On Monday, March 16, the 30th Annual Long Island Archives Conference: Embracing Change, will be held at Farmingdale State College Campus Center from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Conference speakers will discuss the multitude of ways in which we go about addressing change and what it means to genuinely embrace it.

The speakers are:

Robert Anen, Project Archivist, Long Island Library Resources Council

Dee Bowers, Archives Manager, Center for Brooklyn History

Amy Folk, Manager of collections, Oysterponds Historical Society & Southold Historical Museum, Town of Southold Historian

Natiba Guy-Clement, Director of Special Collections, Center for Brooklyn History

Marie Penny, Archivist, Planting Fields Foundation

Online registration for the conference is available until Monday, March 16, and tickets are open to non-members as well.

For more information or further questions, please contact Eliscia Cirrone at ecirrone@lilrc.org.

Elisha Feliz is currently an undergraduate Honors English Language and Literature student at Stony Brook University. She also received her associate’s degree in journalism from Suffolk County Community College in December 2023. She is the Head Nonfiction Editor for SBU’s literary magazine Sandpiper Review and the vice president of the Alpha Nu Zeta chapter of the Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society. In her free time, she enjoys watching films, reading literary fiction, and drawing. Elisha plans to graduate in May 2026 and is looking to pursue a career in the publishing industry. She is excited to join the LILRC and learn about the wide variety of opportunities librarianship has to offer. Elisha is deeply passionate about the value of literature and how books provide readers with the privilege of exploring and learning from perspectives different from their own. Ultimately, she is looking forward to serving the community under the guidance of this internship.

LILRC is proud to be one of only 40 winners of a programming grant awarded as part of a national campaign for the upcoming PBS documentary, The American Revolution, a six part series from Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt. The series explores the complex origins of the United States. LILRC’s proposal stood out among more than 440 applications from libraries across the country and is only one of two awarded in New York State. 

About the Series:

The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away. It impacted millions from Vermont’s Green Mountains to the swamps of South Carolina, from Indian Country to the Iberian Peninsula. In defeating the British Empire and giving birth to a new nation, the American Revolution turned the world upside-down. Thirteen colonies on the Atlantic Coast united in rebellion, won their independence, and established a republic that still endures.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the six-part, twelve-hour series on America’s founding struggle, will present the story of the men and women of the Revolutionary generation, their humanity in victory and defeat, and the crisis that they lived through. By weaving together accounts of American political leaders and their British counterparts with the perspectives of the so-called ordinary people who waged and witnessed war, The American Revolution will be an expansive, evenhanded look at the virtues and the contradictions in the fight for independence and the birth of the United States.

Please welcome Mehwish Hasan, Stony Brook University student, who is beginning her internship with LILRC on Wednesday, May 14. We are looking forward to working with you!

More information on the LILRC Diversity Internship Program can be found on our webiste or email Sally Stieglitz, Communications and Outreach Coordinator, at sstieglitz@lilrc.org