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...
Board President Briefing February 2023 Trustee Education Requirement Library Trustees are now required to track and report their continuing education. Each Tru...
Board President Briefing June 2023 Action Item Request: Member Library Board Agreement, Systems Access and Confidentiality of Library Records Policy In the com...
Library Advocacy 2024 Advocacy Day February 7, 2023 List of appointments coming soon. NYLA Initiatives Fund Protect Empower As 2023 winds to a close, it...
Director Briefing December 18, 2023 Resources Page on OWWL.org If you look at the Resources page on our website (https://owwl.org/resources/), you'll see Kanop...
Director Briefing December 11, 2023 Library Card Order from Kelly Hello Everyone, I will be placing a library card order at the end of December. Please check y...
Director Briefing November 27, 2023 2023 System Satisfaction Survey _ Please complete the 2023 System Satisfaction Survey by December 1, 2023! _ Each year, L...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Director Briefing September 26, 2023 Sexual Harassment Prevention Training All Directors, Library Staff, and Library Trustees are mandated by law to complete t...
Director Briefing September 18, 2023 Kanopy Launch OWWL Library System is funding Kanopy, OverDrive 's streaming video service. The planned soft launch date is...
Small Libraries Summer Symposium 2023 Presenation Slides * Be an Employer of Choice, Angela Newman * Branching Out: Building and Expanding Your Library's G...
Director Briefing September 5, 2023 Exciting News: Kanopy and OverDrive Databases We're investigating subscribing to Kanopy, the video streaming service throug...
Director Briefing August 28, 2023 2023 Summer Reading Survey from Suzanne Last week, an email was sent to all Youth Services Staff and Directors with 2023 Summ...
Director Briefing August 21, 2023 High Priority: Windows 10 Computers End of Life from Kelsy The following email applies to desktop computers. Stay tuned for a...
Director Briefing August 14, 2023 OWWL Library System Board Meeting Follow Up The OWWL Library System Board of Trustees met on August 9, 2023. Here are a few h...
Director Briefing July 24, 2023 Plan of Service Updates Following the System's name change, we need to make a few changes to our Plan of Service filed with the...
Director Briefing July 17, 2023 Budget Q A with Ron and Kelly Tonight at 5 PM, Kelly and I will discuss library budgets and answer questions from attendees. If...
Director Briefing July 10, 2023 2022 2023 Budget Kit from Kelly Below is a link to the annual 2022 2023 Budget Planning Kit. This resource is a tool to assist ...
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...
Director Briefing June 26, 2023 System Board Meeting Follow Up from June 14, 2023 * System Board Meeting Agenda * Updated the Systems Access and Confi...
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...
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...
Director Briefing April 24, 2023 Updated Computer Purchasing from Bob Updated computer purchasing form with new pricing from Dell. The All In One computers no ...
Director Briefing April 17, 2023 System Open House: Wednesday, April 19, 2023 The System's Open House is Wednesday! Register here. Lisa Kropp, incoming NYLA Pr...
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...
Monday Briefing May 9, 2022 Intent to Apply Construction Aid 2022 The deadline to submit an Intent to Apply for this year's Construction Aid cycle is on Ju...
System Board Meeting Minutes 2022 * 2022.06.08 System Board Minutes.pdf * No Meeting in May 2022 * 2022.04.14 System Board Minutes.pdf * 2022.03.09 S...
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. * ...