Month: March 2018

Media Committee meeting  Tuesday, April 10th

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The next Media Committee meeting will be taking place Tuesday, April 10th, 10am – 12pm, at Suffolk Cooperative Library System.  Coffee and networking at 9:30am.  The topic of discussion will be cataloging Media concerns.  We’ll be talking about all kinds of media issues; DVDs and blu ray combos, audiobooks, vinyl, TV series, box sets, videogames, bib records, and so much more!  If you’re involved with copy cataloging, original cataloging, processing, or troubleshooting your library’s media collection don’t miss out on this roundtable discussion.  Have an issue with a new media collection at your library?  This is a great opportunity to talk it out with other libraries that might be dealing with the same problems.

Meet Generation Z

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March 19th
SCLS
Blue Room
9:30am – 12:00pm

Meet Generation Z Millennials are old news. In their late twenties and thirties, the generation has come to be defined by economic struggle and a slow start in adulthood. Come learn about a new generation of teens who are about to enter adulthood, and who have different expectations of our services.

NYLA’s Online Advocacy Center

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Send a message to your legislature, thanking them for supporting libraries this budget year.

NYLA offers this quick service to send a electronic thank you.

In order to facilitate library advocacy, NYLA provides a quick and easy means of showing your support. NYLA’s Online Advocacy Center allows you to edit pre-drafted advocacy messages as you like, enter your name and address, and hit ‘Submit’.  The messages will be automatically delivered to your NYS Senator and Assemblymember. Get started now, click on “Take Action Now!”.

https://www.nyla.org/max/4DCGI/cms/review.html?Action=CMS_Document&DocID=58&MenuKey=advocacy

The LDA Library Award

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The LDA Library Award provides recognition to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to libraries on Long Island, be they librarians, trustees, support staff, friends of the library, vendors or publishers. The award is sponsored by SCLA and NCLA and was founded by LDA Publishers in 1978.

We invite all SCLA members to consider nominating an individual for this award. A copy of the application and brochure is attached. Paper copies of the brochure also were sent to SCLA members.

Applications are now being accepted and must be received no later than Monday, March 26, 2018. Please send them to:

Marcia L. Olsen

3772 Marilyn Drive

Seaford, NY 11783

The LDA Library Award will be presented at the Long Island Library Conference on Thursday, May 3, 2018.