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Summer Serving Public Libraries in Orange, Rockland, Sullivan and southern Ulster Counties since 1959 2017 RCLS Legislative Breakfast and Annual Meeting What’s Inside Register now! The 30th RCLS Legislative Breakfast and 58th Annual Meeting will be held on Friday, September 15 at the Bear Mountain Inn & Conference Center, a 1915 hotel and restaurant owned by the Palisades Interstate Park 2 Mark Your Commission. The Inn is located on Route 9W at the northern end of Seven Lakes Calendar Drive, just south of the Bear Mountain Bridge. Registration begins at 8:00 a.m. and a 2 Media 101: lip-smacking hot breakfast buffet will be served at 8:30 a.m. Truth or Introductions of the breakfast sponsors, the RCLS Board of Trustees and other Consensus dignitaries will begin at 9:00 a.m. followed by remarks from the RCLS Executive Survival Tools Director. Prior to the legislators speaking, three Library Champions will give in the Age of testimonials for libraries. Library Champions are members of the public (patrons) Fake News that are unaffiliated with the operation of libraries who are willing to express support for libraries. In addition, presentations will be made for the Member Library Adult 2 Can You Program of the Year Award, Member Library Youth Program of the Year Award Answer These and Anthony J. Knipp Library Trustee Award. Questions? County legislators from Orange, Rockland, Sullivan and Ulster counties as well as RCLS area State legislators are invited to attend the event. The breakfast is an 2 Trustee FYI excellent opportunity to show the legislators how vital State funding and support are to your library and RCLS. Library staff, trustees, and Friends are encouraged to 3 Spotlight on attend and participate. RCLS Trustee During the Annual Meeting, a presentation of the 2018 RCLS Budget will be Eleanor made followed by Kassner the election of three RCLS Trus- 4 SonicWall tees; one from Protects RCLS’ Orange and two Network from from Rockland Ransomware counties. Invitations have 5 Trustee been mailed to all Training trustees. No fee is Opportunities charged for this event as it is 6 Nomination of partially under- Bear Mountain Inn & Conference Center RCLS Trustees written by spon- Memo sors. Register by visiting the RCLS Event Calendar at rcls.evanced.info/signup/ calendar. Go to the event date (September 15) and click on the event title. Scroll down and click on “View More.” Complete the “Register For Event” form. Click on “Submit.” A confirmation e-mail will be sent to you if you have correctly entered your e-mail address. If you do not receive a confirmation e-mail, contact Ruth Daubenspeck at RCLS (845.243.3747, ext. 222). See YOU at the breakfast!
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Mark Your Calendar Media 101: Truth or Consensus Monday, September 4 Survival Tools in the Age of Fake News Labor Day On Sunday, October 1, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts RCLS CLOSED is hosting a two-hour entertaining and interactive roundtable Friday, September 15 that will focus on the perplexing RCLS Legislative Breakfast issue of factual reporting, the role and Annual Meeting of satire, the influence of 1960s Bear Mountain Inn 8:00 a.m. newsmakers and satirists and how to be an informed citizen. The Thursday, September 21 event envisions a nationally well- Professional Development Day known keynote speaker and expert RCLS CLOSED panelists, accompanied by a Sunday, October 1 college student who developed a FB news verifying app, a Media 101: Truth or Consensus member of our local press and a representative from our 47- Survival Tools in the Age of Fake member regional library system. News RCLS purchased tickets for member library Trustees and Bethel Woods Center for the Arts staff to attend the event for FREE. Register via the RCLS 4:30 p.m. calendar, not the Bethel Woods website and the tickets will be Wednesday, October 4 delivered to your library one week before the event.
Open Meetings Law RCLS 5:30 p.m. Can You Answer These Questions? Thursday, October 5 Trustee Orientation 101 • My library wants to start a Friends group. Whom do I RCLS 5:30 p.m. contact at RCLS for help? • The library’s circulation computer’s screen goes blank. Monday, October 9 Columbus Day Observed Whom do I call? RCLS CLOSED • In filling out the State Annual Report, who at RCLS will supply my library’s circulation figures? Wednesday, October 11 • Who at RCLS provides professional development for System Orientation library staff and trustees? RCLS 10:00 a.m. • My library has extra materials that need to go through the Monday, October 16 RCLS delivery system. Whom do I contact? RCLS Board Meeting • My library needs more library cards. Who at RCLS 6:30 p.m. RCLS handles these? Wednesday, October 25 • What is SEAL2? Trustee Education Session 102 • I have an article about my library for Pearl River Public Library 5:30 p.m. inclusion in the RCLS Weekly Memo. Whom do I send it to? Friday, November 10 If you were unable to answer any or all of Veterans Day Observed the questions above, you will want to join us for RCLS CLOSED the RCLS System Orientation on Wednesday, October 11 at Monday, November 20 10 a.m. Register using the RCLS online calendar at RCLS Board Meeting rcls.evanced.info/signup/calendar. RCLS 6:30 p.m.