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Facebook Live has become popular for hosting library events as we explore new programming norms. How can we make the most of the Facebook experience for our patrons? What are the best ways to share and market within the platform, and what options are available? Please join us for an informative Q&A so you can get the most out of your Facebook Live events.

About the Presenter:

Noah Reed worked at Facebook for four years where he did social media data analysis. He is currently a social media and marketing freelancer as he finishes his degree in Business Entertainment focusing on marketing and design. Noah is also the cohost of the FANtom Zone podcast which is released bi-weekly and focuses on comics in its many forms. He is a host, editor, marketer, producer, and social media guru for the podcast. The FANtom Zone can be found wherever podcasts are available!

Infodemic101

This course is an introduction to misinformation and disinformation during the time of coronavirus. Developed in conjunction with Suffolk County's League of Women Voters.

Intro to Digital Accessibility – Jan 2020

Pre-Recorded

How accessible is your website? How does the current state of social media stack up in terms of accessibility? This online presentation will provide practical information on how libraries can make their websites accessible and how to make social media more accessible by recommending third party tools for users as well as best practices for library staff who are content creators for library social media.

Presenters: Walei Sabry NYC & Willa Armstrong, NYPL

Introduction to Web Accessibility

Recorded presentation on May 5, 2021

Laura Solomon for Infopeople

Gain an understanding of which guidelines are used to measure website accessibility in the United States, and how to begin to evaluate your own library's site for potential issues.

Topics for this webinar include:

What accessibility means in a web context, and how it differs from web usability
Legal issues surrounding web accessibility and how these can affect libraries;
National and international standards commonly used for accessibility evaluations, and which to use, when
An introduction to automated validators and what they can and cannot do;
Actual code examples for both good and bad implementations of some common HTML elements

Job Now/Vet Now

April 2021 Recording

Suffolk Library patrons have new resources to access! Learn about both JobNow and VetNow - two products created by Brainfuse. JobNow is a suite of services and powerful tools to help users in every step of their job search. By using JobNow patrons have access to resume assistance, career planning, interview coaching, and more. Through VetNow patrons can receive online support for Veterans including a benefits navigator, job tools, and college prep skills resources. Join experts from HelpNow as they show attendees all aspects of the two new tools.

LibraryAware - Getting Started

LibraryAware - Advanced eNewsletter and eBlasts

Little Free Pantry Presentation

This pre-recorded presentation is from the Adult and Information Services meeting on November 12, 2020

Linked Data 101

This pre-recorded presentation provides concrete examples of how Linked Data is enhancing patrons' discovery of library materials today using tool like Google and an explanation of how library staff can use existing linked data tools to enhance the library's own web services.

Marketing Through These Unique Times

Pre-Recorded

Mitch Tobol from CGT Marketing LLC will discuss social media marketing during the time of COVID-19 and self-quarantine. Mitch not only manages business social media accounts he instructs small business on how to manage their own social media presence for Hofstra’s small business courses. Learn some best practices from a leader in social media marketing.

Patron Authentication Options

Adult and Information Services meeting January 21, 2021 presentation on Patron Authentication Options

Maureen McDonald - Special Projects Supervisor

Ellen Nasto - Technology & Electronic Resources Supervisor

Nicole Turzillo - ILS System Administrator

Plain Sight Project

This pre-recorded presentation is from the Adult and Information Services meeting on February 11, 2021. The presenters discuss the Plain Sight Project

Presenters:

Andrea Meyer, Long Island Collection, East Hampton Library
David Rattray, Editor, East Hampton Star

Planning for Everything

Pre-Recorded
We can’t predict the future, yet we do it all the time. We organize events, trips, projects, days, weeks, and years. We plan to buy a home, build a career, learn to dance, teach a class, or get in shape. Our ability to model the world as it is and might be is a gift, but mental time travel is also really hard. Fortunately, since planning is a skill, everyone from playful improviser to rigorous planner can improve, and that’s the aim of this talk. Along the way, we’ll cover: the principles and practices of nonlinear planning; how to grow and sustain hope with willpower and waypower; when to pivot or persist with paths, goals, values, and metrics; how artificial intelligence is poised to transform what we plan; and the relationship between planning and information architecture. If you hate planning, maybe you’re doing it wrong. Learn how to organize the future by balancing chaos and control, and find the best way to do so for you.
Speaker: Peter Morville.

Public Programming in a World Gone Wild

Recorded presentation on April 6, 2021

Janie Hermann for Infopeople

As libraries closed their physical spaces in response to COVID-19 and CDC recommendations for physical distancing, library staff pivoted quickly to transform their services and to move public programming to digital platforms. Creating and hosting meaningful and engaging programs in a virtual environment provides many unique opportunities to engage audiences in new ways. However, it also presents a new set of challenges.

Reference Services and Programming Best Practices

Pre-Recorded

Samantha DiGiacomo, Head of Adult Services from Port Jefferson Public Library, will discuss how the library's newly implemented online reference service using phone and chat is working. She will describe the roll out and challenges they have faced in the last week .

Elizabeth Malafi Coordinator for Adult Services and the Miller Business Center Middle Country Public Library will discuss best practices for taking programming online.

Using PPE Mask and Gloves

This course is an introduction to wearing and using personal protect equipment like mask and gloves utilizing video content made available by health agencies.

Introduction to JEDI Terms

This course is the first in our EDI and Social Justice series. This module covers specific terms that will be used through this series of workshops.