July 25, 2023

Your POWER Library support team at HSLC maintains a barcode registry to which all barcodes must be included for your patrons to successfully access POWER E-Resources. 

If you changed your barcode number scheme or added a new set of barcodes to your system, please let us know!

POWER Academy:  POWER E-Resources: Primary Sources in POWER Library

This tutorial is for school librarians, public libraries serving homeschoolers, and libraries serving/answering historical and genealogical reference questions. 

Earn CE and Act 48 credit hours for completing this tutorial.

Your lending policy dictates whether borrower requests for items at your library will even enter your request queue. If your policy isn’t up to date, items could be automatically rejected for requests or renewals even if the request is one you actually would honor. The Lending Policy is part of your Participant Record.

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Access PA: Impending UPS Strike

Beginning Thursday July 27th, ALL Access PA participants will be placed in Holiday Mode through Tuesday August 1st.

HSLC will place all accounts in Holiday Mode. Participants will not have to take any action.  

If we get to August 1st and there is no strike, everything in Access PA will go back to normal on Wednesday, August 2nd. 

If we get to August 1st and there is a strike, we will keep the entire cooperative in Holiday Mode for the duration of the strike or until a viable alternative becomes available. 

Once the strike is over, the moratorium will go on for several days or more (depending on length of strike) past the end of the strike to allow for “catch up” at the shipping depots and a return to standard logistics. 

Note that all K-12 institutions are already in Holiday Mode through 9/11/2023. If a strike were to go on longer than that, schools will be lumped in with all other participants and be reactivated post-strike accordingly. 

While this solution is not ideal, when there are more than 800 active participating institutions, anything other than an all or nothing proposition was going to create a myriad of complications.

We certainly appreciate your patience in this matter. 

Fall training will be in-person only.

The dates and locations are:

• October 09, 2023 : The Red Fern, Kersey (Saint Mary’s), PA
• October 10, 2023 : Midwestern Intermediate IU 4, Grove City, PA
• October 11, 2023 : Westmoreland IU 7, Greensburg, PA
• October 12, 2023 : Appalachia Intermediate Unit 8, Altoona, PA
• October 17, 2023 : BLaST Intermediate Unit 17, Williamsport, PA
• October 18, 2023 : Colonial Intermediate Unit 20, Easton, PA
• October 19, 2023 : Capital Area Intermediate Unit 15, Enola, PA
• October 24, 2023 : Northeastern Educational Intermediate Unit 19, Scranton, PA
• October 25, 2023 : The Alloy, King of Prussia, PA

Registration, agenda, and more for fall training will be available in August.

Do You Need Support? We Are Here To Help!

If you need support, please use one of the options provided below to contact HSLC. 

Complete the POWER Library Support Form
Email us at support@hslc.org
Call us at 215-222-1532