All remaining items in our Book Sale are now FREE!  Yes, you read that right, they are all free.  We still have a lot of items left: fiction, non-fiction, paperbacks, too many to list them all.  So get to the Library before they are all gone!

Its our Everlasting Book Sale $1.00 Bag Sale!  You can purchase one of our bags or bring your own bag. All you can get in the bag: $1! All remaining items in the Book Sale are included in this sale!!

Make your next visit to the Library a brief one, for a good cause, as part of Pendleton County Public Library’s Drop Your Drawers campaign.

Drop off packages of new underwear and socks for boys and girls, preferably sizes 4-16, from November 1 – December 30, at the Library. Donations will help replenish Pendleton County schools’ supplies of emergency underpants and socks, and provide direct assistance to each school’s Family Resource Centers.

The need is great. Schools are handing out 10 pairs a month to children who need clean underwear and socks due to accidents at school or issues at home. Because parents often are unable to bring fresh underwear or socks to their children during school hours, children can miss valuable learning time in the classroom.

The Library’s goal is to receive 500 pairs. Underwear and socks will be distributed evenly to schools in Pendleton County. The schools are: Northern Elementary, Southern Elementary, Phillip Sharp Middle School, and Pendleton County Public High School.

The Drop Your Drawers campaign is easily recognizable by the popular character of Captain Underpants by author and illustrator Dav Pilkey.

The library’s collection of Captain Underpants’ children’s books will be on display with our Toilet Monster during the Drop Your Drawers campaign.  By all means, stay awhile and enjoy the library’s many services. (The Library doesn’t really want you to make your visit brief!)

Underwear and/or socks may be dropped off at Pendleton County Public Library at 801 Robbins Avenue in Falmouth.

PCPL is proud to announce that they are recipients of the ARPA Mobile Library Grant.  This grant was made possible through funding by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Library Services and Technology Act.

This grant provides the funding for our new Outreach Vehicle.  This vehicle will be used to make the Library more accessible to the residents of Pendleton County who find it difficult or impossible to travel to the Library.  This will be accomplished through our Porch Delivery Service by delivering and picking up patron items at their homes.

This program is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency, through the Library Service and Technology Act as administered by the Kentucky Department of Libraries and Archives.

Pendleton County Public Library, in partnership with Recorded Books (Prince Frederick, MD), is pleased to announce the availability of the online continuing education service, Universal Class.

Through the library’s website, pcplibrary.org, patrons have access to lifelong learning courses in over 30 subject areas, many of which offer continuing education units (CEUs). More than 500 courses are available, and all are designed and led by professional instructors to build deeper understanding and mastery of subject matter. Universal Class includes videos, assignments, quizzes, tests, and options for social media interaction with other learners. Patrons may take multiple classes and learn at their own pace.

From technical courses on computer software to digital photography to babysitting 101, a huge range of topics is available. Universal Class offers courses in Exercise and Fitness,

Entrepreneurship, Arts and Music, Home and Garden Care, Cooking, Computers and Technology, Health and Medicine, Homeschooling, Job Assistance, Law and Legal, Parenting and Family, Pet and Animal Care, plus hundreds more.

Features:

• 24/7 access through your library’s website
• Feedback from certified instructors
• Courses in over 30 subject areas
• Self-paced classes
• Connect with other students
• Continuing Education Units on select courses

Learn anything.  Learn anytime.  Learn anywhere.  Just click Universal Class to get started.

We are working our way back to a new normal. Our Meeting Room will be available to reserve for meetings beginning July 12. Please note, access to the small kitchen in the room is not be available.  To reserve the room, you must have a valid library card and have completed a Meeting Room Application within the last year. These can be completed at the Circulation Desk. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us by email at helpdesk@pcplibrary.org or by phone at 859-654-8535.

To celebrate this years “Readers Are Leaders” Summer Reading Program, the Cincinnati Circus Company will present a Drive-Thru Circus performance!  This program will be free and you can drive-thru as many times as you want.  There will be Aerial Acrobatics, the Wheel of Death, a fire Performer, and a Stilt Walker.

Save the Date:
Saturday, June 12 from 11 am – 2 pm at the Pendleton County Fairgrounds!

PCPL is hard at work preparing the activities for this year’s “Readers Are Leaders” Summer Reading Program.  Sign up will begin June 1.  We will offer both online and paper logs to include all our community members.  We encourage everyone (parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors) to read this summer and share our message: “Readers Are Leaders”!

We would love to see pictures of our community reading to family members, neighbors, even pets!

More information and details will be shared as the event gets closer.

Thank you to the Pendleton County Youth Fair for partnering with us and hosting this event at the fairgrounds.

With countless Kentuckians working and learning from home, internet access is more important than ever. We need your help to build better broadband infrastructure with #SpeedTestKY. Expand access and test your internet speed at ewdc.ky.gov/Initiatives/Pages/KBI.aspx.

“The Kentucky Broadband Initiative is a network of public and private partners working to expand internet access and build a stronger digital infrastructure in urban and rural communities across the commonwealth. We are committed to the betterment of Kentucky’s workforce and public education system by way of locally-sourced data and cooperative decision-making. We believe that every home and business in Kentucky should have access to affordable, adequate, and reliable internet access in order to fully participate in a digital economy and society.​”

Read the full press release below:

FRANKFORT, Ky. (Jan. 18, 2021) – Lt. Gov. Jacqueline Coleman announced today the launch of the Kentucky Broadband Speed Test, a crowd-sourcing project that will gather data from Kentuckians needed to expand internet home access for distance learning, telework and telehealth. Kentuckians can take the free, anonymous speed test from Jan. 19 to Feb. 18 at ewdc.ky.gov/Initiatives/Pages/KBI.aspx.

To participate, the device must be connected to your home Wi-Fi service and disconnected from a virtual private network (VPN) that may be connected to a workplace or school. For the most accurate results, ensure that no one else connected to your home internet is using a substantial portion of the internet bandwidth for activities such as streaming video or gaming during the test.

Individuals without Wi-Fi access in their home can visit their local library or other locations such as stores or restaurants that offer free internet access to submit the address of a home with no available service.

“We need as many Kentuckians as possible to take this internet speed test, to get an accurate picture of who has adequate internet access across the state,” said Gov. Andy Beshear. “The more speed tests taken, the better understanding we will have of our state’s internet capabilities, and the better prepared we will be to repair and expand it.”

The Governor noted that the budget proposal he recently offered up before the General Assembly contains $50 million dedicated to the last mile of broadband to areas in need. This historic investment would be the first time state money funded an expansion of broadband, which the pandemic has shown to be crucial to schools, telehealth, business and more.

This announcement comes after the Beshear-Coleman Administration first dedicated $8 million in CARES Act funding to broadband expansion in August 2020. Since then, Kentucky has reduced the number of students without internet access from 35,000 to 13,000. The speed test marks the second step in the state’s initiative to build a better Kentucky for everyone through expanded broadband access.

In addition to finding out their own upload and download speeds, Kentuckians who participate in the speed test will help detect slow spots around the state and where Wi-Fi access and affordability are lacking. The speed test can be done from any device connected to the Wi-Fi signal in your home.

“There is a digital divide in households across Kentucky, especially in rural areas, that has become even more apparent during the pandemic when so many people need it to attend school, go to work, get government services and conduct personal business from home,” Lt. Gov. Coleman said. “As an educator, I am especially concerned about the 13,000, or 2%, of Kentucky students who lack internet access at home so they are basically cut off from their teachers and classrooms. We have to do better by them.”

Although the Federal Communications Commission maps internet speeds, its results are sometimes based on the results of one location within a census block, which can cover several square miles in rural parts of the state. Those results are often inaccurate for residents or businesses in those locations.

Kentucky is partnering with geospatial engineering firm GEO Partners LLC, as well as The Center for Rural Development, to obtain actionable data.

To see images of the Speed Test in-progress, click here.

For more information about the project, visit ewdc.ky.gov/Initiatives/Pages/KBI.aspx.