Finger Lakes Library System

OverDrive Selectors Meeting
2026-02-23 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online via Zoom
OverDrive selectors meet to discuss trends, strategies, and best practices.

FALCONS Meeting
2026-02-19 09:30 - 11:30, 2025-11-20 09:30 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
The Finger Lakes Automated Library Consortium (FALCONS) meeting occurs quarterly. Open to directors and select staff. Please contact Eric for more information.

FLLS Board Meeting
2026-02-18 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-01-21 15:00 - 16:00 | Finger Lakes Library System Conference Room, 1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States
A meeting of the Finger Lakes Library System Board of Trustees. Board Meetings will be held at the FLLS building (1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca, NY 14850) unless otherwise stated. Please contact Sarah for more information.

MLSG Meeting
2026-02-17 12:00 - 13:00, 2026-01-20 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-16 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-09-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
The Member Library Support Group meets monthly. Directors, librarians, and support staff are always welcome at this meeting. We will discuss programming, outreach, collection development, and other library services. Bring your ideas and questions. Contact Jenny to join the discussion!

President's Day
2026-02-16 | Finger Lakes Library System Office, 1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca, 14850, United States
The Finger Lakes Library System offices will be closed for President’s Day holiday.

Directors' Meeting
2026-02-12 10:00 - 11:00, 2026-01-08 10:00 - 11:00 | Online via Zoom
The Directors’ Meeting occurs monthly and is open to directors. Please contact Sarah for more information.

Martin Luther King Day
2026-01-19 | Finger Lakes Library System Office, 1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca, 14850, United States
The Finger Lakes Library System offices will be closed for Martin Luther King Day holiday.

IDEA Committee Meeting
2026-01-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom
The IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility) Committee meets quarterly to discuss and develop initiatives for Finger Lakes Library System and our members. Open to IDEA Committee members. Please contact Jenny for more information.

New Year's Day
2026-01-01 | Finger Lakes Library System Office, 1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca, 14850, United States
The Finger Lakes Library System offices will be closed for New Year’s Day holiday.

Christmas
2025-12-24 - 2025-12-26 | Finger Lakes Library System Office, 1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca, 14850, United States
The Finger Lakes Library System offices will be closed for the Christmas holiday.

IDEA Committee Meeting
2025-12-18 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-09-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Online via Zoom
The IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility) Committee meets quarterly to discuss and develop DEI initiatives for Finger Lakes Library System and our members. Open to IDEA Committee members. Please contact Jenny for more information.

Directors' Meeting
2025-12-11 10:00 - 11:00, 2025-11-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Online via Zoom
The Directors’ Meeting occurs monthly and is open to member library directors. Please contact Sarah for more information.

FLLS Outreach Grants Lunch n' Learn
2025-12-10 12:00 - 12:45 | Online via Zoom
NYS Coordinated Outreach funds support member libraries annually through Outreach, Family Literacy, and Aunt Flow Mini-Grants. This session will introduce the new guidelines and processes for the FLLS Outreach Grants.
Join Jenny and Heidi for this short session to learn about:

Updated grant guidelines
New application and reporting forms
Funding availability
Helpful resources, and more!

Please bring your questions!

CSLP Summer Symposium
2025-12-04 11:00 - 16:00 | Online via Zoom
Join CSLP for ideas about the 2026 theme. The slogan, Unearth a Story,tm was chosen to align with this theme in a way that invites layered interpretation. Whether readers are digging into a good book, uncovering hidden histories, or exploring the past, the slogan underscores the joy of discovery that reading brings. It also emphasizes that every person and every community has stories waiting to be found and shared—through books, programs, and local knowledge.

Registration coming in October.

Thanksgiving
2025-11-27 - 2025-11-28 | Finger Lakes Library System Office, 1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca, 14850, United States
The Finger Lakes Library System offices will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

FLLS Member Library Trustees Community Read
2025-11-12 10:00 - 11:00 | Online via Zoom
Finger Lakes Library System is holding a system-wide community read for the title, The 12 Steps to a Community-Led Library by Audrey Barbakoff and Noah Lenstra. Each member library received a copy of the book. All member library trustees are welcome to attend.
(Dr. Barbakoff will be speaking at the 67th FLLS Annual Meeting on October 17th).
Look for registration details in an email from FLLS.

Summer Reflections Meet Up
2025-10-29 09:30 - 12:30 | Finger Lakes Library System Conference Room, 1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca, NY, 14850, United States

FLLS Annual Meeting
2025-10-17 09:00 - 13:00 | NY
More information coming this fall!

Indigenous Peoples’ Day/Columbus Day
2025-10-13 | Finger Lakes Library System Office, 1300 Dryden Road, Ithaca, 14850, United States
The Finger Lakes Library System offices will be closed for the Indigenous Peoples’ Day/Columbus Day holiday.

FLLS Community Read: Session 2
2025-10-07 12:00 - 13:00 | Online via Zoom
Finger Lakes Library System is holding a system-wide community read for the title, The 12 Steps to a Community-Led Library by Audrey Barbakoff and Noah Lenstra. Each member library will receive a copy of the book. All library staff are welcome to attend. Session will be facilitated by Jenny & Heidi.
In this session, we will discuss… Part III: Transformational Change, Part IV: Operational Change, Part V: Evaluating, Adapting, and Troubleshooting, & Conclusion: Moving Forward and Coming Back.

Creating a Sharing Culture by Setting Clear Boundaries
2025-09-24 10:00 - 11:30 | Online via Zoom
Every organization has a culture with spoken and unspoken “rules”. These “rules” include how much we are expected to share of our personal lives outside of work. This interactive workshop will provide participants with insight into your library’s culture of sharing and create space for you to identify how and where you fit into its culture-building efforts. With increased sharing comes greater responsibility-to feedback. Who is empowered to give feedback and set boundaries on what they are willing or unwilling to share? How do these boundaries look peer to peer and across power differentials e.g., supervisor to employee? Can pressuring our colleagues to share their personal stories create dysfunction on the team-or make it stronger? We will introduce and discuss several practical models and participants will leave with additional resources to practice and explore.
Presenter Bio: Mike Bishop Ph.D. is an educator and coach who has facilitated interactive workshops with a focus on human development, human rights, and human dignity for 25 years. He is a Freeville resident who organizes with his White neighbors against White supremacy through his activism, research, teaching, and writing. Originally from a small town in western New York, he spent seven years as a youth counselor leading adventure-based activities. He then worked in higher education for more than 20 years leading workshops, creating campus-community partnerships, facilitating dialogues across differences, and designing social action leadership programs. Mike works with stories to nurture anti-racist allies, growing social movements to challenge policies that dehumanize Black, Indigenous, and other people of color in rural New York state. He currently serves as the managing director of the Community-Based Global Learning Collaborative.
