The Secret to Successful Program Promotion? Data.
Picture this: You work hard to plan an awesome program, but nobody shows up. You feel totally defeated, and you aren't sure what you could've done differently. The secret to success? Data.
Getting Started with Program Evaluation
Real, meaningful evaluation isn’t just a survey you tack on at the end of a program. It’s an integral piece of your planning process, right from the start. Once you learn to recognize the elements of evaluation and use them with intentionality, you’ll be able to continually grow the impact of your programs and your ability to tell their story.
Engagement and Advocacy Start with Community Mapping
Taking time to understand who you know — and who you don’t know — is a great way to begin your journey toward being a community-informed programming librarian.
New Landscape Report on the Current State of Library Programs for Older Adults
ALA has released a new landscape report to better understand the current state of library programming for older adults.
Creative Aging Programs Engage and Inspire
After a lifetime of working or raising a family, older adults are looking to have fun. The library is one place they can have some.
New for October at EDSITEment
EDSITEment explores Galileo’s universe and discusses the how the New and Old Worlds collided in America.
Best Resource for Promotion is Library Staff
Beauregard Parish Public Library modified their promotion strategy to integrate the critical role staff play in marketing programs.
Supporting Community Civic Engagement
Convey, a civic engagement initiative at King County Library System, offers productive community conversations on local issues.
New for September at EDSITEment
EDSITEment celebrates Constitution Day, Civic Awareness Month and National Hispanic Heritage Month.
New for August at EDSITEment
EDSITEment goes back to school with lesson plans on just about every subject, looks at the American Dream and celebrates women’s rights.
National Conversation About Mental Health
Creating Community Conversation public engagement partners developed tools to help organize community conversations about mental health.
Adventures in Program Assessment
Joyce Garczynski from Albert S. Cook Library shares the results of her first foray into library program assessment.
Declaration for the Right to Libraries
American Library Association President, Barbara Stripling, unveiled the “Declaration for the Right to Libraries” at Nashville Public Library.
New for July at EDSITEment
EDSITEment looks at poet Carl Sandburg; the National History Day program; and the unsung heroines in the fight for women’ equality.
Creating Successful Tween Programming
What is a system to do when faced with the task of filling a community need with a skeleton staff and invisible budget?
New for June at EDSITEment
EDSITEment examines General George Patton’s “Speech to the Third Army” and rounds up Fourth of July resources.