In the newest MHLS Engage Webinar Pawling Free Library director, Brian Avery, talks about Pawling’s successful Human Library Project . The Human Library Project, which celebrated its 3rd annual gathering at the Pawling Free Library this year, is an event where community members can sign up to be “books” and can be “checked out” by program attendees.
The Engage Webinar series features innovative MHLS member libraries sharing their experiences in a short interview style format. To view the Pawling Free Library webinar and other webinars in the Engage series, visit https://midhudson.org/engage/
RBdigital has made updates to their app that make it easier for users to read magazines on their smartphones or tablets. The app now has:
The Hudson Valley Renegades are offering free tickets, for the August 26th game, for libraries to give to kids participating in or completing their Summer Reading Programs. There is no cap on the number of kids’ tickets that libraries can request, and participating libraries will be provided with a link for the families of participating kids to use to purchase discounted tickets.
Burbio is a free service that collects multiple community calendars in one place so people can stay up-to-date on the local happenings that are important to them. The free community events platform collects all of a town’s activities – library, school, government, and non-profit events – in one place and allows residents to personalize event feeds, add to their digital calendar, and receive updates. Burbio pulls event information from existing calendars so there’s no additional work involved! This service is available on a free website, iOS and Android app. To sign up for Burbio, visit
The library boards’ ultimate responsibility is to ensure and protect the reputation of the institution – best realized through the adoption of clearly written library policies. To support your organizations efforts, in writing effective policies MHLS maintains a 
The New York State Library recently issued an important reminder that Public Officer’s Law §10 requires all public library trustees (but not association library trustees) to take an oath of office within 30 days of beginning their term of office. Public library trustees are public officers and the oath of office is required to officially undertake and perform the duties of a public library trustee. If a public library trustee does not properly complete and file an oath of office, the trustee’s position may be deemed vacant. See Public Officer’s Law §30(1)(h). For more information about how and why the oath of office is administered, and where to properly file an oath of office, please see the Oaths of Office FAQ page on the State Library’s website: 
