The Pennsylvania Library Association (PaLA) has honored Bethel Park and Mt. Lebanon public libraries with Best Practices Awards for programming and services to children under the age of six, their families, and caregivers.
Bethel Park Library received an award for programs for children between four and six Years of Age for its Kinder-Ready Families. This literacy-based "mini-preschool" was designed to help smooth the transition to public schools. Children starting kindergarten the next fall - and their parents - learned a variety of educational and practical topics.
For family programming, Mt. Lebanon Public Library won for Sunday Fun-Days. For six weeks in January and February, the library is the place to be on Sunday afternoons. Storytelling, music, games, and art projects are all designed to beat the winter blahs - and cabin fever.
The awards were presented at the sixth annual Early Learning Forum and Best Practices Luncheon, Pennsylvania Libraries: Learning Starts Here! -- an education session at the Hilton Harrisburg attended by several hundred librarians, advocates, and policymakers.
"Pennsylvania's public libraries provide crucial early learning services to the state's children and families," said Paula Gilbert, PaLA's marketing committee chair, "and we want to celebrate their contribution to the commonwealth."
Link: www.thealmanac.net/ALM/Story/04-15-SH-libraries-honored
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
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Congratulations to the staff and volunteers of our MTL Library!A special note of appreciation to the unwavering supporters who over the years have sustained and enhanced the Library with many hundreds of thousands of dollars. Thanks to the broader Community as well for supporting the Library via the Municipal, State and RAD budgets.
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