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Work on Pennsylvania’s LSTA 5-Year Plan Underway

November 5, 2021 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, School Libraries, Uncategorized

The Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) is the only federal program exclusively for libraries. It is administered by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).  IMLS uses a population driven formula to distribute funds to states through its Grants to States program. ...

Record Number of Libraries Achieve Gold Star Recognition in Fourth Quarter

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

Pennsylvania Library Association recognizes libraries for PA ForwardTM Star achievements earned between October 1 and December 15, 2019 Mechanicsburg, PA (January 1, 2020) – The Pennsylvania Library Association just announced the 2019 fourth quarter PAForwardTM Star Library awardees....

Brianna Crum

Session Notes: ALA Annual Conference

August 21, 2017 By Compendium News Staff In Professional Development, Resources of Interest

This is part of a series of Session Notes from grantees who have received Professional Development grants from the Office of Commonwealth Libraries. Each grantee will share their professional development experience and include tips and other resources from the workshop or class....

LSTA Competitive Cycle Update

November 27, 2015 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, PA Digital Collections, PA Forward, Resources of Interest, School Libraries

We continue to move towards finalizing the processes and procedures for the next LSTA Competitive Cycle. As mentioned previously we will be switching to an e-Grant format that will hopefully make the application process more user friendly.  We will be scheduling webinars with the...

Lower Providence

June 21, 2015 By Compendium News Staff In Library News

Lower Providence Community Library uses a grant to provide technology training. ...

LSTA

March 13, 2015 By Compendium News Staff In Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Library News, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

The State Library launched a competitive LSTA grant process this fall.  We received 80 grant requests for a total of $1,966,074.98. A careful review process of all projects was conducted and a total of $413,416 was awarded to the following projects: Grantee Project Title Grant Central...