by Heather Smith | Dec 9, 2024 | BLD News, Children's Services
Announcing the 2025 PA One Book: Arlo Draws an Octopus The PA One Book Committee is excited to announce the 2025 PA One Book title: Arlo Draws an Octopus written by Lori Mortensen and illustrated by Rob Sayegh Jr. Since 2006, the PA One Book program has been promoting...
by Heather Smith | Nov 25, 2024 | BLD News, Children's Services, Professional Development
The Tuscarora Intermediate Unit 11 on behalf of The Pennsylvania Department of Education, Office of Commonwealth Libraries, is accepting applications from public libraries to participate in the Play & Grow Library Project. The goal of the Play & Grow project...
by Julie Moore | Oct 31, 2024 | BLD News, Office of Commonwealth Libraries, Professional Development
Hello! Please find upcoming professional development workshops below. We hope you find these offerings useful. We are interested in receiving your recommendations. If you have suggestions for speakers or topics of professional development, please submit them here to...
by Julie Moore | Oct 15, 2024 | BLD News, BLD Updates, Office of Commonwealth Libraries (OCL) News
Hello library colleagues! The Bureau of Library Development (BLD) has been implementing a number of organizational and process improvements that are helping us streamline our communications and improve transparency in our work. As part of that process, we have been...
by Heather Sharpe | Oct 8, 2024 | BLD News, BLD Updates, Data, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Office of Commonwealth Libraries (OCL) News, Professional Development, State Aid, Workforce, Youth
Happy Fall, library colleagues! Highlights of the Bureau of Library Development (BLD) in the Office of Commonwealth Libraries’ (OCL) ongoing projects and initiatives are listed below, and BLD’s third quarter digest is included at the end of this post in case you...
by Abbey Lukiewski | Oct 1, 2024 | BLD News, Office of Commonwealth Libraries (OCL) News
The Bureau of Library Development (BLD) is implementing new district area names for four districts. After receiving a question in April about how to make a district name change, the Statewide Services Advisor developed a list of name change recommendations. The list...
