MHLS Continuing Education
We provide opportunities to member library directors, staff, friends and trustees to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to fulfill their roles and responsibilities and to proactively meet the current and future challenges of the community. We issue Attendance Certificates when appropriate.
- Directors & Staff
- Trustees
- Trustee Handbook Book Club
- Trustee Academy (for MHLS member Library Trustees Only)
- Cohorts
- 414 Libraries
- Early Literacy
- Turning Outward
Policies
- Policy Basics
- Recommended Internal Policies.
- Recommended External Policies
- Essential Documents
Grants
- State Aid for Library Construction
- MHLS NYLA Scholarship Grants
- Outreach Mini-Grants
Toolkits
- Public Library District Toolkit: Strategies to Assure Your Library’s Legal & Financial Stability (2021)
This guide conveys not only the technical aspects of stabilizing library funding and governance structures. It also provides insight from “lessons learned” over the past two decades. - Advocacy
- Library Advocacy Day
- MHLS Legislators
- Facilities
- Maintenance Check List
- Sample Facilities Plan
- Finances
- Audits
- Sustainable Funding
- Fundraising
- Book Sale Resources
- Fundraising Online
- Grant Sources
- Grant writing resources
- Planned Giving & Endowments
- Sample Fundraising Webpage
- Tax Exempt Status
- Planning & Evaluation
- Library Board Self Evaluation
- Technology Plan
- Personnel
- Laws & Regulations
- New York State Sexual Harassment Law Policy & Training
- Privacy
- Confidentiality & Libraries
- Patron Privacy for Frontline Staff
- Marketing & PR
- Libby Promotional Materials
- PR Materials Gallery
- Universal Class Promotional Materials
- Lab Projects
- Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
- Special Populations
- Programming
- Summer Reading
- Public Library Vote Toolbox
- Friends Groups
- Volunteer management