Coordinated Outreach

Designed to fund pilot projects for the implementation or expansion of local library services to outreach populations.

Southern Tier Library System (STLS) provides coordinated outreach library services both directly and through our member libraries to target populations who are most in need and who often are not regular library users. Target populations include:

People who are Blind or who have a Physical Disability

Seniors

People who have a Developmental or Learning Disability

People living in Institutionalized Settings

Members of Ethnic or Minority Groups in need of special services

People who are Educationally Disadvantaged

People who are Unemployed or Underemployed

People who are Geographically Isolated

STLS COSAC Outreach Mini-Grant Application

2020 Mini-Grant Recipients

Alfred Box of Books Library– Family Conversations about Race

Almond 20th Century Club Library – STEM Kits

Dundee Library – Accessibility Project for Patrons with Vision Impairment

Fred & Harriett Taylor Memorial Library, Hammondsport – Preschool Learning Program

Montour Falls Library – Student Hot Spot Lending Program

Penn Yan Public Library – Sensory Learning Kits

Pulteney Library – Video Camera for Programming

Schuyler County Libraries – Story Walk Program

Wayland Public Library – Home Delivery Service

Whitesville Public Library – Resources for Seniors

Grass Roots Award  – Given in recognition of exemplary library outreach service.

Past Grass Roots Award Recipients

2020 No award given due to COVID-19

2019 Rima O’Connor, Alfred Box of Books Library; and

Robinlee Putnam & Cheryle Baldwin, Richburg Colonial Library

2018 Allegany County Public Library Directors’ Association

2017 Alfred Box of Books Library, LGBTQ Programming & Collection Development

Jerry Lange, Volunteer

2016 Friends of the Watkins Library, Watkins Glen Public Library Partnership with ARC of Schuyler

2015 Nic Gunning, The David A. Howe Public Library Outreach services provided to the community

2014 Lila Donley, Penn Yan Public Library Mobile Library Service for homebound and resident seniors

2013 Pulteney Free Library Mobile Computer Lab at Pulteney’s Senior Lunch Site Southeast Steuben County Library Coffee, Tea, & English Program

2012 Molly Share, Scio Library, & Belmont Library Letter People Program

Roxanne Leyes, Commitment to Outreach Services at the Montour Falls Library

2009 Linda Reimer, Southeast Steuben County Library, Service to Meals on Wheels consumers

James Sleeth, Chemung County Library District, Campaign to raise funds for new Bookmobile

2008 Sue McConnell, Southeast Steuben County Library, Library service to coordinated outreach families

2007 Brenda Yeoman, E.J. Cottrell Memorial Library (Atlanta), Overall program of outreach service to the community

Horseheads Free Library, Library partnership with Day Services Consumers, Chemung UCP

2006 Rebecca Abraham, Elizabeth Hayes, & Suzanne Stivers, Watkins Glen Free Public Library Trust in the Lives of Older Women Group

2005 Gayle Hatch, Elizabeth B. Pert Library, Hector Reading Center serving communities of Valois, Logan, Hector

2004 E.J. Cottrell Memorial Library (Atlanta) Board of Trustees, Local history programs for senior citizens

2003 Dundee Library, Computer instruction program

2002 Alfred Box of Books Reading Center, Outreach program to house-bound residents of Maple Apartments

2001 Pulteney Free Library, Public Computer Classes

Genesee Library Quilters, Little Genesee Library, Support for library programs to older adults

2000 Wayland Free Library, Overall program of outreach service to the community

1999 Penn Yan Public Library, Overall program of outreach service to the community

Bill Knapp, Southside Outreach Center, Steele Memorial Library, Bookmobile service

Each System maintains a Coordinated Outreach Services Advisory Group which includes members of the target population groups and agencies who work with these groups within the system’s service area.
 

STLS Coordinated Outreach Services Advisory Council Members

  • Phyllis Balliett, Chemung Schuyler Steuben Workforce New York
  • Angela Gonzalez, COSAC President, Penn Yan Public Library
  • Darlene Hawxhurst, COSAC Secretary, AIM Independent Living Center
  • Wendy Harrison, Pro Action of Steuben and Yates, Inc.
  • Belinda Hoad, Institute for Human Services, Inc.
  • Debbie Taylor, Representative of Persons with Physical Disabilities
  • Lois Wilson, United Way of the Southern Tier

Rotating Collections – Large print and audiobook collections are circulated to member libraries and adult care facilities.

State Correctional Facilities  Interlibrary loan, material purchases and consultant services are provided to Elmira Correctional Facility and Southport Correctional Facility, state correctional facilities.

 
More information on the Coordinated Outreach Service Program can be found on the NYS Division of Library Development’s website: http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/outreach/

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