Upping Your Game: Best Practices of Expert Programming Librarians
What does excellence in library programming look like? Find how-to articles summarizing best practices of seasoned programming librarians.
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.
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.
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.
Red Hook Makes: From Borrowed Van to Mobile Maker Lab
Red Hook (N.Y.) Public Library takes their programming to the people with a mobile maker lab.
Wow, Weeks of Welcome!
Academic libraries have an annual opportunity to better orient new students.
Program Evaluations: Helpful Tool or Necessary Evil?
Is your program evaluation form letting you down? Ask yourself these five questions.
Our Library’s Centennial Video Contest
Celebrate your library's centennial in a heartwarming way.
Storytime Stretching
Adding stretching and movement to storytime promotes kinetic literacy (and helps get the wiggles out).
Sweet Treat Book Club
Pair food with fiction with this book club model for teens.
Money Matters: Financial Programs
Partnering with local businesses and organizations can help make your library users money smart.
Promoting Community with Archives
These libraries are using archives and special collections to create outstanding programs, and so can you.
ALA Annual Conference Hat Trick
Librarians who wear a programming “hat” can enjoy these highlights from ALA 2015.
Engaging Homeless Library Patrons
Learn how the Dallas, Denver and Salt Lake City public libraries engage users experiencing homelessness.
Your Own Comic-Con: Q&A with YA Librarian Justin Switzer
Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library recently hosted its first Mini Comic-Con. Event organizer Justin Switzer shares how he pulled it off.
4 Ways to Make NaNoWriMo Awesome
Encourage library users to write books, as well as read them, with National Novel Writing Month.