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Pennsylvania Library Association Recognizes Marple Library's Children's Program

Andrea Mandel, head of Children's Services at Marple Public Library, receives the Best Practice Award the state's library association.

BROOMALL–Andrea Mandel, head of Children's Services at , recently received the Best Practice Award from the Pennsylvania Library Association for the program "Grandma, Grandpa and Me." 

According to the library, the program concentrates on children and their grandparents as caregivers. Special activities for the program focused on the special needs of grandparents raising their grandchildren. Marple Library was one of only six libraries statewide to win an award.

Stop in to see what other great children's programs the library has to offer. 

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