Library Week planned
The Greene County Library System and its member libraries, Eva K. Bowlby Public Library and Flenniken Public Library, will celebrate National Library Week this week.
This year’s theme is Communities Matter at Your Library. In tandem with PA Forward Pennsylvania Libraries, an initiative of the Pennsylvania Library Association, National Library Week highlights the unique role libraries play in people’s lives.
Through PA Forward, academic, school and public libraries across the Commonwealth seek to empower Pennsylvanians with the skills and knowledge they will need to succeed. PA Forward is also designed to recognize the library’s role in the community within the context of five essential literacies that individuals must attain in order to thrive as citizens, parents, students, employees, and consumers.
The five literacies are basic literacy, information literacy, civic and social literacy, health literacy and financial literacy. When leveraged properly, our libraries can help solve some of Pennsylvania’s biggest economic and social challenges, thus ensuring that our communities matter.
“The Greene County Library System is very excited to take part in both National Library Week and PA Forward,” said Therese Barry, system administrator. “Libraries are here for the community and its residents, whether you are searching for medical information, need to apply for a job, or find a new author to try, our libraries have something for you.”
Stop by this week and catch a glimpse of all the things one can do at the library. Our libraries are free and open to the public. In celebration of National Library week, the Greene County libraries are offering a fine free week. If you ask for fine forgiveness this week, your fines will be removed.
For more information, visit www.evakbowlby.org and www.flenniken.org. To learn more about PA Forward, visit www.paforward.org.