Date: Wednesday, August 13, 2025Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PMPlace: Online at https://www.nicheacademy.com/webinar-social-media-roundup-for-librariansCost: Free What’s new with social media? Join Melody Karle to learn about new social media platforms, existing platforms that have recently changed, and how social media is impacting libraries and library staff. Some topics will include: is TikTok banned already, or what? […]
Date: Wednesday, August 27, 2025Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PMPlace: CDLCCost: Free We invite you to join fellow CDLC members for a Sustainability Idea Swap, an in-person networking event intended to ignite new ideas and share practical strategies for sustainability in libraries. Every library, regardless of size or type, is engaged in sustainability work. This […]
Date: Wednesday, July 23, 2025Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PMPlace: Online at https://www.nicheacademy.com/meetings-that-matter-seven-steps-to-running-an-effective-meetingCost: Free The meeting started late and went over the scheduled time. Attendees were updated on events that had already occurred. Speakers talked too long and repeated themselves in unstructured presentations. Those on video tried to surreptitiously knock off some email while trying […]
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2025Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PMPlace: Online at https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2GCBo5ChRzikIFjWwWSQPQ#/registrationCost: Free Work It Out @ Your Library! is a new program for librarians and families built around Work It Out Wombats!, the national PBS Kids television series for four- to six-year-olds olds and the first public media series to promote computational thinking (CT) to preschoolers. Through […]
Believe in Reading awards grants to existing and provably successful literacy programs. Programs should have been established for a minimum of 2 years. (The grant will not provide start-up funding for new programs that were established less than 2 years ago unless the applicant is a public or school library.) Believe in Reading will consider funding programs that […]
Date: Wednesday, July 09, 2025Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PMPlace: Online at https://www.nicheacademy.com/fortifying-your-library-protecting-your-library-and-staff-through-policyCost: Free Libraries are in need of updated policies now more than ever. Strong policy is one of the best ways to protect library staff, prevent issues, and keep unpreventable issues from escalating too far. Join Al Hayden for this webinar, which will […]
Date: Tuesday, July 15, 2025Time: 5:00 PM – 6:30 PMPlace: Online at https://midhudson.org/trusteebookclub/ Join Rebekkah Smith Aldrich, co-author of the Handbook for Library Trustees of New York State, and friends for this fun and informative series! At each session, trustees will take a deeper dive into a topic relevant to their role and responsibilities as a library […]
Date: Wednesday, July 09, 2025Time: 10:00 AM – 3:30 PMPlace: NYS Museum, Huxley TheaterCost: Free The New York State Library is celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act with a new initiative focusing on accessibility in libraries. The kick-off is Room for Everyone: A Library Accessibility Day of Learning, an in-person event at […]
In partnership with your local PBS station, we invite public, academic and specialty libraries to participate in this special engagement opportunity around THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION — a sweeping six-part, 12-hour documentary series chronicling the birth of the United States from Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt. (**Side note – we are fortunate the filmmakers […]
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2025Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PMPlace: Online at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ftxhmSTVRv60GpjZuOX0fQ#/registrationCost: Free This webinar takes a deep dive into stakeholder interests and motivation and the challenges to communicating with different stakeholder groups. We will focus on how to strategically communicate the impact of library services and resources to a variety of stakeholder groups. […]
