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414 Petition Signature Bill

The 414 Petition Signature Bill (S3594 / A5266) would reduce the number of signatures from 10% of the number of voters that voted in the last gubernatorial election (which can be hundreds of signatures for some libraries – anywhere between 200-800 in our system) to 25. This bill would be a game changer for the

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Trustee Handbook Book Club

Join co-authors of the Handbook for Library Trustees of New York State Jerry Nichols and MHLS Executive Director, Rebekkah Smith Aldrich for the next session in the Trustee Handbook Book Club series on Tuesday, May 3rd at 5:00 pm. The chapter covered will be Planning and Evaluation. Register for this session or visit https://midhudson.org/trusteebookclub/ to view upcoming

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Trustee Handbook Book Club

Join co-authors of the Handbook for Library Trustees of New York State Jerry Nichols and MHLS Executive Director, Rebekkah Smith Aldrich for the next session in the Trustee Handbook Book Club series on Tuesday, May 3rd at 5:00 pm. The chapter covered will be Planning and Evaluation. Register for this session or visit https://midhudson.org/trusteebookclub/ to view upcoming

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MHLS Action Plan for Delivery Services

In the face of the unprecedented spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the corresponding action by federal, state, county, local and library officials in the past week, the Mid-Hudson Library System (MHLS) will temporarily suspend holds and the delivery system this week. This decision was developed in consultation with MHLS staff, the leadership of the

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Copyright Reminder

Copyright enforcement companies use web crawling and scraping programs to analyze sites all over the internet for images and pictures that match images and pictures that their clients have copyright claim to. If your library’s website or Facebook page has images that you are not permitted to use under the licensing agreement established by the

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Climate Week

Hudson Valley communities and organizations are joining forces to promote and take part in Climate Week 2019, September 23-29, a global educational event. This year, Sustainable Hudson Valley and the Hudson Valley Climate Solutions Network are promoting a high profile, action-oriented program with support from the New York Library Association’s Sustainability Thinking and Action Round

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Sierra Upgrade Complete!

New features in the Sierra 4.2 release include the ability for staff to place new title-level holds using information from a cancelled hold, and insert that hold either at the end of the hold queue or in order by the original hold’s placed date; an option command link to allow libraries to publish a privacy policy in their WebPAC screens; adding an option to select a default Create Lists view so that each user can set their own default and more!

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Mini-Grant Deadline: August 11

MHLS Outreach Mini Grant Program 2017: Applications due August 11: NYS Outreach Categorical Aid funds, received from the NYS Library Division of Library Development, will be used to fund mini-grants of up to $2,000 per member library to develop programs and services to attract and connect to outreach target populations and form relevant community partnerships at the local level. Applications, Mini-Grant Information and Requirements

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