The New York Library Association (NYLA) is looking for webinar proposals from you! NYLA is constantly on the lookout for great topics and speakers. Pitch your own idea or recommend someone you’d like to see on the schedule! These programs provide professional development opportunities to members through web-based informational sessions, 1 hour in length. Although
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The American Library Association (ALA) is collaborating with the Ukrainian Library Association to collect donations for the Ukrainian library community as they face the challenges of war. Throughout Ukraine, dozens of libraries have been severely damaged or destroyed. Despite this, Ukrainian librarians have kept their libraries open for as long as possible and are continuing
Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP) wants to hear from you to help wordsmith possible Summer Reading Program slogans for 2025. The committee has complied all the responses in a Google document to share and review. Add your response by May 31st to be considered in the final list to be voted on in August at
American Library Association’s (ALA) new report, Keeping Communities Connected: Library Broadband Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic, highlights “the impact of broadband access through the nation’s nearly 17,000 public libraries during the pandemic, as well as the need for continued long-term investments in broadband infrastructure and digital inclusion programming. … Libraries rose to the emergency to
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
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 National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) will soon be accepting letters of intent from community organizations, including rural and Tribal libraries, who wish to expand digital services in their communities. NDIA will work with the selected organizations to provide funding, training, outreach and support in launching digital navigator programs. Digital navigation services include ongoing assistance
Unite Against Book Bans! American Library Association (ALA) has launched a national initiative to empower readers everywhere to stand together against censorship. Unite Against Book Bans will engage with other state, local, and national efforts to build a strong and vibrant network of individuals and organizations working together to fight censorship. Please raise your voice
On Tuesday April 26th at 1:00 pm Empire State Library Network will host, Libraries and First Amendment Audits: Ask the Lawyer Webinar with Stephanie Cole Adams. Public libraries across the country are experiencing an increase in encounters of patrons conducting “First Amendment audits”. The asserted purpose of these “audits” is to record alleged civil rights
Kingston Library, Red Hook Public Library, Starr Library (Rhinebeck) , Morton Memorial Library & Community House (Rhinecliff) and Tivoli Free Library are collaborating with Bard College for Big Read Hudson Valley: Spanning the Hudson River with Words. To support Bard’s NEA Big Read grant each library will be offering reading groups, performances, workshops, and events from April 6th
