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Category Archives: Annual Meeting
TIF Meeting,Thursday October 6th at Half Hollow Hills
This month’s Technology Information Forum will be held on Thursday October 6, 2016 at the Half Hollow Hills Community Library in Dix Hills, 9:30 for coffee and 10am for meeting. This month, in light of the release of IOS 10, the discussion will be centered around the level of assistance information technology and librarians provide regarding updating devices for patrons. Do you go “all in” or do you have a handout, or are you strictly hands off? Lets talk about updates on electronic devices, whether its phones, tablets, laptops or other devices (yes even GPS devices).
Also a topic for conversation, what do you do with your old technology? Once computers, monitors, keyboards and/or projectors are upgraded, how does your library dispose of them. Lets talk about how each library goes about this and think of creative ways to repurpose this technology.
Additionally, we always welcome questions and comments for the group with problems, suggestions, innovations and other input from the group. Come join us, won’t you?
Directions to the Half Hollow Hills Community Library:
SCLA Annual Dinner – November 10, 2016
CATS Annual Meeting – December 9, 2015
CATS Annual Meeting – December 9, 2015
Brian Pichman of Evolve Project will speak at the December 9, 2015 CATS Annual Meeting
Brian Pichman is the Director of Strategic Innovation at the Evolve Project.
CATS Annual Meeting – Wednesday, December 9, 2015, 9:30 a.m.
Please join us . . .
Location: SCLS Auditorium
Refreshments provided
Guest Speaker: Brian Pichman of the Evolve Project
Description:
Join Brian Pichman of the Evolve Project on an adventure of laughs, thrills, and an opportunity to experiment and build with some of the latest and greatest gadgets in the market place. This workshop will guide you through the whys and hows of building environments that allow creativity through the use of innovative technology. At the end of this session, you will be building circuits, programming robots, and more, during this jam packed information and hands on session. There will be something for everyone at this event and will leave you with new ideas that you can implement the very next day in your library.
About Brian Pichman:
Brian Pichman is the Director of Strategic Innovation at the Evolve Project. He speaks a lot about innovative technology as a presenter and loves collaborating with both libraries and companies. He is dedicated to bring libraries into the future using cost effective measures and strategies. Brian’s passion for libraries stems from when he worked in public library since he was 16 years old; and moved from Page to Circulation to Director of IT before re-designing the entire children’s library by partnering with innovative tech start-ups which sparked one of the first ever virtual tour of a public library done by Google. From here, he launched his career into collaborating with start-ups and helping them grow by partnering them with libraries.
Brian also has a Masters in Informational Security and loves to share best practices on everything IT related, as well as on building effective teams, exploring funding alternatives, designing new spaces, and improving marketing and outreach.
About Evolve Project:
The Evolve Project is a collaborative platform that works with libraries across the country. The Evolve Project believes that libraries should be creating stories rather than just providing them.
They help libraries create maker spaces and fablabs along with the coaching and guidance to take their environments to the next level. Libraries are community anchors which should be positioned to provide the resources and connections to allow patrons to build innovative works, discover new things, and collaborate with others.
By partnering with start-ups that have interactive and engaging technologies and integrating those products into library environments; everyone can start building towards a better tomorrow within their communities.
2015 Board Elections – Ballot Open
Click here to login and vote for the following, vote opportunity ends July 15, 2015:
SCLA Board
CATS Board
RASD Board
CATS – No Summer Meetings
There will be no CATS meetings for the months of July and August. The next meeting will be Wednesday, September 9th.
Enjoy your summer!
SCLA Bylaws Vote – through May 2, 2015
Please vote!
Suffolk County Library Association is updating all association and division by-laws to coincide with our merger as a regional chapter of the New York Library Association.Voting to approve bylaw changes is open NOW through May 2, 2015. Bylaws require a majority membership vote for approval.
A complete list of all bylaws changes is available here:
http://www.nyla.org/max/4DCGI/cms/review.html?Action=CMS_Document&DocID=1226&MenuKey=scla
To vote, click on the “Vote” button.
The next screen will ask for your log-in and password. Your SCLA account information will allow you to login to NYLA’s page. (If needed, you can request your password from the NYLA office.)
Enter your information, then click “Log On”
Click on “Voting – Polls / Elections” from the left-hand menu.
The next screen will display a list of the ballots that you are currently eligible to participate in.
Vote on each eligible ballot separately.
Complete the voting process and click “Submit”.
Your vote is anonymous. You will only be able to submit your ballot once.
For security purposes, it is recommended that you “log out” of your browser window when you have completed your visit to the NYLA-SCLA website.
If you are unsure of your membership status, please contact Membership Chair Lauren Bernat (lbernat@smithlib.org).
Please contact SCLA President Laura Panter with any bylaws questions or concerns (laura.panter@sachemlibrary.org).