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...

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...

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...

  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...

  submitted by Mary Kay Moran A new episode of the PALaunchPod podcast dropped on October 13. In this episode, host Tom Berman talks with Samantha Hull, Ephrata High School Librarian & Media Coordinator for the Ephrata School District in Lancaster County, PA about...

PaLAunchPod, a new podcast series created by Pennsylvania librarians taking part in a Pennsylvania Library Association-related initiative, will premier on February 1st! The podcast series features spectacular Pennsylvania librarians and the amazing things they do in their libraries...

By Jasmine Woodson Much of what we talk about when we discuss the literacies in PA Forward concerns how we can foster those competencies in our patrons. We rarely discuss, though, how each of the five literacies — information, health, financial, civic, and basic — furthers...