Library Advocacy Alert

NYS Library Aid for FY 2016-2017 needs support! Governor Cuomo has released his FY2016-17 Executive Budget proposal. Though the Governor proposed an additional $992M in education funding, a 4.3% increase over last year, he once again proposed flat funding for State Library Aid. Action must now be taken to let elected officials know that State Library Aid must be treated fairly in this year's budget and must increase in proportion to any increase in overall education funding.

NYLA has prepared a pre-drafted letter to voice support for fully funding State Library Aid in the FY2016-17 Budget. Click here to send the letter.

ENY/ACRL - NNYLN Brown Bag - Information Literacy Instruction: Reboot the Mission

Are you being asked to infuse and assess information literacy at your institution? Do you think that some students (and perhaps some faculty?) think that one 55 minute library instruction session is enough?

Join hosts Paul Doty and John Thomas for an informal discussion on library instruction. Paul has been involved with the New York Six Blended Learning project and John has a significant role with the development of a plan to more formalize, organize, and hopefully more fully infuse information literacy into the curriculum at Jefferson Community College.

Lunch will be provided. Please join us at the NNYLN office on Wednesday, March 30 from 11am - 2pm for this discussion.