
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.
APPLY NOW: 2017 ALA Sara Jaffarian Award
K-8 school librarians, apply by May 5 for a $5,000 award recognizing outstanding humanities programming.
APPLY NOW: NASA@ My Library STEM Initiative
Seventy-five public libraries will receive NASA STEM kits, a tablet with STEM videos and games, and more.
Picking Up the Pieces
How do you circulate 40 robotic LEGO kits to 31 branches without losing the pieces — and your mind?
Exploring Memory and the Brain with Kids
Skokie Public Library has created a sugar-coated program to teach kids about the brain.
Program Marketing for a Campus Community
Stop making program fliers? At Loyola Marymount University's libraries, word-of-mouth is where it's at.
Oldies but Goodies: Spiffing Up Existing Programs for Older Adults
May is Older Americans Month. Learn how you can tweak existing programs to meet the needs of older adults.
Three Workshops, Many Histories: History Programs on Campus
University of Dayton students connect to local, campus and personal histories in these popular programs.
Preservation Week: April 23–29, 2017
Start planning now for Preservation Week, a campaign to promote the importance of protecting our heritage.
Lunar New Year Delights
Celebrate the year of the rooster in 2017 with these fun Chinese New Year crafts.
Physical Literacy: A Lifelong Journey
Library director and yoga instructor Jenn Carson shares a printable guide to remind us that physical literacy is an evolution.
Hungry for More: A Library Food Fair
This sans-café academic library promotes restaurants that deliver to satisfy an important need: study fuel.
Top 10 Ways to Encourage Nature Play
For a successful kids' program, you just need simple activities, curiosity and a willingness to get dirty.