MHLS Leadership Circle: 2017 Change Management Series with Evelyn Neale, President of Successful Change & Director of the William K. Sanford Town Library. The 2017 Leadership Circle is a two-part series this year. MHLS member library directors have the opportunity to attend two events, build a plan for change and receive professional support from our speaker Evelyn Neale between the two events to help carry out their plan, to optimize their skill set to manage change in their organization.Part 1 (May 5): Managing Known Change – Creating a Change Plan
Part 2 (October 3): Managing Unknown Change
For more information and to Register for both sessions: http://calendar.midhudson.org
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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/
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
Web Literacy Training is coming to our region!
Library staff are key to promoting information literacy as a vital 21st 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 4th 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.
