Director Briefing May 6, 2024 OWWL Reports Update Bob sent out an update on OWWL Reports last week. No more pls net. Thanks, Bob! The OWWL Reports server has b...
Director Briefing April 29, 2024 OWWLDAC Meeting OWWLDAC is scheduled for Friday, May 3, 2024, at 10 AM. Here is the link to the draft agenda and Zoom informat...
Director Briefing April 22, 2024 First Amendment Audits and Protests in Libraries Concern over First Amendment Audits and protests in libraries have been brewi...
Director Briefing April 15, 2024 2024 FFRPL Grand Funds from Kelly If you are interested in contributing your 2024 FFRPL grant funds you receive this year to t...
Director Briefing April 2, 2024 Original Catalog Records Requests from Kathryn Beginning April 15, 2024, the OWWL Library System is switching to an all electro...
Director Briefing March 25, 2024 Mediated Computer Purchasing Update Dell has raised prices on the following: * All Desktops $10.00 * All In One compute...
Director Briefing March 18, 2024 Legislative Updates The Senate and Assembly increased library funding in their one house budgets! * Library Operating Aid: ...
Director Briefing March 11, 2024 New Staff Accounts Starting this week, we will email staff with newly created Evergreen accounts with more information about h...
Director Briefing March 5, 2024 Augmentative and Alternative Communication Partnership Program We have another exciting opportunity for libraries to continue t...
Director Briefing February 26, 2024 Book Page from Kelly It is time to renew our BookPage subscription. Our current subscription expires on 4/30/24. BookPage i...
Director Briefing February 20, 2024 Trustee Handbook Updates Upcoming Trustee Handbook Book Club Training Session What s New in the 2023 Edition of the Truste...
Director Briefing February 12, 2024 Annual Report Webinar February 16 at 10 AM The Division of Library Development (DLD) will be hosting a 2023 Annual Report...
Director Briefing February 5, 2024 It's Annual Report Season! Kelly has been assembling the library information packet with the Annual Report numbers from the ...
Director Briefing January 29, 2024 OWWLDAC Meeting Agenda February 2, 2024 Jessica and I are still finalizing the agenda for the Feb. 2 meeting, but here is ...
Director Briefing January 22, 2024 Employee Handbook 2024 Legal Updates In 2022, we provided an Employee Handbook that could be modified for your library to co...
Director Briefing January 16, 2024 Cost of Living Calculator As a follow up to the Resource: Self Sufficiency Earnings Estimator in the last Director Briefing,...
Board President Briefing December 2023 Tax Cap Compliance for Public Votes Each library with a public vote must file with the Office of the State Comptroller r...
Director Briefing January 2, 2024 Welcome to 2024 Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all celebrated, relaxed, and enjoyed the first day of 2024. As you consi...
Board President Briefing Introduction The Board President Briefing is a communication piece from Ron Kirsop, Executive Director of OWWL Library System to the Boa...
Resources: Q A with Ron at Wadsworth Library in Geneseo on April 27, 2023 Where can I watch the Recording of this Session? There were some issues with the record...
Trustee Newsletter April 2021 Libraries and Fines While COVID 19 halted many library activities, the trend toward eliminating fines and fees gained quite a bit o...
Trustee Workshops 2022 Trustee Workshops State Aid for Library Construction Info Session Monday, January 10, 2022 Join us for an information session regarding...
Director Briefing September 11, 2023 OWWL Library System Annual Meeting and Trustee Workshop October 11, 2023 On October 11, 2023 the OWWL Library System wil...
Effective Board Meetings Meeting in the Time of COVID 19 https://docs.owwl.org/Community/BoardMeetingsDuringCOVID19 Introduction Board Meetings Board meetings a...
Facilities Planning for Your Library December 2021 Recording Watch the December 6, 2021 recording on YouTube . Introduction Education Department Regulations (8...
Key Laws Regulations for Libraries Recording Click here to view the recording of the March 10, 2023, Trustee Workshop on Key Laws and Regulations for Librarie...
Monday Briefing January 04, 2022 Assembly Bill A5837B Vetoed by Governor Hochul A5837B relates to requiring publishers to offer licenses for electronic books...
Monday (Tuesday) Briefing January 18, 2022 NYLA News NYLA's New Executive Director NYLA has selected a new Executive Director, here is a snippet from the pres...
March 22, 2021 Listen to the Monday Briefing COVID 19 Update AstraZeneca Vaccine The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford ...
Monday Briefing November 15, 2021 PLSDAC Follow Up Thanks to everyone who was able to participate in Friday's PLDAC Meeting . A few follow up items are below….
Patron Privacy and Access Policies Introduction to Patron Privacy in Libraries Responsibilities of Libraries * The library profession has a long standing eth...
Performance Evaluations Recording Click here to watch the November 8, 2021 workshop recording . Evaluating Your Director In order to maintain clear communicati...
Public Library Financial Oversight Budgets Public library boards are legally responsible for the library's finances and financial management. As custodians of pu...
Resources: Q A with Ron at Newark Library on June 8, 2023 What is the Role of a Public Library Treasurer? The office of Treasurer varies greatly, depending upon ...
Resources: Q A with Ron at Stevens Memorial Library on July 10, 2023 Can Trustees attend Board Meetings remotely? No. Unless the Board does some upfront work. Th...
Board President Briefing May 2023 The Devastating Business Impacts of a Cyber Breach On May 4, 2023, Harvard Business Review published "The Devastating Busines...
Board President Briefing September 2023 Special Trustee Workshop: Legal Talk Stephanie Cole Adams, Esq. on Wednesday, October 11, 2023 Stephanie Adams, Esq. (t...
A Board's Guide to Book Bans and Challenges in Public Libraries Recording * Recording from March 10, 2022 * Slides from March 10, 2022 Why Are We Discussi...
Budgeting Q A with Ron and Kelly July 17, 2023 Recording June 17, 2023 Budgeting Q A with Ron and Kelly What is a budget? A Budget is a… * Orderly financ...
Director Briefing April 3, 2023 OWWL Library System Open House We hope you will join us for OWWL Library System's Open House on April 19, 2023 at 1 PM. We will...
Director Briefing December 4, 2023 OWWLDAC Follow Up If you were unable to make the OWWLDAC Meeting last Friday, here is a summary of the discussions: * Sev...
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 ...
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...
Director Briefing July 31, 2023 Upcoming Trustee Workshops Feel free to remind your Trustees of these upcoming and recorded workshops… Workshop Date Ti...
Director Briefing June 12, 2023 June All System Meeting from Suzanne The next All System Meeting is this, Friday, June 16, at 10am. Following announcements, Ch...
Director Briefing March 13, 2023 PLSDAC Follow Up Thank you to everyone who was able to attend PLSDAC on Friday, March 10, 2023. If you couldn't make it, here ...
Director Briefing May 8, 2023 State Aid for Library Construction from Suzanne Spring/summer is a busy time for Construction Aid, so I wanted to send a few remi...
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...