Now Online @ www.rcls.org RCLS Weekly Memo Archives Forthcoming Bestsellers—Fall 2017 RCLS Operating Budget SRP Photos RCLS Outreach Grant Serving Member Libraries Since 1959 September 12, 2016 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 Florida Public Library Plans Door-to-Door Campaign Meg Sgombick, Publicity, Florida Public Library September is Library Card Sign Up Month and the Florida Public Library (FPL) will be out in the community knocking on doors to sign up new patrons, pass out brochures and bookmarks on library programs and services and introduce residents to library personnel. Members of FPL’s staff, board of trustees and Friends of the Library will be canvassing neighborhood streets on the evenings of September 19 and 20 and all day Saturday the 24 th . Twelve teams, readily identifiable with blue FPL shirts, caps and name badges will be handing out neon pencils imprinted with www.floridapubliclibrary.org and handy magnets listing library hours. They will be able to give quick tips on accessing library services through personal devices, too. The teams will be visiting over thirty streets in the Village of Florida, most within walking distance of the library. Some teams will carry mobile circulation units from the Ramapo Catskill Library System which will enable them to create library cards on the spot. All new cardholders will be eligible for a prize drawing for their age group, as well as a grand prize of a $100 gift certificate for a local business. Local library champions will also be sporting customized lawn signs that show what they do at the library, for instance, read, listen, knit, use the 3D printer, cook, tell stories, watch movies, recite poetry, use computers, attend bilingual programs and more. Continued Florida Public Library staff members trained recently for a new outreach project: a door to door campaign on neighborhood streets.
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RCLS Weekly Memo Archives
Forthcoming Bestsellers—Fall
2017 RCLS Operating Budget
SRP Photos
RCLS Outreach Grant
RCLS Weekly Memo 1 August 23, 2010
Serving Member Libraries Since 1959
September 12, 2016
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
Florida Public Library Plans
Door-to-Door Campaign
Meg Sgombick, Publicity, Florida Public Library
September is Library Card Sign Up Month and the Florida
Public Library (FPL) will be out in the community knocking
on doors to sign up new patrons, pass out brochures and
bookmarks on library programs and services and introduce
residents to library personnel. Members of FPL’s staff, board
of trustees and Friends of the Library will be canvassing
neighborhood streets on the evenings of September 19 and 20
and all day Saturday the 24th. Twelve teams, readily
identifiable with blue FPL shirts, caps and name badges will
be handing out neon pencils imprinted with
www.floridapubliclibrary.org and handy magnets listing
library hours. They will be able to give quick tips on
accessing library services through personal devices, too.
The teams will be visiting over thirty streets in the Village
of Florida, most within
walking distance of the
library. Some teams will
carry mobile circulation
units from the Ramapo
Catskill Library System
which will enable them to
create library cards on the
spot. All new cardholders
will be eligible for a prize
drawing for their age
group, as well as a grand
prize of a $100 gift
certificate for a local
business. Local library
champions will also be
sporting customized lawn
signs that show what they
do at the library, for
instance, read, listen, knit,
use the 3D printer, cook,
tell stories, watch movies, recite poetry, use computers,
attend bilingual programs and more. Continued
Florida Public Library staff members trained recently for a new outreach project: a door to door campaign on neighborhood streets.
September 12, 2016 2 RCLS Weekly Memo
2017 Operating Budget Hearings
Robert Hubsher, RCLS Executive Director
The RCLS Board of Trustees approved the 2017 RCLS
Operating Budget at its Monday, August 15 meeting.
Budget information packets were provided to Directors and
Board Presidents. The Budget Documents are also available
on the RCLS website.
RCLS Fiscal Officer Stephen
Hoefer and I will attend all the
Budget Hearings to provide
information and answer questions
about the 2017 Budget. In
ad d i t i o n , R C LS Tr u s t ees
representing the county in which
the Hearings are held will be in
attendance.
The Budget will be presented at the RCLS Legislative
Breakfast and Annual Meeting scheduled for Friday,
September 16. For those member library Trustees and
Directors unable to attend, three Budget Hearings will be
held to review the Budget documents and answer questions.
Use the RCLS online calendar to register. The Hearings will
be canceled if less than five people register.
The scheduled dates are:
Monday, September 19 - 6:00-7:30 p.m. Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library, Monticello
Deadline for registration is Friday, September 16.
Tuesday, September 27 - 6:00-7:30 p.m. Suffern Free Library
Deadline for registration is Friday, September 23.
Wednesday, September 28 - 6:00-7:30 p.m. RCLS Headquarters
Deadline for registration is Monday, September 26.
Do not hesitate to contact me (ext. 242 or
[email protected]) or Stephen Hoefer (ext. 223 or
[email protected]) if you have any questions about the
Budget documents.
Note that the Ballot for approving the 2017 RCLS Budget
must be returned to RCLS headquarters on or before
Friday, December 2.
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In support of the library, Florida
Mayor James Pawliczek, Sr. has
issued a Proclamation declaring
September Library Card Sign Up
Month in Florida and urging all
residents to sign up for their free card.
Said Library Director Madelyn
Folino, “Currently, 56% of Florida
school district residents have a library
card. Over the next year, our goal is
to reach 60% of our 5,000 residents.
We’ll be canvassing with specific
information on programs and
services, but we also want to collect
and share stories on how and why
folks use the library and learn what
they want from us going forward.”
Library campaigners will also be at
Florida’s Back to School nights on
September 13 at Golden Hill
Elementary and on September 14 at
S.S. Seward Institute to talk to
parents, students and teachers and
pass out plenty of FPL goodies. For
further information on the campaign
and FPL, visit www.floridapublic
library.org or call 845.651.7659.
Florida Public Library Board President Diane Arcieri, Director Madelyn Folino and Friends of the FPL President Caroline Califf prepare for September’s door-to-door campaign to sign up new library patrons.
RCLS Weekly Memo 3 September 12, 2016
Notice to All RCLS
On Thursday, September 22 RCLS will be closed so that staff can participate in a Professional Develop-ment Day. No deliveries will be made that day. Voice mails and e-mails may be left for staff members; how-ever, they may not be answered until the following day. ANSER staff will only be responding to emergen-cy calls.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation and un-
derstanding.
ALA Executive Director:
Advocacy School is in Session
American Libraries feature, Sept./Oct.
Keith Michael Fiels writes: “ALA’s new strategic
directions and new advocacy plan chart a bold course to
build support for libraries of all types. Last year we saw
144,001 page views of LibrariesTransform.org, 12,387
downloads of the
library toolkit, 22,000
#LibrariesTransform
mentions on Twitter,
65,000 views of
Libraries Transform
videos, and a post
reach of nearly 4.2 million on Facebook. Advocacy
training joins Libraries Transform on center stage this fall.”
Dewey Decibel Podcast:
Library Design
AL: The Scoop, Aug. 30
Episode five of American Libraries’ Dewey Decibel
podcast tackles a topic close to host Phil Morehart’s heart:
library architecture and design. As editor of the annual
Library Design Showcase, Morehart was primed and
perfectly suited to talk to
this episode’s three guests:
Brian Lee from Skidmore,
Owings, and Merrill;
Kimberly Bolan, the
library consultant behind
Kimberly Bolan and
Associates; and Fred Schlipf, professor emeritus at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
News Worthy
Regional
11 years after Hurricane
Katrina, library returns to Slidell | The Times-Picayune
9.8.16
Mahopac Library Setting up
Shop on Bikeway | Mahopac
Library | The Putnam Examiner 9.6.16
Monroe Library donates
overdue fines to 9/11 scholarship | The Photo News
9.6.16
Library budget passes;
Daniels tops trustees vote |
Woodstock Public Library District | Woodstock Times 9.2.16
Voters OK Saugerties Library
Budget for 2017 | Saugerties Public Library | Daily
Freeman 9.2.16
Monroe Free Library resumes
its Artist of the Month program | The Photo News 9.1.16
Rosendale Library District
voters OK budget, 3 percent tax levy hike | Rosendale
Library | Daily Freeman 9.1.16
West Hurley Library budget,
2.9 percent tax levy hike wins approval | West Hurley
Library | Daily Freeman 9.1.16
Birchez Foundation awards
grant to Kingston Library | MidHudsonNews.com 8.30.16
National
Morton Schindel, Who Turned
Children’s Books Into
Animated Films, Dies at 98 | The New York Times 8.24.16
September 12, 2016 4 RCLS Weekly Memo
SEAL 2.0 Training Scheduled for RCLS Libraries
SouthEastern Access to Libraries or SEAL is the current platform for regional interlibrary loan comprised of a virtual union catalog and electronic interlibrary loan system. SENYLRC will soon have a new platform for SEAL. If you are already a SEAL ILL System participant or a library new to regional resource sharing, you are invited participate. No fee is charged to use the service.
SEAL 2.0 classes in RCLS locations are open as follows:
Wednesday, September 21
Morning class: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Afternoon class: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. RCLS 619 Route 17M Middletown, NY 10940
Friday, September 23
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library 479 Broadway Monticello, NY 12701
Thursday, September 29
1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Finkelstein Memorial Library 24 Chestnut Street Spring Valley, NY 10977
Trainer: Judy Fischetti, SENYLRC Member Services Librarian for resource sharing.
Share a library related photo, include a brief caption, your name, position and the library’s name. A photo release is required from recognizable individuals in the photo. Click here for the RCLS photo release. Submit the picture to [email protected] with ‘Photo of the Week’ in the subject line.
Photo of the Week
Summer Reading Program—Get on Your Mark, Get Set...READ! at the West Nyack Free Library
September 12, 2016 5 RCLS Weekly Memo
Deadlines
Tuesday, September 20 @ 8 a.m. Trustees’ Fiduciary
Responsibilities Reservations
(9/21)
RCLS Headquarters E-mail and Extension Directory (845.243.3747)
Robert Hubsher ............ Executive Director ................................................................. 242
Grace Riario ................. Assistant Director & Outreach Coordinator ............................ 233
John Schneider ............ ANSER Manager and Systems Administrator ....................... 228
Chuck Conklin .............. Delivery & Building Maintenance Supervisor ......................... 226
Jerry Kuntz ................... Electronic Resources Consultant ........................................... 246
Stephen Hoefer ............ Fiscal Officer .......................................................................... 223
Dan Donohue ............... ILL/Technical Services Librarian ............................................ 237
Randall Enos ................ Youth Services Consultant .................................................... 240
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.
September
Monday, 12 System Services Committee, RCLS – 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday, 13 RUG, Newburgh – 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday, 14 CTUG, Middletown, 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, 14 Orange County Chamber Expo, Galleria at Crystal Run Middletown, 10:00 a.m.
Wednesday, 14 Trustee Leadership Workshop, Valley Cottage – 5:30 p.m.
Friday, 16 RCLS Legislative Breakfast and Annual Meeting, Bear Mountain Inn, 8:00 a.m.
Monday, 19 Battle of the Books Committee, RCLS – 9:00 a.m. RCLS Teen Librarians, RCLS – 10:15 a.m.
Wednesday, 21 SEAL ILL System Training, RCLS – 10:00 a.m. SEAL ILL System Training, RCLS – 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday, 21 Trustee’s Fiduciary Responsibilities, RCS – 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, 22 RCLS Professional Development Day –
NO DELIVERIES
Friday, 23 LARC-Adult Services, New City – 10:00 a.m.
Friday, 23 LARC-YS, Blauvelt – 10:00 a.m.
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