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2017 NY GovBuy: A Statewide Government Buyers Event | May 3 & 4 2017 at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, NY. This event provides practical training that enables purchasing officials to stay informed about relevant procurement-related issues and more effectively meet fiscal challenges. The event is funded entirely through exhibitor fees. Visit exhibitors’ booths to learn about the many goods, services and technologies they offer, as well as how they may help provide solutions to your library’s needs. For more information and to register: https://govbuy.ogs.ny.gov/

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Interested in learning more about funding and legislative issues that impact libraries at the federal level? The American Library Association’s Washington Office provides comprehensive coverage of these issues and provides a venue for you to activate as a library advocate:

• Key Issues briefings
• District Dispatch, the enewsletter from the ALA Washington Office
• Legislative Action Center, very similar to the NYLA Online Advocacy Center but for national issues

Consumer Reports has a new logo! Be sure to update this graphic on your library’s web site if you do not have a MHLS-managed web site.

Roundtable for New Directors
Wednesday, April 5th | 12:30pm-2:30pm
MHLS Auditorium, Poughkeepsie, NY

Guest Speaker: Patti Haar, Director of the Patterson Library
Topic: Tips for Developing a Good Working Relationship with your Board of Trustees

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Web Literacy Training is coming to our region!

Library staff are key to promoting information literacy as a vital 21^st Century skill and helping to develop critical thinkers. In this class, we will discuss key information literacy concepts, share the teaching activities already at play in your library, and create new activities to help reinforce the concepts for your users and patrons. This training will help you meet the growing need of the diverse audience using today’s online resources.

This class will also introduce Mozilla’s Web Literacy Framework, which was designed “To help people become good citizens of the web,…[focusing] on the following goals:

1) develop more educators, advocates and community leaders who can leverage and advance the web as an open and public resource, and

2) impact policies and practices to ensure the web remains a healthy open and public resource for all.

Two dates to choose from!

• Tuesday, April 4^th from 1:30-4:30pm @SENYLRC
• Tuesday, June 13 from 1:30-4:30pm @MHLS Auditorium

For more information and to register: http://www.senylrc.org/WebLiteracyTraining

MHLS Facility Stewardship Webinar Series:

• March 21: Creating a Basic Facility Plan
• April 4: Introduction to the State Aid for Public Library Construction Program
• May 9: Sustainable Facilities: An Introduction

Please register online

Legislators LOVED the Real People. Real Dollars. Campaign! Each legislator was presented with a poster that showed over 70 Hudson Valley Families who had calculated their annual savings through library use. The visual message drove home that while in Albany they are talking about dollars in the millions, for legislators’ constituents this money has real impact on household budgets. THANK YOU to all participating libraries! You made a real impact! (Shown above: Senator Sue Serino with the MHLS contingent of advocates on Library Advocacy Day, March 1, 2017)

MHLS Webinar: Drafting a Basic Facility Plan
Wednesday, March 15th | 10:00 – 11:00am
A board-approved, prioritized facility plan is required to apply for the State Aid for Public Library Construction program in the Mid-Hudson Library System. This webinar, presented by MHLS Coordinator for Library Sustainability, Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, is designed to introduce a basic outline for your own facility plan that can help you keep track of on-going and long-term facility issues. Please register online for this event

Thank you Greene County Library Directors for a $5,000 donation to purchase eBooks & eAudiobooks to be shared by all 66 MHLS member libraries! Pictured above (left-right): Candace Begley, Windham; Debra Kamecke, Cairo, Regina Johnson, Hunter; Janet Dymond, Athens; Sue Ray, Catskill; Barbara Flach, Greenville; Maureen Garcia, MountainTop; and Linda Deubert, Coxsackie.

Sierra Lunchtime Webinar: MHLS Automation Coordinator Thomas O’Connell will offer his monthly lunchtime webinar of training and Q&A on Wednesday, February 22 from noon – 1:00pm. The topic will be patron data entry. The session will take place online. Seats fill up fast for this session so sign up soon! Registration is required. Log-in information for the webinar will be sent to your email address in advance of the event. Register today