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7 Tips to Bring Sustainability into Your Library Programming

Don't know where to start with sustainability programs? Here are 7 tips that will be helpful on your sustainability programming journey.

Where the Tweens Are: Financial Literacy and a Summer Morning at a Rural Library

If your library struggles with tween engagement, you’re not alone. Perry County District Library proves that tween engagement is possible and totally enriching.

Making Dementia-Friendly Libraries

How libraries can incorporate dementia-friendly principles into their spaces, their collections and their interactions with patrons.

Setting Up a Memory Café at Your Library: A How-to Guide

By creating a space for people with dementia and their loved ones to relax and enjoy the company of others, Memory Cafés can reduce feelings of isolation.

Apr 24, 2023

What Makes Library Partnerships Valuable

Library partnerships are valuable in many ways. Read about how libraries work with partners to design, plan and implement successful programs.

Apr 10, 2023

What Makes a Library Partnership Effective

Five factors are key to the development of strong and effective relationships between libraries and their partners.

Apr 5, 2023

Apply Now: Imagining Tomorrow

ALA invites grant applications for a brand-new Great Stories Club series featuring YA sci-fi titles.

Mar 27, 2023

How Libraries & Partners Collaborate

How can partnerships help libraries reach their programming goals?

Mar 13, 2023

Health, Media, and More: What Partners Help Libraries Do

Libraries pursue partnerships to create a wide range of programs. What do these partnerships focus on? Here's what 800+ libraries told us.

Mar 8, 2023

9 Places You Can Apply to for Program Funds

Looking to fund your library's programs? We've got you covered with nine places to start.

Mar 1, 2023

Reaching Teen Readers

Need some ideas for a creative teen program? Here are five unique ways to use the Great Stories Club.

Feb 27, 2023

Who do Libraries Serve? Defining the “Public”

In order to do public programming, libraries first need to have an idea of who “the public” they’re serving is.

Feb 17, 2023

A Weekly Escape Into Stories

Learn about the impact of the Great Stories Club and how to use the (free!) resources at your library.

Feb 13, 2023

Learning About Your Community Partnerships

Check out this overview of initial survey results on library partnerships.

Feb 6, 2023

Getting People Talking

What are libraries talking about? Learn about the variety of conversation topics that libraries are having with their communities.

Dec 20, 2022

They Want To Shut Us Down

Downers Grove (Ill.) Public Library staff reflect on threats that led to canceling Drag Queen Bingo.