Continuing Education
Commonwealth Libraries sponsors a variety of continuing education opportunities each year to help those responsible for library service develop their skills and learn new approaches.
Workshops and conferences cover such topics as collection development, library management and library services to targeted groups (children, older adults, persons with disabilities, the business community, and others).
The Office of Commonwealth Libraries also makes grants available for regions to offer special institutes for public library trustees.
Continuing education assistance is available to defray the costs of workshops and seminars that are not part of formal degree work. Full-time staff members from all types of libraries and public library trustees are eligible to apply for these funds.
Access the Continuing Education Assistance Application
For more information, contact:
Pennsylvania Bureau of Library Development
717-783-5738
ra-libdev@state.pa.us
Resources:
- Continuing Education Assistance Application
- Continuing Education Guidelines for Library Staff, approved by the Governor's Advisory council on Library Devopment on March 11, 2008, provides the continuing education requirements for meeting standards for library staff specified in the Library Code.
- Professional Development Opportunities (recently listed in the Compendium)
- Other Training Resources
Most Recently Added
Application for ASRL Scholarship
Document / Last Modified: 17 May 2013
This is a scholarship application for the 2013 Association for Rural and Small Libraries Conference.
Application for the Association for Bookmobile & Outreach Services Annual Conference
Document / Last Modified: 26 March 2013
This is the Application for the Association for Bookmobile & Outreach Services Annual Conference - “Thinking Outside the Walls." The application deadline is July 30, 2012.
Continuing Education Assistance Application
Document / Last Modified: 26 March 2013
Apply for funds to attend a training relevant to your present position. Public library trustees may also apply for funds for training identified as relevant to their board responsibilities. Reimbursable costs may not exceed $600.
Reinventing Libraries Planning Workbook
Document / Last Modified: 26 March 2013
Scholarship Application for the Accidental Public Library Technology Trainer Course
Document / Last Modified: 26 March 2013
This is an application for a scholarship to attend the "Accidental Public Library Technology Trainer" course.
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