State Aid for Library Construction Program Program Overview Capital funds for the State Aid for Library Construction Program are provided annually in the New Yor...
Board President Briefing February 2023 Trustee Education Requirement Library Trustees are now required to track and report their continuing education. Each Tru...
Director Briefing Archive Introduction Monday Briefings are a weekly compilation of relevant information sent to Member Library Directors, System HQ Staff, and t...
Director Briefing January 30, 2023 Employee Handbook 2023 Legal Updates Last year we provided an Employee Handbook that could be modified to your library to ...
Request Email Help This is a temporary support form for the April 2021 Email Migration. Please provide your Name, Email Address, Library and a Phone Number where...
Developing Library Policies Policy Basics Policymaking is perhaps the most difficult part of a trustee s job, requiring an open mind, a thoughtful study of the i...
Director Briefing January 23, 2023 State Aid for Library Construction Info Session January 31, 2023 at 4:00 PM A reminder that Suzanne's annual State Aid for...
2023 Planning Cohort Introduction To support long range planning in 2023, the OWWL Library System will host a planning cohort made of member libraries looking to...
Coordinated Outreach Services Advisory Group (COSAG) _ Under New York State Education Law, §273 (1) (h) (1), and Commissioner's Regulations §90.3, Public Library ...
Director Briefing January 10, 2023 State of the State The main points Governor Hochul made in her State of the State, were her priorities to make sure New York...
Director Briefing January 04, 2023 Happy New Year! Happy New Year, everyone. I'm looking forward to working with all of you in 2023! Processing Lost Payments ...
Library Advocacy 2023 2023 In District Meeting Schedule Visit the Assembly and Senate Representatives to check your representatives. Legislator Meeting Dat...
Director Briefing December 27, 2022 OWWL.org Website Launch The long anticipated update to our OWWL.org site is scheduled to launch this week! Patrons and staf...
Advocacy for Libraries Representatives * AssemblySenateRepresentatives * Committee on Libraries * Find my Assemblyperson * Find my Senator FY 2023 L...
Director Briefing November 28, 2022 New Director's Handbook: Looking for Some Help I am doing some work for the New Director's Handbook written in 2010. The go...
Director Briefing December 5, 2022 Reminder: Tax Cap Compliance for Public Votes Each library with a public vote needs to file with the Office of the State Com...
Director Briefing December 12, 2022 2023 Advocacy and Legislative Visits I have started scheduling in district legislative visits for our Senators and Assembly...
Director Briefing November 21, 2022 Sexual Harassment Policy Audit in Libraries A System Director colleague brought this situation to my attention: One of the ...
Director Briefing November 14, 2022 System Satisfaction Survey Please complete by December 1, 2022 Each year, Library Systems in New York are required to file ...
Director Briefing November 8, 2022 PLSDAC Agenda Our Director's Advisory Council meeting will be this Thursday at 10 AM. The agenda and Zoom information can be...
Director Briefing October 17, 2022 2022 OWWL Library System Annual Meeting We, unfortunately, had to postpone our Annual Meeting this month. However, we're on ...
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Director Briefing October 3, 2022 Website Compliance Policing compliance issues is not a task I particularly enjoy, so I greatly appreciate all of the librarie...
Board President Briefing September 2, 2022 Trustee Handbook Book Club After Party Part II The Trustee Handbook Book Club After Party Part II is now live on M...
Board President Briefing July 29, 2022 Trustee Education Requirement Starting on January 1, 2023, Library Trustees must track and report their continuing educa...
Director Briefing September 13, 2022 Consumer Reports Database We've been looking at testing out an online database, and a few libraries have suggested Consume...
Director Briefing September 6, 2022 Zimbra App for Android and iPhone from Kelsy Carbonio is an app that allows you to easily access your Zimbra mail, contacts...
Board President Briefing Introduction The Board President Briefing is a communication piece from Ron Kirsop, Executive Director of OWWL Library System to the Boa...
Director Briefing August 23, 2022 Ordering Barcode Scanners, Receipt Printers Paper from Kelsy The OWWL Docs page on ordering supplies has been updated. On t...
About the System About the System The Pioneer Library System (PLS) is a New York State chartered, cooperative public library system serving the forty two public ...
Director Briefing August 16, 2022 Trustee Handbook Book Club After Party Part II The Trustee Handbook Book Club After Party Part II is now live on Mid Hudson...
Director Briefing August 8, 2022 Annual Meeting: October 12, 2022 This year, we are hosting our Annual Meeting and election of System Trustees via Zoom and in ...
Director Briefing July 26, 2022 First Amendment Audits There is a "First Amendment Auditor" targeting government buildings and libraries in Wyoming County. If ...
Director Briefing July 18, 2022 Survey: Public Library Disaster Preparedness and Community Recovery Assistance Original Email from Rebekkah Smith Aldrich: We a...
Linux Printing PDFs Overview There are multiple ways to print and view PDFs in our Linux LTSP environment. The most common is to view a PDF from an internet sou...
Director Briefing July 11, 2022 Small Libraries Summer Symposium I would like to offer an enormous thank you to everyone who was able to attend the Small Libra...
Director Briefing July 5, 2022 Barring Pride Displays in Libraries Many of you probably heard about the Smithtown Library on Long Island and the Board's recent...
Monday Briefing September 20, 2021 NYLA Legislative Committee Last week during a NYLA Legislative Committee Meeting, the potential legislative ideas below were...
Monday Briefing September 27, 2021 ICYMI: Evergreen Individual logins As discussed at PLSDAC, we will be issuing Evergreen individual logins to library staff o...
Monday (Tuesday) Briefing September 7, 2021 2nd Annual OWWLie Awards Inaugural Donut Wall! Details are finally set for the 2nd Annual OWWLie Awards! We are g...
Monday Briefing June 7, 2021 COVID 19 Update: Future Lifting of COVID Restrictions Earlier today, Governor Cuomo announced that once NY hits a 70% level of vac...
March 1, 2021 Advocacy Day Follow Up Thank you to those who were able to participate in this year's Advocacy Day. I know it wasn't as smooth as it has been in ye...
Monday Briefing March 14, 2022 System Meeting Canceled: Friday, March 18, 2022 Our presenter for Friday's System Meeting had a conflict and we will need to res...
March 15, 2021 Audio Version of the Monday Briefing For fun, Suzanne and I used Zoom to record this week's Monday Briefing. I can't guarantee we'll have time to ...