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July 19, 2022

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POWER Library Annual Technology Support Fee Invoices Due

22-23 invoices were due on July 18

Thank you to everyone who has already paid for 22-23!

This notice is provided to alert you that the Annual Technology Support Fee invoice was mailed to your institution in April. If you need your invoice e-mailed to you, please contact us at support@hslc.org.

Please note that for schools, invoices were mostly mailed to the district office for consolidated payment.

Thank you!
Thank you to everyone who has already paid for 22-23! These payments help HSLC bridge the gap between state payments during the transition from one fiscal year to the next while we await Library Access funding appropriations.

We accept payments online
Please note that the fee may be paid via credit card on the HSLC website at: https://www.hslc.org/payments-accepted/

Did you know?
The Access Pennsylvania and POWER Library programs are underwritten with Pennsylvania Department of Education and Federal grant funding. These funds cover most of the resources (staff, networks, hardware, and software) to offer these services free-of-charge to Pennsylvania taxpayers.

PDE, through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, contracts with HSLC for basic services that comprise the Access PA/POWER Library programs.

HSLC charges an annual technology support fee to provide enhanced support, training, and custom programming for participating libraries. Technology support fees also underwrite costs to administer the grant, capital expenses for new hardware, and other unbudgeted expenses in support of the Access PA/POWER Library program.

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Add a Link to PA Online Learning Tutorials from Your Website!

Your Library's Link to PA Online Learning is available in the Links Generator.

PA Online Learning, provided by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries for all Pennsylvanians, is a FREE growing collection of tutorials on how to use software, social media, and library resources, such as POWER Library!

The icon and link have been added to the Links Generator in the POWER Library - For Librarians so that libraries may add the link to their website, blogs, social media posts, etc.

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