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...
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...
Director Briefing August 23, 2022 Ordering Barcode Scanners, Receipt Printers Paper from Kelsy The OWWL Docs page on ordering supplies has been updated. On t...
Director Briefing August 16, 2022 Trustee Handbook Book Club After Party Part II The Trustee Handbook Book Club After Party Part II is now live on Mid Hudson...
Director Briefing August 8, 2022 Annual Meeting: October 12, 2022 This year, we are hosting our Annual Meeting and election of System Trustees via Zoom and in ...
Director Briefing July 26, 2022 First Amendment Audits There is a "First Amendment Auditor" targeting government buildings and libraries in Wyoming County. If ...
Director Briefing July 18, 2022 Survey: Public Library Disaster Preparedness and Community Recovery Assistance Original Email from Rebekkah Smith Aldrich: We a...
Linux Printing PDFs Overview There are multiple ways to print and view PDFs in our Linux LTSP environment. The most common is to view a PDF from an internet sou...
Director Briefing July 11, 2022 Small Libraries Summer Symposium I would like to offer an enormous thank you to everyone who was able to attend the Small Libra...
Director Briefing July 5, 2022 Barring Pride Displays in Libraries Many of you probably heard about the Smithtown Library on Long Island and the Board's recent...
Monday Briefing September 20, 2021 NYLA Legislative Committee Last week during a NYLA Legislative Committee Meeting, the potential legislative ideas below were...
Monday (Tuesday) Briefing September 7, 2021 2nd Annual OWWLie Awards Inaugural Donut Wall! Details are finally set for the 2nd Annual OWWLie Awards! We are g...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
Monday Briefing March 28, 2022 Trustee Handbook Book Club: Policies and Risk Management Tomorrow night is the Trustee Handbook Book Club on Policies and Risk M...
Monday Briefing March 29, 2021 Very Important Top Priority Super Urgent Message from Bob On the weekend of April 2nd we will be migrating Zimbra Mail to a new ...
March 8, 2021 COVID 19 Travel Updates Last week, New York State eased some Travel Restrictions related to COVID 19. Specifically, domestic travelers who are full...
Monday Briefing May 10, 2021 Update on COVID 19 Restrictions Starting May 19, there will be a significant number of restrictions lifted across the State on bus...
Monday Briefing May 16, 2022 Oaths of Office for Public Libraries When reviewing Annual Reports this year, DLD sent a general reminder that Trustees of Public ...
Monday Briefing May 17, 2021 Update on Mask and CDC Guidance May 20, 2021 Executive Order 202.108 The directive contained in Executive Order 202.17, as exte...
Monday Briefing May 24, 2021 Legislative Updates Senate Bill S2890B * Summary: Relates to requiring publishers to offer licenses for electronic books to li...
Monday Briefing May 3, 2021 Delivery Update We continue to work on correcting our driver situation so we can have a more stable delivery experience for librari...
Monday Briefing November 1, 2021 Trustee Workshop: How to Evaluate Your Director Monday, November 8 at 5:00 PM Discussion Points: * Plan, communicate, and...
Monday Briefing November 22, 2021 Last Chance: System Satisfaction Survey A few people have reached out asking if they have already completed the System Satisf...