by Compendium News Staff | May 24, 2023 | Belonging, Equity, Inclusion, Professional Development
The Office of Commonwealth Libraries is offering Pennsylvania public library trustees a unique opportunity to become change agents for their communities. Library directors should encourage trustees to plan to attend the June – July virtual workshop series of...
by Heather Smith | Mar 29, 2023 | Belonging, Children's Services, Equity, Event, Inclusion, Professional Development
The Office of Commonwealth Libraries is offering a webinar that will explore a framework for choosing and using picture books as a tool to promote developmentally appropriate race talk. In this two-hour interactive session, we will introduce the idea of race talk in...
by Compendium News Staff | Mar 24, 2023 | Belonging, Equity, Inclusion, Professional Development
The Bureau of Library Development (BLD) in the Office of Commonwealth Libraries (OCL) is offering four virtual opportunities to attend INCLUDING YOU in 2023. The February – March workshop has already started. Other sessions are available, including a workshop...
by Corri Hines | Feb 14, 2023 | Belonging, Equity
Books about race, racism, gender identity, and sexual orientation have been banned or challenged at high rates in Pennsylvania schools in the past year. How can we prepare future educators to become advocates for the freedom to read diverse books? And what role do...
by Compendium News Staff | Jan 27, 2023 | Belonging, Equity, Inclusion, Professional Development
The Bureau of Library Development (BLD) in the Office of Commonwealth Libraries (OCL) will offer four virtual opportunities to attend INCLUDING YOU in 2023. INCLUDING YOU is an interactive six-week workshop series designed especially for library staff that focuses on...
by Carrie Cleary | Jan 19, 2023 | Belonging, Children's Services, Equity, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, School Libraries, Teen
ALA invites library workers to apply for ALA’s Great Stories Club (GSC), a thematic reading and discussion program that engages teens who are facing difficult challenges through literature-based library outreach programs:...
