February 29, 2024
Presenter: Deanna McGregor, Homeschool Liaison Librarian at Liverpool Public Library
According to the US Department of Education, the homeschool population has doubled from one to two million in the last decade. For most school districts in New York State, the number of households providing home instruction has more than doubled since the start of the pandemic (NYSED). Is your library prepared to assist the growing homeschool community?
Deanna McGregor, Homeschool Liaison Librarian at the Liverpool Public Library, will explain NYS’s laws and requirements for homeschool students and why families are choosing this route. Discover ways your library can support the multiple literacy needs of K-12 students following an individualized home instruction plan (IHIP) through your collections, programs, and services.
January 24, 2024
In this webinar, produced by the Southeastern NY Library Resources Council (SENYLRC), guest speaker Sharon Mitzota discussed inclusive metadata: what it is, why it’s important, and how it can reflect your institution’s goals for diversity, equity, and inclusion. This includes the historical biases that have influenced descriptive practices. We explored best practices to audit, research, and improve your terminology to better reflect the identities and values of the people who use your collections and those represented within them. We looked at a few real world examples to help you move toward creating more inclusive and care-based metadata.
The ESLN services series has finished but you can view recordings on YouTube or get the slides from the sessions.
Recordings available:
This early access session from 8/16/23 provides a tour of the soon to relaunch NYS Historic Newspapers web site. We'll look at the new searching interface including boolean searching and faceting. We'll explore the new ways to browse the collection! Presentation by Chuck Henry, IT Coordinator at Northern New York Library Network and NYSHN Project Manager.
9.13.2023 with Chuck Henry, IT Coordinator for Northern New York Library Network. What's black and white and recently launched anew? It's the NYS Historic Newspaper digitization project! Recently relaunched with deeper search tools and broader breadth of digitized collection access, the New York State Historic Newspaper website announces an hour long webinar focused on making the most of all these new search functions. Half of the time will spotlight new search features, and the other half of the time is for answering your questions.