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Copyright Webinars

January 22, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, PA Digital Collections, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

Copyright confusion getting you down? The PA Digital Rights Team is here to help! Brandy Karl and Ana Enriquez of the Penn State Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communications and Copyright will answer your questions during these one-hour webinars. February 12– 1 to 2 p.m. March...

NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions

December 18, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Disaster Preparedness and Response, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries

The NEH is making changes to one of its grant categories, NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions. The deadline has been moved forward to January 31, 2019 (rather than the old mid-May deadline) and there’s a new maximum request limit of $10,000.  Learn more. ...

Digitization Initiative at Centre County Library & Historical Museum

August 21, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Library News, PA Digital Collections, POWER Library, Resources of Interest

Digitization Initiative  A Centre County Library & Historical Museum collection of correspondence, inaugural addresses and other documents called The Bellefonte Governors’ Papers is now available online through POWER Library. Bellefonte has been the home to seven governors,...

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Local History Expansion at Benson Memorial Library 

July 6, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Library News

Starting in mid-2017, Benson Memorial Library decided to expand its local history services by hiring its first full-time historian, Jessica Hilburn. Throughout her first year of employment, the library has been recognized for multiple major newsworthy accomplishments in the community....

NEH Common Heritage Program

April 9, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries

Small organizations are encourage to apply for this NEH Division of Preservation & Access Program! The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Common Heritage program supports community digitization and outreach events to increase public awareness and stewardship of heritage...

Common Heritage Grants Offered by NEH Division of Preservation and Access

February 20, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries

The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Preservation and Access is offering a Common Heritage Grant.  The program supports events organized by community cultural institutions.  Staff will digitize the community historical materials brought in...

Open Scan Day

January 1, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Library News, PA Digital Collections, Resources of Interest

The Pottsville Free Public Library will hold an open scan day on January 6, 2018!  Read about it. Learn more about Scan PA! ...

PA Digital Offers a Chance to See an Actual Metadata Review

November 1, 2017 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Data, PA Digital Collections, Professional Development, Resources of Interest

Ever want to know what PA Digital’s Metadata Team is really up to when they review collection records? Have any metadata questions so shocking you wouldn’t even ask your own grandmother? Are you convinced that your institution’s metadata is “not good enough,” without realizing...

Opportunity to Join Memory Lab Network!

October 17, 2017 By Compendium News Staff In Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest

DC Public Library announces a subgrant application opportunity for public libraries to join the Memory Lab Network project. (DCPL), in partnership with the Public Library Association (PLA), is distributing the Memory Lab model to seven public libraries across the nation with funding...

PaLA Tech Services Roundtable: Interview with Doreva Belfiore of HSLC

October 11, 2017 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, PA Digital Collections, POWER Library, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, School Libraries

Stephen Sarazin, 2017 Chair of the Technical Services Round Table of the Pennsylvania Library Association, interviewed Doreva Belfiore, HSLC’s Director of Library Services.  Watch the video!  (It is a playlist of 2 videos) Stephen Sarazin is Director of the Aston...