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Join Libraries Decreasing the Number of Children Suffering from Hunger

December 4, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Children's Services, Health Focus, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries, Summer Food Service Program

Those kids are hungry…Prepare to Feed them!  The Summer Food Service Program is FREE!  This USDA program provides lunches and/or snacks for the children at your library and is administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education.  Find out more on the Summer Food Service...

Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood: Seed Money

November 27, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

The Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood offers seed money to implement proposals that will improve the lives of young children and which could have a potential national application. The deadline is January 31, 2020. ...

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PALS Writing Group: Welcome to the Library is Information Literacy Program!

November 16, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Library News, PA Forward, Resources of Interest

  by Meghan Lynch Business Outreach Librarian Chester County Library The Welcome to the Library program at the Chester County Library in Exton, PA, was inspired by the realization that although new library card holders are given a lot of literature about various library programs...

Playing Games at Schlow

August 3, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Library News

Read about board games at the Schlow Centre Region Library! ...

Community Partnerships and Programming

August 2, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Library News, Resources of Interest, rural, Rural and Small Libraries

Access the article, Community Partners Enhance Programs (opens as a pdf), written by Lisa Rand, Youth Service Coordinator at the Boyertown Library.  It was first published in VOYA Magazine June 2018. ...

Code Club Applications

June 29, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, rural, Rural and Small Libraries

Code Club For Small and Rural Libraries The Institute of Museum and Library Sciences is funding a grant to deliver all the resources necessary to run a code club in small and rural public libraries. Those resources include one-on-one training sessions, code club software,...

Passes at the Library Bring Thanks

June 25, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Library News, Resources of Interest

A thank you note was received from a happy customer! The family borrowed a museum pass from the Penn Wynne Library, a branch of the Lower Merion Library System.  The family was able to visit the Museum of the American Revolution for free with the pass. The pass is just one of many...

Butterfly Garden Focus of Programming

June 11, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Library News, School Libraries

Darby Free Library has added a Butterfly garden and is developing Butterflies from caterpillars. When the Butterflies mature and the garden blooms the butterflies will be set free. This summer long activity includes stories, crafts and caring for the garden and future butterflies....

Street Outreach Program Opportunity

May 26, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Health Focus, Resources of Interest

Street Outreach Program The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) within the US Department of Health and Human Services  announces the availability of funds under the Street Outreach Program (SOP). SOPs work to increase young people’s personal safety, social and emotional...

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Summer Food!! It’s Not Too Late!

May 22, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Health Focus, Resources of Interest, rural, Rural and Small Libraries, Summer Food Service Program

Learning does not end when school lets out; neither does the need for good nutrition.  YOUR LIBRARY CAN HELP!   Become a site or a sponsor for the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP).  This year’s application deadline is June 15. Learn more here! Engage your community–Engage...