, schools and families will receive the SRC brochure from their Assembly person or through their child's school. The hope is that this collaboration will clear up the confusion between the SRC and the local public library's summer reading program. Kids can participate in both programs this summer; they can enjoy their local library's summer reading activities plus get a certificate from their Assembly person when they go back to school in the fall. A copy of the SSRP public service announcement (PSA) has been provided to the NYS Assembly broadcasting stations. The PSA will be aired during individual Assembly members' weekly TV broadcasts.

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Member Libraries are welcome to submit items of interest and job openings to the MHLS Bulletin: bulletin@midhudson.org. The MHLS Bulletin is available on line at http://midhudson.org/bulletins/main.htm.