SCLA

Join us for MOSAIC’S ANNUAL BREAKFAST
Juneteeth: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Progress

Register at https://tinyurl.com/MOSAICBREAKFAST2022

Contact Amber Gagliardi, gagliardiamber@mcplibrary.org or
Michelle Athanas, michelle.athanas@nenpl.org with any questions

Friday, June 17, 2022 – 9:30-11:30am

Guest Speaker: Dr. Georgette Grier-Key

Suffolk Cooperative Library System, 627 Sunrise Hwy, Bellport

ABOUT OUR PRESENTER

Dr. Georgette Grier-Key is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Eastville Community
Historical Society of Sag Harbor. Her board service to the field includes posts such as:
President of the Long Island Historical Societies, NAACP Brookhaven Town Branch,
Preservation League of NYS Board of Trustees, active on the Excellence in Historic
Preservation Awards and Seven to Save, juries and chairs the Technical Services Committee.
She is the Vice President of the board of the Museum Association of New York. Dr. Grier-Key
is a well-regarded guest curator and consultant who has various appointments such as
managing the Incorporated Village of Port Jefferson’s Drowned Meadow Cottage Museum, a
surviving Revolutionary War Structure. She has been elected to various outlets that inform
and further the study of history, preservation, and culture. Dr. Key, an avid practitioner and
professor, uses grounded theory and sustainability models to further the agenda of inclusion
in traditional frameworks that have practiced institutional and structural exclusion. Dr. Grier
Key is one of the most outspoken advocates for the preservation and celebration of Long
Island history with an emphasis on BIPOC heritage. As a founding member and lead
organizer of the Pyrrhus Concer Action Committee, her continued role is leading to the
rebuilding of the formerly enslaved Pyrrhus Concer’s homestead in the heart of
Southampton’s Village.

MOSAIC Mission: The purpose of the committee is to promote cultural awareness and
develop strategies for effective outreach services.” In adhering to this, the Committee
meets four to seven times a year to discuss any and all issues that arise within the
libraries that affect service to our diverse communities. These issues can range from
collection development, to programming ideas, to creating documents in non-English
fonts, to where to send a non-English speaking person for immigration information. The
Committee would like to think of itself as a clearinghouse on best practices in serving
diverse communities. One of our main goals is to disseminate and share information in a
collegial fashion.

The LILRC Diversity Internship Program offers diverse undergraduate students on Long
Island a paid internship to learn more about libraries and librarianship as a career path.
Long Island Library Resources Council (LILRC) and the LILRC Diversity Committee are
pleased to announce that Nancy Myers of Riverhead has been selected as the LILRC
Intern for Spring 2022. Ms. Myers is currently an undergraduate student at Suffolk County
Community College, where she will complete her Associate’s Degree in Spring 2022. Ms.
Myers also works as a circulation clerk at the John Jermain Memorial Library in Sag Harbor,
where she first developed an interest in librarianship. Ms. Myers will briefly speak at the
MOSAIC Breakfast about her experience.

This Year’s Book!

The 2022 LONG ISLAND READS pick is…

The Living and the Lost by Ellen Feldman

Long Island Reads will honor Ellen Feldman in person and online at an award ceremony on May 1, 2022 at Plainview-Old Bethpage Library.

https://longislandreads.wordpress.com/

TWO WAYS TO ATTEND:

1. Free tickets to the in-person event will be available to the public beginning Friday, April 1, at 9:30 a.m. Click the EVENTBRITE link for more information.
2. For those who prefer to attend virtually, Plainview-Old Bethpage Library will also host the event as an online program through the Crowdcast platform. Tickets are not required for the online event. Online attendees will receive a direct link to the event after registering. Click the CROWDCAST link to access the online event.

Have you thought about joining the MOSAIC or New Adults Committee of RASD? Well, now is your chance!  Join us in person on Tuesday, April 19th at 10am at Suffolk Cooperative Library System. We will be discussing ways libraries can serve Au Pairs.

If you can make it, please RSVP to Amber Gagliardi, gagliardiamber@mcplibrary.org. Refreshments will be served because every morning meeting should have a donut!

Thank you!

Alexander Blend
Miller Business Center<https://www.millerbusinesscenter.org/>
Middle Country Public Library
101 Eastwood Blvd.
Centereach, NY 11720
(631)-585-9393 ext. 272<https://www.mcplibrary.org/>
blendalex@mcplibrary.org