UPDATE: This bill has passed in both the Assembly and Senate! Now it is on to the Governor’s desk. Thank you all for your efforts to help make this happen. TIME SENSITIVE: The New York Library Association (NYLA) has recently learned that a well-known lobbying firm has been hired to advocate against the #eBooks4All bill.
Monthly Archives: June 2021
The MHLS Trustee Education Series continues with Legal Issues on Tuesday, June 15th at 5:30 pm. The topic will be Open Meetings Law & Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) with Kristin O’Neill, Assistant Director, Committee on Open Government. This webinar is designed to help trustees better understand two New York State laws that are central
The New York State Library (NYSL) and the Division of Library Development (DLD) expect all public libraries in NYS to meet their required minimum number of open hours to serve their communities by June 1st, 2021. “Open” is defined as in-person services at your facility including curbside and lobby service. Telephone or email service alone will not count towards
The Sierra servers have a scheduled update of their operating system software on June 7th at 6pm, and the expected downtime is roughly 4 hours. All services that depend on the Sierra system (Sierra application, Encore, Online Registration and database and eResource authentication) will also be unavailable during the upgrade. Information about this update is
