The Magic Library Card Series

A series of essays written by Westmoreland Library Network members, to celebrate library success stories, ongoing community services, and collaboration among Westmoreland County libraries and community organizations. All essays are originally published by the Penn Franklin News. Please enjoy!

#1 The Magic Library Card!

#2 Is Library Virtual? Of Course!

#3 Power Library Empowers for Science Fair and More

#4 Collaborations Enables Endless Possibilities

#5 A Tale of Three Library Boards

#6 Summer Reading Club and STEM

#7 The WLN™ and Storytime STEM-packs™

#8 Online-Resourcing in a Time of COVID-19

#9 TechNook-365

#10 Westmoreland County Public Libraries and E-Books

#11 Westmoreland County Public Libraries and Technology

#12 Rising Above Budget

#13 Weaving with Themes

#14 A Personal Library Story

#15 Streaming I: the Arts

#16 Streaming II: STAR Net

#17 Streaming III: TechNook 365

#18 President’s Award 2020

#19 Two Boards: A Year-end Perspective

#20 Teen Power Library and the Scientific Method

#21 What’s a District Consultant?

#22 The Board Resets for 2021

#23 On Hiring A Library Director

#24 Weaving with Themes II

#25 AAUW @ Your Library

#26 Meet Ms. Becky I

#27 Meet Ms. Becky II

#28 Strategic Planning and Feedback

#29 What’s in a Name: WLN or WCFLS?

#30 Universes of Library Cards

#31 Corporate Library

#32 Plant-Based Pittsburgh

#33 Virtual Children’s Programming

#34 Creativity in the Time of COVID

#35 Access PA

#36 Teen Power Library at PRSEF

#37 PRSEF-Bravo!

#38 TechNook in Memory

#39 Build America’s Library Act

#40 Office of Commonwealth Libraries

#41 Jefferson : Librarian in Chief

#42 Library of Congress

#43 ISEF

#44 Jefferson’s 3rd Library: Human Rights

#45 Jefferson’s 3rd Library: Lewis & Clark and More

#46 The Magic Library Letter

#47 A Special Librarian’s Corporate Story

#48 Books and Democracy

#49 Project Gutenberg

#50 Monticello

#51 Thank you Sponsors

#52 II. Main Event

#53 NASA@MyLibrary

#54 III. Main Event Salted

#55 My Green Visit

#56 TechNook on Stream

#57 Virtual OK with Me

#58 IV Meriwether Keelboat

#59 Value of Volunteer Service

#60 V. Corps

#61 Technology Saved the Day 2

#62 Annual Mtg. 2021

#63 VI. Latitude & Longitude

#64 Novices and Consultants

#65 VII. Medicine in the Lewis and Clark Age

#66 The Library Dilemma

#67 Children’s Learning Through Play and Stories

#68 VIII. Maps

#69 Grande Dame

#70 IX. Wampum

#71 Papermaking

#72 X. Sci. Record

#73 Jingles ‘n’ Gingerbread 2021

#74 XI. Elephant in the Room

#75 STEM packs in Iowa

#76 Epilogue Mr. J. At Last

#77 Wilson-Ants to Sociobiology

#78 Fiction as Career Inspiration

#79 Public Discourse & Libraries

#80 Dawn It Cannot Be

#81 Centennial Celebration

#82 Banned Books

#83 Mission Enablers

#84 Webb & Colombo

#85 Women’s History Month

#86 Samuel Eliot Morison

#87 In Spirit of Community

#88 I. SP – Belong to Future

#89 Book Clubs Foster Community

#90 Books of Ukraine

#91 Still I Rise

#92 Centennial Year in a Golden Age

#93 II. Strategic Plan Process

#94 ISEF 2022

#95 Grants Enable

#96 Imagine Me Pfizer

#97 II. Fiction as Career Inspiration – Law

#98 Librarian of Congress in Profile

#99 III. Fiction as Career Poly Sci

#100 The 100th

#101 Interlibrary Loan (ILL)

#102 IV. Fiction (and Non) as Career Inspiration – Art & Archeology

#103 Research Revolution

#104 What Is a Service Area

#105 Befuddling Book

#106 This Board President’s View

#107 V. Career Inspiration – Eng

#108 III. SP Approved-What Now

#109 Virtual Retreat

#110 Cataloger’s Story

#111 Book Banning Backfires

#112 Digital Literacy Programming

#113 Power Library Redux

#114 VI. Writing Career Paths

#115 Cesare Retires

#116 Raining Acorns

#117 IV. SP – International Book Club

#118 IF-THEN Gender Equity

#119 An Annual Report

#120 Ben Franklin Did This Too

#121 On Being Non-neutral

#122 On Riding Tailwinds

#124 Library Dilemma Revisited

#125 Foundation Board Refresh

#126 Denni’s Legacy!

#127 My First Love

#128 Leadership Counts

#129 Pinocchio & Other Serialized Novels

#130 STEM-Digital Literacy & Workforce Development

#131 Madam President

#132 Navigating Information Overload

#133 Public Resource Center-Special Services

#134 Teen Advisory Board

#135 Banning Books, Part 2

#136 Organic Growth

#137 Grants & Peer Groups

#138 VII. Career Paths & Biochemistry Books

#139 Inner Sanctum

#140 What Is a Modern Library Part I

#141 What Is a Modern Library, Part II

#142 Gifting Me-Books

#143 SSI & Others

#144 Ben Franklin – Now Sage

#145 AI and Libraries

#146 Chaos – the Enemy

#147 On Having Vision Part I

#148 On Having Vision Part II

#149 LTC

#150 ALA Great Stories Club

#151 Family Place Libraries

#152 Career VIII. A Personal Story

#153 PLA Digital Literacy & Workshop Incentive II grant

#154 Career AND Education

#155 Little Library, Big History

#156 Libraries, Local and Gutenberg

#157 Report-State Budget & Libraries

#158 Oppenheimer in Book & Video

#159 Poem with That

#160 WLN SP 2023-25

#161 Digital Workforce Grant Renewal

#162 My Beloved World

#163 Regretting Frost

#164 The World of One Physicist

#165 Diya’s Teen Perspective

#166 Columbus Proposes What

#167 Tongue in Cheek

#168 Neurodiversity Grant Library Project Begins

#169 Then As Now

#170 Ghostwriters

#171 The Silver Thread

#172 Green Library

#173 WLN & WIN

#174 ALA

#175 One Library Visit

#176 Other Night Before

#177 Dinosaur Hall

#178 Sci. Fair Time – Learning to Use Informed Sources

#179 Board Historian (II)

#180 Free Tax Prep Help at Your Library

#181 The Huxleys

#182 Cyrano

#183 Foundation Report to the People

#184 In Transition

#185 WLN 2024

#186 Revisiting Informed v. Uninformed

#187 Bücherverbrennung

#188 On Prejudices

#189 Presidential Libraries

#190 Virtual Library – CAS

#191 Solar Eclipse 2024

#192 First Bird of Dawn

#193 Teens and Libraries

#194 Genealogy in a Dust Bowl

#195 Pushing the Limits

#196 Steerage

#197 Victorian Days

#198 Greek Revival by Basil

#199 Grant Season

#200 Banning Rights

#201 The Gambler

#202 Perks & Puppy Pants

#203 Triple Crown Missed