Pennsylvania Department of Education

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Pennsylvania Libraries
Chambersburg S.D.
Ephrata Middle School Library
Adams County Library

Ephrata High School Library
Lititz Public Library
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Pennsylvanias System of Public Libraries

• 442 local libraries 641 outlets
• 29 District Library Centers
• 33 Federated County Library Systems
• 4 Statewide Library Resource Centers
• Philadelphia
• Pittsburgh
• Penn State
• State Library

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Pennsylvanias Public Libraries

• reach people
• 5.4 million Pennsylvanians have public library
  cards and borrowed 62 million books and other
  materials in 2003.
• 23 million of those items were borrowed by
  children aged 14 and under.
• In 2004, more than 225,000 children participated
  in the public library summer reading program.

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Pennsylvanias Public Libraries

• reach parents
• Born to Read, Beginning with Books and Reach Out
  and Read programs show parents how to encourage
  their childs emergent literacy.
• Mother Goose Asks Why? Introduces basic science
  skills through childrens literature
• Partnerships with Family Literacy, Head Start,
  and schools to support at risk families so
  children start school ready to learn.
• Family Place libraries strengthen families
  through information about parenting and child
  development in parent-child workshops and
  parenting collections.

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Pennsylvanias Public Libraries

• reach early childhood teachers
• Through high quality childrens literature,
  professional collections, and theme kits provided
  to preschools, child care centers, head start and
  home child care providers.
• By making site visits to model reading aloud and
  storytelling techniques that foster emergent
  literacy skills.
• By operating bookmobiles with materials just for
  preschoolers and their caregivers.

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Pennsylvanias Public Libraries

• reach students
• Philadelphias project LEAP Pittsburghs
  homework help in collaboration with RIF Yorks
  homework helpers in collaboration with PSU York.
• Pittsburghs Project BLAST libraries and schools
  together to increase 3rd graders discussion,
  comprehension and vocabulary.
• Real time, online homework help through Tutor.com
  in Allegheny, Chester, Erie, Lancaster, Lycoming
  and Philadelphia counties.
• Every day across the state when the students come
  in after school to work on their assignments.

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Pennsylvanias Public Libraries

• reach students in the summer
• Summer reading programs to maintain students
  reading skills while encouraging a lifelong love
  of reading.
• Cybercamps to encourage students to have fun
  while sharpening their research skills.
• Enrichment programs in arts, science and the
  humanities.

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Pennsylvanias School Libraries

• 3,568 public school libraries with 2,228
  certified school librarians.
• Approximately 2,400 non-public school libraries.

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Pennsylvanias School Libraries

• Support the school curriculum
• by providing necessary resources to enable
  students to meet the Pennsylvania Academic
  Standards

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Pennsylvanias School Libraries

• Prepare students
• to deal with a world in which information
  literacy skills have become as essential to
  success as reading itself.

Ephrata School District
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Pennsylvanias School Libraries

• Are critical partners in ensuring that school
  districts meet the reading requirements that are
  part of NCLB.
• Studies in 14 states have shown that a strong
  school library program contributes to higher test
  scores.

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Pennsylvanias School Librarians

• Provide a setting where students develop skills
  they will need as adults to locate, analyze,
  evaluate, interpret, and communicate information
  and ideas in an information-rich world.
  (information literacy)
• Collaborate with all classroom teachers to
  integrate information literacy into all
  curriculum areas.

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• Mission
• To strengthen and improve Pennsylvania libraries.

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• Strengthens improves libraries
• Funding
• Subsidy
• Grants
• Advisory Services
• Professional Development
• Statewide Programs
• PDE Resource Center

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• Funding for Public Libraries
• Subsidy State Aid to Public Libraries
• Grants Federal and State

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State Aid has strings attached

• Increased state aid new standards
• 11 average increase in hours open per week
• 37 average increase weekend hours
• 31 increase in materials expenditures.
• With this increase, Pennsylvania ranks 27th
• among the states in materials expenditures.

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Pattern of PA Public Library Funding

• 25 state aid
• 60 local government
• 15 other (fundraising, etc.)
• ________
• 100

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Library Funding in Pennsylvania

• Not mandated.
• Local control and local effort essential.

• State aid is a partnership with local libraries
  and the local governments that support them.
• State funding accounts for 25, on average, of
  public library operating income.
• State subsidy formula acts as an incentive for
  local support.

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Progress of Pennsylvania Public Libraries 1998 to
2003

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• 1998 2003 Increase
• Average Hours Open/Wk 44.4 49.1 11
• Average Weekend Hrs 5.2 7.1 37
• Total Circulation 54 million
  62 million 15
• Attendance 38 million 39
  million 3
• Public Use Computers 3,386
  6,735 99
• Collection Expend. 32
  million 42 million 31
• Income/Local Gov.t 137 million 179
  million 31
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State Grant Programs

• Library Services
• and Technology Act
• (LSTA) federal
• Grants for library projects
• Networked Information Access
• Cooperative Efforts and Resource Sharing
• Library Services to Specific Groups

• Keystone Recreation,
• Park Conservation
• Fund state
• Grants for library facilities
• New construction
• Renovation/expansion
• Nonroutine maintenance

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Library Service to the Visually Impaired and
Disabled

• Talking Books, large print materials and Braille
  are available free to people with visual
  impairments or disabilities that preclude their
  use of regular printed materials.
• Two Regional Libraries for the Blind and
  Physically Handicapped, operated by the Free
  Library of Philadelphia and the Carnegie Library
  of Pittsburgh.
• Partnership of federal and state funding.
• Free postage to deliver to eligible residents.

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Advisory Services

• Nine Library Development Advisers
• Two School Library Development Advisers
• Field advisory and technical assistance
• Work with library staff to improve services.
• Work with school boards, municipal officials,
  library trustees, institution administrators to
  improve library support.

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• Extensive Professional Development
• Ready to Read Four workshops held across the
  state to teach librarians and the early childhood
  community about the latest brain development
  research, the five building blocks of reading and
  how to share this information with parents and
  caregivers.
• Technology Workshops Train-the-trainer
  instruction to guide childrens librarians in the
  use of age-appropriate web sites.

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Extensive Professional Development

• PC Basics
• Toolkit for School Librarians
• Assistive technology in collaboration with Temple
  University
• Trustee Institutes
• Institution Librarians Conference
• Leadership Institutes

• Grant-writing teleconferences
• Library construction
• Medicare teleconference with Dept. of Aging
• Multicultural workshops
• Family Literacy with ABLE
• Bookmobile conference
• Youth Services Institute
• Library Collection Management

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State Programs for Libraries
Database Statewide Card
Summer Reading Program
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State ProgramsThe Access Pennsylvania Database

• Statewide union (joint) catalog
• Largest in the nation
• 3,000 school, public, special and academic
  libraries
• 8 million unique items, and
• locations for 48 million items held in
  Pennsylvania library collections.
• Participating libraries loan materials across the
  state. Last year they shared over 100,000 items.

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State ProgramsThe Access Pennsylvania Database

• Expanded services
• Electronic books
• Professional development database
• Identification and indexing of quality websites
• Readers advisory
• NoveList
• Book Index with Reviews

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State Programs

• Statewide Card System
• Allows Pennsylvanians to use any state-aided
  library in the state if they have a card from
  their home library.
• We compensate libraries for a portion of the cost
  of serving people from outside their direct
  service areas.

• Interlibrary Delivery Service
• Subsidizes delivery from one library to another

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The Pennsylvania Online World of Electronic
Resources Library

• Statewide licenses for the use of
• periodical and reference databases.
• Not available for free on the web.
• Authoritative sources.
• Includes resources designed for children.
• Efficient use of state resources.

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• PDE Resource Center
• Teaching and learning resources loaned to PDE
  employees and other Pennsylvanians
• 11th Floor, 333 Market Street
• Catalog available at
• www.statelibrary.state.pa.us
• Especially strong in literacy and career and
  technical education resources.

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