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. * ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Director Briefing February 27, 2023 Aspen Testers from Dan Good afternoon everyone, We'd like to invite interested member library staff to participate in testi...
Policy Library Policies are the rules and the principles that guide the operation and the use of the library. They are required by Education Department Regulation...
Director Briefing February 13, 2023 SAM Scams / SAM Renewal from Suzanne Tis the season for SAM scams! Some of you may have or may receive somewhat aggressive ...
Monday Briefing March 7, 2022 Book Challenges Update Last week the State Librarian and State Education Department received criticism for posting the book Gend...
Director Briefing February 6, 2023 Executive Budget FY 2024 The Executive Budget was released last week, and libraries took a significant hit. 1. Library Opera...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...