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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 1, 2019

Last-Minute Plans for National Library Week

National Library Week 2019 takes place April 7 to 13. There are plenty of quick, simple ways your library can celebrate.

Mar 28, 2019

Is your book club feeling stale or uninspired? What you need is a reboot: “Book Club Reboot: 71 Creative Twists,” published by ALA Editions.

Celebrate Walt Whitman

May 31, 2019, marks the 200th birthday of one of the most celebrated poets of all time.

Mar 28, 2019

9 DIYs for Your Summer Programs

Keep your out-of-school teens (and everyone else) busy with these fun and easy hands-on projects.

Wellness Wednesdays in Winterset: Lunch & Learns and More!

A collaborative program series in central Iowa brings health and wellness programming to residents for six months of the year.

Dispatches from the Road: HEAL (Healthy Eating, Active Living) Programs at the Library

Two recent health conferences show ways for libraries to become more involved in making Americans healthier.

Talking about Affordable Housing

An NYPL branch led talks about an important issue facing residents of the Lower East Side.

Failure: You Can Plan on It!

Failure happens. But, as Neil Gaiman says “If you’re making mistakes, it means you’re out there doing something.”

A Free Library of Philadelphia branch builds community through a local photography project.

Mar 7, 2019