Suffolk County Library Association
March 19th
SCLS
Blue Room
9:30am – 12:00pm
Meet Generation Z Millennials are old news. In their late twenties and thirties, the generation has come to be defined by economic struggle and a slow start in adulthood. Come learn about a new generation of teens who are about to enter adulthood, and who have different expectations of our services.
Send a message to your legislature, thanking them for supporting libraries this budget year.
NYLA offers this quick service to send a electronic thank you.
In order to facilitate library advocacy, NYLA provides a quick and easy means of showing your support. NYLA’s Online Advocacy Center allows you to edit pre-drafted advocacy messages as you like, enter your name and address, and hit ‘Submit’. The messages will be automatically delivered to your NYS Senator and Assemblymember. Get started now, click on “Take Action Now!”.
https://www.nyla.org/max/4DCGI/cms/review.html?Action=CMS_Document&DocID=58&MenuKey=advocacy
The LDA Library Award provides recognition to an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to libraries on Long Island, be they librarians, trustees, support staff, friends of the library, vendors or publishers. The award is sponsored by SCLA and NCLA and was founded by LDA Publishers in 1978.
We invite all SCLA members to consider nominating an individual for this award. A copy of the application and brochure is attached. Paper copies of the brochure also were sent to SCLA members.
Applications are now being accepted and must be received no later than Monday, March 26, 2018. Please send them to:
Marcia L. Olsen
3772 Marilyn Drive
Seaford, NY 11783
The LDA Library Award will be presented at the Long Island Library Conference on Thursday, May 3, 2018.
Discover how to select and get the most out of a social media manager such as Hootsuite, Buffer or Sprout.
Management platforms make maintaining an active social media presence much easier.
They often provide users with additional tools and insights to help grow their social media presence.
2 CEUs will be awarded for this program
Presenter: Mike Buono, BREN Reference & Community Service Facilitator
The Long Island Reads event with astronaut Mike Massimino, author of Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe, will take place at the Patchogue Theatre for the Performing Arts on Sunday, April 15 at 2pm.
https://longislandreads.wordpress.com/
Free tickets will be available here beginning on March 1 at 9am:
https://LIReads2018.
Where: West Islip Public Library
When: March21, 2018
When: 2-4 pm
Free to SSD members and those who join SSD at the meeting.
$5.00 fee for non-members of SSD. Please send fee to Alana Jagnanan at the Brentwood Public Library.
Light refreshments will be served.
See attached flyer for details and registration link.
LIPopCon 2018: “The Revenge of Pop Con”
The Long Island Libraries and Pop Culture Conference 2018
Friday, April 13th 2018 – 9:30am to 4:00pm
Farmingdale Public Library
Keynote Speaker
DAVE ROMAN
Dave Roman is the author/illustrator of the Astronaut Academy series and writer of the graphic novels Teen Boat! and Agnes Quill: An Anthology of Mystery. He has contributed stories to Comics Squad: Recess!, Explorer: The Mystery Boxes, Nursery Rhyme Comics, and Goosebumps Graphix: Slappy’s Tales of Horror. Dave was a former editor at Nickelodeon Magazine, and is currently editor for First Second’s Science Comics series. He lives in Astoria, NY and draws the weekly webcomic Starbunny, Inc.
The Long Island Libraries and Pop Culture Conference (LIPopCon) is a yearly conference that provides library professionals and library and information science students with the latest information about trends in pop culture. Covering everything from anime and manga to video games and movies to science fiction and fantasy to graphic novels and comic books, LIPopCon informs attendees of the latest in pop culture and how it affects libraries.
CEUs Will Be Awarded!
For all event information – http://www.lipopcon.org
Registration starts MONDAY, JANUARY 8!
Lunch is included with registration & catered by Panera Bread
Early Bird Registration Prices
(until SUNDAY, MARCH 11):
NCLA/SCLA Members & Students: $50
Non-Members: $65
Register at http://lipopcon2018.eventbrite.com
The 2018 Long Island Library Conference will be on May 3, 2018 at the Melville Marriot. The Conference Committee invites program proposals on all areas of librarianship. We are especially interested in proposals that align with the 2018 theme, “Together Towards Tomorrow.”
Conference programs should be 60 minutes long, with the anticipation of 45 minutes of content, and 10 minutes of Q&A.
The Long Island Library Conference Committee will evaluate all proposals submitted by the deadline using the following criteria:
All proposals will be considered in the context of the overall structure of the meeting and availability of time slots for proposed sessions.
The deadline for submitting proposals for the 2018 Long Island Library Conference is December 31, 2017.
Use the following LILC Google Form to submit your proposal.
If you have any questions about the proposal process, please contact the 2018 Program Chair, Alexandra Janvey at LILCPrograms@gmail.com
On December 7th , CATS and TIF will have their Annual Meeting at 9:30 a.m. in the SCLS auditorium. There will be a light breakfast served. Guest speaker Rebecca Stavick from Do Space Omaha will be appearing via video teleconference. She will talk about Do Space, a privately funded public makerspace, successful things they’re doing and will even give a walking tour with their “Dual Robot”. There is no fee to attend.
RSVP is requested to chris.decristofaro@sachemlibrary.org