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Banned Books Symposium: Proactive, Reactive, Supportive – REGISTER HERE

This half-day conference will feature presentations in all capacities of banned and challenged books and programs.
Cost: $25, includes lunch

Schedule of events
8:30 am: Registration Opens
9:00 am: Welcome Remarks
9:15am – 10:05 am: First Session
10:00 am – 10:20 am: Break
10:20 am – 11:10 am: Second Session
11:10 am – 11:45 am: Lunch Catered by Lola’s in Poughkeepsie
11:45 am – 1:00 pm: Keynote, Q&A

Keynote Speaker: Jeff Trexler
Jeff Trexler has served since 2020 as Interim Director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting free expression and the legal rights of the comics community. He has extensive experience providing strategic advice to librarians, teachers, retailers, publishers, creators, legislators, and even law enforcement on responding to attempts to restrict access to graphic novels. An attorney himself, he is also the first CBLDF director since its founding in 1986 to provide direct legal representation in censorship cases, most notably the successful defense of Gender Queer against an unconstitutional attempt to prohibit the book’s sale or distribution in Virginia.

This Symposium is in partnership with Southeastern New York Library Resources Council, Ramapo Catskill Library System, Mid-Hudson Library System, Mount Saint Mary College, SUNY New Paltz and BOCES School Library Systems of Dutchess, Orange-Ulster, Rockland, Sullivan, and Ulster.

The MHLS Board Packet will be available on the Mid-Hudson Library System Board of Trustees page.

Meeting of the Resource Sharing Advisory Committee.

Meeting of the MHLS Nominations & Elections Committee.

Meeting of the Ad Hoc OverDrive Committee.

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Join colleagues to discuss the Sierra Integrated Library System, Vega and related platforms.   Let’s talk workflows, projects and share “how we did it”s related to the Sierra systems.

MHLS staff will cover the most recent Sierra upgrade and the next upgrade on the way.
New products, The Mobile Patron App and LX (Library Experience) Launch for notices.
We will also take a look back at Mobile Worklists!

Meeting of the Columbia County Library Association.

This is a closed session available ONLY to participants of the May 3rd workshop: Balancing Acts: Cultivating Compassion for Library Worker Wellness. 

This is the first of four, ONLINE mini sessions to help participants of the May 3rd workshop: Balancing Acts: Cultivating Compassion for Library Worker Wellness, apply the principals learned during the workshop.

Workshop participants will be emailed a link to register for this online event.

Though this session will be held online it will not be recorded to help foster a safe space for participants to have an open dialogue.

Meeting of the MHLS System Services Advisory Committee.

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.