by Compendium News Staff | Jul 7, 2015 | Children's Services, PA Forward
The PaLA PR & Marketing Committee has provided a Summer Reading Press Release Template and sample socail media postings. Access the PA Forward summer reading press release and schedule some posts (see blow) on Twitter and Facebook to help build some buzz! Tweak...
by Compendium News Staff | Jul 2, 2015 | Health Focus, PA Forward
By Beth Cackowski One area of Health Literacy to which most people don’t give a lot of thought (or try not to, anyway) is end of life planning. Believe it or not, we had a program at the Elkins Park Library a few weeks ago titled “How to Have a Fun Funeral.”...
by Compendium News Staff | Jun 27, 2015 | Academic Libraries, PA Forward, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, School Libraries
by Diane Schmidt What comes to mind when you think about late July in Central PA? Heat? Storms? Librarians? In a way this is true but also in the form of “The Hot Topics of the day”—“Inundation of Information” – “Librarians and Educators” coming together for the 3rd...
by Compendium News Staff | Jun 11, 2015 | PA Forward
By Adam Balcziunas As I browsed through PA Forward’s Best Practices database recently, I couldn’t help but notice that the majority of contributions came from public libraries. In general, I have observed that my academic librarian colleagues are less likely to...
by Compendium News Staff | Jun 11, 2015 | Library News, PA Forward
The Abington Community Library has started ‘Ideal Partners,” which will showcase how local partnerships benefit the library and, in turn, the community at large. This campaign will follow the Pennsylvania Library Association’s (PaLA) 21st Century Literacies...
