<div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you Alex for sharing this!!  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">I encourage all department heads to share with their staff. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Stephanie McEvoy, Library Director</font></b><div><font face="georgia, serif">52 Ponquogue Avenue</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">Hampton Bays, NY 11946</font></div><div><font face="georgia, serif">631-728-6241 ext 101</font></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM Alex Giresi via scla <<a href="mailto:scla@lists.suffolknet.org">scla@lists.suffolknet.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto;font-size:14.6667px">Monday, September 22nd @ 2PM</b></div><div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto;font-size:14.6667px"><b>Zoom</b></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto;font-size:14.6667px"><b>2025 NCLA/SCLA/CLASC Professional Development Series</b></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto;font-size:14.6667px"><b><br></b></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto"><font size="4">Join us as Sam Helmick (they/them), the 2025-2026 ALA President, discusses reflections and practices for grounding ourselves when the world feels like, well, a dumpster fire. </font></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto"><img src="cid:ii_mfcqm5qg4" alt="Staying Whole in a Broken World..png" width="435" height="563"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto;font-size:14.6667px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto;font-size:14.6667px">Helmick served as a member of the ALA Executive Board and a past president of the Iowa Library Association. They previously served as former chair-elect on the Intellectual Freedom Round Table and chair of the Iowa Governor’s Commission of Libraries. They have served on committees for the Network of the National Library of Medicine, the Stonewall Book Awards, the ALA Policy Monitoring Committee, Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) Michael L. Printz Committee, the Reference and User Services Association (RUSA) Sophie Brody Award Committee, and the YALSA Fundraising Task Force. Helmick is a 2016 Emerging Leader, as well as an author, consultant, and instructor for social media marketing and graphic design. </div></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto;font-size:14.6667px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36);font-family:docs-Roboto;font-size:14.6667px">Attached is a PDF with a clickable registration link, an image with a QR code, and, of course, <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeiA8mAgA-Fi3ndKa4fv62DMnyKqrZHG2Cl3tS6WeQC4cGVMw/viewform?usp=header" target="_blank">you can register here.</a></div><div style="text-align:center"><br><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b><font size="4" color="#8e7cc3">Alex Giresi </font></b></div><div><a href="https://www.pridetraining.org.au/pages/pronoun-page?srsltid=AfmBOoqvL6SrNJpkRYZDOK7D8ApGbFQVrUUnPHC9KkzX9sUFDCJisBDC" target="_blank"><i>(she/he/they</i><i>)</i></a></div>Head of Teen Services <div>Co-Chair of the <a href="https://scla.net/lilpa/" target="_blank">Long Island Library Pride Alliance</a><br><div>Hampton Bays Public Library</div><div><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=hampton+bays+public+library&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1016US1016&oq=hampton+bays+public+library&aqs=chrome.0.0i355i512j46i175i199i512j0i512j0i22i30l2j69i61j69i60l2.3536j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#" style="color:rgb(26,13,171);outline:0px;font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px" target="_blank">(631) 728-6241</a> ext. 120<br></div><div><br></div><div><img width="92" height="96" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4wevbMWlAdg3qHNyHYP31DEz90uqsNNU13Ot997iVA_Pi3yu9eN2lG0bDbjofFUZQMktidQz7_3xwv7"> </div><div><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/email_signature_destination/92579623?utm_medium=reading_link&utm_source=email_signature" style="font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:10px;color:rgb(24,24,24)" target="_blank">Currently Reading</a><br></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;font-size:10px"><a href="https:/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