Trustee FYI Ramapo Catskill Library System 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! 1 Trustee FYI 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. Thursday, November 23 and Friday, November 24 Tr u s t e e F Y I Thanksgiving Holiday The current edition of the RCLS Trustee FYI as well as RCLS CLOSED archived issues can be viewed on the RCLS website www.rcls.org under the dropdown menu “Publications.” 2 Trustee FYI Spotlight on RCLS Trustee Ellie Kassner Daniel B. Hulse, RCLS Development Officer Rockland County native and Tomkins Cove resident since 2012, Ellie Kass- ner is the newest member to the RCLS Board of Trustees. She was appointed to the Board in February 2017 to fill a vacant Rockland County seat. Growing up as a neighbor of the Tomkins Cove Library created her interest in libraries and Ellie has valued the library since she was old enough to read. A member of the Tomkins Cove Library Board of Trustees since 2013, Ellie presently serves as Board presi- dent. In praising her home library, Ellie explains that she enjoys the role that the library plays in the community and loves the chil- dren’s programs that Tomkins Cove Library provides. An avid reader, Ellie shares that her favorite authors include Roald Dahl, Toni Morrison, Albert Camus and Zakes Mda. Ellie earned her undergraduate degree from Skidmore College, double majoring in English Literature and Feminist Theory, with a minor in Business Administration and her Master in Business Ad- ministration with a concentration in Ethical Leadership from Marist College through a partnership program with Ramapo Catskill Li- brary System. She wrote her undergraduate thesis on Feminist Lit- erature Under Apartheid while attending the University of Cape Town in South Africa for a semester. Ellie explains that “the inter- sectionality of voices” always interested her. During 2009 in Cape Town, while writing policy for a shelter for homeless girls, Ellie met her future husband, Charles James. They were married in 2013 at the Stony Point Battlefield. Then in 2015, the couple had a traditional Xhosa ceremony performed in South Africa. Ellie is the President of W.H. Kassner, Inc., a third-generation Ellie Kassner, RCLS Trustee custom architectural iron working company that specializes in the fabrication and installation of stairs, railings, platforms and cano- pies on commercial construction projects. The business, currently run by Ellie and her business partner and brother, Dirk Kassner is located in Tomkins Cove. Her two dogs can also be found on-site serving as office dogs: standard poodle puppy, Kafka is an intern and shepherd mutt, Orion, is sleepy and makes daily executive decisions about which commands to follow. Active in public and community endeavors, Ellie also serves on the Advisory Board for the Palisades Institute and as a mentor for New York City Small Busi- ness Services’ Women Entrepreneurs New York City (WENYC) initiative. In her time on the Tomkins Cove Library Board, the library has updated its policy manual, dramatically increased its adult and children's’ programming and moved forward with major construction. Ellie’s leisure passions include the restoration of an 18½’ sailboat, home brewing sparkling apple wine and restoring vintage British sports cars. She is currently working on a 1960 Austin-Healey 3000. Ellie Kassner’s joining the RCLS Board is a positive match as she enjoys working with the other members of the RCLS Board of Trustees, in her appoint- ed committee roles and with the Board as a whole. She looks forward to contrib- uting her experience and knowledge in all actions and matters reviewed by this governing body. 3 Trustee FYI SonicWall Protects RCLS’ Network from Ransomware John Schneider, RCLS ANSER Manager & Network Administrator Wannacry! Petya! These are names of malware and ransomware that have been in the news the last few months, and with good reason. Both of these types of malicious code are designed to encrypt victims’ files making them unusable, and demand payment to have the data “unlocked.” This type of malware is known as ransomware. The only way to recover from this type of attack is to ei- ther pay the demand or restore the files from a recent backup. In early January 2017, the St. Louis Public Library (SLPL) computer system suffered a ransomware attack that impacted access to machines and data at all of their 17 branches.