Who has the authority to appoint library employees, the library board or the library director?
Membership Drive
Whether your library is a small town soprano, a basso in the burbs, or a metropolitan mezzo, LTA serves as your choir, singing the praises of public libraries to legislators and locals alike. With your membership, our choir can get louder, reaching from the vaulted halls of Albany to every corner of the State. We […]
Designing a “Policy Development Template”
Policy development is a hard enough task to begin with, so simplify your starting point. Design a standard policy format and process — a “policy development template.” This will not only improve policy organization and make it easier to seek out policies, reference and update them — it will also make it easier for library staff and patrons to understand them. Additionally, [...]
Trustees in the Know: LTA Regional Workshop on Long Island
100 Library Trustees gathered on August 12 at the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library for LTA’s regional workshop, Trustees in the Know. Rob Caluori, Director of Information Technology at Westchester Library System, broke down technical issues of patron privacy in what might be called Cybersecurity 101 for Libraries. He spelled out risks to library patrons, explained the concept of a public and [...]
LTA Goes to NYLA Conference in Saratoga Springs
Registration is still open on the NYLA website for their Annual Conference, November 10-11, in Saratoga Springs. Join us on Friday, November 10, 9:00 am - 10:00 am for LTA's featured program ... Title: The Proper Care and Feeding of Your Library Director Join Cassie Guthrie for a (mostly) light-hearted look at how what trustees [...]
Combating the Opioid Epidemic – New York Libraries Save Lives
From the Desk of Bernard A. Margolis, New York State Librarian and Assistant Commissioner for Libraries Opioid overdose statistics released by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) are frightening: "91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose (that includes prescription opioids and heroin)." The Huffington Post reported that "drug overdose is the [...]