Welcome Back!
2022-2023 School Year
Welcome Back!
Welcome Back from the SLS Staff!
We hope you are as excited about being back to school as we are that you are back! The summer has been busy as we prepared for your return. Kerrie has been scheduling the Council and Communication Coordinator meetings, meeting with new librarians (with Karin), and booking some fabulous guests for this year's professional development. Karin has been getting all of the Library.fyi pages set up, working on OPALS, and more. Nancy has been ordering your databases and working with vendors to ensure that there is no lapse in service, and Deb has been supporting all three of us with whatever we need. We are ready and looking forward to supporting you this year!
In September, we will send a newsletter every week to get you the most important information you need to start the year. After September, please look for a newsletter every other Monday. This year we will be replacing the "Rock" and "Rising" Star Librarian features with short write ups about what is happening in the various libraries in the region. If you've recently undergone a renovation or genrefied your library, have a great interactive display or a collaboration that went well, we want to hear from you. Please contact Kerrie with your news and we will add it to an upcoming newsletter.
It's going to be a great year! We are here to help you so please be sure to contact us if you need anything.
Kerrie, Karin, Nancy, and Deb
Welcome New Librarians, Librarians in New Schools, and Acting Librarians!
Argyle Central School - Ann Marie Bilodeau
Ballston Spa High School - Vacant
Cambridge Elementary - Jennifer (Jenna) McGreevy (acting librarian)
Fort Edward - Meredith Hazleton
Glens Falls (Kensington Elementary) - Annmarie Dumar
Glens Falls ( Jackson Heights Elementary) - Dania Bianchi
Indian Lake Central School - Julie Wolfe (acting librarian)
Minerva Central School - Kristy Miller
Newcomb Central School - Vacant
Saratoga High School - Carrie Giacobbe Gresens
Waterford UFSD - Roberta Doremus
Staff Changes
Below is a Google Form asking you to indicate any staff changes in your library. We need to know of any changes in order to add people to listservs and update our records. Please contact Karin or Kerrie if you have any questions. Please complete it by September 19th. You do not need to fill it out if there are no changes from last year. Thanks!
Interlibrary Loans
Professional Development
Unless otherwise stated in the Frontline description, all workshops will be held in person this year. We will follow WSWHE BOCES and health department guidance at the time of each workshop. If there is a need to go virtual, participants will be notified as soon as possible.
Current Issues in School Librarianship - PLC
We will meet monthly and participants will receive credit for the meetings they attend so if you can't make one or two, no worries, you'll receive credit for the meetings you do attend. We will have our first meeting at the WSWHE BOCES Conference Center on Ballard Road, but would like to have the other meetings at school libraries around the region. We will determine those locations at our first meeting and will relay that information to those who are registered. Click the image below to register.
School Library System Staff
Kerrie Burch, School Library System Director
Karin Howansky, School Library Media Specialist
Nancy Babbitt, Databases, Budgets, General Information
Deb Massa, Information Processing Specialist