The American Library Association (ALA) is partnering with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ We Can Do This campaign to share trusted information about COVID-19 vaccines with parents and families with children. The “We Can Do This” campaign provides a range of expert-verified outreach tools and sharable resources that libraries can use to
Monthly Archives: May 2022
Kingston Library and the Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History recently launched a collaboration with the Kingston Immigrant Oral History Project to gather, document, preserve, and share the oral histories of the immigrant experience in their community. The project was motivated by a lack of materials in the library’s Local History collection on the immigrant experience of the latter twentieth and early twenty-first century. Recordings of interviews
There is still time to register for From Diversity to Inclusion: How to Audit Your Collection and Why on May 19th at 2:00 pm presented by Kymberlee Powe, Children and YA Consultant with the Connecticut State Library. In this presentation attendees will learn what a diversity audit is, why we should audit our collections, why the structure
The NYLA Conference Scholarship from the Mid-Hudson Library System is designed to help provide new library directors and new library staff with the opportunity to attend the Annual Conference of the New York Library Association by matching funds provided by the library to underwrite conference attendance. “New” is defined as serving in the role of
The MHLS Trustee Education Series spring sessions begins in May with Trustee Essentials. Library board members looking for essential, basic information to increase their effectiveness in serving on a library board will benefit from attending this session. Attendees will develop a working knowledge of library funding and organization in New York State; receive a clear
