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Multi-district Workshop – RA for All: Diversity & Inclusion through Reader’s Advisory

July 11, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Professional Development, Resources of Interest

The Northeast, Wilkes-Barre and Pottsville Library Districts will be presenting RA for All: Diversity & Inclusion through Reader’s Advisory workshop featuring Becky Spratford of RA for All (http://raforall.blogspot.com/). Spratford will present 4 modules detailed below –...

Diversity in PA Schools

July 3, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Children's Services, Data, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

The Pennsylvania State Data Center has released a map showing child diversity in PA School districts.  The years 2009 and 2017 are compared.   ...

$250,000 Community Impact Prize

June 3, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Uncategorized

A partnership between Library Journal and the Gerald M. Kline Family Foundation has created the Jerry Kline Community Impact Prize.  Learn more and apply by August 1, 2019. ...

All Types of Libraries May Apply for Great Stories Club Grants

May 22, 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

Great Stories Club Grants on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Learn  about the American Library Association’s Great Stories Club series on Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation (TRHT), a thematic reading and discussion program that engages underserved teens...

Teen Reading Lounge

Apply to be Part of the Teen Reading Lounge Project

April 17, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries

2019-21 TRL Application Announcement Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC) invites public libraries to apply to be part of a special two-year Teen Reading Lounge project with the goals of increasing participation of youth ages 12 -18 in quality humanities experiences and increasing...

FREE InfoPeople Webinars: Crisis Communication Plans, Celebrating Diversity & Multiculturalism through Crafts; Free Tools for Working with Graphics and the Web

March 14, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Professional Development, Resources of Interest

InfoPeople is offering the following FREE webinars: Creating A Crisis Communications Plan That Works –Presented by Kim Thursday, March 27, 2019 @ 3pm EST  In world with a 24-hour news cycle, libraries must be ready to communicate quickly about any crisis that may impact their...

FREE InfoPeople Webinars: Homelessness; Diversity and Inclusion; Children’s Literature

February 4, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Children's Services, Health Focus, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

InfoPeople is offering the following FREE webinars: Balancing Books and Social Issues: Homelessness and Trauma Date:  Wednesday February 6, 2019 Presented by Elissa Hardy With numerous budget cuts to social services programs, public libraries are encountering more individuals experiencing...

NASIG Diversity and Inclusion Award

February 2, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

The NASIG Diversity and Inclusion Award is open to members of an unrepresented group in the NASIG community who are in a position of a professional nature with primary responsibilities for some aspect of information resource management (e.g., serials and/or e-resources acquisitions,...

Workforce Recruitment Program for Employees with Disabilities

December 21, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Accessibility, Health Focus, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

Workforce Recruitment Program Libraries and other nonprofits may access the 2019 Workforce Recruitment Program (WRP) database, which is available to employers, in the private and nonprofit sector, seeking interns or employees with disabilities. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of...

Gale Topic Collections (InfoTrac Collections) added to POWER Library Portal

September 24, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, POWER Library, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

Gale Topic Collections (InfoTrac Collections) added to POWER Library Portal In addition to the new Gale e-resources that have been presented on the POWER Library Portal since August 1, there are also 29 additional topic collections (InfoTrac Collections) available if a user navigates...