by Compendium News Staff | May 27, 2015 | Health Focus, Professional Development
Mental Health First Aid is a public education program that helps the public identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illnesses and substance use disorders. Mental Health First Aid is offered in the form of an 8 hour course that presents an overview of...
by Compendium News Staff | May 26, 2015 | Children's Services, PA Forward, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, School Libraries
by Beth Cackowski By now you’ve probably heard about the importance of children learning to write computer code before they’re out of elementary school. The fear is that many librarians don’t feel comfortable creating environments for this type of technology or...
by Compendium News Staff | May 22, 2015 | Immigration, Professional Development
USCIS-IMLS webinar scheduled for May 27 2015 Washington, DC—The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will hold another in their series of free webinars for public librarians about immigration and U.S....
by Compendium News Staff | May 21, 2015 | Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Professional Development
Beyond Book Groups: Fun Library Programs for Adult Readers Wednesday, May 27, 2015 ♦ 2 pm Eastern / 11 am Pacific ♦ 60 min Registration: http://www.webjunction.org/events/webjunction/beyond-book-groups.html Think outside the book group! Libraries are re-engaging with...
by Compendium News Staff | May 20, 2015 | Health Focus
Access to free downloads of the Health Happens in Libraries brand image is now available, along with a Communications Guide with key messages that libraries can use to activate community health engagement with target audiences. These materials are available as a Media...
by Compendium News Staff | May 20, 2015 | Health Focus, Professional Development
Join WebJunction on Thursday, June 11 at 2:00 PM Eastern Time for a webinar focused on Launching Community Conversations with Local Health Data. A full description of this event including registration details is available here.
by Compendium News Staff | May 17, 2015 | Grants and Other Funding Opportunities
Funding from this National Endowment for the Humanities program strengthens efforts to extend the life of humanities collections and reference resources and make their intellectual content widely accessible, often through the use of digital technology. Awards are also...
by Compendium News Staff | May 15, 2015 | Children's Services, PA Forward, Resources of Interest
by Diane Schmidt Last week Osman Yahya, a middle school student, acted as moderator to a “virtual field trip” with President Obama. Osman may have stolen the show when he told the President to “move on” after a lengthy 3-minute answer to a question about writer’s...
by Compendium News Staff | May 15, 2015 | Resources of Interest
by Alice Quinlan, Community Engagement and Education Assistant, American Documentary | POV Every year POV assembles 16-20 films to broadcast nationally on PBS from June – October, and part of our mission is to lend out films for free screenings,...
by Compendium News Staff | May 15, 2015 | Children's Services, Library News
The Erie County Public Library, Raymond M Blasco Memorial Library, will hold a Comic Con, which will include artists, vendors, ‘Comic Book Jeoparady,’ an opportunity to learn how to design a character, write a story and lay out a comic book page and...
