Southeastern News May & June 2018: Volume 14, Issue 2

Keep scrolling down the newsletter for details on each of these events.

At a glance: ​​​

• Wednesday, May 23: Information Literacy Instruction SIG
• Friday, June 1: 2018 Annual Meeting
• Tuesday, June 12: Anticipate, Prepare, and Manage: Emergencies, Incidents, and Everything In Between
• Tuesday, June 19: Academic Library Director's SIG
• Tuesday, June 26 - Thursday, June 28: Educator Lab: High School to College Transition
• Wednesday, July 18: Reference SIG
• Thursday, August 9: High School to College Transition SIG
• Wednesday, August 15: Library Programming Workshop

View for all announced Southeastern events on our upcoming events webpage

Accommodations for the meeting have been made possible in part by our generous sponsors:

     

You might have heard a lot about web accessibility recently. From alt text to better color contrast, many of us are working on making our web pages easier for everyone to use. If you want to learn more of what you can do to help with improving your online presence, we put together a playlist of videos from Lynda.com that will get you started.

You can find that Modern Accessibility playlist here: 

In order to view these videos and all of the thousands of other training videos on Lynda, Southeastern members can sign up for a 30-day license using the online form here.

Not sure what we're talking about? View a sample Lynda.com video, Accessibility on iOS and Android, below.

Hello from Southeastern!

You may have noticed that over the course of the past year, we've been quietly changing the way we talk about ourselves. We are well aware that "Southeastern New York Library Resources Council" is just about the longest organization name any of us know. Moreover, we concede that "SENYLRC" is an unwieldy acronym. (For the record, it's verbalized as seny-LURK). Going forward, we invite you to join us as we simply call ourselves "Southeastern."

One of the priorities of our most recent plan was to consider re-branding ourselves and possibly changing our name. Not many organizations are blessed such a literally descriptive moniker as ours! After weighing our options, we chose to stick with our 50-year-old birth name. However, we have decided to shed the acronym and its associated lurker-ness. Yes, you'll still find us at senylrc.org, and email us @senylrc.org, and our acronym persists on signage and commemorative rocks and reams of stationery and other places. We are well aware that old habits die hard, so we don't mind if "SENYLRC" lurks for a while longer. But whenever abbreviation is needed in the future, we will simply refer to ourselves by our first name. 

One other thing -- next time you see us at a conference or event, don't be taken aback if you hear us say we're from "Southeastern Library Council" -- we're still lin New York, and we still provide resources. We just want to speed up the process of introducing ourselves. 

As always, we remain yours,

The Southeastern Staff

A discussion for academic librarians who teach.

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

10:30 - 1:30

Southeastern NY Library Resources Council Conference Room

Convener: Jen Park, Mount Saint Mary College

  Register Here

This lunchtime SIG will focus on a topic about Library Instruction. We will meet over lunch (BYO or join us for a deli order.) At this meeting, we will reflect on success and failure stories from the past academic year, and we will look to the coming year by focusing on measures of assessment as they relate to the learning outcomes. As always, the specific agenda will be up to the participants.

NOTE: The Information Literacy Instruction (InfoLit) SIG was formerly known as the Bibliographic Instruction SIG.

For Southeastern and other ESLN members, there is no cost to register for this meeting.

Southeastern, in conjunction with Dutchess, Ulster, & Orange-Ulster BOCES Presents:

Educator Lab: High School to College Transition

Date: Tuesday, June 26 - Thursday, June 28
Time: 9:00am - 4:00pm
Location: FDR Museum & Mount Saint Mary College
Event co-sponsors: Dutchess BOCES, Ulster BOCES, Orange-Ulster BOCES

These workshops will take place over three days. Attendees can come to one, two, or all three of the classes. See full class descriptions below.

Hudson Valley Resources
Tuesday, June 26, 9:00am - 4:00pm
@FDR Presidential Library and Museum
Hyde Park, NY

Information Literacy
Wednesday, June 27, 9:00am - 4:00pm
@FDR Presidential Library and Museum
Hyde Park, NY

Research Proficiency
Thursday, June 28, 9:00am - 4:00pm
@Mount Saint Mary College
330 Powell Ave, Newburgh, NY

Classes are $30 each, or $75 for the entire series. Lunch is included.

Southeastern NY Library Resources Council is a certified sponsor of CTLE credit through the New York State Department of Education. Each class is 6 hours.

Register here: https://www.senylrc.org/EducatorLab

and on the Dutchess, Ulster, Orange-Ulster or Sullivan mylearningplan.com site.

Registration Deadline is June 4, 2018!

These Information literacy and research proficiency workshops will use active learning techniques to introduce classroom teachers to a wide range of free teaching and learning resources for practical use in the 21st century classroom. The classes will be taught by college and school librarians to provide educators with a solid foundation for teaching students how to be more information literate and how to use research in action so they are prepared for college.

These workshops will take place over three days. Attendees can come to one, two, or all three of the classes.

Who is the audience for these workshops?
Any 6th-12th grade classroom teacher who assigns research projects.

6/26/2018 Archival Resources in the Hudson Valley:
Learn about the network of local primary sources, many of which are unique to our region. You will learn about how use archives and government resources in school projects and how to incorporate websites like Hudson River Valley Heritage into lesson plans.
This workshop will be held at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY
 
6/27/2018 Information Literacy:
Understanding effective search on Google and Wikipedia, website evaluation, copyright, plagiarism, citing sources, and how to incorporate Empire State Information Fluency Continuum and other standards in assignments that foster critical thinking.
This workshop will be held at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY 

6/28/2018 Research Proficiency:
What is expected in a current college research assignment, how to create good research questions, time management, achieving an understanding of how to incorporate the library’s catalog, databases, and lesser-known services into effective research. This class will be held in a college library and will cover hands-on activities that you can apply to your own school’s library and other academic libraries in the Hudson Valley.
This workshop will be held at the the Mount Saint Mary College Library in Newburgh, NY

The workshops will include ongoing work on an annotated bibliography of resources that attendees can use in support of an instructional unit or objective. All participants will receive a binder of handouts for use in classroom instruction.

A discussion for librarians who help patrons get what they need.

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

9:30am - 12:30pm

Southeastern NY Library Resources Council Conference Room

Convener: Beth Zambito, Newburgh Free Library

The meeting is open to staff from all library types: academic, public, hospital, special, etc.

  Register Here

This will be the third meeting of the Special Interest Group for Reference Librarians! The meeting is open to staff from all types: academic, public, hospital, special, etc. We will talk about the similarities and differences between different kinds of reference and get to the heart of the matter: best practices for getting patrons what they need. Discussion will focus on print and online reference collections and resources, as well as statistics and tracking reference questions.

The discussion will be informal, and the agenda will be finalized by attendees based on what topics are of interest to the group.

For Southeastern and other ESLN members, there is no cost to register for this meeting.

Save the Date!

Registration for the 40th Annual Conference of the New York State Library Assistants' Association ends soon! 

All library staff are welcome to attend this great event that will be held June 6-8, 2018 in Corning, NY.  Meet and share ideas with library staff from around the state, and learn a new thing or two! 

We frequently post jobs that are open in the region. If you haven't visited lately, check out the Employment Page on our website. And if you know of an open position from Intern to Director, please email it to us at jobposting@senylrc.org, and we will be happy to post it for you!

Mini-Conference on Blockchain and the Information Profession

The Second annual Library 2.018 mini-conference: "Blockchain Applied: Impact on the Information Profession," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, June 7th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone).

This event is being organized in partnership with Drs. Sue Alman and Sandra Hirsh from the San Jose State University School of Information as part of their IMLS-funded investigation of the potential uses of blockchain technology for the information professions.

Speakers will include: Dan Blackaby, Todd A. Carpenter, Frank Cervone, Christina Cornejo, Miguel Figueroa, Patricia C. Franks, PhD, CA, CRM, IGP, Toby Greenwalt, Jason Griffey, M Ryan Hess, Amy Jiang, Stacey Johnson, Bohyun Kim, Heather A. McMorrow, Eric Meyer, Robert Norton, Tonia San Nicolas-Rocca, Ravi Singh, and Link Swanson.

SUNYLA 2018: Throw Open Our Doors: Academic Librarians Open to New Experiences, Opinions, and Viewpoints

Finger Lakes Community College
June 13-15, 2018

There has been a lot of talk about "open" lately -- open educational resources, open pedagogy, open access, etc. At the SUNYLA 2018 Annual Conference, we will delve into the concept of openness through the more general terms of openly welcoming new ideas, campus partners, materials, and strategies into our libraries. Please join us at Finger Lakes Community College on June 13-15, 2018, as we explore how our academic libraries are pushing the boundaries beyond books and databases and opening new territory both within and beyond our walls.

The Library Skills Academy, formerly the Library Assistants Training Program, is coming to a new location!

The cost for the program is $215 for NYLA Members and $255 for NON-NYLA Members.
All materials and lunch each day are included in the registration fee.

Space is limited and is available on a first come first serve basis.

 For more information and to register click here.

There are two scholarships available for this program for diverse applicants – contact director@nyla.org for details.

What is the Library Skills Academy?

This high level program is open to individuals already working or newly hired in libraries, or people interested in working in public and academic libraries. To receive a certificate, the individual must complete the entire 18 hour program.

The course is offered on the same day over the course of three weeks (e.g. three consecutive Tuesdays), and each class is six hours long.