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Informs that the Pittsburgh Regional Library Center (PRLC), University of Pittsburgh School of Library and Information Science, and Robert Morris College School of Communications and Information Systems are jointly going to present a national conference on mass deacidification. Details.

Reports the availability of papers of computer scientist Allen Newell and economist Herbert A. Simon at the online database of Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Information on the university's HELIOS digital archive; Overview of the studies done by Newell and Simon; Details on the collections available at the archives.

Reports on Messiah College in Pennsylvania's receipt of a number of papers of Ernest L. Boyer, the noted educator who headed the Carnegie Institute for Teaching.

The article offers travel tips for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and includes recommendations for transportation, outdoor recreations and adventure activities, cultural and historical places and tourist spots near the convention center.

The article offers library-related world news briefs. West Oakland, California launched the West Oakland Library Shuttle Program in September 2007. The Lexington Public Library in Kentucky has ventured on a two-year project to help new immigrants become engaged citizens. Northland Public Library in Pennsylvania hosted a Volunteer Speed Matching Event to help nonprofits rethink their volunteer offerings to draw baby boomers.

Presents the highlights of the American Association of School Librarians National Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in October 2005. Features of the research paper "School Libraries Work!"; Contribution of the Rochester City School District librarians to the event; Panelists included in the session on student achievement.

The article offers information related to the American Library Association's (ALA) Midwinter Meeting & Exhibits to be held at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in January 24-28, 2020 to give librarians a chance to make connections, discuss ideas, and discover new research to help build a strong future for libraries, even in the face of overwhelming odds.

Information about several papers discussed at the American Libraries Association (ALA) 2008 Midwinter Meeting on January 11 to 16, 2008 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is presented. During the event, the Public Libraries Association (PLA) Board works on the restructuring of the organization. They also studied the national trends and proposed the revised organization structure and plan.

The article focuses on a service offered by the Avalon Public Library in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It states the library established Create a Craft birthday parties as a fund-raising means for the library. It mentions that parents select a party theme and then a craft. It comments that library director Susan McClennan assists parents with craft selections, which depends on the party theme. It states that parents provide paper products, birthday supplies, and food. It mentions that library staff participates by reading stories to children, providing entertainment in the form of games and themed activities, and help children with their crafts.

Reports on the rediscovery of a piano score written and annotated by composer Ludwig van Beethoven by Heather Carbo, a library assistant at the Austen K. deBlois Library of the Palmer Theological Seminary in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. Description of the manuscript; Details of how the manuscript came to the possession of the Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary; Plans for the funds from the manuscript's auction.

The author reflects on the advantage of attending mental health sensitivity trainings by the staff of Bethlehem Area Public Library (BAPL) in Pennsylvania. He believes that the staff at the library handled the situations of mentally ill patrons after they were all trained. He states that they were able to know a patron who devolves into a paranoid state and that County Crisis social workers were only a phone call away.

Reports the donation of the personal papers of organ transplant pioneer Thomas Starzl to the University Library System of the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Highlight on the medical career of Starzl; Contributions of Starzl to the field of organ transplantation.

The article discusses the results of a three year study which examined how well public libraries in urban areas were meeting the information needs of their teenaged patrons. The project focused on twenty-seven adolescents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of which twenty-six were racial minorities. The authors suggest that library services for inner-city young adults must cover more than the traditional homework assistance, as that group needs access to authoritative information which will help in their social, emotional, reflective, physical, creative, cognitive and sexual development.

Reports that the United States National Endowment for the Humanities has given a grant to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, to catalog and preserve the papers, recordings and memorabilia of conductor Leopold Stokowski. Terms of the grant; Profile on Stokowski.

Reports on former Pennsylvania Governor Robert P. Casey's donation of personal papers and administrative documents to the Pennsylvania State University's Pattee Library. Features of the collection.

Reports that the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has received $26,310 in grants to catalog the Rush-Williams-Biddle Family Papers.

States that the University Library System at the University of Pittsburgh received a donation of papers and associated materials from Dick Thornburgh, the former governor of Pennsylvania. Information on the Dick Thornburgh Archival Collection.

Announces Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts' (CCAHA) workshops on June 3 and November 5, 1997. CCAHA's offering of partially subsidized preservation surveys for paper-based collections; Contact information.

Focuses on the first official gathering of librarians in the United States at a convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in October 1876. Role of Melvil Dewey and others in planning the event; Issues that were discussed; View that the 2001 meeting would appeal to those who attended the first meeting; Statement that the first participants were not representative of the country as a whole.

The article reports on the proposals sought by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) for ACRL 2023, which will be held on March 15-18, 2023 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The article discusses the Finals Coffee Break program at the Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Lilley Library, Pennsylvania. The program aims to improve the end of semester experience for the students. According to the author, the college has been doing the traditional things to make the environment more inviting to students, including adding comfortable furniture, group study space, technology, and more appealing decor. The article also included the origin of the idea, partner groups on campus, operation, student response, lesson learned, and assessment.

The article presents information on the 2014 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting and Exhibits, to be held from January 24-28, which will include speakers such as ALA President Barbara Stripling, cartoonist Amy Ignatow, and author Tom Angleberger. INSETS: In the Exhibit Hall;News You Can Use;Business and Financial Meetings.

This article features a partnership between librarians at Pennsylvania State University and Sony Electronics to offer electronic books to library users. Sony donated 100 PRS-505 E-Book Readers to the university's libraries. A team has been formed by the libraries to manage the project and to oversee collection development. Test scenarios have also been conducted for the execution of the project.

The article studies the value of faculty recognition programs for libraries. Faculty recognition programs can in fact contribute in a meaningful way towards broad campus and library goals. They can become integral components of libraries' public relations and development efforts, work towards improving faculty morale, contribute to campus marketing plans, reinforce the idea of "library as place," and help bridge relations among three central campus constituencies: administration, faculty, and the library. As examples, three such faculty recognition programs at Pennsylvania State University are discussed. These programs and their related events are very resource-effective, both in terms of staff time and dollars spent. Of the 175 faculty who had been awarded promotion or tenure in 2003, 135 selected books for recognition. Breaking down the faculty in broad subject disciplines, 25 were from arts and humanities, 40 from the social sciences, and 70 from the natural sciences and mathematics.

Offers news briefs pertaining to libraries in the United States. California voters' approval of the Proposition 14 library bond; Proposal for bringing the Baltimore County schools closer to compliance with state standards in Maryland; Petition by Pennsylvania's University of Pittsburgh Library's faculty librarians for benefits; Gunman at the Central Library of Howard County in Columbia, Maryland; Opposition to the removal of books at California's Topeka Drive Elementary School library in Northridge.

Offers updates on news relating to library science. Arrest of the man convicted of stealing rare documents from Columbia University's Rare Book and Manuscript Library; Survey of Contra Costa County, California voters about a combined library and quality of life alternative tax measure; Charges against a Pennsylvania librarian, Dorothy Corbett.

Discusses the American Library Association's (ALA) 1999 Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Celebration of the 30th anniversaries of ALA's Office of Intellectual Freedom and the Freedom to Read Foundation; Grief and thoughts on the death of Councilor Marvin Scilken and remembrance of the late Elizabeth Futas; The theme `Celebrating the Freedom to Read! Learn! Connect! @ the Library'; Comments from ALA President Ann Symons, Vice-President Sarah Long and others.

Focuses on the renovation of the landmark University of Pennsylvania Fine Arts Library. History of the library; Architect Frank Furness; The exterior of the library; Renovation of the Attleboro (Massachusetts) Public Library; Reading area in the renovated Beverly (Massachusetts) Public Library; More.

The article presents a forum of the candidates for president of the American Library Association (ALA), held during the Midwinter Meeting session in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Michael Gorman, 2005-2006 ALA president, asked the candidates Camila Alire and J. Linda Williams about their ideas on the current state of and the future prospects for library education. Alire and Williams responded to a question about the lack of concern and care from the young generation on privacy of information.

Offers library-related news briefs as of June 1, 1999. Resignation of Sanford Berman, head cataloger at Hennepin County Library in Minnesota; Termination of employment of Kerry Spradlin, President of the Indianapolis-Marian County Library over a tax dispute; Lack of standard accounting practices at the Bethel Park Public Library (Pa.) that allowed director Dorothy Corbett to steal money; Others.

Focuses on the success of the Lifelong Learning Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania established by the state Department of Education. Offer of help to individuals to overcome problems of unemployment due to job obsolescence, mid-life career change, women returning to the jobmarket and career education and planning; Stress on personal service; Parts of the series of workshops offered at the center.

The article discusses public services offered by the Paschalville, Pennsylvania branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Topics include its offering of neckties for three-week checkouts to library patrons seeking employment, the challenges of poverty, low literacy rates and recent immigration for most of the library's patrons seeking employment, and the library's Job Readiness Lab through which digital resource specialist Niema Nelson coaches patrons through job searches.

The article announces that several librarians, including Venetia V. Demson, Jennifer O. Keohane, and Jennifer LaGarde, were recognized as winners of the 2011 I Love My Librarian Award at a ceremony on December 9, 2011 in New York City.

Presents the author's reflections on the life and career of Russ Emele the director of libraries at East Stroudsburg State College in Pennsylvania. Emele providing the author with his first job; Emele's management style; How he made up proverbs to illustrate the points he was trying to make; His view on townspeople trying to use the college's library.

Discusses the rejection of the donation of an anti-Gulf War video offered by the Lehigh-Pocono Committee of Concern (LePoCo) by three public libraries in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley. Acquisition of the video by two of the three local libraries; Criticism by newspapers on the libraries not acquiring the video; Comments by the Allentown director, Kathryn Stephanoff, on why they rejected the donation; Reasons why the director of the Andel and Easton library, Andrew Lepas, did not acquire the video.

Provides details of the involvement of the College of Physicians Library in Philadelphia with telefacsimile for document delivery. Fax machine model selected; Changes in the volume of document requests and actual transmissions; Benefits of facsimile transmission.

The article presents quotes from several sources about libraries and librarians, including statements made by English professor William Scott regarding the People's Library, also known as the Occupy Wall Street Library, writer Alberto Manguel regarding electronic libraries, and musician Henry Rollins about the U.S. Library of Congress.

The article presents information on the conference of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) to be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 30-April 2, 2011, including the conference's aim at examining the cultural and social values of libraries.

Highlights the promotion of Nancy Cline as dean of Pennsylvania State University Libraries. Former position held.

Reports on the relocation to another building of the Allentown Public Library in Pennsylvania in 1978. Volunteers who helped in the relocation; Cost of the library's relocation.