Events - February 21 2024

Meeting of the Greene County Library Association.

Location TBD.

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The American Library Association has called climate change the “greatest challenge of our generation.” In partnership with the Mid-Hudson Library System and Ramapo Catskill Library System,  Sustainable Hudson Valley has designed a program of action planning, training and support for libraries as living laboratories for climate resilience in their communities.  This will help library leadership make their facilities energy-secure, safe and comfortable in extreme weather, and position them  to serve as community hubs for education and action projects to help their surrounding neighborhood deal with climate change.

This cohort program includes 4-sessionsto facilitate participants’ understanding of climate resilience needs and opportunities at and around their locations, and the participatory approaches to working with local stakeholder partners to capture these opportunities.

Session 1 [Online]  Assessment and Engagement: A Place-based Framework for Assessing Vulnerability and Opportunity. This process begins with a review of climate trends and approaches to resilience, then moves into an assessment of the library facility and surrounding public spaces, to be done by staff, board members, Friends Groups and other supporters, in order to develop a thorough understanding of the physical characteristics of the place.

The monthly Youth Services Rendezvous is open to all Mid-Hudson Library System member library youth services staff who work with birth to teen. Find out what others are doing for programming, outreach, collection development, ask questions of your peers and share things that have worked for you.

For more information about this event please email Christine Pacuk, cpacuk@saugertiespubliclibrary.org or call 845-246-4317 ext. 5.

This event is organized by member library staff.