Month: March 2020

Information for Employees who are Impacted by COVID-19

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UPDATE: FOR MORE UP TO DATE INFORMATION FOR UNEMPLOYMENT, CLICK HERE

If you are employed in Pennsylvania and are unable to work because of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), you may be eligible for Unemployment or Workers’ Compensation benefits. The Department of Labor & Industry will continue to provide important employment benefit updates as the situation evolves.

You may be eligible if:

  • Your employer temporarily closes or goes out of business because of COVID-19
  • Your employer reduces your hours because of COVID-19
  • You have been told not to work because your employer feels you might get or spread COVID-19
  • You have been told to quarantine or self-isolate, or live/work in a county under government-recommended mitigation efforts

For more information on what to do to file for unemploment, click here.

To begin filing for unemployment in the state of Pennsylvania, click here.

Up-to-date statistics with Statista

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Find statistical information, company dossiers, topical reports, and high-quality infographics with the Statista database, available through Chester County Library. With an international focus, this resource offers statistics on a wide variety of industries and topics such as communications, education, health care, and hospitality.

Check out the COVID-19 facts and figures page for up-to-date numbers on the pandemic.

Access Statista from outside the library using your Chester County Library System card and PIN. Don’t have a PIN? Click here for help.

Having Trouble Accessing Our Online Resources?

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Are you having trouble using your library card to access our resources online? It may be that your library card has expired and if that’s the case we can help! Just email us at circdesk@ccls.org, and if we still have a record of your account in our system we can reactivate your library card and restore access to all of our online resources. 

If a record of your account is no longer in our system, but you can provide us with your library card number, we may be able to provide you with a temporary library account which would provide full access to our resources online. 

If you have an active account and need to know what your library card number is, we can help with that too. Email us at circdesk@ccls.org and we’ll be happy to reply. 

If you have any other questions or concerns about your library account let us know, we’re here for you!

Library Update March 23

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Welcome to Stay Connected with Chescolibraries. The Libraries are closed until March 30. Please do not return library materials at this time. All due dates have been extended to at least March 30, and current overdue materials will not continue to accrue fines until we reopen. For help with your library account, please visit our Contact Us page. For help with OverDrive, please visit our OverDrive Help page.

Kids’ Update: Cooking = STEM

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Cooking is a great family STEM activity that teaches both science and math.  Here are some websites that will teach you kitchen safety, Teaching Kids to Cook, and provide you with delicious recipes to try, Cooking with Kids and Recipes for Kids!  What a great time to cook together! 

Once you’ve whipped up something delicious, check out this scrumptious story — Strega Nona by Tomie De Paola.

The Youth Services Staff at the Chester County Library and Hankin Branch are presenting Virtual Storytimes beginning April 27th. They will be for three different ages groups — 0 to 2 Year Olds, 3 & 4 Year Olds, and 5 & 6 Year Olds. Registration is required via the Events Calendar at https://chescolibraries.org/. Virtual Storytimes are not registered as multi-week sessions; you will need to register for each storytime individually.

Kids’ Update: Reading Through It Together

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Our friends at Penguin Random House have developed a selection of resources called Reading Through It Together: Educational Resources & Activities to Use While the Kids Are at Home on their Brightly: Raise Kids Who Love to Read webpage.  Here you’ll find lots of fun activities for kids from Babies to Teens. Get Started here!

Click here to listen to Kevin Henkes’ classic story, Chester’s Way, AND watch it performed in American Sign Language!

The Youth Services Staff at the Chester County Library and Hankin Branch are presenting Virtual Storytimes beginning April 27th. They will be for three different ages groups — 0 to 2 Year Olds, 3 & 4 Year Olds, and 5 & 6 Year Olds. Registration is required via the Events Calendar at https://chescolibraries.org/. Virtual Storytimes are not registered as multi-week sessions; you will need to register for each storytime individually.