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Chester County Library Receives National Public Relations Award

July 23, 2020 By Compendium News Staff In Library News

  EXTON: The annual PR Xchange Awards recognize the very best public relations materials produced by libraries across the nation. Materials are judged on the quality of content, originality, graphic design, and format. Entries were evaluated by a jury of 21 talented marketing...

Chester County Library Continues Library Journal Designation as a Star Library

January 2, 2020 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Library News, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

EXTON: On the heels of being awarded numerous other accolades for 2019 including Pennsylvania Library Association’s State Library of the Year Award, the Chester County Library was named as one of America’s Top-Rated Libraries – earning the designation as a Star Library by...

Pa Library Association Provides National Library Week Media Toolkit

March 1, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Resources of Interest

The Public Relations and Marketing Committee of the Pennsylvania Library Association is pleased to offer a media toolkit to be used for celebrating National Library Week in April. The National Library Week 2019 toolkit is now available on the Pennsylvania Library Association’s...

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Chester County Library Staff Members Win National Contest

December 15, 2016 By Compendium News Staff In Library News, Resources of Interest

Chester County Library staff members, Jon Finkel and Carol Welch, won Online Computer Library Center’s (OCLC) national button slogan contest with their entry Either a Borrower or a Lender Be. Five representatives from OCLC stopped by the Chester County Library Tuesday morning,...

Hotspots – Libraries Check out the Internet!

February 15, 2016 By Compendium News Staff In Accessibility, Broadband, Library News, Resources of Interest

On October 19, 2015, the Chester County and Henrietta Hankin Branch Libraries launched a pilot program with T-Mobile to offer mobile hotspots to our customers for a nominal fee.  The Library hotspot program allows library card holders to access unlimited, high-speed Internet service...

Marketing PA Forward

November 15, 2015 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Library News, PA Forward

by Melissa Correll At the PaLA Annual Conference in October, I attended a presentation by Lisa Erickson and Amy Krize Suveg (PaLA PR/Marketing Committee) and Teri Hurst and Joe Knezic (PPO&S). Their presentation, “How to Use the PA Forward Brand, and Keep Your Identity”...