Money Smart Week & October Webinar
Your library can be part of ‘Money Smart Week @ your library,’ a national initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) and the Federal Reserve Bank (Chicago) to provide financial… Read more »
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Smart Investing online training opportunity
An online training course, Smart Investing: Reference Strategies and Resources, is available at no cost to librarians and other individuals looking to improve their reference strategies and knowledge of financial… Read more »
New Beta Catalog
WLS has been working on a beta catalog. This new version of the catalog creates a friendlier search environment and makes it easier to find both digital and physical materials… Read more »
New Website Offers Free Resources to Older Adults and Families
The Boxwood Alliance (www.theboxwood.org) offers a free aging in place resource for older adults and their families in Northern Westchester and Putnam Counties. The idea for both the website and the not… Read more »
Local Government Tax Cap Webinar
Want to learn more about the tax cap as it relates to local government? The Office of State Comptroller (OSC) will be hosting a Property Tax Cap webinar on Thursday,… Read more »
Delivery Services Request for Proposal (RFP)
A request for proposal (RFP) to perform the delivery service operations between the member libraries and WLS (a total of 45 locations) has been email to thirteen (13) local providers… Read more »
Library Advocacy
There are currently two political action committees (PACs) that address advocacy issues related to public libraries and library systems in New York State. The first, New Yorkers for Better Libraries,… Read more »
Free Professional Development Webinars
For all of you current and future librarians… mark your calendars. Here are some professional development webinars that might be of interest. All of these webinars are free of cost… Read more »
Westchester Business Roundtable At WLS
In an attempt to better connect with the business community of Westchester County, the Westchester Library System holds regular meetings with key members of the community. These meetings provide an… Read more »