Banner image for Compendium: News from Commonwealth Libraries with photo of Office of Commonselath Libraries building

REALM Project Test 3 Results Available

August 18, 2020 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Disaster Preparedness and Response, Health Focus, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

As part of the REALM project’s research, Battelle has conducted three natural attenuation studies to provide information on how long the virus may survive on materials common to archives, libraries, and museums.   Access WebJunction to learn the results! ...

SBA Paycheck Protection Program Loan Forgiveness Issues for Museums and Libraries

June 3, 2020 By Compendium News Staff In Disaster Preparedness and Response, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, Uncategorized

IMLS will host its second Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) webinar Tuesday, June 9 at 3:00 PM featuring Small Business Administration (SBA) Economic Development Coordinator Noah Brod to discuss the SBA’s and the Treasury Department’s recent interim final rule providing guidance...

Watch Recorded Webinar: SBA Paycheck Protection Program Issues for Museums and Libraries

May 14, 2020 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Disaster Preparedness and Response, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Health Focus, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries

Phase 2 Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) funding remains available. Watch this recorded webinar, with SBA Economic Development Coordinator Noah Brod discussing PPP issues most relevant to museum and library communities. https://www.imls.gov/webinars/sba-paycheck-protection-program-issues-museums-and-libraries   ...

Pop-Up Grants for Cultural Producers

April 15, 2020 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries

The Pennsylvania Humanities Council is currently accepting applications for its Pop-Up Grants for Cultural Producers program which is aimed at supporting libraries, museums, and cultural organizations in Pennsylvania seeking to launch virtual/distance-based humanities events, programs,...

Cardholders Get Passes to 11 Attractions

December 5, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Children's Services, Library News, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

Philadelphia Free Library patrons can check out an Experience Pass for access to cultural attractions.  Read more in The Patch. ...

Registrars

Les Bénévoles Creates Realia Data Base for PA Library

November 22, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Library News, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

Two attendees of Les Bénévoles created and taught the use of a data base to record all non-book artifacts for the Darby Free Library. The Library had a room dedicated to the history of the community and none of the realia had been previously catalogued.  The volunteers, Collection...

Robert M. Gallivan

GAC Profile: Robert M. Gallivan

February 1, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Governor's Advisory Council (GAC), Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

Robert Gallivan, PhD,  is a lay member the Governor’s Advisory Council from Erie. He is on the bylaw committee and has served on the legislative committee, as well as others. Gallivan is a retired Organic Chemist. He earned a PhD in organic chemistry from Purdue University...

Nominate Your Museum or Library for an IMLS National Medal

July 31, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Resources of Interest

Nominate Your Museum or Library for an IMLS National Medal Submissions Due October 1, 2018 Washington, DC—The Institute of Museum and Library Services is now accepting nominations for the 2019 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation’s highest honor...

Making + Learning in Museums and Libraries

June 29, 2017 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Resources of Interest

The IMLS has announced the release of a new publication: Making + Learning in Museums and Libraries: A Practitioner’s Guide and Framework, which identifies conditions to support learning in makerspaces. The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh will launch a MOOC (massive open online...

Libraries Can Join Nationwide Project: History Unfolded

May 16, 2017 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Resources of Interest

Check out Unfolding History at Your Library on WebJunction.  This nationwide project from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, DC, is excavating the evidence for what was possible for Americans to have known about the Holocaust as it was happening...