DirectorBriefingOctober32022
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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...
DirectorBriefingOctober72024
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Director Briefing October 7, 2024 Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) Training Session On Monday, November 18, library lawyer Stephanie "Cole" Adams and paralega...
DirectorBriefingSeptember112023
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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...
DirectorBriefingSeptember132022
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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...
DirectorBriefingSeptember152025
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Director Briefing September 15, 2025 Coordinated Outreach Services Aid Grant Application Now Open Now that the application period for the Reach Out, Read On:...
DirectorBriefingSeptember162024
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Director Briefing September 16, 2024 Minimum Standard Question Follow Up After our last OWWLDAC Meeting, quite a few policy questions were sent in. Below are s...
DirectorBriefingSeptember182023
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Director Briefing September 18, 2023 Kanopy Launch OWWL Library System is funding Kanopy, OverDrive 's streaming video service. The planned soft launch date is...
DirectorBriefingSeptember22025
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Director Briefing September 2, 2025 OWWLDAC is Friday at the Livonia Public Library Friday, September 5, 2025 at 10 AM at the Livonia Public Library and Online...
DirectorBriefingSeptember222025
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Director Briefing September 22, 2025 Mandatory Email Security Training for New Staff Begins October 1, 2025 Kelsy sent out the below notice on the upcoming man...
DirectorBriefingNovember142022
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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 …
DirectorBriefingNovember182024
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Director Briefing November 18, 2024 2024 System Satisfaction Survey Thank you to those who have already responded. For those who haven't yet, here's my note fr...
DirectorBriefingNovember202023
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Director Briefing November 20, 2023 State Aid for Library Construction from Suzanne The FY2025 State Aid for Library Construction Info Session will be held vir...
DirectorBriefingNovember212022
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Director Briefing November 21, 2022 Sexual Harassment Policy Audit in Libraries A System Director colleague brought this situation to my attention: One of the …
DirectorBriefingNovember252024
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Director Briefing November 25, 2024 From NYLA: Take Action to Increase Funding! Dear NYLA Members, As we know our libraries and library systems are vital insti...
DirectorBriefingNovember272023
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Director Briefing November 27, 2023 2023 System Satisfaction Survey _ Please complete the 2023 System Satisfaction Survey by December 1, 2023! _ Each year, L...
DirectorBriefingNovember282022
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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...
DirectorBriefingNovember42024
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Director Briefing November 4, 2024 Open House, Trustee CE Hours, and Annual Meeting November 13, 2024 at System HQ All are welcome to join us for the 35th An...
DirectorBriefingNovember62023
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Director Briefing November 6, 2023 2023 Trustee Handbook It's finally here! The 2023 Handbook for Library Trustees of New York State was released last week dur...
DirectorBriefingNovember82022
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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...
DirectorBriefingOctober102023
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Director Briefing October 10, 2023 Discontinuing $5.00 Out of System Interlibrary Loan Fee The $5.00 ILL fee billed to libraries for patron Out of System Inter...
DirectorBriefingOctober162023
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Director Briefing October 16, 2023 Closed dates for 2024 from Dan Please add your 2024 closed dates in Evergreen in the next few weeks. Having them in Evergree...
DirectorBriefingMarch32025
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Director Briefing March 3, 2025 Tax Prep Services at Libraries: Best Practices for Affiliation Agreements Many libraries offer valuable services to their commu...
DirectorBriefingMarch52024
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Director Briefing March 5, 2024 Augmentative and Alternative Communication Partnership Program We have another exciting opportunity for libraries to continue t...
DirectorBriefingMarch62023
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Director Briefing March 6, 2023 Mobile Maker Kit Giveaway As discussed in Fall 2022, most of the Mobile Maker Kits have been discontinued, and we would like to...
DirectorBriefingMay122025
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Director Briefing May 12, 2025 NYS Budget NYLA sent out the budget updates late last week. Here's where we are: * Library Operating Aid: $106.325M * …
DirectorBriefingMay132024
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Director Briefing May 13, 2024 QuickBooks Phishing Email Kelsy let us know about a new scam email going around. Thanks, Kelsy. A director received a pretty con...
DirectorBriefingMay192025
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Director Briefing May 19, 2025 OWWL Library System Policy Updates Policy Updates * State Aid for Library Construction Aid Policy Merges the Construction …
DirectorBriefingMay202024
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Director Briefing May 20, 2024 FY 2025 Construction Aid Deadline Approaching Suzanne sent out this reminder for FY 2025 State Aid for Library Construction: A r...
DirectorBriefingMay222023
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Director Briefing May 22, 2023 Intent to Apply State Aid for Library Construction The Intent to Apply for the next State Aid for Library Construction cycle i...
DirectorBriefingMay272024
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Director Briefing May 27, 2024 Congratulations to all the Successful Library Votes I was incredibly pleased to see all the successful votes last week. Congratu...
DirectorBriefingMay52025
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Director Briefing May 5, 2025 IMLS Update A judge has granted a temporary restraining order (TRO) that halts any further dismantling of the Institute of Museum...
DirectorBriefingMay62024
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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...
DirectorBriefingMay82023
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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...
DirectorBriefingNovember122024
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Director Briefing November 12, 2024 2024 System Satisfaction Survey The OWWL Library System's 2022 2026 Plan of Service was developed with member library inp...
DirectorBriefingNovember132023
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Director Briefing November 13, 2023 Sunsetting the TPAC On January 8, we will shut down the TPAC (the old Evergreen OPAC), making Aspen Discovery the exclusive...
DirectorBriefingJune32024
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Director Briefing June 3, 2024 Small Libraries Summer Symposium Registration is now open for the 2024 Small Libraries Summer Symposium, which will be held at S...
DirectorBriefingJune52023
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Director Briefing June 5, 2023 414 Ballot Reduction Advocacy Push The bill to reduce the number of signatures for association and municipal public libraries to...
DirectorBriefingJune92025
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Director Briefing June 9, 2025 System Wide Community Survey for 2025 Long Range Planning Cohort We're excited to announce a system wide community survey design...
DirectorBriefingMarch102025
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Director Briefing March 10, 2025 New hold and circulation exception report At EAC's and OWWLDAC's request, we've put together a new scheduled report that will …
DirectorBriefingMarch112024
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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...
DirectorBriefingMarch132023
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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 …
DirectorBriefingMarch172025
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Director Briefing March 17, 2025 Taking Action for IMLS I'm sure all have heard about Friday's Executive Order advancing the elimination of "non statutory comp...
DirectorBriefingMarch182024
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Director Briefing March 18, 2024 Legislative Updates The Senate and Assembly increased library funding in their one house budgets! * Library Operating Aid: …
DirectorBriefingMarch202023
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Director Briefing March 20, 2023 Compromised Email from CANS Earlier today, a member library email account was compromised, and sent tens of thousands of SPAM …
DirectorBriefingMarch252024
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Director Briefing March 25, 2024 Mediated Computer Purchasing Update Dell has raised prices on the following: * All Desktops $10.00 * All In One compute...
DirectorBriefingMarch252025
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Director Briefing March 25, 2025 Outdated Logos System Branding, Logos, and Asset Usage Policy In the January 21 Director Briefing, I covered some guidelines...
DirectorBriefingMarch272023
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Director Briefing March 27, 2023 Beyond Book Challenges Many of you may have seen or read about the Hilton situation that took place last week, if not here are...
DirectorBriefingMarch312025
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Director Briefing March 31, 2025 Budgets Director Meeting at OWWL HQ on Friday, April 4 at 10 AM This Friday at 10 AM will be our first Director Meeting at O...
DirectorBriefingJuly312023
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Director Briefing July 31, 2023 Upcoming Trustee Workshops Feel free to remind your Trustees of these upcoming and recorded workshops... Workshop Date Ti...
DirectorBriefingJuly32023
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Director Briefing July 3, 2023 Long Range Planning Cohort Survey As part of the 2023 Long Range Planning Cohort, 13 Member Libraries are promoting a coordinate...
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