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Cheery Friday Greetings!
Library Advocacy: Library Advocacy Day is on Tuesday, February 28! The New York Library Association (NYLA) seeks $147.1M for state library aid and $69M for construction for libraries and library systems receiving direct aid (e.g., SCRLC). Libraries/library systems last received full funding ($102.6M) in 2007. $147.1M adjusts for inflation. $69M is a fraction (i.e., less than 5%) of what is needed across the state for library construction ($1.5B was quoted as the actual figure a few years ago).
NYLA’s Advocacy Center contains all the information that you need to strongly advocate, whether you are attending in person or can email or make a phone call. Together, we can have a positive impact!
To amplify your voice even more, consider a donation to the New Yorkers for Better Libraries Political Action Committee. There is also still time to register for NY4BL’s in-person Gala Fundraising Event on Monday, February 27, 6:00 p.m.in Albany. Registration is here.
South Central Onsite Reciprocal Access (SCORA) Program: SCORA is designed to help serious library users obtain information at their point of need by enabling them to check out circulating materials from participating libraries, in person. It does not replace any existing reciprocal onsite agreement that our members might have between or among other libraries—it just increases the opportunities for users to borrow onsite from a larger number of libraries. Relationships are between individual libraries. Participating libraries determine whom they will lend to, e.g. faculty only? Serious researchers?? High school students? It is up to the lender. Click here for more information and to sign up to participate!
SCORA originally launched right before the pandemic, which meant that it pretty much immediately went on hiatus. Our inaugural participants were Alfred University, Houghton College, and Keuka College. Please join them!
Questions? Contact Christine Brown.
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March is Women’s History Month: By the time the next News appears in your inbox, we’ll be 10 days into Women’s History Month. If you’ve not had a chance to check out the online exhibit, Recognizing Women’s Right to Vote in New York State, it is a great time to do so! The exhibit includes information on the role of Haudenosaunee women in suffrage, as well as Black women. Julia Corrice, Susan Goodier, and Sally Roesch Wagner curated the exhibit. The corresponding traveling exhibit has been so popular that we are ordering another copy of it. Click here to request to host it, or one of our other traveling exhibits.
Other online spaces to visit for Women’s History include:
Stay warm this weekend!
Yours in partnership,
Mary-Carol Lindbloom
Executive Director
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