Ask the Lawyer ESLN Webinar- Accommodations in the Library: Employee Edition
10:00AM-11:30AM December 4th, 2024
This training session will walk library employees and directors through the legal basis for handling accommodations in the workplace, the factors involved in considering and granting an accommodation request, and more.
New Collection: Town of Mentz Historical Collection
December 13th, 2024
The Town of Mentz includes the village of Port Byron, north of Auburn. The town clerk worked with Seymour Library to digitize their earliest records, which include boundaries, names, and voting records.
Backbone Ridge is between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake, straddling Schuyler and Seneca counties. The federal government bought failing farms from anyone interested in leaving and turned the land into the Finger Lakes National Forest. The Backbone Ridge History Group seeks to identify, repair, and catalog the cemeteries of those communities.
New Collections: Ethnic Diversity of Broome County
December 13th, 2024
Binghamton is a diverse city, thanks to a bustling economy over the last century and waves of immigration. The American Civic Association was founded there in the 1930s to help immigrants settle. These photographs from the Broome County Historical Society's collection show Italian parades, Slovak women stripping feathers, the ACA office in the 1970s, and a naturalization ceremony.
Local history materials found in the Cortland Free Library's archives, including transcripts of 1979 oral histories of Lebanese and Italian immigrants. There is also an article written by renowned Cortland native David Eugene Smith, one of the founders of the field of mathematics education.
Join Nellie Brown for a webinar on the effects of shift work, the advantages and disadvantages to dealing with different work schedules, and strategies for dealing with stress.