Using your Smartphone to be Disaster-Ready, Thurs., May 6, 1 pm

Adults, Archive, Friends
Smartphone screen showing 911 emergency call with ringing alert.

Using your Smartphone to become Disaster-Ready. Presented by Rich Worthington,  Deputy Emergency Management Coordinator, Lower Moreland Township. Program will begin immediately after the Friends Business Meeting. All are welcome. Topics include: ReadyMontco: Receive emergency alerts on your phone. PulsePoint: Building informed communities. Smart911: Share you family’s emergency information with first responders. Text-to-911: How it works, how to use it, how […]

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Women’s History Month – Picture Book Biography Recommendations

Archive, Kids
Graphic design celebrating Women's History Month with bold white text and a female symbol.

Celebrate Women’s History Month with these Picture Book Biographies featuring the true stories of inspiring women.  Find these books in the library or place them on hold via the links to our catalog. Before She Was Harriet : The Story of Harriet Tubman – Lesa Cline-Ransome Counting on Katherine – Helaine Becker Frida Kahlo and Her Animalitos – Monica Brown The Girl with a Mind for Math: The […]

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Women’s History Month – Young Adult Book Recommendations

Archive, Teens
Graphic design celebrating Women's History Month with bold white text and a female symbol.

Celebrate Women’s History Month with these Young Adult fiction books featuring woman authors and strong, inspiring female protagonists.  Find these and many others on display in the library, or place them on hold via the links to our catalog. Wonder Woman: Tempest Tossed – Laurie Halse Anderson   The Burning – Laura Bates Firekeeper’s Daughter – Angeline Boulley This Is […]

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Library Open for Grab and Go Hours

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A vintage-style sign hanging on a door that says 'Come in, we're OPEN'.

Effective Monday, March 15, 2021, the library is open for Grab and Go Hours. You may enter the building to browse or to pickup your holds. Please limit time in the building to 20 minutes. Public Computers are available on a first come first serve basis. Limit one 30 minute session per day. Masks and Social Distancing Required. If you […]

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Graphic Novel Contest for Youth

Archive, Friends, Kids, Teens
Poster announcing Huntingdon Valley Library's Graphic Novel Contest from Feb 1 to Apr 2, 2021.

Create your own graphic novel and submit it for a prize in our first annual Graphic Novel Contest! This contest is open to students in grades 3-8. Participants can work by themselves or in author/illustrator pairs. Additional guidance on how to create a graphic novel can be found in Beanstack. Rules & Instructions Open to Huntingdon Valley Library patrons in […]

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Apply for a Library Card Online

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Here are some e-resources you can access from home with your library card: Libby/Overdrive – Free eBooks and eAudiobooks RB Digital – Free Downloadable magazines hoopla – Free eBooks, eAudiobooks, TV shows and Movies Ancestry – Search for your ancestors Mango Languages- Learn a new language If you live in Lower Moreland and don’t have a library card, we can […]

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Library Trustee Opening

Adults, Archive

We are looking for a new Library Board Trustee to help guide the mission and vision of the Huntingdon Valley Library. Are you interested? The Huntingdon Valley Library Board of Trustees is comprised of not fewer than five nor more than eleven voting members, including those appointed by the commissioners of Lower Moreland Township, who are residents of the Township. […]

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Reader’s Advisory: Financial Literacy

Adults, Archive
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The library is full of finance books to help increase financial literacy. Retiring? Check out How to Make Your Money Last: The Indispensable Retirement Guide, by Jane Bryant Quinn. New to investment? Check out The Elements of Investing: Easy Lessons for Every Investor, by Burton G. Malkiel and Charles D. Ellis. Learning to manage your money? Try The Smartest Money Book You’ll […]

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How Libraries Help Move PA Forward

Active, Adults, Archive
Colorful chart illustrating five types of literacy.

In the past year, you may have noticed the PA Forward ® Logo on many of our flyers and on the Huntingdon Valley Library website. PA Forward is the Pennsylvania Library Association’s 21st Century Literacies Initiative. Libraries are the key to powering progress and elevating the quality of life in Pennsylvania by fueling the types of knowledge essential to success: Basic Literacy, […]

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