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Pennsylvania Department of Education Launches New Podcast

February 2, 2021 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Children's Services, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

February 2, 2021 Harrisburg, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Education is launching a new podcast today titled “PDE Presents…” with Acting Secretary Noe Ortega. The podcast will share information about the mission and outcomes of education in Pennsylvania and across...

Webby Awards

December 11, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

Enter your library to win a Webby Award.  The categories are: Websites, Video, Advertising, Media & PR, Apps, Mobile, and Voice, Social, Podcasts, Games. The deadline is December 20, 2019.  Learn more and enter! ...

Sue Banks

Sue Banks: Audio Message to the Field

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

Did you miss Sue Banks’ pre-Thanksgiving voice email?  If so, here it is below!  Look for future “Suecasts” on the listservs and here in the Compendium!   Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! It’s been one year since I came to OCL and Harrisburg from my previous...

Rasmussen Featured in Schlow Podcast

December 2, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Library News, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

Schlow‘s Library podcast features the head of their IT Services, Nathaniel Rasmussen. Does your library offer a podcast?  Send a link to your podcast here to be shared with others in the Compendium.   ...

Schlow Library Podcast.

August 23, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Library News, Resources of Interest

Schlow Centre Region Library has launched the Schlow Library Podcast. The first episode is now available through iTunes, Google Play Music, or at schlowlibrary.buzzsprout.com. The weekly podcast will feature interviews and news about events, happenings, and services at Schlow Centre...

PA LaunchPod

New PaLAunchpod Episode with Guest Marilyn Holt

May 18, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Library News, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries

A new episode of PaLAunchpod dropped on May 15. In this episode, host Tom Berman talks with Library Services Manager of the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and president of the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society, Marilyn Holt about the history...

PA LaunchPod

New PaLAunchPod Episode!

March 16, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Library News, PA Forward

A new PaLAunchPod episode dropped on March 15. In this episode, host Heidi Abbey Moyer talks with Penny Talbert, Executive Director of the Ephrata Public Library. Talbert discusses her philosophy of embracing craziness and being fearless in forging and strengthening community...

PA LAunchPod Features Rare Book Librarian

March 3, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Library News, PA Forward, Resources of Interest

Checkout the latest episode of the PA LAunchPod podcast!  It features Iren Snavely, librarian for the Rare Book Collection at the State Library of Pennsylvania.  The podcast host is Tom Berman. Snavely discusses some of the challenges of balancing access and preservation, and...

McClellan Interviewed on Podcast

February 16, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Library News

Susan McClellan, director of the Millvale Community Library, is interviewed for ThatBroadcast.  Listen to the podcast [1:08:22; starts at 12:40] ...

New PA LAunchPod Episode

November 22, 2017 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries

  A new episode of the PALaunchPod podcast dropped on November 20. In this episode, host Heidi Abbey Moyer talks with Bernadette Lear and Eric Novotny, academic librarians and co-editors of the new scholarly, peer-reviewed journal Libraries: Culture, History and Society. Lear...