If you are applying for an LSTA grant for 2008, please be sure your application is submitted in the online system at http://eGrants.ed.state.pa.us on or before September 7, 2007.

No one is abandoning the book just yet, but is an e-book reader that people will use on the horizon?   Maybe, maybe not. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_36/b4048065.htm

Learn about Equal Pay Day: http://www.pay-equity.org/day.html

Learn about Newport Public Library’s Ride to Read, a major library fundraiser with options to support the library including riding 5K,  25K, 50K, 100K or by participating as a ghost rider: http://www.newportpubliclibrary.org/ghostrider.htm

Learn more about the event: http://www.newportpubliclibrary.org/ride.htm 

Celebrate your freedom to read!

http://tinyurl.com/yw2n2q

Treasure your freedom to read September 29 through October 6 by displaying Banned Books Week materials at your library or bookstore.

Celebrate your freedom to read!
http://tinyurl.com/yw2n2q

Treasure your freedom to read September 29 through October 6 by displaying Banned Books Week materials at your library or bookstore.

Join Us
Celebrate!
The First Anniversary
Madeline L. Olewine Memorial Library

Monday, September 10, 2007

3:00 - 8:00 pm
Face painting, games and more

5:30 pm
SPIKE SPILKER, Storyteller

6:00 pm
Ceremony with light refreshments

6:45 pm
STEVEN F. JEWETT, Sitar Player

Join us for a Making it Count @ Your Library Workshop on using public library statistics.  Dr. Keith Curry Lance is an internationally recognized expert on library statistics who is also witty and entertaining.  Don’t miss this exciting program for public libraries of all sizes.

Public librarians and library trustees will learn to tell the library’s story with statistics, using:

• The strongest messages
• The latest facts
• The best sources

Participants will also learn:

• Who’s who in library research statistics
• Strategies for analyzing & presenting data
• Uses of data for strategic planning

This workshop will be held at the following locations:

Pittsburgh - Green Tree Public Library
Monday, September 24, 2007
10 W. Manilla Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15220-3310
Directions Using Mapquest

Clarion - Holiday Inn Clarion
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
45 Holiday Inn Road Clarion, PA 16214
Directions

Luzerne County - Luzerne County Community College
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Educational Conference Center (Building #10), Room 132
1333 S. Prospect Street Nanticoke, PA 18634-3899
Directions Using Mapquest

Harrisburg-Hershey - Holiday Inn Harrisburg-Hershey
Friday, September 28, 2007
604 Station Road Grantville, PA 17028
Directions

Cost is $15.00
Please make checks payable to Altoona Area Public Library.
Space is limited. Registration deadline is September 14, 2007.

Mail Payment & Registration To:
Bisbano/Making It Count
Pennsylvania Department of Education
Office of Commonwealth Libraries
333 Market Street
Harrisburg, PA 17126-1745

Please visit the following document for more details and the registration page:
Making It Count Registration Information

New Continuing Education Courses available from PLA!
Prepare Yourself for All Aspects of Public Library Management

Registration is now available for a Marketing Course.  This course will be held in Atlanta, GA from Wednesday Septemer 26-27, 2007.

For more information on this conference visit pla.org

To register online or view other available courses, visit the following link:
CPLA courses offered by PLA

On behalf of the co-chairs of the “Connecting the Community in the Heart of Hummelstown” committee, I invite all of you to join us for the Capital Campaign Kickoff of the new Hummelstown Library.

The kick-off is scheduled for Sunday, September 9 at 3:00 PM.  The event will be held on site of the new library location at Second and Railroad Streets in Hummelstown.  It will include fun, updates on the project, and refreshments!

We hope to see you there!

Karen Cullings
Dauphin County Library System

On Tuesday, September 25 David Lee King will be presenting a 3 hour overview on Library 2.0 at the Green Tree Radisson. 

Visit the following link for directions: Green Tree Radisson

Registration and Coffee will be available from 9:00 - 9:30am.
The Presentation will be from 9:30am - 12:30pm.

Please visit this document for more information and to print out the registration form: Library 2.0 Presentation

Questions? Contact Kelley Beeson 
By phone: 412-921-1123 or email: beesonk@einetwork.net

Learn some data from a poll on U.S. Reading Habits:

• One in four Americans read no books last year
• More women are avid readers than men
• Southerners read more than rest of country
• Democrats, liberals read slightly more books than GOP, conservatives

Read it all at:
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/wayoflife/08/21/reading.ap/index.html

The Best Practices Award winners will be acknowledged at PaLA’s Early Learning Forum and Best Practices Awards Luncheon on April 2, 2008 at the Hilton Harrisburg.

Attendees of this luncheon will have an opportunity to learn from and meet Katherine Ayres, author of “Up, Down, and Around,” the 2008 One Book, Every Young Child selection.
 
All Best Practices Award winners will receive their awards from Katherine Ayres, and their stories will be part of the Best Practices in Early Learning booklet distributed that day and shared with elected officials and policy-makers.

Please view the following document for registration details:
PaLA Early Learning Forum and One Book

Space is limited for this event.
RSVP by Friday, March 28 to Natonia Palladino, 717-232-1898 or fax 717-236-6793. Please mention any special dietary or other needs at that time.

Paula Gilbert
PaLA Public Relations/Marketing Chairman

Use the site for information on how to use new census data on poverty which is released at the end of August to enhance the case for providing library services to meet the needs of those defined as living at “poverty” level.

http://www.bostonconferencing.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=182&Itemid=157

San Francisco libraries have become neighborhood best-sellers

C.W. Nevius
Sunday, August 12, 2007
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/08/12/BAM4RGUC8.DTL

We need your Best Practices Award entries.
Why? Because we want to have solid proof that Pennsylvania libraries are excelling at early learning programming and making a difference for the future of Pennsylvania. And that because of your impact you are deserving of continued and increased funding at all levels. Now is the time to share your Best Practices.

The PaLA Best Practices Awards are due by Thursday, November 1, 2007.

Please view the following document for additional information and the awards application:
Best Practices Awards

Please send all email applications to:
Natonia Palladino at npalladino@pposinc.com.

Please send all hard copy applications to:
Natonia Palladino
PPO&S
122 State Street
Harrisburg, PA 17101

If you have any questions, please call or e-mail me:
Paula Gilbert
PaLA Public Relations/Marketing Chairman
pgilbert@yorklibraries.org

On October 11, 2007 at 7:00 am at New Cumberland Foundation House, CCLS will host an annual legislative breakfast. 

The deadline for all PaLA Conference Scholarships have been extended to August 31, 2007.

PaLA offers first time conference attendees, who are involved in Youth Services, the opportunity to apply for the Boyds Mills Conference Scholarship. Please visit the following link to view this form: Boyds Mill

Support staff, who have not previously attended PaLA, are encouraged to apply for one of ten Brodart/PaLA Conference Grants of $150 each. Please visit the the following link to view this form: Brodart/PaLA Conference Grant

Thanks to the generous donation of an anonymous donor, a Youth Services Librarian attending the conference but not for the first time, may receive a $500 scholarship. Please visit the follwing link to view this form: PaLA Youth Services

Don’t forget to register for the PaLA Conference. See the following blog for more information and a link to register online. PaLA Conference: Register Today!

What: Association for Rural & Small Libraries Conference

When: September 26-28, 2007

Where: Columbus, Ohio

Find out more: http://www.bcr.org/ARSL/index.html

Want to Carpool or find a roomate? Post here!

The Hiawatha Paddlewheeler Dinner Cruise, presented by the West Branch of PaLA, will be held on Friday October 5 at 5:30 pm. The event will include a trolley excursion, cruise down the Susquehanna River and dinner at the historic Park Place Hotel in Williamsport.

For more information, contact Stephanie Farr at sfarr@jvbrown.edu.

Stephanie A Farr
James V. Brown Library