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
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“…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
Just a FLASH of insights, ideas and news for you….. Season by Season—picture books to enjoy No Time for Flash Cards features a terrific list of picture books to share during each season of the year… http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2015/07/picture-books-organized-by-season.html And, the folks at Stacked are remembering their favorite Caldecott winners http://www.stackedbooks.org/2015/07/a-crowd-of-caldecotts.html Family Film Festival Showing
Just a FLASH of insights, ideas and news for you…. Picture Book Celebration Library Laura tells about a picture book program in which guest readers shared favorite picture books. This program was first done last November (National Picture Book Month) and replicated this summer. See Library Laura’s summation of both programs: http://librarylaura.blogspot.com/2015/07/picture-book-celebration.html This might
Just a FLASH of insights, ideas and news for you…. Notable Books Defined as “Worthy of note or notice, important, distinguished, outstanding. As applied to children’s books, notable should be thought to include books of especially commendable quality, books that exhibit venturesome creativity, and books of fiction, information, poetry and pictures for
By Brian M. Hildreth, Executive Director – Southern Tier Library System Friday, July 16th, 2015 Trustees from STLS and neigboring library systems listen to Cassie Guthrie, executive director of Greece Public Library, discuss trustee roles and responsbilities. STLS member library trustees are fantastic people. And, in my professional experience I am very lucky to serve a group
Just a FLASH of insights, ideas and news for you….. Anime Collection and Programming Multi-day post on getting started with Anime in your collection and in your programming line-up: http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2015/07/01/anime-collection-development-programming-part-1-anime-collection-development/. At the bottom of the screen see links for posts to Part 2 & Part 3! Showcasing print concepts via ‘meta books’ Meta books are
So you have a website that someone else designed or set up for you and you just wish it looked more like you know it could look? That’s where Kim Graham, Wimodaughsian Library’s Senior Clerk found herself. Last month, STLS offered three digital literacy workshops for member libraries as part of the Expanding Community Education
Just a FLASH of insights, ideas and news for you….. Shark Week on Flannel Friday The roundup of flannel board stories for Friday, July 10th focused on SHARK Week. See all the contributions at Ms. Kelly at the Library site. http://mskellyatthelibrary.blogspot.com/ I LOVE, LOVE the interactive songs—“Five little fishies swimming in the sea, Teasing Mr.
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