MondayBriefingJune132022
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Monday (Tuesday) Briefing June 13, 2022 Questions of the Week: On Policies QUESTION: Ron, do we really need all of the policies included in the Trustee Handboo...
MondayBriefingJune142021
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Monday Briefing June 14, 2021 Delivery Update from Suzanne We are still working to increase Delivery to pre COVID levels, however, we are unfortunately still f...
MondayBriefingJune282021
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Monday Briefing June 28, 2021 Social Media for Small Libraries After Suzanne's fantastic ALA presentation last Friday, she was highlighted in American Librarie...
MondayBriefingJune62022
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Monday Briefing June 6, 2022 Support Tickets A friendly reminder on the importance of submitting tickets for tech and Evergreen support. We receive hundreds of...
MondayBriefingJune72021
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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...
MondayBriefingMarch12021
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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...
MondayBriefingMarch142022
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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...
MondayBriefingMarch152021
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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 …
MondayBriefingMarch222021
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March 22, 2021 Listen to the Monday Briefing COVID 19 Update AstraZeneca Vaccine The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford …
MondayBriefingFebruary142022
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Monday Briefing February 14, 2022 Legislative Updates Advocacy Day Save The Date: Library Advocacy Day is March 2nd Learn how to participate here. For the sec...
MondayBriefingFebruary172021
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February 17, 2021 Information on Prioritizing Library Workers in Vaccination Schedule There have been conversations throughout the library community over the pas...
MondayBriefingFebruary222021
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February 22, 2021 Advocacy Day is this Friday Virtual Advocacy Day begins Friday at 9:30 AM. The schedule for our legislative visits can be found on the Advocacy...
MondayBriefingFebruary282022
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Monday Briefing February 28, 2022 Advocacy Day March 2, 2022 Virtual Advocacy Day is this Wednesday! If you plan on attending, please indicate which visits …
MondayBriefingFebruary82021
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February 8, 2021 DLD Reopening Task Force The Reopening Task Force is a group of System and State Library staff who are analyzing information from libraries acro...
MondayBriefingJanuary042022
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Monday Briefing January 04, 2022 Assembly Bill A5837B Vetoed by Governor Hochul A5837B relates to requiring publishers to offer licenses for electronic books...
MondayBriefingJanuary102022
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Monday Briefing January 10, 2022 Employee Handbook Template During Friday's PLSDAC Meeting we discussed the System contracting with HR Works to create an Emplo...
MondayBriefingJanuary112021
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January 11, 2021 State of the State Notes At 11:30 AM this morning, Governor Cuomo delivered his State of the State address. He was realistic in his assessment o...
MondayBriefingJanuary182022
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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...
MondayBriefingJanuary192021
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January 19, 2021 State Budget Update Earlier today, Governor Cuomo held a press conference for the FY 2022 Budget Plan that is due on April 1, 2022. The biggest …
MondayBriefingJanuary242022
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Monday Briefing January 24, 2022 System Orientation for New Trustees On February 7, 2022, at 5 PM we'll be offering an orientation for new Trustees about the S...
MondayBriefingJanuary252021
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January 25, 2021 Updated Supplemental Guidance on COVID 19 Sick Leave Last Friday, HR Works sent out a notice that there have been updates to the supplemental gu...
MondayBriefingJanuary312022
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Monday Briefing January 31, 2022 Announcement: OWWL Libraries Assistive Technologies Grant Program Assistive Technologies are products, equipment, software, or...
MondayBriefingApril252022
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Monday Briefing April 25, 2022 Library Trustees Association Section (LTAS) of NYLA The Library Trustees Association Section (LTAS) of NYLA is again seeking nom...
MondayBriefingApril262021
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Monday Briefing April 26, 2021 Gratitude for Opening Tickets Thank you so much to everyone who acted on my email last week and began opening tickets for Tech a...
MondayBriefingApril42022
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Monday Briefing April 4, 2022 Trustee Workshop Follow Up Here are a few resources from the Policies Risk Management Trustee Handbook Book Club session: * …
MondayBriefingApril52021
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Monday Briefing April 5, 2021 A Library Podcast with Ron and Suzanne The episode where Ron and Suzanne talk about Conflicts of Interest. Unemployment Fraud Th...
MondayBriefingAugust162021
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Monday Briefing August 16, 2021 New York State Updates As you have all probably heard, next week Andrew Cuomo is scheduled to step down as Governor due to sexu...
MondayBriefingAugust22021
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Monday Briefing August 2, 2021 COVID 19 Delta Variant and Masks In response to mask inquiries over the past week, here is some information from the CDC that yo...
MondayBriefingAugust232021
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Monday (Tuesday) Briefing August 23, 2021 Advocacy Updates Open Meetings Law As a follow up to last week's email, I have drafted a letter and submitted it to …
MondayBriefingAugust302021
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Monday Briefing August 30, 2021 E Waste Recycling Drop Off at PLS from Adam Starting Friday, August 27th until September 17th, you can bring your old Library c...
MondayBriefingDecember132021
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Monday Briefing December 13, 2021 Mask Mandate for Businesses On December 10, 2021, Governor Kathy Hochul announced masks will be required to be worn in all in...
MondayBriefingDecember202021
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Monday Briefing December 20, 2021 In District Advocacy Visits In district Advocacy visits can be found here https://docs.owwl.org/Community/AssemblySenateRep...
MondayBriefingDecember62021
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Monday Briefing December 6, 2021 System Staff Changes As announced at the November System Meeting, Andrea Snyder has left Pioneer Library System as of December...
MondayBriefingFebruary12021
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February 1, 2021 Winter Weather Advisory from Suzanne Delivery delays or cancellations due to inclement weather will be communicated via email. When there is a d...
DirectorBriefingSeptember232024
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Director Briefing September 23, 2024 Fall Support Staff Workshop Thursday, October 10, 2024 On Thursday, October 10, 2024 from 9 AM 3:30 PM the System will...
DirectorBriefingSeptember262023
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Director Briefing September 26, 2023 Sexual Harassment Prevention Training All Directors, Library Staff, and Library Trustees are mandated by law to complete t...
DirectorBriefingSeptember292025
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Director Briefing September 29, 2025 Preparing for New Core Policies in the Annual Report Work is underway at the state level to update the Annual Report requi...
DirectorBriefingSeptember302024
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Director Briefing September 30, 2024 Individual Logins for Evergreen Accounts and Staff Acknowledgement I mentioned at OWWLDAC that we had an incident with sha...
DirectorBriefingSeptember32024
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Director Briefing September 3, 2024 OWWLDAC September 6, 2024 at OWWLHQ OWWLDAC is scheduled for Friday, September 6, 2024 at 10 AM. It will be in person at …
DirectorBriefingSeptember52023
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Director Briefing September 5, 2023 Exciting News: Kanopy and OverDrive Databases We're investigating subscribing to Kanopy, the video streaming service throug...
DirectorBriefingSeptember62022
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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...
DirectorBriefingSeptember82025
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Director Briefing September 8, 2025 Upcoming Expansion of Minimum Standard Policies Expanding the Minimum Standards for Policies Over the past year, a PULISDO …
MondayBriefingApril112022
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Monday Briefing April 11, 2022 State Aid for Libraries The State Budget numbers for libraries were released last night! Below are the unofficial" numbers, the...
MondayBriefingApril122021
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Monday Briefing April 12, 2021 Collective Knowledge: A Library Podcast Episode Three: What Makes a Good Presentation? Ron and Suzanne talk about their though...
MondayBriefingApril182022
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Monday Briefing April 18, 2022 System Board Meeting Recap The System Board met on Wednesday, April 13, 2022. Below are a few highlights from the meeting. * …
MondayBriefingApril192021
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Monday Briefing April 19, 2021 State Aid for Library Construction The Legislature passed the 2021/2022 State Budget which includes $34 million for State Aid fo...
DirectorBriefingOctober172022
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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 …
DirectorBriefingOctober22023
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Director Briefing October 2, 2023 Banned Books Week Freedom to Read Bookmarks Happy Banned Books Week, everyone! In celebration of the Freedom to Read, I've d...
DirectorBriefingOctober232023
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Director Briefing October 23, 2023 Trustee Handbook Bookclub: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Access Justice Recording Guest speaker: Freddimir Garcia Diversit...
DirectorBriefingOctober282024
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Director Briefing October 28, 2024 OWWLDAC November 1 at Wadsworth Library OWWLDAC is scheduled for Friday, November 1, 2024 at 10 AM. It will be in person a...
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