Workshops
Archive - 2009
PubMed for the Rest of Us:
Searching Medical Literature for the Nonexpert
Date: January 16, 2009
Location: UHLS
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Description: This class will cover basic and field searching,
the journal browser; the single citation matcher; clipboard, history
and other features. It will also cover how to obtain full-text articles.
(3 CE credits)
Contact: Jo-Ann Benedetti at 437-9880 x225.
Black Belt Librarians:
featuring Warren Graham
Date: March 4, 2009
Location: Guilderland Public Library
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Description: Warren Graham is nationally renowned as an expert
of day - to - day library security procedures. He has been a security
professional for twenty-five years, and he spent the last seventeen
years as the Security and Safety Manager for the Public Library of Charlotte
and Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, developing and overseeing their
program. Some of the areas he will address are:
- Essential elements of a truly effective security program;
- How to inform patrons of rules in a way that will most
ensure compliance;
- How to recognize levels of emotion that a patron may
be in and strategies on how best to respond;
- Ten maxims of security no matter the size of your library;
- Easy ways to document your security and safety matters.
Click here
for flyer and registration form.
Contact: Jo-Ann
Benedetti at 437-9880 x225.
Reference Rx: Case Studies
in Consumer Health
Date: March 20, 2009
Location: UHLS
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Description: This class will ask participants to use the resources
they learned about in the previous four classes to answer actual consumer
health reference questions and to share their approaches to such questions
with others in the class. (3 CE credits)
Contact: Jo-Ann Benedetti at 437-9880 x225.
Creating the 21st Century Library:
An Introduction to Building, Renovating, or Expanding Your Library
featuring Frank X. Craine, AIA and Diane Abate
Date: March 24, 2009
Location: Guilderland Public Library
Time: 5:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Description: Frank X. Craine, AIA is a Partner, and Diane Abate
is a Senior Architectural Designer at the firm of Peter Gisolfi Associates
located in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. Together they have over 30 years
of collective experience working with libraries and academic clients
in the private and public sectors. Mr. Craine was a key member of the
design team for the new Darien Library in Connecticut, which is scheduled
to be the first Gold LEED-certified library in New England. He and Ms.
Abate are currently working on the feasibility study for expanding the
Guilderland Library. Some of the topics they will address are:
- What to consider when planning a library renovation
or expansion.
- Choosing the right design team for effective collaboration.
- Finding funding sources for your project.
- Finding cost-effective ways to incorporate Green building
strategies.
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here for flyer and registration form.
Contact: Philip
Ritter at 437-9880 x222.
Powerful Partnerships Workshop
Presenters: Mary Fellows and Jo-Ann Benedetti, UHLS managers
and veterans of many partnerships
Date: Wednesday, May 13
Location: UHLS
Time: 9:00 a.m.– 11:00 a.m.
Description: Come learn to identify useful partners, cultivate
effective partnerships, and detach from partnerships no longer serving
you well. You will leave with three new partnerships to pursue and the
know-how to develop them.
Contact: Free to UHLS members; register by emailing Mary Fellows
at mary@uhls.lib.ny.us or call
Mary at 437-9880 ext. 228. Non-UHLS members cost: $15; email registration
request to Mary Fellows and mail check made out to UHLS to 28 Essex
Street, Albany, NY 12206.
Control Is Not A Dirty Word:
Effective Meeting Management
Date: August 20
Location: Upper Hudson Library System
Time: 9:30 – 12:00 (refreshments and registration at 9:00)
Description: Meetings are a fact of work life. Meetings can advance
understanding and informed decisions – or feed frustration and
waste time. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to:
- Determine when to hold a meeting
- Design a meeting to get the outcome you want
- Keep the meeting on track by managing difficult personalities,
conflicts, and interruptions
- Positively influence productivity of meetings you are
attending but not running
Whether you are a seasoned manager seeking to hone your
skills, a rising star taking on more work or volunteer responsibilities
that include chairing meetings, or a victim of painful meetings preparing
to act, this workshop offers practical help.
Presenter: Mary Fellows, Manager of Youth
and Family Services, Upper Hudson Library System
Free to UHLS member library personnel; others $15. To register, please
email Mary Fellows @ mary@uhls.lib.ny.us.
If a check is required, please make it payable to UHLS and mail it to
UHLS, Attn: Mary Fellows, 28 Essex Street, Albany, NY 12206. Registration
deadline: August 18th.
Love Those T(w)eens! Delivering
Great Service Whatever Your Resources
Thursday, September 17, 2009
9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (refreshments at 8:30 a.m.)
Guilderland Public Library, 2228 Western Avenue, Guilderland, NY (518)
456-2400
Presented in collaboration with Mohawk Valley Library System
Whether you work with tweens, teens, or both, you’ll want to come
hear the latest on tween and teen services. Our experienced presenters
will cover their topics using a minimum to maximum approach: how to
achieve results with minimum resources, and how to go all out! Whatever
the level, you’ll learn how to build the relationship, build the
resources, and building the programming that makes your library a t(w)een-friendly
place. As a special feature, we will have a t(w)een author join us for
the last hour. Stay tuned to find out whose autograph you will add to
your collection!
Workshop is FREE to MVLS and UHLS members; $35 for all others. Please
register by emailing Mary Fellows at mary@uhls.lib.ny.us.
If you are a non-UHLS member, follow up with a check made out to UHLS
and mailed to: Mary Fellows, UHLS, 28 Essex Street, Albany, NY 12206.
For further information, contact Mary at 437-9880 ext. 229, or Sue Rokos,
MVLS at 355-2010 ext. 226, srokos@mvls.info.
UHLS Trustee Workshop
Date: September 24, 2009
To: Member Library Trustees and Directors
From: Philip Ritter, Executive Director
You are cordially invited to attend our Fourth Annual Trustee Workshop
on Thursday, September 24, 2009. The format and topics we are offering
are based on suggestions from the attendees at our Workshop last year.
We will be returning to the popular Albany Marriott Hotel on Wolf Road
and are very pleased to have Kathy Miller, Executive Director of the
Rochester Regional Library Council, Jennifer Morris, Director of the
Pioneer Library System, and Libby Post, President of Communication Services,
as our presenters. All three are very well-known and well-respected
in the library world. They will present two concurrent programs from
5:30 PM until 7:30 PM. Dinner will be one of the Marriott’s delicious
Buffets and will be served at 7:30 PM with concluding remarks at 8:30
PM.
More information and registration form here
(PDF).
Deadline for registrations is September 10th.
Storytime Skills
Thursday, November 5, 2009
9:00 – 1:00
(Refreshments and registration at 8:30)
Schenectady County Public Library
99 Clinton St.
Schenectady, NY 12305-2083
Come to our second annual round-up of tried and true storytime
techniques! Develop new storytime techniques, hone your existing skills,
or gather fresh ways to use your expertise.
Upper Hudson Library System and Mohawk Valley Library
System bring the best outside and inside presenters together to demonstrate,
and teach key storytime skills. A special focus this year is flannel
board stories, presented by local maven Debbie Sternklar. You’ll
leave the workshop with a flannel board and a story to tell with it!
As an extra treat from 12:00 – 1:00, we have Suzanne
Bloom, author/illustrator of Geisel honor book A Splendid Friend Indeed.
Suzanne will share information about her creative process and the ins
and outs of making books. There will be books available for signing
after her presentation. Find out more about Suzanne here: http://www.suzannebloom.com/
Please register for the workshop! It is free to MVLS and
UHLS member library staff and volunteers. The cost for all others is
$35. If you’re part of MVLS or UHLS, register by emailing Sue Rokos
at srokos@mvls.info. If you are not part of either system, email Sue
to reserve your spot and then mail a check for $35 made out to MVLS
to: Sue Rokos, MVLS, 858 Duanesburg Rd, Schenectady, NY 12306-1095.
Click here
for directions to the workshop.
For further information, call Sue Rokos at 355-2010 ext.
226 or Mary Fellows at 437-9880 ext. 228. Hope to see you soon.
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