Director Briefing Archive Introduction Monday Briefings are a weekly compilation of relevant information sent to Member Library Directors, System HQ Staff, and t...
Director Briefing April 15, 2024 2024 FFRPL Grand Funds from Kelly If you are interested in contributing your 2024 FFRPL grant funds you receive this year to t...
Trustee Education Trustee Education Requirements Beginning January 1, 2023, each member, elected or appointed, of a board of trustees shall be required to comple...
Director Briefing April 2, 2024 Original Catalog Records Requests from Kathryn Beginning April 15, 2024, the OWWL Library System is switching to an all electro...
Director Briefing March 25, 2024 Mediated Computer Purchasing Update Dell has raised prices on the following: * All Desktops $10.00 * All In One compute...
Director Briefing March 18, 2024 Legislative Updates The Senate and Assembly increased library funding in their one house budgets! * Library Operating Aid: ...
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...
Director Briefing March 5, 2024 Augmentative and Alternative Communication Partnership Program We have another exciting opportunity for libraries to continue t...
Director Briefing February 26, 2024 Book Page from Kelly It is time to renew our BookPage subscription. Our current subscription expires on 4/30/24. BookPage i...
Director Briefing February 20, 2024 Trustee Handbook Updates Upcoming Trustee Handbook Book Club Training Session What s New in the 2023 Edition of the Truste...
Roles Responsibilities of Library Trustees Duties Responsibilities of Trustees For New Trustees Each public library is chartered by the Board of Regents of th...
Director Briefing February 12, 2024 Annual Report Webinar February 16 at 10 AM The Division of Library Development (DLD) will be hosting a 2023 Annual Report...
Director Briefing February 5, 2024 It's Annual Report Season! Kelly has been assembling the library information packet with the Annual Report numbers from the ...
State Aid for Library Construction Program Program Overview Capital funds for the State Aid for Library Construction Program are provided annually in the New Yor...
Director Briefing January 29, 2024 OWWLDAC Meeting Agenda February 2, 2024 Jessica and I are still finalizing the agenda for the Feb. 2 meeting, but here is ...
Director Briefing January 22, 2024 Employee Handbook 2024 Legal Updates In 2022, we provided an Employee Handbook that could be modified for your library to co...
Director Briefing January 16, 2024 Cost of Living Calculator As a follow up to the Resource: Self Sufficiency Earnings Estimator in the last Director Briefing,...
Board President Briefing December 2023 Tax Cap Compliance for Public Votes Each library with a public vote must file with the Office of the State Comptroller r...
Director Briefing January 2, 2024 Welcome to 2024 Happy New Year, everyone! I hope you all celebrated, relaxed, and enjoyed the first day of 2024. As you consi...
Board President Briefing Introduction The Board President Briefing is a communication piece from Ron Kirsop, Executive Director of OWWL Library System to the Boa...
Resources: Q A with Ron at Wadsworth Library in Geneseo on April 27, 2023 Where can I watch the Recording of this Session? There were some issues with the record...
System Orientation for New Trustees February 7, 2022 Recording Visit YouTube for the recording of this workshop. This recording is 28 minutes in length. About...
Trustee Newsletter April 2021 Libraries and Fines While COVID 19 halted many library activities, the trend toward eliminating fines and fees gained quite a bit o...
Trustee Newsletter July/August 2020 Executive Director's Note I hope this summer edition of the Trustee Newsletter finds everyone well. A lot has changed in ...
Trustee Newsletter September 2021 Annual Meeting and Election of System Trustees System Trustee Election Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 6:00 PM This year our ...
Trustee Workshops 2022 Trustee Workshops State Aid for Library Construction Info Session Monday, January 10, 2022 Join us for an information session regarding...
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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...
Effective Board Meetings Meeting in the Time of COVID 19 https://docs.owwl.org/Community/BoardMeetingsDuringCOVID19 Introduction Board Meetings Board meetings a...
Facilities Planning for Your Library December 2021 Recording Watch the December 6, 2021 recording on YouTube . Introduction Education Department Regulations (8...
Four Types of Libraries Recording To watch the August 10, 2021 recording of this workshop, visit https://youtu.be/cR8wI_ldgZo Introduction There are four types...
Key Laws Regulations for Libraries Recording Click here to view the recording of the March 10, 2023, Trustee Workshop on Key Laws and Regulations for Librarie...
Monday Briefing January 04, 2022 Assembly Bill A5837B Vetoed by Governor Hochul A5837B relates to requiring publishers to offer licenses for electronic books...
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...
March 22, 2021 Listen to the Monday Briefing COVID 19 Update AstraZeneca Vaccine The coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford ...
Monday Briefing November 15, 2021 PLSDAC Follow Up Thanks to everyone who was able to participate in Friday's PLDAC Meeting . A few follow up items are below….
Patron Privacy and Access Policies Introduction to Patron Privacy in Libraries Responsibilities of Libraries * The library profession has a long standing eth...
Performance Evaluations Recording Click here to watch the November 8, 2021 workshop recording . Evaluating Your Director In order to maintain clear communicati...
Public Library Financial Oversight Budgets Public library boards are legally responsible for the library's finances and financial management. As custodians of pu...
Resources: Q A with Ron at Newark Library on June 8, 2023 What is the Role of a Public Library Treasurer? The office of Treasurer varies greatly, depending upon ...
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...
Developing Library Policies Policy Basics Policymaking is perhaps the most difficult part of a trustee s job, requiring an open mind, a thoughtful study of the i...
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...
Coordinated Outreach Services Advisory Group (COSAG) _ Under New York State Education Law, §273 (1) (h) (1), and Commissioner's Regulations §90.3, Public Library ...
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...
Long Range Planning for Libraries Planning During a Pandemic Planning is a difficult enough task to take on during normal times. Now that the unknown seems to be...
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 August 7, 2023 Minimum Standards Assurances OWWL Library System is required to assure the Division of Library Development that all libraries ...
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 ...
Minimum Standards for New York's Public and Association Libraries Updated Minimum Standards * The following standards need to be in place at all libraries ...
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 Briefing September 27, 2021 ICYMI: Evergreen Individual logins As discussed at PLSDAC, we will be issuing Evergreen individual logins to library staff o...
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 2, 2022 2022 RRLC Library of the Year All Star Winners Congratulations to Sarah Matthews for being an RRLC 2022 Library All Star and Vict...
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...
Monday Briefing November 29, 2021 Hochul Declaring a Disaster Emergency in New York Seemingly due to the rise in COVID cases and the threat of the newly discov...
Monday Briefing November 8, 2021 2020 Census Information from DLD Last week the Division of Library Development sent out a notice indicating that the recently ...
Monday (Tuesday) Briefing October 12, 2021 Trustee Training Legislation Signed After a long wait, the Governor has signed the legislation requiring members of ...
Monday Briefing October 18, 2021 Annual Tax Cap Reminders 2022 It s getting close to the time of year when it is recommended that libraries that go out for a p...
Monday Briefing October 25, 2021 OverDrive Magazines? Recently, I have received a few requests for us to invest in a System wide subscription to OverDrive maga...
Monday Briefing October 4, 2021 Computer and Network Services (CANS) Dept. Situations Reset Passwords Immediately Important! Action may be required! While rev...
Monday Briefing September 13, 2021 PLSDAC Recap Thank you to everyone who attended PLSDAC last Friday. If you were unable to attend, here is the OWWL Docs pag...
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 ...
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...
Monday Briefing December 20, 2021 In District Advocacy Visits In district Advocacy visits can be found here https://docs.owwl.org/Community/AssemblySenateRep...
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...
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...
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...
February 17, 2021 Information on Prioritizing Library Workers in Vaccination Schedule There have been conversations throughout the library community over the pas...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Monday Briefing January 31, 2022 Announcement: OWWL Libraries Assistive Technologies Grant Program Assistive Technologies are products, equipment, software, or...
January 4, 2021 Sick Time and COVID 19 The Family First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) Expired 12/31/2020 and the federal government did not pass an extension...
Monday Briefing July 12, 2021 July Learning Opportunities from Suzanne While we do not have a System Meeting in July, there are several learning opportunities ...
Monday Briefing July 19, 2021 OWWL Cost Shares Last week Kelly sent out the OWWL Cost Shares for FY 2021. Many libraries will notice a decrease or a minor incr...
Monday (Tuesday) Briefing June 1, 2021 Construction Grant Intent to Apply due June 25, 2021 The FY 2022 State Aid for Library Construction Intent to Apply is d...
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...
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...
Monday Briefing June 28, 2021 Social Media for Small Libraries After Suzanne's fantastic ALA presentation last Friday, she was highlighted in American Librarie...
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...
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...
Monday Briefing April 12, 2021 Collective Knowledge: A Library Podcast Episode Three: What Makes a Good Presentation? Ron and Suzanne talk about their though...
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...
Monday Briefing April 25, 2022 Library Trustees Association Section (LTAS) of NYLA The Library Trustees Association Section (LTAS) of NYLA is again seeking nom...
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...
Monday Briefing April 4, 2022 Trustee Workshop Follow Up Here are a few resources from the Policies Risk Management Trustee Handbook Book Club session: * ...
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...
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...
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...
Board President Briefing June 21, 2022 Welcome Welcome to the Board Presidents Briefing (BPB), this is a communication from Ron Kirsop, Executive Director at O...
Library Advocacy 2022 In District Meeting Schedule Visit the Assembly and Senate Representatives page for upcoming legislative visits. Advocacy 2022 Handout.pdf...
Legislative Items Open Meetings Law and Videoconferencing (In Committee) S7261 (Hoylman). Status: In committee. Relates to videoconferencing at public meetings a...
Linux vs Active Directory In an effort to improve security, increase managability and extend the life of technology resources we have settled on two primary solut...
Trustee Newsletter Index 2021 2020 * December 2020 * September 2020: * Pioneer Library System 31st Annual Meeting, System Wide Delivery, Monthly Boa...
February 2020 Trustee Newsletter Trustee Workshops 2020 Here it is, the long awaited list of Trustee training sessions scheduled for 2020 Trustee Workshops 202...
Advocacy 2020 Follow Up Information to Advocacy Day 2020 Thank you to everyone who attended Advocacy Day 2020. Our work is not over, please send letters to your ...
Trustee Newsletter January 2021 State Budget Update Earlier today, Governor Cuomo held a press conference for the FY 2022 Budget Plan that is due on April 1, 202...