Upcoming Events

UPDATE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, the Diversity Audit Meet Up originally scheduled for February 9th will be cancelled and rescheduled. We will announce the new date in the near future. Thanks for your understanding! Register now to your colleagues for a lively discussion via Zoom Meeting! Library workers from all types — school, public, academic, special, […]

REGISTER HERE Hundreds of books are published every month. But who has the time to read so many books? In the form of book talks, Charlie Kelly will highlight new and upcoming culturally relevant elementary books which include picture books, chapter books, novels, graphic novels, poetry, biography, and nonfiction titles. Ms. Kelly has attended webinars […]

REGISTER NOW The New York Historic Newspapers (nyshistoricnewspapers.org) provides free online access to over 700 historic newspaper titles, comprising more than 11 million pages, from every county in the state. The project also provides an affordable microfilm digitization process that makes it easy for libraries, historic associations and museums to get prized newspaper microfilm scanned […]

REGISTER HERE New to cataloging and processing, or looking to brush up your skills? This webinar will teach library staff the basics of cataloging and processing books, such as creating specs on file. Specs on file (AKA vendor specification cataloging requirements) are required by each book vendor. However, there is no need to fill out […]

REGISTER NOW New York Heritage Digital Collections features curated selections of digital cultural heritage materials from libraries, library systems, historical societies, museums, archives, and other cultural institutions across the state of New York. More than 380 contributing organizations have contributed over 340,000 cultural objects to our platform. This service is administered by eight of the […]

REGISTER HERE When power is concentrated in the hands of individual leaders, things can go very wrong. The Covid-19 pandemic put this in stark relief: when some administrators chose to send library workers into buildings in the face of enormous health risk, staff fought back, organizing to keep themselves and their colleagues safe. It did […]

Please join us for the virtual 2022 Academic Libraries Conference Online April 14, 2022 9am-3:30pm Higher ed and academic libraries have been through a lot during the past two years, prompting changes in how we approach our work and how our students approach their education. Health – both physical and mental – has taken center […]

Join us for a workshop for non-profits about running your first fundraising campaign. Presented by Vanessa Chase Lockshin from The Storytelling Non-Profit, this 90-minute, virtual workshop will include a combination of teaching, hands-on activities, and time for questions. REGISTER HERE

RRLC is offering up to 15 seats at the upcoming LibraryWorks webinar, How to Give and Receive Feedback (Constructive Criticism) so Everyone is Still Speaking to Each Other Afterwards. We all have blind spots: We forget, we make mistakes, we disagree, and we misunderstand. Being able to give and take feedback is how we get back […]

Register now to join your colleagues for a lively discussion via Zoom Meeting. The Rochester Area Special Collections, Archives and Libraries (RASCAL) group is made up of various staff from cultural and archival institutions around the Rochester region. The group meets quarterly to discuss issues related to special collections, archives, and libraries. Discussion Topic:Grants (identifying grants and grant […]

REGISTER HERE Public libraries across the country are experiencing an increase in encounters of patrons conducting “First Amendment audits”. The asserted purpose of these “audits” is to record alleged civil rights violations in places open to the public, but the recording can impact patron privacy, workforce conditions, and library operations. This session will cover how […]

REGISTER NOW Empire State Immersive Experiences, or ESIE, is a free platform for the hosting of 360-degree images of places of note within New York State. ESIE is also a platform for the sharing of community spaces and stories through panoramic “tours” of linked images, complete with embedded audiovisual material to fully illustrate the context […]