2025-2026
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August - November
Wednesday, July 2nd is 2025’s halfway point;
Thursday, July 3rd means we’re closer to 2050 than 2000
Dates: July 31 – August 1
Location: OCM BOCES, Syracuse
What to Expect:
This institute is designed to equip you with tools, knowledge, and collaborative connections that will position you as a leader in your district's AI and information literacy work.
We will discuss the services that School Library System provides to our component districts as well as answer any questions new librarians may have.
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Discovery Education continues to empower educators with resources, strategies and tools for creating quality lessons using multi-modal digital resources. For Back-to-School, we are combining all that teachers and students love about the DE ecosystem with new content to keep all learners curious and engaged. Join us this Fall at Eastern Suffolk BOCES to learn about the best ways to utilize all that Discovery Education has to offer as well as exciting updated features, synchronous and asynchronous activities, assignment templates, background builder lessons and much more!
Presented by Greg Anderson, Partner Success Manager, Discovery Education
Increase your social media presence with ready-to-go resources. Engage your students with book trailers and other videos on the platforms they use most. Create opportunities to involve students in the selection and promotion of books they most love. Keep your community informed about titles they'll want to discuss in their own homes.
Presented by Crystal Ballard and Kim Hooper, Training Specialists, TeachingBooks
Join us to discover time saving ideas to use before, during, and after reading a book. TeachingBooks offers a collection of resources to incorporate into any read aloud, literature lesson, or book group.
Presented by Crystal Ballard and Kim Hooper, Training Specialists, TeachingBooks
Email us for further information at longislandsla@gmail.com for meet up opportunities during this event.
"It's All About the Questions”
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In this day long meeting, participants will focus on how to develop questions and questioning strategies that contribute to higher order thinking and deeper understanding and learning. Participants will learn concepts and techniques that they can immediately implement during this highly interactive and engaging session.
Presented by Dr. Steven W. Edwards, President, CEO, Edwards Educational Services
Follett User Group
Zoom TBD
Friday, October 24, 2025
School libraries play a vital role in fostering equity and inclusion for all students, including those with disabilities. This engaging, hands-on workshop equips school librarians with practical tools, resources, and strategies to make their libraries truly accessible learning environments. Participants will gain insight into serving students with a wide range of disabilities, including sensory, learning, and behavior challenges in both elementary and secondary school settings.
This workshop will provide the knowledge and confidence needed to ensure that every student-regardless of ability-can see the library as a welcoming place to learn, create, and belong.
Presented by CMDI, Consulting That Makes a Difference
OPALS User Group
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December - February
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Enrich your learning space with quick and easy Book Hooks from TeachingBooks. Using QR Code shelf talkers, you can engage readers with author interviews, video book trailers, audio excerpts, and book-related games that bring books to life. Each activity covered in this session will be demonstrated in multiple ways, so that you are ready to implement them in your classrooms and libraries.
Presented by Crystal Ballard and Kim Hooper, Training Specialists, TeachingBooks
Enrich your learning space with quick and easy Book Hooks from TeachingBooks. Using QR Code shelf talkers, you can engage readers with author interviews, video book trailers, audio excerpts, and book-related games that bring books to life. Each activity covered in this session will be demonstrated in multiple ways, so that you are ready to implement them in your classrooms and libraries.
Presented by Crystal Ballard and Kim Hooper, Training Specialists, TeachingBooks
March - June
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OPALS User Group
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Get excited about summer reading! Join us for a look at summer reading lists, activity ideas, and ways to inspire independent reading with TeachingBooks resources that let the books and their authors speak for themselves.
Presented by Crystal Ballard and Kim Hooper, Training Specialists, TeachingBooks
Get excited about summer reading! Join us for a look at summer reading lists, activity ideas, and ways to inspire independent reading with TeachingBooks resources that let the books and their authors speak for themselves.
Presented by Crystal Ballard and Kim Hooper, Training Specialists, TeachingBooks
Follett User Group
Zoom TBD
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Book Doctor Workshops provide book care training with the aim of helping you keep your collection in circulation longer. Training includes protection and repair techniques and offers a hands-on experience, ideas for protecting books ahead of circulation, and tried-and-true methods for a variety of repairs. Workshops typically cover how to do basic page repairs, tip-ins, hinge and spine repairs, book jacket and laminate applications, and how to reinforce spines. Course notes with links to other free resources such as how-to videos, product directories, and a repair guide will be provided.
Your Book Doctor is Kimberly Young. She's worked in a wide variety of library settings across regionally, socially, and culturally diverse areas of the U.S. Her work focuses on collection development, material processing, and book care. As the Book Doctor, she's traveled the country helping hundreds of attendees build a range of new skills, a better understanding of processing books, and confidence. Kimberly loves meeting all the new people who are as passionate about book care as she is.
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Join us for an engaging and interactive workshop designed to empower librarians with innovative, hands-on techniques that bring books to life! Turning Pages into Practice blends the art of storytelling with practical, educational activities that encourage deeper engagement with library materials. In this session, you'll explore creative ways to integrate hands-on learning into your library programming, utilizing books not just as sources of knowledge, but as dynamic tools for discovery.
Presented by Jessica Donovan, Educational Sales Consultant, Mackin
NYLA/SSL 2026
Ithaca, NY
April 30 - May 2
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