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Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, January 17, 2020 at SCLS
IN ATTENDANCE: Steven Alcalde, Carisse Bormann, Rebecca Goldstein, Emily Guerrero, Teri Hatred, Ellen Hobson, Stephen Ingram, Andrea Malchiodi, Ally Mercado, Alison Mirabella, Jen Rocco, Joyce Thompson-Haas, Celia Vollmer
CALL TO ORDER: Ally Mercado called the meeting to order at 10:01 am. The December 2019 minutes were reviewed. Steve Alcalde and Brian Schwartz motioned to approve.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Brian Schwartz will take over the Intellectual Freedom and Community Service sections. We put in for a table at the Long Island Library Conference. Please check the membership list that is being passed around has your correct information so we can add it to the SCLA website. There is also a new calendar being passed around, if you could please add any events to it so that can also be added to the website.
Steve would like everyone to go around and introduce yourself to the new board.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Steve Alcalde reported.
For next month, the meeting will be changed to February 14. Please let your division webmaster know to please add the SCLA logo to their page.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Rebecca Goldstein reported.
The closing balance for the minutes as of December 31, 2019 was $25,046.36.
DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: No report.
RASD: Emily Guerrero reported.
Upcoming Meetings:
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- Media Committee 1/29 9:30-11am
- PR Marketing had a meeting on 1/16
- New Adult is now doing Web meetings, the fist is 1/27 2pm
- CARE 2/13 2pm
- OARS 3/2 9:30-12
2 committees are changing their names
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- CARE will be adding Business Resources to their concerns and changing their name to “Career and Business Reference Committee”
- OARS will be changing their name to “The Outreach Committee”
We proposed 3 programs for the Long Island Library Conference.
We had 5 committees offer to do professional development programs in 2020.
CATS: Alison Mirabella reported.
CATS had our board meeting on Wednesday, January 8th. We confirmed future meeting dates and discussed programming ideas for the year including a Tech Services Roundtable in April, a webinar about purchasing technology on a budget in June, another Technology Petting Zoo in October and a program on Library Carpentry with SLCS in the fall. Dates will follow in future reports after they are confirmed.
TIF had a roundtable at the Longwood Public Library on January 9th which 15 people attended. The program was live-streamed on the TIF Facebook page.”
SSD: Celia Vollmer reported via email.
The Support Staff Divisions of NCLA and SCLA are coordinating East Meets West, an opportunity for library staff members to meet and share ideas with our library colleagues from across Long Island. Join us for an informal forum where we will discuss such topics as circulation, Sierra, customer service, interloans, etc. ALL STAFF are welcome! Registration will begin as soon as we have confirmation from the venue. We are waiting for the LILC committee to contact us regarding our submission of a workshop for the event, and we will select additional programming at our next meeting.
YASD: Carisse Bormann reported.
The YASD Board approved Erika Irish from Mastics-Moriches as the 2020 Secretary after our former secretary had to step down.
Upcoming Program or Activity:
On January 23, 2020:
YASD will once again be hosting our “Get to know the Board” meeting to discuss the upcoming year and find out how to best serve the needs of our teens and librarians that work with them.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ANNUAL DINNER: Ellen Hobson reported.
The SCLA Annual Dinner has been booked for Thursday, October 22 at the Mansion at West Sayville.
ARCHIVES: No report.
CIVIL SERVICE: No report.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: No report.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: Teri Hatred reported.
The database is current.
Going forward, if you are hosting a training session, workshop, speaker, etc. for SCLA (or any of the divisions) at SCLS you can use the sign in kiosks at the front desk for your attendance list. BUT you must still report that meeting name and how many professional development hours attendees have earned to Teri Hatred (sclshr@suffolknet.org ). If you do not do the latter the training may not be added to the professional development database. All trainings, workshops, etc., held off site (of SCLS) please send in a copy of the attendance sheet for entry into the database.
When non-members request reports, it would be helpful to allow one free request and then maybe charge if other requests come in through the year.
ELSA: No report.
FANDOM OUTREACH COMMITTEE: No report.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: No report.
LDA AWARD: Paula Bornstein reported via email.
We will be sending out the LDA Library Award brochures soon. I am sending them through the SCLS delivery service. I also will email electronic copies of the brochure. I will need mailing labels for the brochures. Please contact me if you know of any potential nominees.
LEGISLATIVE: Teri Hatred reported for Samantha Alberts.
Advocacy Day 101 workshops will be held February 4 at 3pm and February 13 at 10am. Please look out for Requests for Advocacy Action in January. The governor’s budget is expected to be released in late January and we expect that library staff will need to be ready to advocate on their libraries behalf. The NYLA 2020 Legislative Priorities and Agenda are now up on NYLA’s website.
Samantha would like to make a motion to add $300 for the Advocacy Day hospitality. Motion approved.
LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE: Brian Adams reported via email.
The committee last met on Tuesday, December 10.
We meet again next Tuesday, January 21st at the Marriott.
At this upcoming meeting we will go through all the program submissions and decide on the final program schedule. Submitters will find out by email whether or not their program has been accepted.
We also toured the facility at this meeting. We are looking for an ideal space to park the SLED.
Both vendor and attendee registration is open. One of our fellow members was the very first person to sign up.
We have a nice number of both Vendor sign ups and a few Corporate Sponsors.
We are working very hard to obtain more.
Any questions, please visit the Conference website at libconference.org
Or email me at LILCChair@gmail.com
LONG RANGE PLANNING/MARKETING: No report.
MEMBERSHIP: Angela Breslin reported.
Letters went out in January for renewal letters from NYLA. The information on the letter was incorrect with board members/positions held. Angela came up with a new letter and will send it to Lois so the correct information goes out. The SCLA board reviewed and motioned to approve.
NEWSLETTER: Jennifer Rocco reported.
The newsletter was sent out January 2.
NOMINATING: No report.
SCHOLARSHIP: No report.
STUDENT OUTREACH: No report.
WEB PAGE: Stephen Ingram reported.
Webmaster report January 2020
Small updates to WordPress sites.
Posting new materials to the SCLA website and Facebook page
Posted upcoming SCLA events first of the month.
Facebook insights: 790 followers
Google Analytics Behavior overview (page views): December 504
LIAISONS:
CLASC: No report.
LILRC: Sally Stieglitz reported.
LILRC will be offering a new traveling exhibit from the Empire State Library Network, entitled Recognizing Women’s Right to Vote in New York State
It is a 6 panel exhibit that includes topics related to the Women’s Suffrage Movement specifically in New York State
For details, contact LILRC’s Regional Archivist Nicole Menchise
LILRC is offering the following continuing education programs in early 2020.
6 Documents Every Archive Needs
Jan. 29, 1-4pm at SCLS
Strategic Thinking for Leaders
Jan. 31, 10-noon
Brentwood Public Library
[Webinar]- Delivering Effective Conference Presentations: A Librarian’s Guide Workshop
Feb. 5 2:30-4pm
SCLS
Coffee and Conversation: A Social Media Librarians Meet Up
Feb. 6, 1-3pm
SCLS
3D Printing with TinkerCAD
Feb 13, 1:30-4pm
SCLS
Digitization Best Practices and Metadata Basics
Feb. 14 9:30-1pm
Sachem Public Library
March 24, 9-12:30pm
South Huntington Public Library
Introduction to Microsoft Publisher
Feb. 27, 1-3pm
SCLS
How to Publish in LIS; An Introduction to Scholarly and Professional Writing by Librarians
March 6, 10-11:30am
SCLS
What is Homelessness on Long Island: The Work of Long Island Coalition for the Homeless
March 24, 10am-noon
Sachem Public Library
LILRC is partnering with NASA and JPL through the Solar System Ambassador Program to offer CE to librarians on creating programs using NASA resources. Details will follow and 4 programs are planned for 2020.
NCLA: No report.
PLDA: No report.
SCLS: No report.
NYLA: Todd Schlitt reported via email.
Briana McNamee started as Director of Government Relations & Advocacy on Monday, December 9, 2019 (formerly Mike Neppls position).
Kelsey Dorado, Director of Communication & Marketing will be leaving NYLA, her last day being Friday, December 20, 2019. The position has been posted and will be filled expeditiously.
NYLA received $4K in support of tech upgrades from Lake Placid Educational Foundation. Collected quotes exceed the award total. PLS has agreed to provide $2K in additional funding. The Executive Director will be soliciting the other sections for financially support for the endeavor.
MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Angela Breslin: No report.
Andrea Malchiodi: No report.
Casey Fehn: No report.
Ellen Hobson: No report.
OLD BUSINESS: Steve Alcalde reported.
We would still like to do the open-house in March for each division to speak about their division and let people hear what SCLA does. Ally will create a flyer for this meeting. Food will be provided. We should see if SCLS would like to have the SLED here or any other information at this event. Please advertise it to the next division meetings and please send it to all of the directors. Maybe we can raffle off 3 memberships for new members.
NEW BUSINESS: Steve Ingram reported.
His library submitted a program for the Long Island Library Conference based on a program they did with Veterans. They are looking for a sponsor, perhaps SCLA can be that sponsor.
Steve Alcalde adjourned the meeting at 11:00 a.m.
Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, February 14, 2020 at SCLS
IN ATTENDANCE:
CALL TO ORDER: Ally Mercado called the meeting to order at 10:02 am. The December 2019 minutes were reviewed. Angela Breslin and Brian Schwartz motioned to approve.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: None.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Steve Alcalde reported.
For the open house in March, we would like to get a few things approved.
Ally Mercado would like to have headshots for attendees. It’s a Nassau librarian, Jason, who would charge $400 (digital copies via email). It might be a nice incentive for people to join.
Suggested donation box for photo or raffles at each division table to draw people in. Should we focus on what the divisions offer and make the headshots free? Maybe have a silent auction for raffle tickets, if you come to the event, you get free tickets for coming. Each division will have raffle tickets.
Vote on $400 for headshots. Motion approved.
Food for event- Egg & cheese- $40/ BEC- $47
Fruit salad, etc. $200 budget for breakfast.
Vote on $200 for food. Motion approved.
A flyer will be made and divisions should promote it. It will be 930am-1130am. Tables should be set-up at 9am.
The SCLA board meeting will be at 11:30am following the event.
Should we have nametags for board members and blank ones for people who come to the event?
Derek Ivie asked Steve to pass around a proposal on a Long Island Library Pride Alliance and to start that up. Possible new committee for SCLA. NCLA/SCLA would be joint. We can discuss this next month and find out more information.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Rebecca Goldstein reported.
The closing balance for the minutes for tomorrow’s meeting as of December 31, 2019 is $25,046.36. January hasn’t been closed out yet.
I also need to put up a motion to approve NYLA transferring money out of our accounts to the divisions.
First vote- fill out a reimbursement request form to approve that Steve and Rebecca can sign off on documents. Motion approved.
Second vote- every quarter, Galina transfers $400 to every division except SSD which gets $500. Motion approved.
DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: Bruce reported.
There will be a meeting coming up soon, he will send out information.
They have a program planned for LILC- look back/forward at communications of First Ladies and talk about how things have transformed over the years.
RASD: Rachel Cecchini reported.
At our Board meeting on February 4th, we voted to have our Annual Luncheon on Thursday, October 8th. Our Member at Large, Laurie Aitken, is working on securing a venue and a speaker.
Committee News:
Electronic Resources is working with Nicole from PALS for a Privacy Week program. The committee is also looking to host a meeting on the SLED.
Health Concerns is working on organizing training sessions with Stony Brook University health sciences librarians. Their program for the Long Island Library Conference was approved.
Long Island History will be having a programmer showcase on April 23rd at Riverhead Library. If anyone has any history programmer suggestions, please email them to Inez Foster at: ifoster@babylonlibrary.org The annual trip will be on June 18th, location is TBD.
The Long Island Reads event will be on Sunday, April 19th at Plainview-Old Bethpage Library. The book is “Light from Other Stars” by Erika Swyler.
MOSAIC will hold a meeting on Tuesday, March 17th at SCLS from 9:30-12:00.
The next Outreach meeting will be on Monday, March 2nd at SCLS. Catherine Montazem from Deer Park Library is the new acting co-chair.
We’re in the process of revamping our quarterly publication, “Ramblings.”
We are sponsoring 4 programs at the Long Island Library Conference this year-
- Avoiding Fake News for the 2020 Election- that is being co-sponsored with NCLA
- Assessment of Community Health Needs and Library Assets- that is being sponsored by our Health Concerns Committee
- Ink Stories: Symbols of Service
- The Long Island Home Front Project
The next Reader’s Advisory committee meeting is on Thursday, April 30th. The topic is historical fiction.
Last year, we ran a Seed Library round table discussion. It was a huge success and we are in the process of planning another round table which will take place in March or April. This will be a collaborative RASD effort and not something solely sponsored by one committee. More information about the meeting will be coming out in the upcoming weeks.
President Emily Guerrero discussed the SCLA Open House that will be held on March 20th. She, and other RASD Board members, will be attending.
CATS: Alison Mirabella reported.
We had a board meeting on Wednesday, February 12th in which we selected raffle prizes and giveaway items for the Long Island Library Conference. We also discussed hosting a webinar for buying technology in the summer, a Tech Services Roundtable in April (which we later postponed for the fall), another Technology Petting Zoo for October and a potential idea for a technology survey. Our subcommittee, The Technology Information Forum also met on February 6th at the Connetquot Public Library and had 20 people attend. It was live-streamed on Facebook. The next meeting will be held on March 5th at 9:30 AM at The Islip Public Library.
SSD: No report.
YASD: Carisse Bormann reported.
On January 23, 2020 YASD hosted our “Get to know the Board” meeting and discussed the upcoming year. We had a great discussion and left the meeting with a bunch of great ideas for future programs.
Upcoming Program or Activity:
Annual YASD Suffolk/ Nassau Joint meeting on February 27, 2020 at Massapequa Public Library titled Serving Teens with Special Needs. Hosted by Nassau YASD.
Annual Fran Romer Memorial Book Talk on March 26 at the Patchogue Carnegie Library. Author Claire LeGrand will be presenting.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ANNUAL DINNER: No report.
ARCHIVES: Bruce Seger reported.
He is continuing to scan. Rescanning some photos and touch-up.
CIVIL SERVICE: No report.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: Brian Schwartz reported.
Our relay for life walk did not work out last year. He would like to come up with a new idea to help with community service.
Ally suggested to maybe re-think how we do community service and promote it.
Celia suggested having something so people can understand what else you can do with organizations. Maybe more hands-on events. She spoke about the clean-up event at the Brentwood Public Library and maybe we can help participate with that.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: Teri Hatred reported.
Requests have taken an upturn lately and the database is current to January 31, 2020.
ELSA: No report.
FANDOM OUTREACH COMMITTEE: No report.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: Brian Schwartz reported.
ALA has webinars to watch about Intellectual Freedom so he joined their mailing list and will share some articles with us.
LDA AWARD: No report.
LEGISLATIVE: Samantha- need report
LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE: Brian Adams reported.
The committee last met this past Tuesday, February 11 at the Nassau Library System.
At this point we have 32 tables sold (out of 70), 18 associations vying for tables, 8 corporate sponsors and approximately 80 attendees signed up. We have access to more half tables this year – to use for Associations. What swag are you all thinking of for this year?
Thanks to Stephen Ingram for being the first person to register. How was your experience?
Thanks to Angela Breslin and Roger Reyes for the Corporate Membership List (more on that later). However, we desperately need the list of SCLA only members (like yesterday!).
Programs have all been selected and we hope that there is “something for everyone”. Nancy Pearl is giving the keynote, then signing books and after that giving a program in the 3-4 time slot. She is not flying out until the next morning.
We are looking for an ideal space to park the SLED, we have some spots that we are trying to make final, but we are hoping that Live-brary / SCLS will contribute to the Conference.
This year Professional Development Hour certificates will be given out (In the bag)(4 hours).
We meet again on Tuesday, March 10th at the Longwood Public Library; all are welcome to attend.
Next year’s Chair will be Martha DiVittorio of the Bellmore Memorial Library.
Any questions? Please visit the Conference website at libconference.org or email me at LILCChair@gmail.com
LONG RANGE PLANNING/MARKETING: No report.
MEMBERSHIP: Angela Breslin reported.
She is sending all the director’s a letter/email this week, who has a current SCLA membership and is eligible for the SCLA discount at the Long Island Library Conference.
She is trying to be proactive in order to get more accurate registration this year.
There seems to be a lag on the NYLA website for people who are members but it is not showing up when they log into their account. NYLA does not send out emails saying you are a member.
NEWSLETTER: No report.
NOMINATING: No report.
SCHOLARSHIP: Emma Lodato reported via email.
This month the committee will be discussing a potential adjustment to the submission due dates for both scholarships, particularly the Continuing Education Award (due October 1st), due to the Annual Dinner continuing to be held in October. It does not give the committee much time to deliberate and then to notify the winner with enough time for them to make arrangements to attend the Annual Dinner to accept the award.
STUDENT OUTREACH: No report.
WEB PAGE: Stephen Ingram reported.
Small updates to wordpress sites.
Placed link on NYLA page to Officers to avoid duplicating pages.
Posting new materials to the SCLA website and Facebook page
Posted upcoming SCLA events first of the month.
Facebook insights: 793 followers
Google Analytics Behavior overview (page views): December 504/ January 765
LIAISONS:
CLASC: No report.
LILRC: Sally Stieglitz reported.
LILRC’s Annual Membership Meeting will be June 16, 10 AM at Brentwood Public Library. The keynote speaker will be Lauren Moore, the New York State Librarian.
Upcoming Conferences:
- 6th Annual Technical Services Open Forum, March 27, Farmingdale Public Library
- High School and Beyond Unconference, Saturday, March 28, Commack High School
- Graphic Medicine: Bridging Communication, Empathy, and Creativity in Librarianship (HLSP 5th Annual Conference) April 17, South Huntington Public Library
- 6th Annual Herbert Biblo Academic Libraries Invitational, May 1, Molloy College
Upcoming Workshops:
- Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Municipalities and Libraries Strategies (Feb. 21, 11 AM at Farmingdale Public Library)
- Navigating General Municipal Law 10 and Your Investment Policy (Feb, 21, 1 PM at Farmingdale Public Library)
- [Webinar Group Viewing] Career Planning for Early Career Librarians: Finding Your Own Way! (March 3,1PM SCLS)
- How to Publish in LIS: An Introduction to Scholarly and Professional Writing by Librarians (March 6, 10 AM at SCLS)
- Digitization Best Practices and Metadata Basics (March 24, 9AM, South Huntington)
- What is Homelessness on Long Island: The Work of Long Island Coalition for the Homeless (March 24, 10 AM, Sachem Public Library)
More information about all upcoming events can be found at LILRC Events.
NCLA: No report.
PLDA: No report.
SCLS: Samantha Alberts reported.
SCLS is hosting the Library Skills Academy- NYLA program in March. It will be 3 full days. You don’t need an MLS to take these classes. Reference services, public services, understand library core services. March 16, 23, 30 at SCLS. $255-non member $200-member.
NYLA: No report.
MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Angela Breslin: No report.
Andrea Malchiodi: Andrea will work on finding swag for the LILC.
Casey Fehn: Casey is going to the curator conference next week. She will pick out the programs we are sponsoring.
Ellen Hobson: No report.
OLD BUSINESS: No report.
NEW BUSINESS:
Steve Alcalde: Thank you for helping with the open house next month. Ideas or thoughts please let him know.
Brian Adams: Brian shared concerns regarding NYLA and membership issues with the Board, prompting a discussion.
Ally Mercado adjourned the meeting at 12:06 p.m.
Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, April 24, 2020 -Virtual GotoMeeting
IN ATTENDANCE: Brian Adams, Steve Alcalde, Carisse Bormann, Paula Bornstein, Angela Breslin, Casey Fehn, Rebecca Goldstein, Emily Guerrero, Ellen Hobson, Alison Mirabella, Kate Regina, Jen Rocco, Brian Schwartz, Tim Spindler, Joyce Thompson-Haas, Celia Vollmer
CALL TO ORDER: Steve Alcalde started the meeting at 10:04 a.m.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: None
PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Steve would like to know what we can do during this time and what we can offer. The next meeting will be on May 15.
Maybe we can add resources to the SCLA webpage.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Rebecca Goldstein reported.
The closing balance as of January 31, 2020 is $40,118.34. The name of the new person who has been answering my emails at NYLA is Chang Lee. I’m not sure if he is the acting financial person, or a permanent replacement
DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: No report.
RASD: Emily Guerrero reported.
All programs, showcases and committee meetings have been postponed. We will be having a meeting, mostly likely virtual on June 2nd. We will also be considering a virtual meeting in May TBD. We are also considering what to do with our annual luncheon in October- also TBD.
CATS: Alison Mirabella reported.
- We did digital minutes for the month of April and are planning a Zoom meeting in May.
- We will be having our annual Technology Petting Zoo on September 10th at 9:30 AM but we will be reviewing the status of it as we move into the summer.
- In lieu of the April Nassau/Suffolk Joint TIF meetings, we have partnered with the NCLA to do joint Nassau/Suffolk Technology meetings every Monday at 1:00 PM. Topics include Zoom Basics, Remote Calling, Best Social Media Practices and more!
- We were originally planning a webinar on Buying Technology for the fall, but are considering moving it up to May/June once we have a better idea of the reopening status of the libraries. We are also exploring other webinar ideas.
SSD: Celia Vollmer reported.
We are planning on scheduling several online courses through Sharper Training Solutions. Teri Hatred has been organizing the training sessions. The board members are determining which courses we would like to offer. We have pushed our courses scheduled for spring to tentatively to fall. Our April meeting was cancelled.East Meets West has not been rescheduled at this time.
YASD: Carisse Bormann reported.
We rescheduled our annual Fran Romer Memorial Book Talk from March 26 to October 22 at the Connetquot Public Library. Author Claire LeGrand will still be our guest speaker.
We are also hosting a virtual Zoom meeting on how to best host Virtual Young Adult programs on May 7 at 10 am.
Also – YASD is social! Follow us on Instagram @yaservicesdivision
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ANNUAL DINNER: Ellen Hobson reported.
Currently, we are unsure if a dinner will be possible at the end of October. Even if it is, libraries might not be willing to send staff after the budget cuts they are all experiencing. Options include cancelling the dinner this year, scaling it back to a lunch, having an award ceremony at a library or doing an outing during the day. We are going to wait until the May 15 meeting to make a decision so we will have a better idea of when things are reopening.
ARCHIVES: No report.
CIVIL SERVICE: No report.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: Brian Schwartz reported.
Brian suggested hosting a virtual trivia night or mixer. Small attendance fee to donate to food pantry, etc.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: No report.
ELSA: Kate Regina reported.
Brochure has been updated, put up on website and sent out through listserv.
FANDOM OUTREACH COMMITTEE: No report.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: No report.
LDA AWARD: Paula Bornstein reported.
Maryanne Linehan, the co-chair of the LDA Award committee for NCLA, emailed me to determine what the SCLA Board’s thoughts were on what to do about the award, since the Long Island Library Conference has been cancelled for 2020. After discussion at the meeting, James Hutter, the NCLA president, Catherine Barretta, the other co-chair, and she decided that NCLA and SCLA should have an open discussion about what to do.
The first question is: Should SCLA handle the 2021 election but NCLA would split the cost with SCLA? Or should NCLA handle the 2021 election and have SCLA handle it in 2022?
The second question is: Should the nominees submitted for 2020 instead be entered in the 2021 race. They said yes, and I agree. We always resubmit the losing candidates’ names for the following year as long as their sponsors so desire.
LEGISLATIVE: Samantha Alberts reported.
NYLA continues to advocate for the library community with the governor regarding COVID-19 issues. The committee asks that the library community monitor the legislative alerts tab on the NYLA site for calls to action.
LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE: Brian Adams reported.
The Long Island Library Conference met via Zoom on April 21st.
NYLA has processed all the attendee refunds, and will move on to the Exhibitor refunds next.
We spoke at length about just how different next year’s conference might be –
in terms of food, etc.
We also discussed having just one price for everyone for next year.
We are also looking for vendors for next year that have more library focussed products.
we meet again in May.
The LILC Board will stay the same for next year’s committee.
LONG RANGE PLANNING/MARKETING: No report.
MEMBERSHIP: Angela breslin reported.
Angela spoke with Jeremy last night, he said no one has replaced Lois yet for membership and he is taking care of any membership questions. AB
NEWSLETTER: Jen Rocco reported.
As voted, continue with regular newsletter rollout schedule. Next newsletter will be emailed on July 1. Blurbs from each Division and Committee must be submitted by June 15. Please give a brief write-up to explain what your Division/Committee does (we want potential members to want to join) in addition to the other points you’d like to focus on.
NOMINATING: Ally Mercado reported.
Ally is confirming with Jeremy regarding the election process for SCLA and our Divisions this year. Ally will send an email when She receives more specifics.
SCHOLARSHIP: No report.
STUDENT OUTREACH: No report.
WEB PAGE: No report.
LIAISONS:
CLASC: No report.
LILRC: Tim Spindler reported.
LILRC events are online for the foreseeable future. Our annual meeting is going to move forward as an online meeting and we are waiting for confirmation that Lauren Moore (State Librarian) will still be able to speak.
NCLA: No report.
PLDA: No report.
SCLS: No report.
NYLA: No report.
MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Angela Breslin: No report.
Andrea Malchiodi: No report.
Casey Fehn: We selected our presenters for the conference, but at this point we were still waiting to hear if the NYLA conference will be happening.
Ellen Hobson: No report.
OLD BUSINESS: No report.
NEW BUSINESS: No report.
Ally Mercado adjourned the meeting at 11:13am
Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, May 15, 2020 -Virtual GotoMeeting
IN ATTENDANCE: Steve Alcalde, Carisse Bormann, Angela Breslin, Casey Fehn, Teri Hatred, Ellen Hobson, Stephen Ingram, Ally Mercado, Alison Mirabella, Colleen Navins, Kate Regina, Brian Schwartz, Tim Spindler, Joyce Thompson-Haas, Celia Vollmer
CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order at 10:02am by Ally Mercado.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Jeremy from NYLA will be joining our meeting today at 10:15- Valerie Lewis will be coming in at 11am to speak.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Steve Alcalde reported.
He is waiting to hear back about civil service exams.
PLDA- will they be sending people to events? Speaking with directors and seeing what everyone thinks.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Rebecca Goldstein reported.
The closing balance as of February 29, 2020 was $54,157.00. We’ve worked out a temporary reimbursement / disbursement request process allowing for email authorizations, in lieu of signatures, while we’re out of our buildings. Please remember to send me all requests that I can sign them and forward them to NYLA.
DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: No report.
RASD: Rachel Cecchini reported.
We had a virtual meeting this past Tuesday.
Our committee chairs have been in the process of either cancelling their meetings or rescheduling them as virtual meetings.
– Career & Business Reference May meeting will be rescheduled
– Electronic Resources Committee meeting on 6/11 will be postponed. Dave Jones is
working on scheduling a Zoom meeting that will compare and contrast Niche
Academy and KnowBe4.
– The Health Concerns Committee held a virtual meeting on 5/7. The committee will
be creating an open source document about resources libraries can publicize to
promote physical and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
– The Long Island History Committee programmer showcase was cancelled and as of
now, there is no new date. The annual trip was also cancelled and there is no new
date.
– The Long Island Reads event was converted into a Facebook live event. The event
was very successful with about 1400 attendees who watched the event live or who
viewed the event at a later time.
– The MOSAIC breakfast has been postponed. The committee will be holding a
meeting discussing virtual literacy programs that libraries can utilize during closing.
– The Media Committee is working on creating an open source document that will be
shared with libraries that will highlight resources librarians can use about how to
create content at home.
– The New Adult Committee meeting that was scheduled for April has been
rescheduled for June. The committee is waiting to hear from the speaker to confirm
a date before they begin to publicize.
– The Outreach Committee has rescheduled their May meeting to 6/1. It will be a
Zoom meeting. The committee is also working on facilitating a program sponsored
by Northwell Health.
– PR & Marketing Committee will still be awarding the SLMA Award this year. There
will be more of a focus on virtual library marketing campaigns.
– The Reader’s Advisory April meeting has been rescheduled for June. The topic will
be historical fiction.
Given the uncertainty of hosting events with large crowds, the Board decided to cancel our annual luncheon that was scheduled for October 8th.
Almost all of our Board nominations for next year have been finalized. We are still looking for a Vice President/ President-Elect for 2021 and 2022. If you know a reference librarian who is interested in joining the RASD Board in this capacity, please tell them to reach out to me at rcecchini@smithlib.org.
Our next meeting is on Tuesday, 6/2.
CATS: Alison Mirabella reported.
We had a Zoom meeting on Wednesday, May 13th.
At the meeting, we discussed online alternatives to our Technology Petting Zoo, which is scheduled for September 10th at 9:30 AM as well as brainstorming ideas for online summer programming.
In lieu of the April Nassau/Suffolk Joint TIF meetings, we have partnered with the NCLA to do joint Nassau/Suffolk Technology meetings every Monday at 1:00 PM. Topics have included Zoom Basics, Remote Calling, Best Social Media Practices, Online Programming, technology demos and more!
We also discussed getting a potential online speaker for the CATS/TIF annual meeting and we are currently speaking to them about dates and payments.
SSD: Celia Vollmer reported.
SCLS Support Staff Division is hosting two programs, for SCLA members, online conducted by Sharper Training Solutions:
SKYPE, FACETIME AND CHATTING ONLINE – May 20th from 1-2:30pm
Learn how to video chat with loved ones. Students will learn how to set up and use Skype video chat as well as Apple’s Facetime and instant messaging apps. Bring your questions and your device if you have one.
COMPUTER CLEANUP AND SECURITY – May 27th from 1-2:30pm
In this lecture and demo class, students will learn how to clean up their Windows computer, improve performance and speed up tasks, protect it from viruses and spyware, and much more. Prerequisites: For intermediate and advanced users.Registration is almost full on both classes.
The SSD board will be meeting virtually today, May 15, 20, at 2:00pm. We have not received any response from Call for Nominations at this time. Please share the information with your library staff members.
YASD: Carisse Bormann – YASD purchased a Zoom account and hosted a YA Virtual Programming meeting on 5/7. We had 57 attendees. The meeting went very well and a lot of ideas were talked about as everyone tries to navigate the new “normal”. We had two popular programmers come on to talk about how they’re hosting virtual programs and what teens are looking for. We also discussed different program ideas for virtual programming, make and take pick up (when we’re allowed) and the future of teen programming. YASD plans to host more programs via Zoom throughout the summer and possibly Fall.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ANNUAL DINNER: Ellen Hobson reported.
The annual dinner is still up in the air, we will not cancel it yet.
ARCHIVES: No report.
CIVIL SERVICE: No report.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: No report.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: Please continue to forward any attendance lists for entry into database.
ELSA: Kate Regina reported.
No real update. Just hoping for nominations. Committee email was given in packet so they can be sent while closed.
FANDOM OUTREACH COMMITTEE: No report.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: Brian Schwratz reported.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90499499/how-covid-19-is-changing-the-way-we-think-about-privacy
LDA AWARD: Paula emailed- I shared emails with James Hutter, president of NCLA, and MaryAnne Linehan and Catherine Barretta, co-chairs of the NCLA LDA Library Award Committee. Quoting from James Hutter’s email, “I personally don’t have any issue with presenting both the 2020 and the 2021 awards next year, but we will simply have to wait and see if any nominations have arrived.” He would like “to inform Steven Alcade that there is the practical issue of inter-office mail stoppage and the lockdown preventing us from dutifully selecting a winner?
I guess at this time we will wait until libraries reopen to gather any nominee packets and conduct a vote, hopefully in 2020.
LEGISLATIVE: Samantha Alberts reported.
NYLA continues to advocate for libraries as the governor develops NY Forward and continues to seek clarification as to where libraries can fall in the phased openings. Jeremy explained that this would be suggestive to libraries.
LILRC Legislative Committee will be meeting 5/26 regarding what will be done for the Legislative Breakfast. As or right now there are no significant changes to the planned PLDA PAC fundraiser in the fall.
LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE: Brian Adams reported.
Zoom committee meeting this week. Next year conference is still on. In Fall, reach out to Marriott to see what changes they invision. Concerned about food and safety and size of rooms.
LONG RANGE PLANNING/MARKETING: No report.
MEMBERSHIP: Angela Breslin reported.
I will be mailing letters to the members who are due to renew their SCLA memberships. I also emailed Jeremy the new SCLA letter to be sent out whenever
NEWSLETTER: No reported.
NOMINATING: Ally reported.
Brian Adams wants to know if the bylaws up to date?
SCHOLARSHIP: Emma Lodato reported.
The Scholarship Committee will be discussing some of the changes to the SCLA Scholarship requirements and revamping our flyers. Pending a decision on whether or not we are holding the Annual Dinner, we may have to make a decision on how to handle the due date for the Continuing Education Award for Support Staff – mainly whether or not we shift it so that it is due sooner than October 1st.
STUDENT OUTREACH: Colleen Navins reported.
We were supposed to be attending the Spring Career Fair at LIU Post but unfortunately that has been halted. Please send anything my way that you would like to be forwarded to Library School students.
WEB PAGE: Stephen Ingram reported.
Facebook page getting more follows but website views are down. Facebook insights 840 followers (up)
Google Analytics Behavior overview (page views)
March 634
April 349
LIAISONS:
CLASC: No report.
LILRC: Tim Spindler reported.
Annual Meeting is on June 16 and Lauren Moore, will be the keynote. All of our events for the remainder of the year are currently being planned virtually. The annual conference is still being planned as an in person event but this may change.
NCLA: No report.
PLDA: No report.
SCLS: No report.
NYLA: Jeremy reported.
NYLA will make a decision about NYLA conference by August 1. They are working on a possible hybrid event. There has been some changes with staff and there will be a new financial staff member starting in June. They are also figuring out what to do about voting in November.
MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Angela Breslin: See above under Membership.
Andrea Malchiodi: No report.
Casey Fehn: Nothing new to report about the NYLA Conference, but as of right now it is still happening.
Ellen Hobson: No report.
OLD BUSINESS: None.
NEW BUSINESS: Board voted to approve inclusion of Long Island Library Pride Alliance (LILPA) as SCLA committee
End time: 11:50am
Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, June 12, 2020 -Virtual Zoom Meeting
IN ATTENDANCE: Carisse Borman, Angela Breslin, Casey Fehn, Emily Guerrero, Ally Mercado, Alison Mirabella, Jen Rocco, Joyce Thompson-Haas, Celia Vollmer
CALL TO ORDER: Ally called the meeting to order at 10:02 a.m.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: None.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Steve Alcalde reported.
Putting a president’s message into the newsletter.
Discussion of annual dinner in October if we will be able to hold it.
Put our survey to see if people will be interested.
Virtual meetings for the rest of the month?
TREASURER’S REPORT: Rebecca Goldstein reported.
No updated financial information from last month. She will send out updates once she gets something. Please let her know if you are still waiting on any reimbursements / disbursements from NYLA.
DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: Bruce Seger reported via email.
We are holding the 6th Annual Herb Biblo Academic Libraries Invitational today from 10-12. As such I will not be in attendance at the SCLA meeting today. DASL is sponsoring the event with LILRC and ASLD. We anticipate having a virtual DASL meeting within the next two weeks. Announcements will be forthcoming.
RASD: Emily Guerrero reported.
We had our last meeting on 6/2 and only 10 board members attended. We meet next August 4th.
- Our Treasurer has not received reports since April although she has reached out to NYLA numerous times with no response. I’m sure nothing has changed but we would like the updated reports to keep on file.
- The Long Island Reads Committee met in May to decide on the long list for 2021, they will meet in June to narrow it down to the short list.
- The Outreach Committee met on June 1st and 14 people attended. They have shared a virtual Doc on outreach programming and have 10 upcoming programs. They meet next on 10/5. They want to begin an annual Outreach Award to recognize outstanding work in Outreach Services, which will be a Fall award. They are researching a plaque that they will give out and they will get back to us at our next meeting.
- The Reader’s Advisory Committee will meet next on 9/24, either virtual or in person TBD, and they will be discussing Historical Fiction.
- Although SCLS will be opening the facility to us after June 30th, we decided that all future RASD Board meetings will continue to be done virtually at our normal meeting time of 10am throughout 2020.
CATS: Alison Mirabella reported.
We had a board meeting on Wednesday, June 10th, where we discussed a few things:
- The weekly NYLA/TIF meetings are now biweekly meetings since many members are returning to their libraries. The next meeting will be Monday at 1:00 PM.
- We have decided to cancel our technology petting zoo, but we have some other virtual programs planned, including a webinar on Buying Technology on a Budget on August 5th, a potential online conference in late October/early November and our annual meeting in December, featuring a virtual speaker.
- We also appreciated the great statement SCLA wrote on Black Lives Matter and have shared it on our Facebook pages and on our website.
SSD: Celia Vollmer reported.
May online courses were very successful. We will transition fall computer classes to virtual classes. We will offer Intro to CANVA on Sept. 17, and Editing Your Digital Photographs on November 17. We are considering changing our annual safety conference to a virtual conference. Our next meeting is June 19.
YASD: Carisse Borman reported.
YASD hosted a Marketing and Creating Virtual Programs for Teens via Zoom on May 7. Michele Vamos and Theresa Maritato, 2 popular Teen programmers, presented on how they were reaching teens and what popular programs they could host.
We are hosting our next meeting on June 18 – Welcoming Back tweens/teens: Virtually, Curbside & In-Person. A representative from Vidcode will give a brief presentation as well, to tell us about their creative online coding program for Teens.
Also – YASD is social! Follow us on Instagram @yaservicesdivision
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ANNUAL DINNER: No report.
ARCHIVES: Bruce Seger reported via email.
I am re-scanning some materials for the Archives and will have an updated report next time.
CIVIL SERVICE: No report.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: No report.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: No report.
ELSA: Kate Regina reported via email.
We the committee voted to continue on with the 2020 ELSA despite COVID in case of retirees to be nominated and will be including a reminder in the upcoming newsletter.
FANDOM OUTREACH COMMITTEE: No report.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: No report.
LDA AWARD: Paula Bornstein reported via email.
Maryanne Schneider, co-chair of NCLA’s LDA Award committee reported that with her library’s reopening she discovered a few nomination packets for the award. She is waiting to see if NLS has any additional packets from their interlibrary mail. Everything should be organized to send out to Nassau and Suffolk LDA committees for a vote by September or October.
LEGISLATIVE: Samantha Alberts reported via email.
Regarding the Legislative report I would like to make sure that everyone is aware of NYLA Covid-19 News page: Corona Virus Response – NYLA
Additional materials from the state that may of be of interest:
INTERIM GUIDANCE FOR OFFICE-BASED WORK DURING THE COVID-19 PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY
Also, Briana McNamee (NYLA Director of Government Relations & Advocacy) recently shared with the Legislative committee that the Assembly and Senate Democrats plan to conference “50-a” (police personnel records). Though not necessarily a library specific issue she had received some questions regarding it from NYLA membership. The article she shared is below.
Lawmakers Moving to Yank Covers Off Secret Police Disciplinary Records
LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE:
The Long Island Library Conference Committee met virtually several times this past month. Many, many details needed to be worked out. After much discussion with Jeremy Johanneson from NYLA, refunds are starting to be processed. There were approximately 14 vendors (out of 43) who requested their money back. Refunds for paid registrants will begin to be processed in June. It had been a difficult, but ultimately correct decision. We had to literally “turn on a dime” We look forward to this pandemic being over and onward to next year’s conference. Submitted by Brian Adams, LILAC Chair.
LONG RANGE PLANNING/MARKETING: No report.
MEMBERSHIP: Angela Breslin reported.
She sent emails to all the members who were expiring in May. Jeremy never sent me the 58 names that he said he would, so I went off the older report. There are 453 current members of SCLA and 157 members of YASD according to NYLA’s website.
Updated 6/13/20 – I received an email from Colleen Smith, Finance & Administration Manager for NYLA, and she sent out 116 NYLA renewal notices in June.
NEWSLETTER: Jen Rocco reported.
Submissions for our next newsletter are due this coming Monday, June 15. To date I’ve received three. Please reach out even if you don’t plan to submit.
NOMINATING: Ally Mercado reported.
2021 SCLA Nominations
Vice President/President Elect/Past President
Carisse Bormann
Member-at-Large: Membership
Angela Breslin
Laura McKinley
Member-at-Large: Special Event Coordinator
Carol-Leigh Susinno
Jennifer Salvatore
Michele Cayea
Kristina Nash
Secretary
Patricia Cruz
Wendy Ambrozewicz
2021 RASD Nominations
Secretary
Rosa Todaro
Treasurer
Wendy Bennett
Members-at-Large (2 Vacancies)
Laurie Aitken
Jessica Giannetti
2021 YASD Nominations
Vice President
Angela Breslin
Member-at-Large: Webmaster/Teen Talk Newsletter
Katie Brand
Colleen Navins
Treasurer
Kyle Fichtner
Secretary
Shelby Rose Broderick
2021 CATS Nominations
Vice President/ President Elect
Anthony Giansante
Secretary
Mary O’Grady
Treasurer
James Hansen
Members-at-Large (8 Vacancies)
Chris DeCristofaro
Stephen Burg
Nick Tanzi
Anthony Bliss
Debbie Antonoli
Roseann Mammina
Sara Fade
Nicole Parisi
2021 SSD Nominations
Vice President/President Elect
Mona Pierre-Louis
Secretary
Aileen Clark
Treasurer
Celia Vollmer
Members-at-Large (4 Vacancies)
Teri Hatred
Kate Regina
Susan Santanastaso
Tevin Vuong
2020 DASL Nominations
PRESIDENT
BRUCE SEGER
VICE PRESIDENT
FABIO MONTELLA
SECRETARY
- JEFFREY SANTORELLO
TREASURER
KEITH PARDINI
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
SALLY STIEGLITZ
SCHOLARSHIP: No report.
STUDENT OUTREACH: No report.
WEB PAGE: Stephen Ingram reported.
Continue to update SCLA and Facebook page with SCLA messages and programs.
Facebook insights May: 853 followers
Google Analytics Behavior overview (page views): May 427
LIAISONS:
CLASC: Erin Kanelos reported.
I will send Jen a blurb for the newsletter, and we are currently looking into virtual options for our fall literature conference
LILRC: Tim reported –
PLDA: No report.
SCLS: No report.
NYLA: No report.
MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Angela Breslin: No report.
Andrea Malchiodi: Our virtual trivia afternoon (networking night) will be held on Wednesday, June 17th at 4:00 pm. So far we have 13 people signed up and the invitation will go to participants early next week. I am requesting that we add it to our SCLA Facebook page again as a reminder early next week. Brian Schwartz has offered to write the trivia and host the meeting. Prizes will be Amazon gift cards for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place.
Casey Fehn: I have contacted the presenters that SCLA is sponsoring for the NYLA conference to see if they would be willing to do a virtual conference or if they are willing to present in person. I have heard back from all of the programs that we were planning on sponsoring. Two are willing to present virtually and one would be willing to present either virtually or in person. I will be sending this information to Jeremy and wait for further direction.
Ellen Hobson: No report.
OLD BUSINESS: No report.
NEW BUSINESS: No report.
Ally Mercado adjourned the meeting at 10:57 a.m.
Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, July 17, 2020 -Virtual Meeting
IN ATTENDANCE: Steve Alcalde, Carisse Bormann, Angela Breslin, Rebecca Goldstein, Ellen Hobson, Derek Ivie, Ally Mercado , Kate Regina, Jennifer Rocco. Tim Spindler, Joyce Thompson-Haas, Celia Vollmer
CALL TO ORDER: Ally Mercado called the meeting to order at 10:01 am
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Welcome Derek!
PRESIDENT’S REPORT: No report.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Rebecca Goldstein reported.
Colleen Smith is the new NYLA Financial Chairperson. Colleen sent updated financial information for April 2020, but they did not include the closing balance. The last closing information I have is as of 2/29 for $70,074.
DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: No report.
RASD: Emily Guerrero reported.
We did not have a July meeting. Our next meeting is August 4th and will be virtual.
CATS: Alison Mirabella reported.
We’re currently on break for the summer.
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- Program Tech on a Budget on August 5th at 10:00 AM Register online here to receive the Zoom information: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYrf-iupjMrHNPbU0hFnjSpwnU1FnpuysKB
- TIF/NCLA meetings have moved to a twice a month schedule. Last meeting was July 6th, next meeting will be Monday, July 20th.
- We’d like to welcome our new board member Sara Fade and our new Vice President, Anthony Giansante!
SSD: Celia Vollmer reported.
Intro to Canva is on Thursday, September 17, 2:00-3:30 pm. Registration is open.
YASD: Carisse Borman reported.
YASD hosted a meeting on June 18 – Welcoming Back tweens/teens: Virtually, Curbside & In-Person. A representative from Vidcode gave a brief presentation as well, to tell us about their creative online coding program for Teens. We had around 32 people attend.
As of now, our Fran Romer Memorial Booktalk is still scheduled for Our annual Fran Romer Memorial Book Talk is scheduled for October 22 at the Connetquot Public Library. Author Claire LeGrand is supposed to present, however we are waiting to hear back from her agent regarding some recent health issues.
We have no other meetings planned for the summer as of now, but we are continuously looking for new ideas.
Our 2021 Board results:
Vice President: Angela Breslin
Secretary: Shelby Rose Broderick
Treasurer: Kyle Fichtner
Member at Large – Webmaster – Katie Brand
Member at Large – Fran Romer: Andrea Roberts
President Elect – Charlotte Buckleman
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ANNUAL DINNER: Ellen Hobson reported.
This year’s annual dinner will instead be a lunch at the Sachem Public Library at 12:00 on Thursday, October 22. With proper spacing we can have 50 people in the meeting room. Catering will be by Panera since they have pre-packaged box lunches available. The Mansion at West Sayville and Absolute Entertainment (DJ) have agreed to roll our contracts over to October 21, 2021.
ARCHIVES: No report.
CIVIL SERVICE: Steve Alcalde reported.
He is trying to get a hold of civil service to find out more information on the Librarian Assistant and Librarian 1 exams.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: Brain Schwartz reported.
For the trivia event, we had about 15 people attend. Looking to do trivia for other divisions.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: Teri Hatred reported via email.
Status quo.
ELSA: Kate Regina reported.
There was a posting about the award in the Summer Newsletter. However, as of today, no nominations have been received so there might not be an award presented this year. We knew it was a possibility due to these crazy times, but still wanted to have offered it. Next year will continue as usual.
FANDOM OUTREACH COMMITTEE: No report.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: Brian Schwartz reported.
This is an interesting article about the lack of laws concerning facial recognition technology:
https://www.nextgov.com/ideas/2020/07/facial-recognition-here-we-have-no-laws/166711/
And this article about libraries finding alternatives to calling police when patron issues occur involving black patrons:
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2020/07/08/rethinking-when-to-call-the-cops/
LDA AWARD: No report.
LEGISLATIVE: Samantha Alberts reported.
For July’s Meeting I would just like to report that Briana N. McNamee, Director of Government Relations & Advocacy at NYLA is continuing to work on a legislative categorical approach for Advocacy. We will learn more at the July 22nd Legislative Committee meeting which will be held online and in –person. What this means for membership is that members, if they have not already should sign up for the Legislative Alerts through NYLAS Advocacy center.
There is still no firm decision on the breakfast. If it is in-person it will be held here at SCLS and at this time NO FOOD will be served. I am investigating the cost and availability of an outdoor tent. If anyone had a “guy”, please let me know because I have requested 2 quotes so far and have not heard back from either company.
LILPA: Derek Ivie reported.
Long Island Library Pride Alliance is pleased to be a part of SCLA. Since the announcement went out at the end of June we have received requests from library staff members who are interested in becoming a part of the group. LILPA is working with both the Suffolk and Nassau YASDs to create programming for fall 2020.
LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE: No report.
LONG RANGE PLANNING/MARKETING: No report.
MEMBERSHIP: Angela Breslin reported.
SCLA has 445 Active Members – Registration reminders went out in May. I will be doing another mailing in August, for those whose memberships are expiring in the Fall.
YASD has 154 Active Members (these are the only two Divisions that NYLA lists).
NEWSLETTER: Jen Rocco reported.
The summer newsletter was distributed on July 1. The next round of submissions will be due by September 15, 2020 for an October 1 launch.
NOMINATING:
Winners:
Vice President/President Elect/Past President: Carrise Bormann
Member-at-Large Membership: Angela Breslin
Member-at-Large Special Event Coordinator: Michele Cayea
Secretary: Patricia Cruz
All division presidents were emailed their election results last night, Thursday July 17 2020.
SCHOLARSHIP: No report.
STUDENT OUTREACH: No report.
WEB PAGE: No report.
LIAISONS:
CLASC: Erin Kanelos reported.
The Fall Youth Literature Conference will be held virtually on October 15th with featured speakers Kyle Lukoff and Thanhha Lai. A workshop will also be provided by JoEllen McCarthy of NerdCamp. Registration brochures forthcoming.
LILRC: Tim Spindler reported.
LILRC registration for the annual conference is open and we are running it virtually this year. Nancy Kranich from Rutgers University will be the keynote. We are also having Elaine Gross from Erase Racism and Ryan Dowd who wrote the Librarian’s Guide to Homelessness. Min Liu is retiring as of July 31 and we wish her well. We plan to continue the same level of programming and will be conducting virtual programs until December 31.
NCLA: Tim reported for James Hutter.
James Hutter, President of NCLA, sends his greetings and hopes that everyone is doing well as we start to reopen our libraries.
He wishes to thank President Steven Alcalde for touching base during the pandemic.
Things have been extremely busy in Nassau as we also start to reopen.
During the height of the pandemic, our joint meetings between the NCLA and SCLA/CATS/TIF Technology groups were CRITICAL for staff in our profession. Library workers from all over Nassau and Suffolk attended our weekly meetings and shared insights on how to provide remote services to patrons, how to support “Work from Home” for staff, and how to 3D print personal protective devices, such as face shields. It was, and continues to be, an amazing partnership between our organizations. Our sessions often have well over 100 attendees.
NCLA is actively encouraging their Divisions and Committees to consider reaching across the Nassau/Suffolk border for the creation of joint upcoming programs.
If there are any SCLA Divisions or Committees that wish to connect, they can reach out to me directly at hutterj@pwpl.org
PLDA: No report.
SCLS: Samantha Alberts reported.
SCLS staff are still not going out to do in-person trainings. We have tentatively re-scheduled the Library Skills Academy with NYLA for late September early October. NYLA will be reaching out directly to the people who signed up for the program.
NYLA: No report.
MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Angela Breslin: No report.
Casey Fehn: Steve Alcalde reported for Casey: All of the presenters selected to speak have agreed to do it virtually.
Ellen Hobson: No report.
Andrea Malchiodi: Trivia night was a big success and people seemed to enjoy being together even if it was just virtually. Our big winner decided to give back her prize, so the other two winners could have more, so I sent $25.00 amazon gift cards to Cheryl Armstrong @ Riverhead Library & Arielle Hessler @ John Jermaine Library. As a follow up I sent out a networking night survey. Questions asked: best times/days – weekdays after 5. What would you like to see done – bowling, axe throwing, BYOB. How often would you like to see networking events – 4 times a year. I will be planning some more events (dates and times) at least virtually for now. I will report those dates and times at the next meeting.
OLD BUSINESS: No report.
NEW BUSINESS: No report.
Ally Mercado adjourned the meeting at 10:40 am.
Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, August 20, 2020 -Virtual GoToMeeting
IN ATTENDANCE: Ellen Hobson, Stephen Ingram, Derek Ivie, Andrea Malchiodi, Alexandra Mercado, Kate Regina, Joyce Thompson-Haas, Celia Vollmer
CALL TO ORDER: Ally called the meeting to order at 10:01 am.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: None.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Ally reported for Steve Alcalde.
Emily called civil service and they will not be offering exams for Fall 2020. All exams should be pushed back to 2021.
A patron from Deer Park reached out about the scholarship fund and they want to make a donation. The check would be made to NYLA and the person would specify where to put the funds. NYLA would confirm that the check was received.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Rebecca reported. Colleen Smith is the new NYLA Financial person. The last closing information I have is as of February, which was included on the May statement, for $78,074. I am awaiting updated information from Colleen.
DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: Bruce Seger reported.
There was no meeting in August. Hoping to have a meeting at the end of September or first week of October. Trying to line -up a few virtual speakers in the Fall. SCCC Library will be open by appointment. Most of the classes will be virtual.
RASD: Emily Guerrero reported.
We had a meeting on the 4th and we will meet next on the 15th. Our committees are navigating virtual programming and advertising through the list serv. The outreach committee has put out a call for nominations for their outreach award which will be open until October 16th.
CATS: Alison Mirabella reported via email.
We’re currently on break for the summer.
- Program Tech on a Budget was supposed to be August 5th but was rescheduled to August 12th due to the power outages. Then on August 12th the instructor’s building had another power outage so we unfortunately had to cancel! We apologize to everyone who was registered! We are working on a pre-recorded version of the program to send out soon.
- We’re also working on booking a virtual speaker for our annual meeting, so more information will follow on that!
SSD: Celia Vollmer reported.
SSD is presenting Intro to Canva on Thursday, September 17, 2:00-3:00 pm. We have our monthly meeting this afternoon. Our Annual Meeting and Safety Conference will be virtual. We will present a virtual safety workshop each week in October on different days of the week. We will kick off the conference with Connections in Covid, presented by Jessica Price. We will also have additional computer training in November, and schedule a Trivia Night.
YASD: Carisse Borman reported.
Our Annual Fran Romer Memorial Book Talk that was rescheduled from March to October has been officially cancelled. We put out a poll to attendees from last years Annual Luncheon and asked if they would be open to attending a lunch this year. The majority response was no – so YASD is in the process of figuring out virtual Fall programs and ideas.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ANNUAL DINNER: Ellen Hobson reported.
We are waiting for Jeremy to create the registration link, he is working on displaying meal options. Once the link is ready I will send out flyers. The annual lunch is Thursday, October 22 at 12pm. The fee will be $20 for both members and non-members.
ARCHIVES: Bruce Seger reported.
September he will be doing more scans. Nothing new for August.
CIVIL SERVICE: No report.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: No report.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: Teri Hatred reported via email.
Database up to date. I have not received any attendance sheets for some time. Please send webinar attendance sheets to me to keep members’ reports current.
ELSA: Kate Regina reported.
There will be no Excellence in Library Services Award given this year. Committee is brainstorming on ideas to improve our reach for upcoming years.
FANDOM OUTREACH COMMITTEE: No report.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: Brian Schwartz reported.
https://ncac.org/news/georgia-high-school-punishes-students-over-social-media-photos
https://ncac.org/news/alaska-community-unites-in-opposition-to-book-ban
LDA AWARD: No report.
LEGISLATIVE: Samantha Alberts reported.
This year’s legislative breakfast will be held online. Register for links. Please make time and join us that day to thank the legislature for their support.
- Assembly Thursday Sept 24 at 9AM
- Senate Friday Sept 25 at 9AM
There will be changes to how and what Advocacy Day looks like next year. No longer will there be a big one day event where NYLA asks membership to send up buses of people. As the NYLA Leg Committee figures out what our future advocacy efforts look like I will report back to the executive committee.
Register: https://www.lilrc.org/All-Events
LILPA: Derek Ivie reported.
The LILPA chairs met virtually yesterday – Thursday, August 20th. We are in the midst of planning our Fall programming and early 2021 programming as well. Going to schedule a “Meet LILPA” meeting for October 8th for attendees to meet the co-chairs, hear about the mission of the group, and touch on LGBT services and programming at the library.
LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE: Brain Adams reported.
They will have a meeting in September. They are unsure about the 2021 Conference. The deadline is in the beginning of January.
LONG RANGE PLANNING/MARKETING: No report.
MEMBERSHIP: Angela Breslin reported.
She has emailed Colleen at NYLA a few times asking why other divisions do not have membership lists like SCLA & YASD, I still have not gotten any response.
NEWSLETTER: No report.
NOMINATING: No report.
SCHOLARSHIP: No report.
STUDENT OUTREACH: Colleen Navins reported via email.
Reached out to Queens and LIU asking how things were going virtually. Heard back from LIU – trying to set up a virtual SCLA event allowing students to get to know our committee and the benefits of joining as students.
WEB PAGE: Stephen Ingram reported.
Continue to update SCLA and Facebook page with SCLA messages and programs
Facebook insights: 866 followers
Google Analytics Behavior overview (page views):
June 476
July 458
LIAISONS:
CLASC: Erin Kanelos reported.
CLASC is forging ahead doing their Fall Literature Conference virtually, and our speakers were Kyle Lukoff and Thanhha Lai.
LILRC: No report.
NCLA: No report.
PLDA: No report.
SCLS: Samantha Alberts reported.
Offering transings to get professional development hours
NYLA:
MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Angela Breslin: No report
Casey Fehn: No report
Ellen Hobson: Ellen asked if we want to do a trivia at the lunch or any other ideas.
Should we change the time for lunch? 12 or 1pm? We can change it to 1pm.
Andrea Malchiodi: Looking to do 4 networking events per year, which will include the SCLA dinner/luncheon. So dates that I am looking at are October 22 (luncheon, in person), January (virtual event), April (virtual event) and July (hopefully in person).
OLD BUSINESS: No report.
NEW BUSINESS: Ally will reach out to Steve to figure out the date for the September meeting.
Ally ended meeting at 10:43am
Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, September 18, 2020 -Virtual
IN ATTENDANCE: Steve Alcalde, Angela Breslin, Rebecca Goldstein, Emily Guerrero, Stephen Ingram, Andrea Malchiodi, Carisse Mitchell, Colleen Navins, Jennifer Rocco, Joyce Thompson-Haas
CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order at 10:08 am.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: None.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT: No report.
TREASURER’S REPORT: Rebecca Goldstein reported.
No updated financial information as of yet.
DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: No report.
RASD: Emily Guerrero reported.
RASD will be skipping our October meeting as we are not holding our annual luncheon this year and thought to give our committee chairpersons a chance to catch up with their regular library work that had seemed to be overwhelming many members at our last meeting. We would like to continue to encourage application for the Outreach Award. The deadline is October 15th and information is going through the listserv and will also be in the SCLA Newsletter. Our next meeting will be November 3rd.
CATS: Alison Mirabella reported via email.
- We had a meeting on Wednesday, September 9th in which we approved the fee for the annual dinner’s guest speaker.
- TIF has been holding bi-weekly joint technology meetings with NCLA’s Tech Committee. They paused for a bit but resumed on September 10th. Next meeting will be September 24th.
- Unfortunately the Program Tech on a Budget webinar on August 5th was cancelled after power outages on both the original date and the reschedule date. However, he did create a pre-recorded version which can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxiNRURcaiI
- The CATS/TIF Annual Meeting will be on 12/9 at 10:00 AM and will feature speaker Rob Thomson! Here’s the link to register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAsduypqD8rE9KN2a7uM-7T4XtvRWbw6gSX
SSD: No report.
YASD: Carisse Mitchell reported.
-October 1, 2020 YASD is holding a Virtual Make & Take Programming meeting. We have librarians from different states coming to present on what they are doing, what is working and what isn’t.
-Tentatively scheduled a meeting with the LILPA for November 19, 2020, also virtual.
-We are not having our annual luncheon, but are considering other virtual ideas.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ANNUAL DINNER: Steve Alcalde reported.
The annual dinner will be cancelled for this year. They are hoping to put some sort of video together.
ARCHIVES: No report.
CIVIL SERVICE: Steve Alcalde reported.
Emily will call back in November/December to see if they have any plans in place for the exams that were supposed to take place.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: No report.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: No report.
ELSA: No report.
FANDOM OUTREACH COMMITTEE: No report.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: No report.
LDA AWARD: Paula Bornstein reported.
Maryanne Linehan, the NCLA LDA Library Award chairperson sent me information packets for three nominees. I distributed them to my three committee members and mailed their decisions back to Maryanne. So far, I haven’t heard from her about the election results.
LEGISLATIVE: No report.
LILPA: Derek Ivie reported via email:
The Long Island Library Pride Alliance met on September 17, 2020. Co-chairs Valerie Acklin, Derek Ivie, Jody Ruggiero and Nola Thacker attended and discussed the following:
-the LILPA Coming Out Meet Up inaugural event on October 8th. (The flier was sent on the SCLA listserv on September 17th)
-approval of LILPA by-laws
-approval of LILPA statement of purpose
-plans for possible future events, including possible workshops; an annotated LGBTQ+ Booklist with guest editors; and a mock Stonewall event.
LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE: No report.
LONG RANGE PLANNING/MARKETING: No report.
MEMBERSHIP: Angela Breslin reported.
She can now see active member stats for all divisions:
CATS: 95 Active Members
DASL: 29 Active Members
RASD: 189 Active Members
SSD: 67 Active Members
SCLA: 432 Active Members
YASD: 146 Active Members
I can also send any division head the lists of active members if they would like.
NEWSLETTER: Jen Rocco reported.
Newsletter will be emailed out on October 1.
NOMINATING: No report.
SCHOLARSHIP: Steve Alcalde reported.
Melissa Wilson is the winner. She is a trainee at Rogers Memorial Library.
STUDENT OUTREACH: Colleen Navins reported.
-LIU asking for SCLA brochures for students. They have run out. I am happy to update and send them out to all graduate schools.
– Sending a pre recorded Google Meet to LIU, Queens, Pratt and St. John’s discussing SCLA and the benefits of joining at the student rate.
WEB PAGE: Stephen Ingram reported.
Webmaster report August 2019
Continue to update SCLA and Facebook page with SCLA messages and programs
Facebook insights: 864 followers
Google Analytics Behavior overview (page views): August 539
LIAISONS:
CLASC: Erin Kanelos reported
- Literature Conference 10/15. Still time to sign up. Featuring authors Tahnhha Lai, Kyle Lukoff; and nErD Camp founder JoEllen McCarthy.
- Annual Meeting 11/18 – Creative Programming During a Pandemic – still accepting presentation proposals.
LILRC: Sally Stieglitz reported.
LILRC continues to offer all of its continuing education programs and conferences virtually.
This year’s legislative breakfast events for Suffolk County are as follows:
Legislative Breakfast – Suffolk County Assembly Members
September 24, 9:00AM -10:00AM
Legislative Breakfast -Nassau County Senators
September 25, 9:00AM -10:00PM
Reopening Libraries Program:
Reopening Archives, Libraries, and Museums during COVID: Scientific Research and Risk Management– Jacob Nadal, Director for Preservation, Library of Congress
September 30, 11:00AM -Noon
Upcoming LILRC Conferences:
25th Annual Archives Conference: Collecting and Preserving the Stories of U.S. Veterans
October 05, 10:00AM – 4:00PM
29th Annual Conference on Libraries and the Future: Diversity, Democracy, Engagement
October 09, 09:00AM – 1:00PM
Registration for all events: lilrc.org/events
NCLA: No report.
PLDA: No report.
SCLS: No report.
NYLA: No report.
MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Angela Breslin: No report.
Casey Fehn: NYLA Conference will be completely virtual this year. Some of the programs will be in a “live” format and others will be pre-recorded. The programs that the groups SCLA is sponsoring were chosen to be pre-recorded. Two of the groups have signed up to do their recordings and one of the groups have backed out of doing the conference this year. The programs that SCLA is sponsoring are “Clap Back at Your Critics” and “The Great Give Back in Libraries.”
Ellen Hobson: No report.
Andrea Malchiodi: She is looking to update the SCLA brochure for members. She is thinking of doing a trivia night again. Trying to think of ways to connect people virtually.
OLD BUSINESS: None.
NEW BUSINESS: The October meeting will be cancelled.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:39am by Steve Alcalde.
Corrected and Approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, November 20, 2020 -Virtual
IN ATTENDANCE: Steve Alcalde, Carisse Bormann, Paula Bornstein, Casey Fehn, Rebecca Goldstein, Ellen Hobson, Stephen Ingram, Derek Ivie, Erin Kanelos, Emma Lodato, Andrea Malchiodi, Ally Mercado, Kate Regina, Sally Stieglitz, Joyce Thompson-Haas
CALL TO ORDER: This meeting asked members to add their minutes due to weather.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Steve Alcalde reported.
Next month will be the last meeting of 2020. Please feel free to invite incoming officers to attend. Also, please don’t forget to fill out a transition statement (if necessary) and get it to Joyce as soon as possible.
TREASURER’S REPORT: The closing balance as of September 2020 was $66,243.40. As a gentle reminder, please continue to send all reimbursement / disbursement requests to Rebecca, as they need Rebecca’s (Group Treasurer) and Steve’s (Group President) signature before being sent to NYLA. Deposits can be sent straight to NYLA.
DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: ARCHIVES: Have not been out to obtain new boxes to scan. Will do so shortly and continue the process.
CIVIL SERVICE: No report.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: No report.
CONTINUING EDUCATION:
DASL: DASL will be holding its annual luncheon virtually. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Roxanne Zimmer of the Cornell Cooperative Extension to discuss her unique perspective regarding the High Line Walking Trail in Manhattan. The title of the presentation is “Living the High Line” and will occur virtually and free of charge on December 4, 2020 at 2p.m. Stephen Ingram has placed it on the SCLA Facebook page (Thank you Stephen) and an invitation was sent via SCLA libs and via LILRC thanks to Sally Stieglitz. Thank you Sally. We are anticipating a good sized crowd. Hope to see you virtually on the 4th. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
RASD:
- Our Outreach Committee has their 1st winner to receive the annual Outreach Award! A plaque will be given to the winner and we will be sending a picture in for the next SCLA newsletter.
- Our next meeting will be Tuesday December 1st.
CATS:
- Our last board meeting was on November 4th at 10:00 AM. We mostly discussed the upcoming annual meeting.
- The last TIF meeting was Thursday, November 12th. Main topic on the agenda was “Closing Checklist”, items to consider/follow when closing down libraries due to a Covid-19 outbreak. General Q&A roundtable discussion was also included.
- The Annual Meeting will be held virtually on December 9th at 10:00 AM. We will have guest speaker Rob Thompson the NSW State Manager of the Australian Library and Information Association! He’ll be discussing the purpose of ALIA, integrating technology into libraries and anecdotes about his life in libraries.
SSD: No report.
YASD:
YASD had our November meeting on 11/19/2020 with the Long Island Library Pride Alliance: Rainbow Resources: Books & Information Sources for Teens. We had 33 in attendance. Derek Ivie presented an amazing and insightful presentation on how libraries can be a safe space for their LGBTQ teens. It was a great collaboration and we look forward to more of it in the future.
Our Annual Luncheon will be held virtually on December 3 at 12 pm. We will be introducing the 2021 Board, handing out the Teen Librarian Award and playing trivia with a gift card prize. All are welcome!
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ANNUAL DINNER: No report.
ARCHIVES:
Have not been out to obtain new boxes to scan. Will do so shortly and continue the process.
CIVIL SERVICE: No report.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: No report.
C
DASL:
DASL will be holding its annual luncheon virtually. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Roxanne Zimmer of the Cornell Cooperative Extension to discuss her unique perspective regarding the High Line Walking Trail in Manhattan. The title of the presentation is “Living the High Line” and will occur virtually and free of charge on December 4, 2020 at 2p.m. Stephen Ingram has placed it on the SCLA Facebook page (Thank you Stephen) and an invitation was sent via SCLA libs and via LILRC thanks to Sally Stieglitz. Thank you Sally. We are anticipating a good sized crowd. Hope to see you virtually on the 4th. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
ELSA: No report.
FANDOM OUTREACH COMMITTEE: No report.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM:
A Post about Social Media Spreading Disinformation During the Election:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/07/pinterest-linkedin-election-disinfo/
An article about an LGBTQ+ Display;
https://www.pahomepage.com/top-stories/lgbtq-display-dispute-in-sullivan-county/
LDA AWARD:
With the news about the cancellation of the 2021 Long Island Library Conference, the NCLA and SCLA LDA Award committees decided to instead present both the 2020 and 2021 awards together, at a virtual presentation in January. Award winners were selected from among several applicants whose information was submitted earlier this year. The presentation will be hosted by Art Friedman via a recorded Zoom session. More details will follow.
LEGISLATIVE:
Library Advocacy Day (virtual) will be held on FRIDAY, February 26, 2021. There will be a pre-advocacy day briefing held Feb. 22, 2021 details and registration forthcoming. NYLA and the Western New York Library Resources Council have partnered in a 6-part webinar series all about the fundamentals of being a library advocate. For more information or to register please visit the NYLA website.
Finally NYLA Leg Committee will be meeting monthly going forward.
LILPA:
The Long Island Library Pride Alliance Board met on November 2nd to discuss upcoming workshops. On November 4th, LILPA paired up with Nassau’s YASD to present Serving LGBTQ Youth in Libraries. At this workshop Maria Demauro from Pride for Youth (PFY) presented an overview of the LGBTQ community, various identities, and how to best work with them in an inclusive way. The focus was on working with youth, but the information that was shared is applicable to all ages. On November 19th, LILPA paired up with Suffolk’s YASD to present Rainbow Resources: LGBTQIA+ Book and Information Sources for Teens. Derek presented resources including important dates, local/national LGBTQ organizations, nonfiction and fiction books, important links, and examples of how libraries on Long Island are serving LGBTQIA+ youth in their libraries through displays, resources, and more. Jody presented during this meeting about the success of the Gay Straight Alliance she created at her library. The board is planning on releasing their Mock Stonewall list in December and will be holding a general membership meeting on January 7, 2021.
LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE: No report.
LONG RANGE PLANNING/MARKETING: No report.
MEMBERSHIP: No report.
NEWSLETTER:
PLEASE have your submissions in for our January 2021 newsletter no later than December 15. Thank you!
NOMINATING: No report.
SCHOLARSHIP:
2020 SCLA Scholarship recipient: Melissa Wilson
2020 SCLA Continuing Education Award recipient: Tia Johnson
STUDENT OUTREACH: No report.
WEB PAGE:
Webmaster report November 2019
Continue to update SCLA and Facebook page with SCLA messages and programs
Facebook insights: 875 followers
Google Analytics Behavior overview (page views)
September 566
October 658
LIAISONS:
CLASC:
- Thanks to everyone who participated in and attended the fall literature conference – we were very happy with how everything turned out
- We had our membership meeting this past Wednesday. Thank you to our presenters
- Looking at programs starting up again in the Spring
LILRC:
LILRC continues to offer all programming virtually via zoom due to the ongoing pandemic.
Events have been well attended and we are offering a wide range of topics. If there is a program you would like us to implement, please email me at sstieglitz@lilrc.org
LILRC winter newsletters are now available at https://www.lilrc.org/Newsletters
NCLA: No report.
PLDA: No report.
SCLS: No report.
NYLA: No report.
MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Angela Breslin: No report.
Casey Fehn:
The NYLA Conference was completely virtual this year and went well. SCLA sponsored two programs that did pre-recorded videos for the conference that could be viewed on demand. Despite the conference being solely virtual, one presenter expressed to me that everything still went smoothly on their end and they were happy to work with us. The first curators meeting for the 2021 NYLA Conference will be held on December 7.
Ellen Hobson: No report.
Andrea Malchiodi:
We ran our second virtual game night on Thursday, October 22, 2020. We had 7 SCLA members attend. I am planning the next one for January or February. I would like to send out a survey to members to see what games they are interested in. If you have any suggestions, I would love to hear.
OLD BUSINESS: No report.
NEW BUSINESS: Please be sure to fill out your transition statements (if required) and get them to Joyce as soon as possible.
Motion to approve minutes:
SCLA Minutes
Friday, December 18, 2020 -Virtual
IN ATTENDANCE: Carisse Mitchell, Derek Ivie, Ally Mercado, Angela Breslin, Stephen Ingram, Ellen Hobson, Steve Alcalde, Andrea Malchiodi
CALL TO ORDER: Ally Mercado called the meeting to order at 10:02am.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Joyce is unable to attend due to a delayed opening at Patchogue-Medford Library. She sends her regards and thanks everyone for three great years.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT: Steve Alcalde asked all necessary Board members to send their transition statements to Joyce as soon as possible.
TREASURER’S REPORT: The closing balance as of September 2020 was $66,243.40. I’m awaiting an updated report from Colleen.
DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: No report
CIVIL SERVICE: No report
COMMUNITY SERVICE: No report
CONTINUING EDUCATION: Status quo – all attendance is up to date.
DASL: No report
RASD:
- Congrats to Deborah Hempe and the Middle Country Library for receiving the first ever Outreach Award.
- New Adult Committee has a podcast. Pilot episode titled Remote Programs and Services During the Pandemic. You can find the NAC podcast on Apple, Google, Spotify, Amazon, Stitcher, RadioPublic and https://redcircle.com/shows/nac.
- Congrats and welcome to the SCLA Board, our new incoming RASD President Rachel Cecchini!
CATS:
- CATS had our Annual Meeting on December 9th at 10:00 AM featuring guest speaker Rob Thomson. We had 42 attendees in total and we will be sending around a recorded version of the program for people who were unable to attend.
- Our next board meeting is January 13th at 10:00 AM, which will be our first meeting with our incoming board! Mary O’Grady and James Hansen have kindly agreed to return as secretary and treasurer respectively. Anthony Giansante will be our Vice President and Michael Bartolomeo will be serving as our President. I know they are going to bring us a lot of great programs next year!
- It was also a pleasure attending the SCLA meetings this year and working with all of you and I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season!
SSD: No report
YASD: On November 19, Derek Ivie hosted our November Meeting: Rainbow Resources for Teens on behalf of the new LILPA. Here we learned about the new joint-county committee that is dedicated to servicing all of long island libraries and librarians who share an interest in LGBTQ information and services. Derek informed us of all the ways we could reach our patrons and I believe that everyone took home information with them that way of how to improve their libraries.
We ended the year with our Annual Luncheon virtually on December 3. We introduced the new board, said thank you to the old board, and played a few rounds of trivia. Michele Caya won by a landslide! We also presented the Teen Librarian of the Year Award: Best Overall Program to James Richardson for his Programs to Go program.
Thank you for an amazing opportunity to be part of SCLA – I look forward to continuing to be a part of this amazing group!
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ANNUAL DINNER:No report
ARCHIVES:No report
CIVIL SERVICE: No report
COMMUNITY SERVICE: No report
CONTINUING EDUCATION: No report
DASL: No report
ELSA: Nothing to report
FANDOM OUTREACH COMMITTEE:
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM:
LDA AWARD: No report
LEGISLATIVE:
Library Advocacy Day (virtual) will be held on FRIDAY, February 26, 2021. There will be a pre-advocacy day briefing held Feb. 22, 2021 details and registration forthcoming. NYLA and the Western New York Library Resources Council have partnered in a 6-part webinar series all about the fundamentals of being a library advocate. For more information or to register please visit the NYLA website. The PAC may have some events scheduled pre advocacy day February 25, 2021.
LILPA:
The Long Island Library Pride Alliance Board met on December 14th to discuss upcoming programs. They have a General Membership Meeting scheduled on January 7th where they will also be joined by the LGBT Network who will present their Top 25 LGBTQ-Affirming Children’s Books. LILPA will also be releasing the booklist for their Mock Stonewall Award program which will take place asynchronously throughout the month of January. The Board has begun program and workshop planning for Spring 2021 including an LGBT 101 program with The LGBT Network, and a program focused on Romance in LGBTQ Literature.
LONG ISLAND LIBRARY CONFERENCE:
LONG RANGE PLANNING/MARKETING:
MEMBERSHIP: AB
Membership Statistics:
CATS: 99 Active members
DASL: 31 Active members
RASD: 189 Active members
SCLA: 427 Active members
YASD: 136 Active members
-As per Colleen at NYLA, Roger is working on the organizational memberships, that data is currently being worked on to be updated.
-I will be sending out letters of renewal to SCLA and other committees once all the organizational memberships have been updated.
NEWSLETTER: Thank you for your submissions. The newsletter will go out on January 2.
NOMINATING: No report
SCHOLARSHIP: No report
STUDENT OUTREACH: Please forward me any information you would like to send to the library students @ Queens, Post, St. John’s. -CN
WEB PAGE: SI
Webmaster report December 2020
Continue to update SCLA and Facebook page with SCLA messages and programs
Facebook insights: 878 followers
Google Analytics Behavior overview (page views): November 415 views
LIAISONS:
CLASC:
CLASC has booked summer reading program illustrator Salina Yoon for our Spring Membership Meeting on April 14th. More information to follow.
LILRC: No report
NCLA:
PLDA: No report
SCLS: No report
NYLA: No report
MEMBERS AT LARGE:
Angela Breslin: See above in membership AB
Casey Fehn: No report
Ellen Hobson: No report.
Andrea Malchiodi: We have another game night scheduled for Wednesday, January 13th at 6:30 pm. If anyone has ideas for what to play, let me know.
OLD BUSINESS: Steve Alcalde wanted to offer whatever services necessary to the incoming Board for 2021.
NEW BUSINESS: Steve Alcalde wanted to thank the Board for all their passion, hard work, and effort in what proved to be a very unexpected and abnormal year. He also says he’s looking forward to what the incredibly bright and passionate incoming Board will accomplish.
Corrected and approved
SCLA Minutes
Friday, March 19, 2021 -Virtual Meeting
IN ATTENDANCE: Brian Adams, Samantha Alberts, Michael Bartolomeo, Angela Breslin, Charlotte Buckleman, Michele Cayea, Rachel Cecchini, Patricia Cruz, Casey Fehn, Rebecca Goldstein, Stephen Ingram, Derek Ivie, Andrea Malchiodi, Ally Mercado, Carisse Mitchell, Roni Rauch, Brian Schwartz, Emily Trezza.
CALL TO ORDER: The meeting was called to order at 10:02 am by Carisse Mitchell, seconded by Angela Breslin & Rachel Cecchini.
Motion to approve February 2021 minutes by Carisse Mitchell, seconded by Michael Bartolomeo.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
PRESIDENT’S REPORT:
- May Professional Development Series with NCLA and CLASC
- We have about 11 programs throughout the month of May that are free open to all library staff
- Carisse will be making a flyer to be sent out with all info of programs by April 1. Please have all dates, times and descriptions with registering info sent to Carisse / Ally by 3/24 AT THE LATEST. We have an April 1 goal for marketing and sending out flyers.
- Do we have an action plan for distributing marketing materials?
- Colleen – Universities
- SCLA listserv-?
- NYLA listserv-Angela
- Directors list-Sam/Derek
- SCLS listserv-Sam/Derek
- RASD
- Special recognition for contributing multiple events to the series
- YASD
- Working with NCLA counterpart, excellent teamwork
- Team Civil Service
- Ally, Carrise, Patricia, and Rebecca
- Working with Cheryl from Suffolk County Civil Service
- Team Networking Night
- Andrea, Michele, Angela, Casey
- Goals
- Facebook Campaign
- We would like to highlight a Division each month on Facebook. This will be up to the President of the Division (who may delegate this assignment out). It should include a write up of the Division and the duties of a member. April we will start with Ally and Carisse as President/ Vice President. Go over duties of each and also personal information – what library you work at, favorite books, some personal info and will include a picture of each.
- We have found that pictures of people / activities get more likes and attention then just flyers.
- Zoom Account
- We will be purchasing a Zoom account that’s attached to our SCLA Gmail account
- Motion to approve purchase of $149 for Zoom account
- June Meeting moved
- Friday, June 4th
- Membership
- Angela and Sam have been hard at work together on that, more on that in her report
- Friday, June 4th
- We will be purchasing a Zoom account that’s attached to our SCLA Gmail account
- We would like to highlight a Division each month on Facebook. This will be up to the President of the Division (who may delegate this assignment out). It should include a write up of the Division and the duties of a member. April we will start with Ally and Carisse as President/ Vice President. Go over duties of each and also personal information – what library you work at, favorite books, some personal info and will include a picture of each.
- Facebook Campaign
TREASURER’S REPORT: The closing balance as of January 15, 2021 was $65.457.45.
DIVISION REPORTS:
DASL: No report.
RASD: Our committees have wrapped up their winter meetings and the Board is focusing on the SCLA professional development series. Chairpersons of committees that are not hosting a program are working with Programs Chair, Alicia Collumbell, to produce marketing materials and will also assist with curating registration.
The Long Island Reads event is on Sunday, April 11th at 2:00PM via Crowdcast. Anyone who is interested can register on Eventbrite.
RASD was not able to have a virtual luncheon in 2020, however, the Members at Large are planning an event for this year.
CATS: The CATS/TIF meeting on February 11 had 28 attendees including 4-5 from Nassau County. The next meeting took place on March 11 which was a joint meeting held with Nassau County and had approximately 60 attendees. Robyn Petrik from MeeScan demonstrated a new form of library self checkout and Jonathon Greene of Sachem Library discussed the engineering behind their Winter Wonderland Garden of Lights event.
CATS submitted their program for the Professional Development Series in May. It will be a Health and Mental Wellness program covering fitness and meditation apps and will be hosted by Alison M. and Anthony G., CATS past president and vice president respectively.
For the NYLA 2021 conference, CATS is looking to sponsor two individuals to attend. We are still waiting for further details on the conference itself to decide how comprehensive we want the sponsorship to be, specifically what pricing will be and whether there will be a virtual attendee component or not. One sponsorship would be open to current CATS members and the other for students enrolled in a MLIS program. Details TBD.
SSD: Held VIBS Elder care program- informative & interesting about their resources. Upcoming programs: June 8th- Social Media (using Instagram, Facebook) & August 12th- Canva (Making Greeting Cards)
YASD: The annual Fran Romer Memorial Booktalk is on March 25th. Our special guest speaker is author Ryan La Sala. April 8th is our Annual NCLA/SCLA YASD Joint Meeting. Leah Topek-Walker LCSW-R from Stony Brook University and her students will be presenting on mental health resources for teens, homelessness, anxiety during COVID-19 and drug abuse. Our May Professional development series meeting has been booked.
COMMITTEE REPORTS:
ANNUAL DINNER: Keeping up with changes on gatherings for in-person annual dinner.
ARCHIVES: No report.
CIVIL SERVICE: No report.
COMMUNITY SERVICE: No report.
CONTINUING EDUCATION: Teri Hatred reported via email: Requests for reports have started to pick up. Have not received many attendance sheets lately so please make sure to email them to me (Teri) at sclshr@suffolknet.org.
ELSA: Award paperwork has been updated for 2021. Brochure will be included in the Spring Newsletter along with a write-up. Nominations are open for submissions beginning April 1st. We look forward to reading about our lovely hard-working coworkers throughout the county.
FANDOM OUTREACH COMMITTEE: No report.
INTELLECTUAL FREEDOM: Here are two links for this one. One that talks about banning a book with racy themes: https://www.kvue.com/article/news/education/leander-isd-book-inappropriate-in-the-dream-house-board-meeting/269-63852d91-f8f7-40f7-8de8-6438c9ca757f
And an article about colleges using cameras to spy on students:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/scholars-under-surveillance-how-campus-police-use-high-tech-spy-students
LDA AWARD: Nothing new to report.
LEGISLATIVE:
Both the NYS Assembly and Senate have released their “one house” budget bills which will be used with the Governor’s initial budget as the “starting point” for the three-way negotiations on a final State budget. By law, the State budget must be completed by March 31 for the April 1 start of the new State fiscal year. Briana McNamee NYLA’s Director of Government Relations & Advocacy created a spreadsheet explaining the different budget proposals .
NYLA has a “call to action” campaign that I STRONGLY encourage membership to participate in if they have not already. https://cqrcengage.com/alany/app/write-a-letter?0&engagementId=511136&utm_source=ALL+NYLA&utm_campaign=ac7e85eb53-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_10_19_07_23_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1a8613b33e-ac7e85eb53-92893027
LI LIBRARY CONFERENCE:
As of this date we are very pleased that no vendors have requested refunds.
We resume our regularly scheduled meeting in September, whether they be in person or Zoom remains to be seen.
LILPA:
The Long Island Library Pride Alliance Board met on Monday, March 15th to discuss upcoming workshops and other new business. On Thursday, March 18th they held the first meeting of the LILPA Book Club where they discussed the award winning graphic novel Bingo Love by Tee Franklin. Twelve library staff members attended the meeting. The next LILPA Book Club meeting will be held on Thursday, May 20th. The book being discussed is Stay Gold by Tobly McSmith.
LONG RANGE PLANNING/MARKETING: No report.
MEMBERSHIP: Membership Statistics as of 3/18/21:
CATS: 96 active members
DASL: 30 active members
RASD: 173 active members
SCLA: 392 active members
SSD: 61 active members
YASD: 127 active members
244 members of SCLA were paid by member libraries. 26 Organizational Memberships from member libraries in total.
Letters to all member library Board of Trustees went out last week, in care of the Library Director. Thank you to Sam for your help with this.
Working on a letter for Directors regarding Organizational Memberships for later in the fall.
NEWSLETTER: Thank you to everyone who submitted their newsletter blurbs. The newsletter will go out on Thursday, April 1.
NOMINATING: Nominations are due by May 14th.
SCHOLARSHIP: The SCLA Scholarship and Continuing Ed Award flyers will be included in the April 1st newsletter. Applications will be accepted after that point. Scholarship applications are due September 1st and the Continuing Ed Award applications are due September 15th.
STUDENT OUTREACH: Hosting a webinar for St. John’s students about the benefits of joining library organizations on Thursday, April 8th. Will be speaking with Queens College Library students on Friday, April 16th during their webinar entitled Get Your Foot in the Door: LIS Internship & Volunteer Information Session. As always, send any ideas or information my way cnavins@smithlib.org
WEB PAGE: Continue to update SCLA.net, calendar and Facebook page with SCLA program information.
Continue to update SCLA wordpress and Division pages to latest versions of software.
Facebook insights: 898 followers
Google Analytics Behavior overview (page views): February 641 Page views
LIAISONS:
CLASC:
- Recently held March Book Discussion, featuring Newbery Winner When You Trap a Tiger, by Tae Keller, and featuring a presentation from Katie Kipe, Library Marketing/Sales Manager at Penguin Random House.
- Looking forward to Annual Meeting in April featuring Summer Reading Program Artist Salina Yoon
- May Book Discussion will be Cleo Porter and the Body Electric, by Jake Burt. Features a family making a life or death choice in the middle of a pandemic quarantine.
- Excited to contribute to May professional development series; co-presenting with RASD & YASD So You Want to Join a Professional Organization?
LILRC: Tim Spindler reported via email: Annual Meeting is June 15 and will feature Kawanna Bright will be speaking on Conducting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Audits in Library & Information Organizations: Overview, Steps, and Best Practice. She is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina State University. The annual conference on Libraries and the Future will be held Friday, October 8.
NCLA: Our annual dinner has not been planned, but our activities will take place in November. Our portion of the May program series are being finalized and will be sent to Carisse.
PLDA: No report.
SCLS: – Please complete Take Action:
- Visit SCLS Calendar of Events and Gateway for professional development opportunities.
NYLA: Todd Schlitt reported via email:
The 2021 NYLA Annual Conference is currently expected to be an in-person event. However, contingency plans are being developed should we have to go virtual. This decision will be made by August 1. Trade Show registration opened on 3/1.
NYLA issued a statement that library workers who have contact with the public should be included in vaccination phase 1b. As of 3/17 the following groups are vaccine eligible:
– Nonprofit public facing eligible
– Public employees, public facing eligible
– Essential workers public facing eligible
– Public facing building workers eligible
NYLA is due for a new Strategic Plan. The process will be presented in future meetings; a task force will be established to craft a draft plan to present to the Council.
MEMBERS-AT-LARGE:
Angela Breslin: See above in Membership.
Michele Cayea: See above in Annual Dinner. Working on the Networking Event.
Casey Fehn: The NYLA Conference programs have been selected. SCLA will be sponsoring “Building a Digital Library Branch” and “Community Partnerships Social Workers in Libraries.” Both of these programs will be held as Live Virtual programs.
Andrea Malchiodi: May networking event will include a virtual game session as well as a scavenger hunt. Brainstorming some bigger event nights – maybe once or twice per year, in addition to the dinner, and game/virtual nights. Thinking about paint nights, cooking class, kayaking???, field day or camping event. The goal is to increase the fun and togetherness as we move more toward meeting in person, therefore increasing interest in SCLA.
OLD BUSINESS: None
NEW BUSINESS: None
The meeting was adjourned at 11:11 am by Carisse Mitchell. Seconded by Michael Bartolomeo & Ally Mercado.