
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.

Death Café at the Library: Where Strangers Meet to Discuss the End
A Death Café is a place where “people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death." And they are quite commonplace in libraries.
Booking with a Buddy
Skokie Public Library is winning the fight against "summer slide" with its longtime buddy-reading program.
LMU Speaks
A university library created a winning storytelling program from the ground up — and so can you.
Boot Camps for Kids
Skokie Public Library offers multi-day boot camps to help kids explore topics in depth.
Hail to the Green
Mrs. Librarian Lady shares lots of green-themed ideas to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.
No Money? No Problem: Low-Cost Programming
You can offer great programs on a small budget. You just need help from your friends.
Creating Tomorrow's Entrepreneurs Today
Introducing kids to entrepreneurial concepts helps them with critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
Paper Monsters: Literacy Attacks!
Who wants to play with paper dolls? Everyone, it turns out. (Yes, boys too.)
Free Food: A Friendly Invitation
Free food attracts college students. So why not make food the main attraction instead of an afterthought?
Fake News: A Library Resource Round-Up
Help your patrons tell the difference between fact and fiction with these resources about fake news.
More than a Woman: Audience Mapping for More Diverse Programs
Go beyond Women's History Month to provide programs for — and about — the diverse range of women in your community.
Heart-y Crafts for February
Celebrate Valentine's Day and National Heart Month with these heart-themed crafts and activities for kids and teens.
Story Dice: Literacy Cubed!
Use blank wooden dice to create storytime magic, where the kids get to make up the story as they go along.