Monthly Archives: August 2016

The Iron is HOT: Making your library the HUB of your community!

Do you know what your community wants and needs? Do your community members see the library as a vital hub of the community? Well, MaryLou Carolan (Director of the Cornwall Public Library) sees amazing, unique and out-of-the-ordinary opportunities for your library to be a vibrant and active community center. Come join us as she shares her “inside/outside

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Friday Follow-up: Library Bill of Rights Guides Member Libraries’ Tough Decisions

Friday Follow-up: a weekly message from Brian M. Hildreth, STLS Executive Director Library Bill of Rights Guides Member Libraries’ Tough Decisions    Pauline Emery (kneeling – center), is the Library Director at Southeast Steuben County Library in Corning. Here she is pictured talking with community members at the library as part of an Ask Exercise to develop her

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The Friday Follow-up: All the Books Celebrates 50 Episodes in Wellsville

Friday Follow-up: a weekly message from Brian M. Hildreth, STLS Executive Director All the Books Celebrates 50 Episodes in Wellsville    Nic Gunning, interim director of David A. Howe Public Library and Eric Mikols extend services beyond the library’s walls and into the greater Wellsville community through their podcast, All the Books. This weekly show has helped

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Peer Learning and the Public Library

Just over a year ago, I presented some information on MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) and how they fit in the public library’s efforts to promote continuous learning (a related blog article is available here). A more recent development in this area is the availability of a Facilitator Handbook for Learning Circles (https://www.p2pu.org/assets/uploads/learning_circle_downloads/facilitator_handbook.pdf) created by Chicago Public

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Brush Up on your Computer Skills

Looking to improve your”techie” skills to increase your productivity in the workplace? Here are a few resources that can help you tap into your inner computer geek. Tech-Talk is a new resource available to all STLS member library staff through South Central Regional Library Council (it will be available at least through June 2017, with the possibility of

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Friday Follow-up – Nontraditional Training through Library System Partnerships

Friday Follow-up: a weekly message from Brian M. Hildreth, STLS Executive Director Nontraditional Training through Library System Partnerships   Library consultants from Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library System, Pioneer Library System and STLS joined together last week at Letchworth State Park to identify and develop common training techniques for our 126 member libraries. (Standing L-R) Eli Guinnee, Al Oliveras,

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