by Compendium News Staff | Dec 19, 2018 | Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries
Infisys Foundation’s Infymakers Awards Contest is open from January 8 to February 21, 2019. Ten organizations will win a $10,000 grant. Learn more.
by Compendium News Staff | Dec 19, 2018 | Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Library News, Resources of Interest
Three branches of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh are participating in a pilot funded by Grow with Google. The program is a hotspot and laptop lending program. Read about it!
by Compendium News Staff | Dec 18, 2018 | Academic Libraries, Disaster Preparedness and Response, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries
The NEH is making changes to one of its grant categories, NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions. The deadline has been moved forward to January 31, 2019 (rather than the old mid-May deadline) and there’s a new maximum request limit of $10,000. ...
by Compendium News Staff | Dec 17, 2018 | Children's Services, Library News, PA Forward, Professional Development, Resources of Interest
By Stephanie Bragg, Children’s Librarian Paoli Library The biggest buzzword of the decade in children’s learning is STEM, or STEAM or STREAM, or whichever letters one may choose to represent. For those who may be unaware, the general concept is learning in the...
by Compendium News Staff | Dec 14, 2018 | Accessibility, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Professional Development, Resources of Interest
If your library is considering applying for a Keystone Grant for Public Library Facilities in 2019, the Office of Commonwealth Libraries encourages you to attend one of the workshops being offered in January 2019 at various locations around the state. Ed Lupico,...
by Compendium News Staff | Dec 11, 2018 | Children's Services, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries
You are welcome to join the 7th annual Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference, which will be held from January 23-25 http://www.wildwiscwinterweb.com/ The Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference is a state-wide virtual conference developed by the Nicolet Federated Library...
by Compendium News Staff | Dec 10, 2018 | Academic Libraries, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries
Beta Phi Mu offers scholarships for LIS studies, School Library Media Study, Continuing Education, Foreign Research and Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. March 15, 2019 is the deadline for most of the scholarships.
by Compendium News Staff | Dec 7, 2018 | Children's Services, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries
Sue Nespeca presents a YouTube video [1:24:44] of Summer and Fall books for 2018 on the Library Improvement Channel. Access the channel and the list of Fall books!
by Compendium News Staff | Dec 5, 2018 | Professional Development, Resources of Interest
Date: December 11 at 2:00pm EST Payroll for Nonprofits & Libraries: 2018 Law Changes that Affect You (Techsoup) In 2018, state, federal, and city governments together placed hundreds of new labor laws into effect. The laws affect workers in every industry,...
by Compendium News Staff | Dec 4, 2018 | Academic Libraries, Library News
Terri Gallagher, reference librarian at the Community College of Beaver County and Paula Kelly, director at the Whitehall Public Library, are 2018 I Love My Librarian Award winners!
