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Customers registered or renewed
their library card on June 8 during
the Summer Reading Extravaganza
at CLP – Main. Customer Service staff averaged
one customer every 4 minutes, making their
Extravaganza booth one of the busiest!
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BigBot named Shelter invaded CLP – Main in July as
part of Pittsburgh’s Robot 250 exhibition. Visitors to the
International Poetry and Quiet Reading Room were
captivated by the robotic sculpture’s two moving, concentric
tent-like silk forms.
360
Dollars per year is the
average amount each
CLP customer saves just
by borrowing DVDs from the Library! Move
over Netflix. Movie buffs can reserve titles
online and have the ability to save big by
checking out more than one DVD a week.
(Downloadable videos are also an option
from the CLP Web site!)
M. Clare Zales, Deputy Secretary of Education and
Commissioner of Libraries, Pennsylvania Department
of Education with LBPH Manager Kathi Kappel and
CLP Deputy Director Mary Frances Cooper.
Libraries competed for the title
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Network Library of the Year, an
honor presented by the National
Library Service for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped, a department of the Library
of Congress. In 2008, CLP’s Library for the Blind and
Physically Handicapped (LBPH) became the fourth
library in the US to receive the honor.
13,459
Steps or 6.73 miles were averaged per volunteer at the Library’s
2008 Summer Reading Extravaganza. In the spirit of Pittsburgh’s 250 & Fit
initiative, volunteers tracked the distance they traveled during the event
on pedometers donated by the Allegheny Conference on Community Development.
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