by Compendium News Staff | Feb 16, 2015 | Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Uncategorized
NEH and ALA are offering grants of $3,000 to $10,000 to libraries, humanities councils, museums and other nonprofits to develop public programming related to Latino American history and culture. The deadline is May 1, 2015. Learn more.
by Compendium News Staff | Feb 16, 2015 | Children's Services, Library News, Uncategorized
The Oakmont Carnegie Library is hosting local Pittsburgh authors on February 21, 2015. It’s a large list!
by Compendium News Staff | Feb 15, 2015 | Children's Services, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, Uncategorized
Miss the webinar? Watch the archived webinar What Newbies Can Learn by Making Simple Robots! This is a good intro with ideas for libraries. O’Reilly offers other live and archived webinars on business, design, data, programming and more.
by Compendium News Staff | Feb 15, 2015 | Professional Development, Resources of Interest, Uncategorized
Each webinar is filled with valuable information to increase your libraries’ social capital. You’ll learn strategies that expand your knowledge about personal finance. Reference desk scenarios capture best practices and a toolkit includes unbiased online...
by Compendium News Staff | Feb 15, 2015 | Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Uncategorized
The Knight News Challenge: Elections will open for applications on Feb. 25 asking people to submit ideas that address the question: How might we better inform voters and increase civic participation before, during and after elections? Winners will receive a share of...
by Compendium News Staff | Feb 15, 2015 | Accessibility, Data, Resources of Interest, Uncategorized
Efforts to make digital collections held by Pennsylvania libraries, museums, and related cultural heritage organizations widely and freely available via the web are underway. In August 2014, a state-wide group of library leaders from the Office of Commonwealth...
