Upcoming Continuing Education Classes
These are webinar and traditional classes offered by the Network and other members of Empire State Library Network. Please see each class description for more information about class location and registration.
Oct 2024
Oct 3 2024 : Fall Member Meeting – Raymond Hall, SUNY Potsdam
Attend in-person or online!
Oct 4 2024 : Disaster Planning for Libraries –
Friday, October 4
1:00pm
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A library’s role as an “essential community function” during disasters is now encoded in U.S. law, positioning them to aid communities in real ways during times of adversity. Guest speaker Mary Grace Flaherty has researched (as professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) and lived (as a public library director in NY) emergency response and recovery, and will present for us on Friday, October 4th at 1:00pm to share hard-won knowledge and experience.
This session will familiarize attendees with the six phases of disaster response and offer three essential factors that shape the form of a disaster plan. Mary Grace has tips on building much-needed community support should disaster strike, using federal government planning resources, and working with state and local governments. You’ll leave motivated to create, improve, or complete your library’s plan that you can trust will save you time and stress later on. No matter where your library is in the disaster planning cycle, join us for this talk.
Read a sample of Mary Grace’s 2021 book, “The Disaster Planning Handbook for Libraries” published by ALA Editions at https://alastore.ala.org/
Oct 10 2024 : Introduction to Digitization –
October 10, 2024
11:00 am
What is digitization? This question may seem obvious to many, but there are a lot of factors that should be considered before starting a digitization project. What kind of planning should be done? What resources are needed to complete a successful project? How do you maintain the new digital files that were created?
This is the first session of six in a series lead by local archivist Katelyn Legacy-Roulston. Each has a separate registration: they will work together in a logical order for a more comprehensive overview of topics, OR as one-off standalone sessions on specific topics.
Webinars take place at 11:00 am
October 10 | Part 1: Introduction to Digitization
October 24 | Part 2: Nominating Collections for Digitization
November 7 | Part 3: Preparing for Digitization
November 21 | Part 4: Digital Imaging
December 5 | Part 5: Processing Digitized Materials
December 19 | Part 6: Storing & Maintaining Digitized Materials
Oct 24 2024 : Nominating Collections for Digitization –
October 24, 2024
11:00 am
How do you choose what to digitize? This webinar will focus on evaluating and assessing collections to determine what materials are the best candidates for digitization. Participants will learn how to develop a basic digital collection development policy, create selection criteria, and assess physical collections for digitization candidates.
This is the second session of six in a series lead by local archivist Katelyn Legacy-Roulston. Each has a separate registration: they will work together in a logical order for a more comprehensive overview of topics, OR as one-off standalone sessions on specific topics.
Webinars take place at 11:00 am
October 10 | Part 1: Introduction to Digitization
October 24 | Part 2: Nominating Collections for Digitization
November 7 | Part 3: Preparing for Digitization
November 21 | Part 4: Digital Imaging
December 5 | Part 5: Processing Digitized Materials
December 19 | Part 6: Storing & Maintaining Digitized Materials