Emery and Fleming Awarded for Best Practices at NYLA Mandy Fleming makes her acceptance speech at the SMART membership meeting during the 2015 New York Library Association Conference. Mandy who serve as ILS and technical services manager at Southern Tier Library System received recognition for implementing cataloging and processing efficiencies for member libraries. The 2015 New York
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Jessie Arnone kindly consented to being interviewed by me September 25, 2015 in the rarely quiet Cohocton Public Library. To listen to the interview, click the black podcast bar above. The audio play works better if you click “Play in new window” (I’ll work on making it better, promise.) To read a transcript of the
Just a FLASH of insights, ideas and news for you … It is September…and the chatter is beginning about the potential books in the running for the Newbery and Caldecott …. http://blogs.slj.com/afuse8production/2015/09/21/newbery-caldecott-2016-fall-prediction-edition/ May the best title WIN! Can you hear me singing?! This ‘seasonal blog’ has begun postings for 2016 Printz race…. http://blogs.slj.com/printzblog/2015/09/09/kicking-things-off-and-a-list/ And, yet…more chatter
By Brian M. Hildreth, Executive Director – Southern Tier Library System Friday, September 18, 2015 Jamie LaRue will be this year’s keynote speaker at the STLS Annual Meeting and Conference. A 2013 recipient of the Colorado Association of Libraries’ Career Achievement Award, and 1998 Colorado Librarian of the Year, Jamie’s keynote presentation is titled, “Making Each Other
By Brian M. Hildreth, Executive Director – Southern Tier Library System Friday, September 11, 2015 Online Registration for the Annual Meeting and Conference Invitation and Program Information for 2015 STLS Annual Meeting and Conference There are many things I enjoy about public librarianship. One thing in particular is celebrating the accomplishments of the many great
By Brian M. Hildreth, Executive Director – Southern Tier Library System Friday, September 4, 2015 Multiple generations particpate in a pottery class at the Scio Memorial Library provided by the Allegany Arts Association. Two great cultural organizations in Allegany County (arts and libraries) demonstrate the outcomes of collaboration. What is the purpose of collaboration? We talk about this concept
“…what I feel like telling you today is that the world needs real dialogue, that falsehood is just as much the opposite of dialogue as is silence, and that the only possible dialogue is the kind between people who remain what they are and speak their minds.” (Albert Camus) The Civic Dialogue Group at Penn Yan
By Brian M. Hildreth, Executive Director – Southern Tier Library System Friday, August 28th, 2015 Deputy Director Al Oliveras listens intently during the Outreach Services session of this year’s PULISDO Conference. We have the entire year of 2016 to put together a succinct, measurable plan for how we want to define STLS moving into yet
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