Claudia
Depkin - Haverstraw King's Daughters public Library - Library Outreach
Visits Everyone (LOVE) - begun 18 years ago. Exemplifies
recommendation 27 (early learning). 147 kits covering 42 themes that
community members can borrow. Allows them (non library people) to do story-time.
Rochester Public Library - Early education
in Rochester has taken a front seat with their new mayor (2013). Grant
funded work. They explored new and alternative summer learning
opportunities. Developed programs with the city school district.
They have also done teen services and gang intervention programs.
Jen
Cannell - Questar III - she highlighted recommendations 1, 10 and 36.
For example, her system is trying to be more innovative with
technology. They have a 3D printer that can be loaned out to school
libraries, which makes that technology more widely available in the
school. Many schools have 3D printers, but in a specific class area.
In
terms of high value services, she noted that one district paid $2000 to
get in on an 70,000 ebook collection. That is high value!
Jim
Belair - from a BOCES near Rochester. They have a five system union
catalogue. The current holdings are 3.6 million. Very high number of
shares among them and other libraries in the region. They are also
working together on purchase agreements.
University
of Rochester - a librarian talked about (1) Digitization of papers from
the Seward family. (2) Creation of a university repository.
Deirdre
Joyce - CLRC - HARMONY - historical archival records and manuscripts of
New York. An EAD repository of finding aids. Housed with the NY 3R
Association in 2013.
Bernie Margolis - Is the
Vision 2020 successful? Yes. No. The plan has created a foundation
and platform for people to create new library services. Some libraries
use the Vision when creating local strategy plans.
Some
of the things in the plan may no longer be appropriate. Things are constantly changing. We have a long way to go. We also have political
issues that we need to deal with, as well as conflicts in our library
communities. We need more training in assessment, which will help us
evaluate our successes.
Jeff Cannell - "The
weight of accomplishment is pretty powerful." He noted that the Regents
would be interested in hearing all or some of these presentations.
Addendum (11/12/2014): The list of people, who spoke in this session, includes:
- Karen Balsen, New York State Library
- Jim Belair, Monroe 2-Orleans BOCES SLS
- Jen Cannell, Questar BOCES SLS
- Claudia Depkin, Haverstraw King's Daughters PL
- Deirdre Joyce, CLRC
- Sue Kowalski, Pine Grove Middle School
- Susan Polos, Mt. Kisxo Elementary School
- Marcy Strong, Univ. of Rochester
- Patty Uttaro, Rochester Public Library
- Kerri Willette, METRO
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