The State Library is pleased to announce that Sara Gerhart has joined our staff as the School Library Advisor. 

In this role, Sara will provide leadership and expertise to school library personnel, classroom teachers and administrators in areas such as staffing, Model School Library Curriculum, Common Core Standards, best practices.  In addition, she will serve as the Act 48 coordinator and school library liaison for the POWER Library Project and Pennsylvania Electronic Library Catalog (formerly known as Access PA Database) program.

Sara comes to us from the Daniel Boone School District where she was the High School Librarian for eight years.  Sara received her B.S.Ed. in Library Science and Masters in Library Science from Kutztown University.  Books and reading were a large part of her childhood and turned in to a passion as an adult.