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JANUARY 10, 2017

By handing out bronze, silver, and gold stars, the Pennsylvania Library Association is recognizing libraries implementing an initiative to improve the state and its residents. Launched five years ago, PA Forward aims to improve Pennsylvania’s citizens, communities, economy, and workforce through library services.

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JULY 7, 2017

The White House Historical Association, which has a relatively new digital library, is working with Amazon Web Services to significantly expand its online offerings and make them accessible to Americans far from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Its digital library. The latest example?

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JUNE 20, 2019

Venue: Pennsylvania Convention Center. The International Society for Technology in Education’s 2019 Conference begins this weekend in Philadelphia. Attendance is expected to top 16,000. Organization: International Society for Technology in Education. Conference: ISTE 2019. City: Philadelphia. Have a Meeting on the Horizon?

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JANUARY 31, 2019

The offbeat holiday has inspired equally offbeat events—and not just in Pennsylvania, either. The club that started it all has deep cultural ties to the Pennsylvania Dutch community and religious tradition that birthed the phenomenon. (One exception was the Puritans, who deemed it a pagan tradition.)

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Hundreds of hours of interviews need to be transcribed for the National Park Service’s Flight 93 Oral History Project, and the Pennsylvania Court Reporters Association is stepping up to help get the job done. Forgive the members of the Pennsylvania Court Reports Association if they’re holding their heads a little higher these days.

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DECEMBER 9, 2013

Gilmore, who completed the federal navigator training, has been traveling to different areas of the state since mid-October, right after open enrollment began, delivering workshops and sitting down with lobstermen and their families in their homes, libraries, wherever they can find a space to help them enroll. “We

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JULY 3, 2013

Associations have been involved in helping get the exchanges get off the ground and informing the public about them, including the American Library Association. This contradicts a June report by the Government Accountability Office that suggested some aspects of the exchanges’ implementation were behind schedule.

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