What's New at PA Forward®

Worms at Work: Hands on Vermicomposting Workshop by the Eastern Monroe Public Library Named 2025 PA Forward® Adult Programming Best Program

Picture: Rob Lesher, PA Forward® Program Manager, Kit , Kit Kuchinski, Eastern Monroe Public Library, and Jennifer Luksa, 2025-2026 PA […]

PA Forward® Announces the 2025 Adult Literacy Programming Awards

Autumn Karns, Benson Memorial Library,  Rick Miller, Osterhaut Memorial Library, Karla Trout, 2025 PaLA President, Mary Jordan, Hazleton Public Library, […]

PA Forward® Materials Appear on updated Pennsylvania Library Association Website

https://www.palibraries.org/pa-forward/

Auditor General DeFoor visits the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh to promote Financial Literacy

PITTSBURGH, Pa. – Auditor General Timothy L. DeFoor today highlighted Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s efforts to provide financial literacy education […]

Our Mission

PA Forward® will benefit Pennsylvania's LIBRARIES and all the PENNSYLVANIANS who use them by:

  • Making library services available for all Pennsylvania citizens
  • Strengthening state-supported library services and leveraging greater local and private support
  • Providing more databases at a lower cost and a better statewide delivery system
  • Bolstering the recognized link between library service and workforce development
  • Raising the profile and importance of libraries and librarians
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PA Forward® promotes and benefits all libraries. For academic libraries, the campaign strengthens the public’s perception that academic institutions provide great benefits to their local communities by sharing resources and services with the community as well as students and faculty. For school libraries, PA Forward® reinforces what experience tells us – that students in schools with strong libraries learn more, get better grades, and achieve higher test scores than their peers without libraries.

For public libraries, PA Forward® positions them as essential to a growing customer base of private and municipal organizations and individuals. It also showcases them as high-quality early learning providers which ultimately saves taxpayer dollars otherwise needed for remedial programs.