by Compendium News Staff | Oct 30, 2019 | Children's Services, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries
Provide opportunities for the girls in your community and offer a Girls Who Code Club! Girls Who Code Clubs are FREE after-school programs for 3rd-12th grade girls, run by community leaders, teachers, librarians, and parents. Many facilitators have no technical...
by Compendium News Staff | Sep 25, 2018 | Children's Services, Resources of Interest
by Eva Balick: Girls Who Code Grows Our Free After School Clubs Program in New Jersey and Pennsylvania My name is Eve Balick and I am the Regional Partnership Coordinator for Girls Who Code in NJ and PA. a national non-profit the mission of which is to close the...
by Compendium News Staff | Jun 29, 2018 | 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...
by Compendium News Staff | Feb 25, 2018 | Children's Services, Library News, School Libraries
Somerset County Library is having a celebration of the Harry Potter series: Exhibition: Harry Potter’s World: Renaissance Science, Magic and Medicine This traveling exhibition was developed and produced by the Exhibition Program at the National Library of Medicine and...
by Compendium News Staff | Aug 29, 2016 | Academic Libraries, PA Forward, Resources of Interest, School Libraries
by Jasmine Woodson With some embarrassment, I start this article with the admission that my first introduction to PA Forward was through my experience as a PALS attendee this June. There was so much talk about PaLA’s PA Forward, and I sat mutely, racking my brain to...