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Mental Health First Aid Workshops

September 11, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Children's Services, Health Focus, Library News, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

The Capital Area Library District is partnering with WellSpan/Philhaven to provide a series of Mental Health First Aid Workshops (both Adult and Youth modules) in Dauphin County. See dates below. No registration fee 7.5 Continuing Education hours  What is this training and why...

WebJunction Offerings

August 29, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Children's Services, Disaster Preparedness and Response, Health Focus, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

WebJunction’s free, online course catalog has 55 self-paced courses on library topics, as well as over 260 curated webinar recordings ready and available when you are. AND WebJunction courses and webinars provide CE Hours for library staff in PA libraries!  Explore the catalog...

Toolkit for Those Serving Teens

April 28, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Resources of Interest, Rural and Small Libraries, School Libraries

Visit the Connected Learning Alliance to access GitHub, a FREE Toolkit for Youth-Serving Library Professionals and Professionals-in-Training and other resources.  The toolkit is a set of free, customizable, and self-paced modules that will help with planning, developing and assessing...

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...

Susan McClellan with equipment

Millvale Communiy Library Wins Limitless Libraries Grant from Microsoft

March 20, 2019 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Library News, Resources of Interest

Millvale Community Library was recently selected as one of 20 recipients of the new Microsoft Limitless Library Fund. The Limitless Libraries grant is designed to enrich the learning experience at public or school libraries and foster Mixed Reality adoption in education. The grant...

American Honda Foundation Offers STEM Grants

January 17, 2018 By Compendium News Staff In Academic Libraries, Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest

February 1st is the next deadline for grants offered by the American Honda Foundation. The grant range is from $20,000 to $75,000. The Foundation supports support youth education with a specific focus on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in addition...

Be Fearless Be Kind Grants

October 9, 2017 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Grants and Other Funding Opportunities, Resources of Interest, School Libraries

Hasbro will award BE FEARLESS BE KIND Grants of $500, $1,000, or $2,000 to nonprofit organizations and K-12 schools (public, private, and independent) in the United States. Grants will support youth-led community projects.  The deadline is October 31.  Learn more about the grants and...

Coding for Kids Webinar January 31

January 30, 2017 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Professional Development, Resources of Interest

Check out Coding for Kids, sponsored by DK and Rosen Publishing.  The webinar will be held January 31., 2017.       ...

Christine Kroger

Session Notes: Pennsylvania Library Association Annual Conference

January 27, 2017 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Library News, Professional Development, Resources of Interest, School Libraries

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....

Digital Learning Day

January 26, 2017 By Compendium News Staff In Children's Services, Professional Development, Resources of Interest

Learn about Digital Learning Day, to be held on February 23. According to the site, Digital Learning Day was started as a way to spread innovative practices and ensure that all youth have access to high-quality digital learning opportunities. ...