by Carrie Cleary | May 15, 2023 | Broadband, Equity, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities
Read below about opportunities for libraries, as community anchor institutions, to continue to play a role to close the digital divide and attain greater digital equity for Pennsylvanians due to funding from the federal government that Pennsylvania will deploy through...
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 Carrie Cleary | Feb 28, 2023 | Broadband, Equity
Read the press release from Department of Community and Economic Development: Pennsylvania Broadband Development Authority Seeking Public Input on Community Engagement Efforts – PA Department of Community & Economic Development. Pennsylvania Broadband...
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...
