Mohawk Valley Library System

Category: Workshops & Webinars

  • Free Webinar – Transforming Teen Services in Your Library

    Date: Thursday, February 03, 2022
    Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
    Place: Online at https://lilrc.org/event-4561927
    Presenters: Shauntee Burns-Simpson

    Does your library have a hard time getting teens through the door? Are you having a hard time engaging with the young adult population? While there may be no one-size-fits-all solution, this webinar will share some tools and approaches to engage with teens in your library.

    Transforming Teen Services (T3) is a series of trainings designed to help improve library services for teens across four basic content areas:

    • Connected Learning
    • Computational Thinking
    • Child and Youth Development
    • Educational Equity

    Learn about this series based training and transform teen services in your library.

    Free to ESLN Members (MVLS libraries, select Other Library Resources Councils when registering). Registration is required.

  • Online Training for Trustees – Trustee Handbook Book Club

    Join co-authors of the Handbook for Library Trustees of New York State Jerry Nichols and Rebekkah Smith Aldrich for this fun and informative series! Each month trustees are encouraged to read a chapter of the Trustee Handbook and send in questions that the authors will address at live events later this year. Trustees from all public library systems in New York State are welcome. Library Directors from across the state are welcome to attend as well.

    Program details can be found here. https://midhudson.org/trusteebookclub/ And, participants can submit their questions ahead of time by clicking here.

    Sessions will be held as follows:

    Tuesday, January 18, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: Budgets and Finance  |  Register Here

    Tuesday, February 22, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: Facilities  |  Register Here

    Tuesday, March 29, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: Policies and Risk Management  |  Register Here

    Tuesday, April 19, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: Ethics and Conflicts of Interest + Intellectual Freedom, Censorship and Privacy  |  Register Here

    Tuesday, May 03, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: Planning and Evaluation  |  Register Here

    Tuesday, June 14, 2022 from 5:00-6:30pm: PR and Advocacy  |  Register Here

    The first three sessions, focusing on Duties and Responsibilities, Library Board Meetings, and Personnel, were held in the fall of 2021.  Recordings of those sessions, along with post-session tool kits for followup, are available here.

    Ron Kirsop, Pioneer Library System executive director, and Brian Hildreth, Southern Tier Library System executive director, will be co-moderating these events.

  • Free Webinar – Program Planning Made Easy

    Date: Tuesday, January 12, 2022
    Time: 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
    Place: Online at https://tinyurl.com/mr3d942v
    Presenters: Jill Burket Ragase

    Modern library programming involves incorporating popular trends, research on language and reading acquisitions, as well as developmental milestones, and of course fun! Pulling that off with ease requires solid planning and organization.

    In this interactive webinar program, Jill Burket Ragase will give you a variety of tools that you will be able to use to:

    • Strategically plan your programming calendar
    • Use planning time efficiently for maximum results
    • Methods to collect titles and activities for future use
    • Methods to transform the sea of titles, themes, and random ideas into a cohesive plan
    • Incorporate flexibility in your plans to meet evolving conditions
    • Tips and tricks for organizing program and storytime themes, programming supplies, and materials,
    • Set up shared documents to decrease workload across staff

    Program planning doesn’t have to be time consuming. We’ll discuss strategies for organizing your ideas, work, and materials in a way that maximizes your planning time investment.

    Free to ESLN Members (MVLS libraries, select CDLC as your ESLN Council). Registration is required.

  • Free Webinar – Thinking Outside : Nature-based Programs at the Library

    Date: Thursday, December 16, 2021
    Time: 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
    Place: Online at https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErdeugrzwpG9DhyytwR0kLrZMqrJBVyjAX
    Presenters: Nate Keefe

    Are you interested in implementing nature-based programming to help connect your patrons to the natural world? Nature programming can help you attract new audiences, as well as deepen your relationship with the library’s “frequent flyers.” In addition, nature programming can help foster a conservation ethic that will guide the way towards a sustainable future. Join school librarian and longtime environmental educator Nate Keefe to explore how to create nature programming that will suit the needs of both your patrons and your library.

    In this online, 1-hour interactive discussion, we will discuss the role your library can play in community nature programming, and how libraries can leverage community partnerships to maximize impact. We will also explore opportunities for “DIY” nature programming, and have a robust idea-sharing session. Finally, participants will evaluate their own unique library settings to identify assets, and will be provided with a downloadable handout with actionable, take-away ideas that require minimal resources to get started right away.

    Free to ESLN Members (MVLS libraries, select CDLC as your ESLN Council). Registration is required.

  • Free Webinar – Digital Privacy 101 : A Primer for Libraries

    Date: Thursday, December 09, 2021
    Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
    Place: Online at https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NfaP4bteRr65AeS6vnScgQ
    Presenters: Christine Fena and Claire Payne, Stony Brook University

    In this engaging session, participants will have the opportunity to explore several key aspects of online privacy, as well as think about ways to educate and inform their own patrons about digital privacy issues. The first part of the webinar will focus on some basics of how personal information is stored, used, and shared on the open web, in addition to a discussion of specific experiences such as navigating privacy policies. The second part of the session will focus on digital privacy concerns that are specific to library programs, policies, and services. Throughout, the workshop leaders will aim to create a space for participants to think critically about approaches to digital privacy, and to discover strategies they can use to become privacy advocates at their own libraries.

    Free to ESLN Members (MVLS libraries, select CDLC as your ESLN Council). Registration is required.

    This session is sponsored by the Empire State Library Network.

    Contact Susan D’Entremont at susan@cdlc.org or Caitlin Kenney at ckenney@wnylrc.org for more info