C&CS Presents: What Does PA Forward and the Star Library Program Have To Do With Academic Libraries?

What Does PA Forward and the Star Library Program Have To Do With Academic Libraries?

Presented by Amy Snyder, Christina Steffy, and Joann Eichenlaub

February 21, 2019 at 2pm

Click here to register for the Zoom link

Academic librarians, are you interested in participating in the PA Forward Star Library program but don’t know how it will work for you? Or, are you working your way through the program and want to learn more about how you can support the literacies and earn your stars? Join librarians from Pennsylvania College of Technology (Penn College) and Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences (PCHS) to learn how they became gold star libraries.  Penn College’s Madigan Library and the Learning Commons at PCHS are the first two academic libraries in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to earn the PA Forward Gold Star status.  They are eager to share their experiences, challenges and opportunities as they achieved the Gold.

Joann Eich

Christina Steffy

Amy Snyder

Joann Eichenlaub achieved her MSLS from Drexel University. She is the Assistant Director of the Madigan Library at Pennsylvania College of Technology located in Williamsport, PA.  She is current Chair of PA Forward’s Star Library and Training Committee and also serves as a Director At Large on the Board of the Pennsylvania Library Association.

Christina J. Steffy is the Director of the Learning Commons and Library at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences in Lancaster, Pa. She is also a PaLA mentor and a peer-reviewer for the journal Pennsylvania Libraries: Research & Practice. Christina has been very active in PaLA programs, and spent 6 years on the CRD board. She earned her Master of Library and Information Science from Rutgers University and is currently working on a Master of Arts in Professional and Digital Media Writing at East Stroudsburg University.

Amy Snyder is the Education Librarian at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences.  She earned her Master of Science in Library Science from Clarion University.  She is a current member of the College and Research Division’s Connect & Communicate Series Planning Committee.

As a reminder, Zoom session will be made available with closed captioning when possible. Zoom link will be sent to registrants approximately 48 hours before the session.