RCLS Weekly Memo
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August 23, 2010
Robert Hubsher, Executive Director
Ruth K. Daubenspeck, Newsletter Editor
Ramapo Catskill Library System • http://www.rcls.org
619 Route 17M • Middletown, NY 10940-4395 • 845.243.3747
Serving Member Libraries Since 1959
March 31, 2014
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Release
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Workshops for Directors
& Trustees
 Spring Forthcoming Bestsellers
2014 Awards for Excellence
Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN) is a regional
service organization formed to advance and to advocate the
preservation and interpretation of the area’s historical, ethnic
and cultural heritages.
GHHN promotes professional standards of excellence and
fosters cooperation among member organizations and
individuals through education, information and assistance.
The GHHN’s Awards for Excellence program seeks to
recognize and commend exceptional efforts among GHHN
members. Awards are made to projects that exemplify
creativity and professional vision resulting in a contribution
to the preservation and interpretation of the historic scene,
material culture and diversity of the region. Among the 13
award winners for 2014 is the Ellenville Public Library and
Museum in recognition for its regional history advancement
and community collaboration involved in the activities
commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Yama Farms Inn.
Awards were presented at the 2014 TecHistory Annual
Conference on Friday, March 21, at Marist College in
Poughkeepsie.
Lives change @ your library!
National Library Week hashtags:
#liveschange and #nlw14
Celebrate National Library Week 2014 (April 13-19 with
the theme Lives change @ your library! This year’s
Honorary Chair is Judy Blume.
“Libraries and librarians have a powerful and positive
impact on the lives of Americans on a daily basis. Their
stories are key to communicating the value of libraries.
National Library Week is the perfect opportunity to
encourage your community to tell the story of how the
library has changed their life.” –American Library
Association (ALA)
ALA has provided a downloadable “word bubble” (left)
PDF to help you ask your patrons to put into words how the
library has changed their life. This is a great opportunity for
all libraries to capture wonderful anecdotes to use in their
newsletter, website and through social media. The bubbles
would also make for a pretty eye catching display in your
library!
Access the PDF, sample press releases, PSAs and more!
March 31, 2014
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Have No Fear, Poetry is
Here (Again!): Getting
Children and Young Adults
Excited about Poetry
APR
Join us for an hour-long,
free webinar with Poetry
Foundation’s Librar y
Director Katherine Litwin and Youth
Services Assistant Mairead Case who
will discuss tips and techniques for
developing poetry collections and
designing exciting programming for
children and young adult patrons.
Moderated by Booklist’s Adult Books
senior editor Donna Seaman.
Tuesday, April 1, at 2:00 p.m. For
more information and to register, visit
the Booklist website.
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Writing a Social Media
Policy for Your Library
Does your library have a social media
policy? Chances are, it doesn’t…but it
almost certainly should.
APR
Learn why you need one, and
what points are essential.
Discover how writing this
kind of policy can be completely
different than writing any other kind
for a library, and what you might need
in a policy for staff versus what you
might need to spell out for patrons.
Join this free, one-hour webinar on
Wednesday, April 2 at 3 p.m. by
visiting the InfoPeople website.
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ALA Seeks Candidates
For the seventh consecutive year, the
American Library Association (ALA)
is pleased to participate in the Google
Policy Fellows Program for 2014. The
A LA O f f i c e f o r In f o r m a t i o n
Te c hno l o g y P ol i c y b e gan i t s
participation at the program’s
founding.
For more information, visit the
District Dispatch website.
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Banned Books Week Grants
Applications are now open for the 2014 Judith Krug Fund
Banned Books Week event grants, sponsored by the
Freedom to Read Foundation. Grants in the amounts of
$1,000 and $2,500 will be given to organizations in support
of Read-Outs or other activities that celebrate Banned
Books Week (September 21 - 27). Applications for the
grants will be accepted through Wednesday, April 30, and
the announcements will be made in June.
Note: Organizations that received 2013 grants are
ineligible to apply for 2014 grants.
Detailed grant guidelines and application information are
available on the Freedom to Read Foundation website.
Great New York State Fair
NYS libraries are planning a booth at the Great New
York State Fair in Syracuse, which runs August 21 through
September 1 and need your help. A minimum of two
volunteers are needed per two-hour shift. The booth is
required to be staffed daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. This is a
great opportunity to meet people and talk about how
important libraries are and the services they provide to their
communities. The experience will be fun and informative in
addition to meeting lots of great people and having fun at
the Fair.
For a mere two hours of booth time you will receive a free
one-day pass to the Fair.
For more information, contact Debby Emerson at the
Central New York Library Resources Council (CLRC) at
[email protected] or 315.446.5446.
Every evening during the Great New York State Fair at 6
p.m. a parade will be held. Book cart drill teams are being
requested to perform in every parade. The parade route is
less than a mile long and runs about 15 minutes, so you can
plan accordingly. Book carts will be provided, and
arrangements have been made with the nearby Solvay
Public Library to serve as a staging area where you can
decorate your carts and brush up your routine.
Contact Debby Emerson at the Central NY Library
Resources Council (CLRC) at [email protected] or
315.446.5446 to reserve the day you want to march (and
hurry...spots will be filling up fast), the name of your
library, the date you would like to “perform,” and the
approximate number of people on your team. Once you
have the date secured, then the real fun begins as you select
a theme for your book carts and begin to choreograph your
routine.
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Changes to Talking Book Topics
Sharon B. Phillips, Regional Librarian, Talking Book &
Braille Library, New York State Library
Beginning with the January–February 2014 issue of the
bimonthly Talking Book Topics (TBT) publication, you will
see some subscriber-requested changes. NLS has restored
the fifty-word book annotation to the audio, large-print, and
online versions of TBT. The large-print version of the
magazine will continue to announce more books than in
years past to accommodate the expanding number of
audiobooks in our collection. This issue announces 566
recently produced titles. To make it easier for you to find
books by subject category and author last name, the titles are
now announced in the following alphabetical order:
 As before, the titles are listed under broad headings:
Books for Adults, Books for Children, and Foreign
Language Books.
 Within Books for Adults and Books for Children, titles
are subdivided into Fiction and Nonfiction. Fiction will
now be listed first, since it comes first alphabetically.
 Inside the Fiction and Nonfiction genres, titles are listed
by their subject categories in A-to-Z order. For example,
the Adult Fiction titles for this issue are ordered by
subject from Adventure to Westerns.
 Within each subject category, the titles are arranged
alphabetically by the author's last name.
 If there is more than one title by a given author, the titles
are further organized alphabetically by title. For example
if you're interested in Stephen King's latest novel
Joyland, you would look under Adult Fiction, then in
Mystery and Dectective, and then by the last name King.
The new arrangement eliminates the need for an index.
The order form also reflects the new TBT arrangement.
If you or your patrons have any questions, please call the
New York State Talking Book and Braille Library at
1.800.342.3688, or email [email protected].
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March 31, 2014
Kindle E-readers on
Loan at Gardiner Library
Melissa Fairweather, Public Relations,
Gardiner Library
The Gardiner Library now has three
Kindle e-readers available for patrons to
check out. The
Kindles, which can
be checked out for
two weeks, come preloaded with many
popular
titles.
According to library
m ana ge r
Ni col e
Lane, “Kindles give
our patrons another Gardiner Library
reading
o p t i o n . manager Nicole
They’re great for Lane (left) demtaking on vacation or onstrates a new
reading a large, Kindle to patron
heavy book. People Jeanne Trapani.
who need larger print
also like the ability to change the font
size. Having them available allows our
patrons a chance to try out a Kindle if
they are thinking of buying one.”
Kindles may be checked out by any
library patron who is in good standing.
A refundable deposit of $100 (cash or
check) is required at time of check out.
Youngstown Experiments with a
“Conditional Card”
The Public Library of Youngstown and Mahoning County,
Ohio, is giving its customers a second chance in the form of
a “conditional” library card, which will restore library
privileges for cardholders who are blocked due to unpaid
extended-use fees. The card applies to patrons who owe
between $10 and $300 in unpaid fines and fees. The
cardholder must make an initial payment of $5 or 10% of the
total amount owed.
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March 31, 2014
Deadlines
 Monday, April 7 @ 8 a.m.
Registration Due for 4/8
Dos and Don’ts of Earning Contact
Hours for Your Public Library
Certificate
 Monday, April 7 @ 8 a.m.
Registration Due for 4/9
System Orientation
 Wednesday, April 9 @ 8 a.m.
Registration Due for 4/10
Trustees Financial Accountability
 Friday, April 25
RCLS Directory Updates Due to
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System Calendar
For a complete and up-to-date list of events, including
links to additional information, see the RCLS Calendar.
To add information, contact Ruth Daubenspeck.
March
Monday, 31
Tech Up Your Library, RCLS – 10:00 a.m.
April – School Library Month
Thursday, 3
Multi Language Book Fair, White Plains Library
Friday, 4
YSS Spring Conference, White Plains Crowne
Plaza Hotel
Friday, 4
Correctional Facility Spring Training Session, RCLS
Saturday, 5
Money Smart Week @ your library
Monday, 7
Computers in Libraries Conference, Washington, DC
Job Openings
Tuesday, 8
Dos and Don’ts of Earning Contact Hours for Your Public
Library Certificate, RCLS – 10:00 a.m.
 RCLS Area
Wednesday, 9
CTUG, Middletown - 9:45 a.m.
 Region
Wednesday, 9
System Orientation, RCLS – 10:00 a.m.
 Building your e-résumé
Thursday, 10
Directors Association Executive Committee,
RCLS – 9:30 a.m.
Thursday, 10
Trustees Financial Accountability, RCLS 5:00 p.m.
Friday, 11
Urban Librarian’s Conference, Brooklyn, NY.
RCLS Headquarters E-mail and Extension Directory
(845.243.3747)
Tony Castaldo ........ ANSER Manager and Systems Administrator ............................ 228
Chuck Conklin ........ Delivery & Building Maintenance Supervisor .............................. 226
Randall Enos .......... Youth Services Consultant .......................................................... 240
Linda Hendon ......... ILL/Tech Services Librarian ........................................................ 237
Stephen Hoefer ...... Fiscal Officer ............................................................................... 223
Robert Hubsher ...... Executive Director ....................................................................... 242
Jerry Kuntz ............. Electronic Resources Consultant ................................................ 246
Grace Riario ........... Public Services Consultant/Outreach Coordinator ...................... 233