SCLA is temporarily cancelling some programming due to the current public health concerns. We will continue to keep you updated.

Save The Date
Friday, March 20 1 0:00 am
At Suffolk Cooperative Library System

• Learn about professional development & CEU opportunities available through SCLA and its divisions
• Enjoy a complimentary breakfast
• Network with other Suffolk County library professionals
• Get your professional headshot taken for FREE!

Register here

The NCLA Young Adult Services Division (YASD) is hosting our annual Joint Meeting with SCLA YASD on Thursday, February 27th, 2020 at 9:30 a.m. at the Massapequa Public Library’s Bar Harbour building. We will be having a panel of public and school librarians and a public school teacher to discuss how to best serve our teens with special needs.

Nassau & Suffolk YASD Annual Joint Meeting

Thursday, February 27th, 2020
9:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Massapequa Public Library – Bar Harbour Building
40 Harbor Lane, Massapequa Park, NY 11762

Learn some best practices for working with teens with special needs from a
panel of librarians featuring Christa Lucarelli, Assistant Director of the
Farmingdale Public Library, Michael Ambrosio, Special Needs Coordinator at
the Oceanside Library, Kristina Holzweiss, Educational Technology Enrichment
Specialist from the Syosset High School Innovation Lab, and Evangeline King,
School Media Specialist & Kathleen Wegner, Special Education Teacher, from
the Massapequa High School Ames Campus.

Topics discussed will include how schools and school libraries engage their
students, how libraries can support school curriculum and behavior plans, how
public libraries can build and support sensory friendly environments, and how
public library programs can be made more inclusive to teens with special needs.

Light from Other Stars by Erika Swyler

The author will speak at 2:00 pm on Sunday, April 19, 2020 at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Library.

FREE TICKETS will be available beginning March 2.

As Nedda Papas faces mystery and danger both in the orange groves of her Florida childhood and the vastness of space as an adult, Light from Other Stars keenly illuminates the magical limits of science while exploring, in detail, the bonds of family, friendship, and love of home.

For more information please visit:

https://longislandreads.wordpress.com

Location Change

Mosaic Meeting @ SCLS January 14th

October 24, 2019
6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Long Island Aquarium
431 E Main Street
Riverhead, NY

Join the Suffolk County Library Association for their Annual Meeting and Dinner.
Online registration deadline is Tuesday, October 22, 2019 @ 12noon.

Register here: https://www.nyla.org/max/events/scla-annual-meeting-dinner/326/

If you have any questions, please contact:

Lissetty Thomas
Lthomas@pmlib.org
631-654-4700 ext 224

Please bring a new unwrapped toy for Toys for Tots.

Thursday, May 16 6:00 – 8:00 pm

Join us at Old City Public House to meet, network and share ideas with other library professionals.

$10 per ticket for SCLA members

$15 per ticket for non-members

Includes assorted appetizers

Cash bar with happy hour specials

Please register and pay online at:

https://www.nyla.org/max/events/scla-networking-night-5-16-19/318/

For more information, email Ellen Hobson at ellen.hobson@sachemlibrary.org

Please join us for the 2018 DASL Annual Luncheon at the Country House in Stony Brook.
Our event will include lunch and a presentation by David Favaloro, Director of Curatorial
Affairs & Hebrew Technical Institute Research Fellow at the Tenement Museum.

Time: 2:30 pm

Register Online: http://goo.gl/S1XNnV

After you register, please send a check for $25 made payable to “NYLA/SCLA” to:

ATTN: Fabio Montella
Suffolk County Community College
Montaukett Learning Center
121 Speonk-Riverhead Road
Riverhead, NY 11901-3499

Participation is limited to 20 people. For questions, please email daslpresident@gmail.com

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