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New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie has named Assemblymember Didi Barrett (D – Columbia, Dutchess) to chair the Assembly Committee on Libraries and Education Technology.

Assemblymember Barrett has been a longtime advocate of libraries, including working to secure funding in the state budget, and has also worked with the Mid-Hudson Library System to create an annual Women’s History booklet.

“Assemblymember Barrett has provided outstanding support for libraries,” said Tom Sloan, Executive Director of the Mid-Hudson Library System. “She promotes libraries as essential educational services which advance the importance of reading and learning. Libraries in the Hudson Valley will greatly benefit from her position as Chair of the Assembly Committee on Libraries & Education Technology.”

High School Battle of the Books Winners:

• 1st place: Howland Public Library (Beacon)
• 2nd place: Beekman Library
• 3rd place: Kingston Library

Middle School Battle of the Books Winners:

• 1st place: Patterson Library
• 2nd place: Staatsburg Library
• 3rd place: Howland Public Library (Beacon)

Read the full report in this week’s MHLS Bulletin!

The election of MHLS trustees will be an item of business at the MHLS Annual Membership Meeting on Friday, October 27^th. MHLS is governed by a fifteen-member board made up of three trustees from each of the five counties served. To learn more about the candidates read their bios in this week’s MHLS Bulletin.

Libraries: Essential to an Informed Citizenry will be the theme of the MHLS Annual Membership Meeting and you are cordially invited to join us!

The event will be held on Friday, October 27th, 2017 at the Henry A. Wallace Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY. Registration is required

Our Membership Program Keynote Speaker will be Paul Grondahl, Director of the New York State Writers Institute at the University at Albany. His presentation is entitled: News Literacy, Fake News and the Job of an Informed Citizenry.

Special Event! Following the Membership Meeting, you are invited to the Women in Politic Symposium. Speakers will include Dr. Eve Waltermaurer, Assemblymember Didi Barrett, Assemblymember Sandra Galef, and Dr. Sandra Opdycke. The symposium is free of charge but registration is required through the same registration form you use to register for the general annual meeting.

From October 12 – 26, ‘The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett’ by Chelsea Sedoti will be available for every patron that wishes to read it—no holds, no wait lists – through Mid-Hudson Library System Digital Downloads. Posters, handouts, press release, social media graphics are available!

MHLS will be closed in observance of Labor Day on Monday, September 4^th. There will be no MHLS Delivery Services or Tech Support Services.

Governor Cuomo has signed A.1094-A Galef / S.3023-A Ritchie into law! Affectionately known as the “tax check-off bill,” this law amends New York State Tax Law to permit income taxpayers to make contributions directly into the state “Love Your Library Fund” when completing their annual tax filings.

Monies from the “Love Your Library Fund” are used exclusively to support the annual New York Statewide Summer Reading Program.

Thank you to all who wrote and called the Governor to make this happen!

The latest installment of the MHLS Engage! Webinar Series is now available on demand! This installment features an interview with John Remington, a trustee of the Saugerties Public Library, and is focused on their library’s Little Free Libraries Initiative. Watch this mini-webinar at your convenience through the MHLS Engage! Web Site

The 2017 Mid-Hudson Library System Annual Membership Meeting will be held the morning of Friday, October 27^th, at the Henry A. Wallace Visitor and Education Center, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park. Our theme this year is Libraries: Essential to an Informed Citizenry. A special event, coordinated by MHLS: Women in Politics: Past, Present, & Future – A Recognition of the Centennial of Women’s Right to Vote in New York, will follow the annual meeting.

The American Library Association (ALA) has opened the application period for grants to develop public library programming that promotes computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) among youth. The grant opportunity is the latest phase of the Libraries Ready to Code (RtC) initiative, sponsored by Google. Libraries will be selected to receive grants of up to $25,000 to design and implement youth coding programs that incorporate Ready to Code concepts. Learn more at: http://www.ala.org/tools/readytocode

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