REMINDER: The NYS Minimum Wage Increase for workers in New York State north of Westchester County, increases to $11.80 per hour effective December 31, 2019. The minimum wage will reach $12.50 on December 31, 2020 and increase to $15 on an indexed schedule to be set by the Director of the Division of Budget in
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Earlier this year, Governor Cuomo signed into law legislation that provides new opportunities for libraries to take advantage of the State Aid for Library Construction program. Libraries that can demonstrate that the library’s service area is equal to or greater than the New York State average poverty rate using Federal Census data, and that the
On the first of the year all totals in the Year to Date Circulation (YTD) will be moved to Last Year circ (LYR), replacing the numbers stored there from the previous year. During the third week in January Patrons whose cards have been expired for 3+ years and fines less than $10 will be deleted.
NYLA Library Advocacy Day will be on Tuesday, February 25, 2020! Each year library advocates from across New York State converge on Albany to voice their support for funding and policies that benefit libraries. Your attendance can make a BIG impact. Join us for meetings with your NYS representatives to make the case that Libraries
The MHLS Annual Report Workshop for New Directors is designed for Directors who are new to submitting the NYS Annual Report with Bibliostat software but is open to all. The workshop will cover: Logging in to the software Entering your data Dealing with “Edit Checks” Writing “Notes” Submitting your report Three dates to choose from:
In January 2019, the American Library Association (ALA) passed a resolution on Monetary Library Fines as a Form of Social Inequity and established that “The American Library Association asserts that imposition of monetary library fines creates a barrier to the provision of library and information services.” Studies have shown that small fines do not have
Civil Service 101 presented by Geoff Kirkpatrick, Director of Bethlehem Public Library in Delmar, NY will be held on Wednesday, January 15th from 10:00am-12:00pm in the MHLS Auditorium. This workshop is appropriate for library directors, managers and human resources staff in municipal public libraries, special district public libraries and school district public libraries. Civil Service
Join Thomas O’Connell, MHLS ILP Operations Supervisor for An Introduction to Mobile Worklists. This two-hour workshop introduces the new Sierra application that allows staff to take a mobile device out into the stacks to create new lists or to make edits to existing lists, even importing them into the Create Lists function to work with
United for Libraries, the American Library Association (ALA) Public Policy and Advocacy office and the Census Counts campaign launched Library Census Champions, a new network of state, local and tribal library Trustees helping their libraries and communities prepare for the 2020 Census. Trustees can find more info to sign up to become a Library Census Champion and
OverDrive will be introducing a new hold redelivery feature in early 2020. This will replace the current auto-checkout feature, and give patrons the following options once a hold becomes available: Borrow the title within 3 days. Suspend their hold, making the copy available to the next patron, while retaining their place on the waitlist. Cancel
