by Compendium News Staff | Jan 28, 2019 | Children's Services, Health Focus, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, Summer Food Service Program
Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) is encouraging organizations across the state to help provide nutritious meals to children in low-income areas during the summer months through the Department’s Summer Food Service Program. “To grow,...
by Compendium News Staff | Jan 24, 2019 | Academic Libraries, Children's Services, POWER Library, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries
New QuestionPoint Interface, Best Practices, and More! Join Karri Sites, OCLC QuestionPoint Library Services Consultant, for a webinar demonstrating the new QuestionPoint interface, covering chat best practices, and more. Libraries that contribute staff time to Chat...
by Compendium News Staff | Jan 24, 2019 | Children's Services, POWER Library, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries
A collection of ALA e-books are now available in the EBSCO E-Books e-resource for Pennsylvania library staff. The e-books cover topics from storytimes, designing space, children’s literature, serving those with special needs, serving teens, intellectual...
by Compendium News Staff | Jan 24, 2019 | Academic Libraries, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest
The Library of Congress invites organizations committed to the advancement of literacy to apply for the 2019 Library of Congress Literacy Awards. Applications will be accepted from January 14 to March 8, 2019. Created and supported by philanthropist David M....
by Compendium News Staff | Jan 23, 2019 | Children's Services, Library News, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, Uncategorized
Martin Library is pleased to announce several special programs occurring soon. Please share with your friends, family and community connections. Grow with Google will take place on January 30th. Google is visiting libraries across the nation to share programs and...
by Compendium News Staff | Jan 23, 2019 | Academic Libraries, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Health Focus, Professional Development, Resources of Interest
In early February, the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region, will open funding opportunities for May 1, 2019 – April 30, 2020 projects. Requests for Proposals will be announced for the following: Health Information Outreach Project:...
by Compendium News Staff | Jan 23, 2019 | Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries
Attend a two day event in California or Toronto and become a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator. Raspberry Pi Foundation applications are open for librarians, classroom teachers, technology coaches, after-school club leaders and others to attend Picademy for FREE. ...
by Compendium News Staff | Jan 22, 2019 | Academic Libraries, PA Digital Collections, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries
Copyright confusion getting you down? The PA Digital Rights Team is here to help! Brandy Karl and Ana Enriquez of the Penn State Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright will answer your questions during these one-hour webinars. February 12- 1 to 2...
by Compendium News Staff | Jan 17, 2019 | Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries
The Stand for Your Mission Awards will recognize nonprofit boards that have “established advocacy as an expectation for engaged and effective board leadership and, by doing so, are helping their organizations realize their missions and set priorities in partnership...
by Compendium News Staff | Jan 16, 2019 | Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Library News, Resources of Interest
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has selected projects to feature on their website and two of them are from Pennsylvania! Chester County Public Library’s Digital Media Lab project and Lancaster Public Library’s Maker Passes Program were...
