System Meeting October 19, 2018

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Selection Lists

J and YA publisher preview books will be available for review.

Announcement

• Linux Grant (Adam)
  • All applicants will receive the grant, but it may not be immediately
• Windows Updates (Adam)
  • Try restarting one computer at a time
  • Do not try to restore if it is broker…call CANS!
  • Do not thaw until November
    • A new update is coming…
• Annual Meeting Recap (Lauren)
  • Welcome new trustees: Julie Gruendike & Matt Sickles
• 7th Annual Legislative Breakfast, at the Henrietta Public Library - October 26, 2018, at 8:30 am (Lauren)
  • Please RSVP for this event!
• Honeoeye Area Rotary Foundation Grant for OverDrive (Lauren)
  • Wendy shared her collaboration with the Honeoye Lake Rotary
    • She received a $2,000 grant plus a $400 donation from the rotary!
    • Now we have the Honeoye Lake Rotary Foundation Collection on OWWL2go!
• Trustee/Director Workshop: Building Preservation 101 - October 29, 2018, at 6:00pm (Ron)
  • RSVP through the PLS calendar
  • We are working on having this workshop recorded for those who can not attend
• Happy Libraries Happy Hour - October 25, 2018, at 5:00 pm (Andrea)
  • Please send your location suggestions to Andrea
• Thank You to Everyone Who Worked on the Voter Registration Drive (Andrea)
  • Several libraries put together displays and hosted registration drives.
• Upcoming System Meetings Posted in the Calendar through March (Andrea)
  • All System Meetings are on the PLS calendar through March
    • Check the calendar for the topics and to register
• OWWLUG (Kathryn)
• Web Client training at PLS (Kathryn)
  • Let Kathryn know if you would like more training

Sharing

• Rochester Children's Book Festival
  • Pamphlets and posters are available at PLS from Victor Library
• Family Promise of Wayne County
  • Palmyra Community Library is hosting a homeless family overnight through this program in Wayne County
  • Local churches and organizations can provide shelter for homeless families
• Visitors from Belarus at Phelps!
  • Visitos came to see STEAM in use at the Phelps Library
  • A reporter from the Finger Lakes Times will be writing a piece about their visit
• Welcome to the new Children's Librarian, Mary Ellen Arena, from Dansville!

Program: Cultural Humility

Cultural humility is a humble and respectful attitude toward individuals of other cultures that pushes us to challenge our own cultural biases, realize we cannot possibly know everything about other cultures, and approach learning about other cultures as a lifelong goal and process. This also includes race, gender, sexual identity and expression, religion, and socio-economic status.
During this training, Earl Greene will help us understand the concept of cultural humility and how we can recognize and continue to change the inequities that exist both in our personal and professional lives.

Culture Humility Requires:

1. committing to a life-long self-evaluation and critique
2. developing self-awareness and respect for differences
3. redressing power imbalances
4. developing mutually beneficial partnerships with communities

"My identity is rooted in my history…and I get to say who I am!"

Program Materials

System Meeting Documentation

Post-meeting Events

• Youth Yak 10/19/2018

Link to the previous Meeting