Our Mission
South Central Regional Library Council leads, advocates for, and challenges libraries, promoting collaboration
in a changing information environment.
Our Organization
The South Central Regional Library Council (SCRLC) is one of nine Reference and Research Library Resources Councils that make up the
NY 3Rs Association, Inc. in New York State. As a multi-type library consortium, SCRLC serves approximately 75 members across 10,000 square miles in the counties of Allegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, and Yates. SCRLC provides services to 20 academic, 23 hospital, and 23 corporate and non-profit libraries, as well as 3 public library systems, and 6 school library systems and their members. and reaches over 500 libraries in its service area.
SCRLC was chartered by the New York State Board of Regents in 1967 and functions under state law and the State Education Department. Funding sources include the State of New York, grants, and membership dues and fees. SCRLC is governed by a representative Board of Trustees elected by the membership. In this collaborative environment, SCRLC staff and Board are assisted in needs assessment, planning, and implementation of programs and services by advisory committees and task forces. SCRLC members actively participate in the Council's programs and benefit from services and grant programs.
The SCRLC membership is strengthened by the diversity of resources, expertise, ideas, and perspective of its multi-type membership, bringing together library interests across library type. SCRLC is the means through which its diverse membership coordinates, networks, learns, advocates, discovers, and builds on their commonalities. Together, members can achieve a level of service for their users that would be impossible to do alone or as any one type of library. Multi-type library organizations like SCRLC strengthen library services, programs, and access to information for the benefit of all library users, the region, and society as a whole. Multi-type library organizations ensure everyone's success.
Our Programs and Services
SCRLC's programs and services enhance and facilitate member library cooperation, service delivery, resource sharing, and advocacy. SCRLC helps members with planning, grant opportunities, and challenges related to their library services and programs, conducting focus groups, providing discussion lists, and organizing special interest groups to enhance and improve library service. Our Plan of Service describes in detail the services, programs, and products available to member libraries. Click on the titles below for an overview of our programs.
Updated April 26, 2010
