Prepare to Vote 2020: 3 Ways to Vote
Brought to you by the League of Women Voters of Westchester County Are you prepared to vote in the 2020 General Election? Have you decided HOW you plan to vote?… Read more »
Category: Articles
It’s Banned Books Week
It’s Banned Books Week (September 27-October 3, 2020) and libraries around the country are joining forces with the American Library Association (ALA)’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) and the Banned… Read more »
Go Back-to-School with the Library
Back to School: Pandemic Edition – Part 2 of 3 – Grade school resources As you plan for a back-to-school time like no other, here are a few FREE resources… Read more »
Go Back-to-School with the Library
Back to School: Pandemic Edition – Part 1 of 3 – For all ages Westchester Library System has everything students need to stay engaged with learning and have a great… Read more »
Tips for Parents on Preparing Young Children to Be Ready for School
The early literacy skills needed to learn to read and write in Kindergarten are planted and nurtured from an early age. From the moment children are born, they start to… Read more »
Adult Literacy Can Change Everything
Health. Gender equality. Poverty. Every important social issue is impacted by low literacy. When individuals learn how to read, write, do basic math, and use computers, they have the power… Read more »
Virtual Census, Phased Re-openings, and County Wide Cooperation
When we last left off the Westchester self-response rate for Census 2020 was at 60.2%. It is now at 62.8%, only 5.1% away from our final 2010 self-response rate. I’m… Read more »
Census and Westchester Library System + Covid-19
I was excited to hit the ground running back in December of 2019 with coordinating the 2020 Digital Census for the Westchester Library System. I immersed myself in research and… Read more »
Introducing New WLS Board Members Andrea Bober & Wes Iwanski
Did you know that the Westchester Library System (WLS) is divided into 15 Districts? These Districts were created at its origin in 1959 and based on population. Cities within Westchester… Read more »
What We Are Reading – Volume 1
Westchester Library System‘s Manager of Cataloging Services, Douglas Wray, has been keeping up with reading during New York State PAUSE. He has quite a few good suggestions for your next… Read more »