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The PALS Curriculum Lending Library provides the Pittsburgh home-educating community with specialized hands-on equipment and activities, manipulatives, curricula and teacher's guides, particularly focusing on items that are too costly or of too limited use to justify purchase by individual families.
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Questions? Contact Michelle Yoder at truxallite@comcast.net
Cost: $25/year, plus a 3 hour work-requirement/year. (Pro-rated after February 28 to $15/year). The more members we have, the more great stuff we buy!
Work Requirement: Members are required to provide 3 hours of help during the year, either staffing the library, participating in fund raisers, or participating in special projects, such as helping to box and move the library to its new location or doing an end of the year inventory.
Borrowing Privileges: Members may borrow up to 2 items at one time and most items may be borrowed for a 2 week period. Some items (such as textbooks or curricula) may be available for longer periods, depending on demand. Although there are no fines for overdue materials, no additional materials may be checked out while overdue materials are outstanding.
Library Hours: Materials may be checked out at the Wilkins School Community Center during Enrichment Wednesdays, during the hours posted below.
Online Viewing/Reservation: The library collection is available to be viewed online, by clicking one of the subject area links shown at the left of this page, or click the Photos link to see photographs of only the hands-on materials, kits, games, etc., in all categories. You need not be a member to see the collection. Materials may be reserved online by filling out the ONLINE RESERVATION FORM. Reserved materials must be picked up during the next open library period or arranged to be delivered (see section on Pick-up at Additional Locations, below) , or they will be returned to the general collection.
Pick-up at Additional Locations: Arrangements may be made on an individual basis with Michelle Yoder to have the materials delivered to selected locations where other homeschooling activites are taking place, such as North Park on some Fridays and Tuesdays (Freeminds), and Plum on some Thursdays. These deliveries are made only as scheduled in advance with Michelle; please contact Michelle directly if you are interested in arranging pickup at one of those locations.
Donations: For information about donating materials, money, or time to the Library, please see the link DONATIONS on the left side of this page.
CURRENT LIBRARY HOURS: Library hours will be announced soon. The Library will be open on Wednesdays, starting September 10.