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December 22, 2023
Back by popular demand and with an expanded list! Let’s celebrate the New Year with our patrons’ favorite Fiction books of 2023! Here are numbers 15-6 What else was popular… Read More
Happenings, Kids, Popular Reading, Programs, Teens
July 7, 2023
Celebrate Shark Week at the library on July 22, 2023! Discovery Channel’s Shark Week Returns Jul 23, 2023, with host Jason Momoa! PCL is celebrating too! Check out our recommendations… Read More
Happenings, Popular Reading, Resource
November 29, 2022
Born December 6, 1983, American Author Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of many award-winning books, including Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks,… Read More
Diversity, Happenings, Kids, Popular Reading
June 7, 2022
We celebrate America’s rich and diverse culture each June with National Caribbean-American Month. We want to honor and recognize the contributions of all Caribbean-Americans and take this opportunity to teach… Read More
May 24, 2022
June is Rainbow Book Month™ Rainbow Book Month™ is a nationwide celebration of the authors and writings that reflect the lives and experiences of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, pansexual, genderqueer,… Read More
Diversity, Happenings, Popular Reading
April 25, 2022
Celebrate With Your Library May 1-31, 2022 “Advancing Leaders Through Collaboration“. This year’s theme is a continuation of the “Advancing Leaders” theme series which began in 2021. In 2022, “Advancing… Read More
Diversity, Kids, Popular Reading
March 31, 2022
Check out these titles from the children’s department, all featuring Muslim main characters! #diversity #parklandcommunitylibrary Ramadan is the ninth month of the Muslim calendar and the holy month of fasting. It begins and ends with the… Read More
February 25, 2022
Fall in love with this selection of novels from some of our favorite romance authors! We’ve featured a mixture of classic romance authors and some more contemporary authors who we… Read More
February 4, 2022
Our staff have selected their favorites books for teens and young adults published in 2021. We have selected the “Best YA Books of 2021” by Goodreads reviewers. The stories are inventively entertaining… Read More
February 1, 2022
What makes a mystery cozy? Cozy mysteries have less graphic violence and more of a focus on the characters. Sometimes, there’s even a feel-good theme like cats, or cake! If… Read More
2022 THEME- Black Health and Wellness Courtesy Association for the Study of African American Life and History Show you support by tagging: #BlackHistoryMonth #Parklandcommunitylibrary #LCLC #PAForward #CivicAndSocialLiteracy The theme for 2022… Read More
December 28, 2021
Gold Star Programming Parkland Community Library has maintained its PA Forward® Gold Star Status by participating in the Pennsylvania Library Association initiative, PA Forward. Prior to 2018, PCL was awarded… Read More
Parkland Community Library has fully integrated our programming curriculum into the PA Forward® Initiative. We are committed to providing the programming that fuels the PA Forward program that fuels the five literacies of Basic, Information, Civic and Social, Health, and Financial.
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