The election of MHLS trustees will be an item of business at the MHLS Annual Membership Meeting on Friday, October 27th. 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.
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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 4th. 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 27th, 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
This year, the New York State Legislature has passed a bill (A.1094-A Galef / S.3023-A Ritchie) that would permit every taxpayer to directly and conveniently support the Summer Reading Program when preparing tax forms. This bill will soon be sent to Governor Andrew Cuomo, who will consider the fate of the program’s future funding.
Send Governor Cuomo a letter of support today through the New York Library Association’s Online Advocacy Center
The MHLS van has found a new purpose as the Olive Free Library’s bookmobile! Congratulations to the Olive Free Library for being the first library in the system to implement an official bookmobile. Chrissy Lawlor, director of the Olive Free Library is pictured above.
