Planning a Cents-ational Financial Literacy Storytime
Financial educators recommend teaching basic money concepts as early as three years old. One way to achieve this in your library is by incorporating financial literacy themes into your storytimes.
Time Travel in a Trunk: Engaging Learners with Historical Artifacts
How can librarians and educators bridge the gap between the past and present? The answer lies in Historical Artifact Footlockers — a dynamic, hands-on tool that brings the thrill of historical investigation directly into the library.
Know Your People: How The Gail Borden Public Library District Turns Exhibits into Community Unity
By knowing their people, empowering staff and building strong partnerships, the Gail Borden Public Library turns every exhibit into a shared experience of learning and connection.
Free Resource Guide and Book List: Cents-sational Reads to Teach Young People About Money
This new guide helps libraries build financial education collections and offers an assortment of programming ideas to transform learning about money into memorable experiences.
Model Make and Take
This is the story of how our library worked with a local business to bring an childhood hobby to the community.
Yoga Baby Steps: Creating Yoga Programs for Your Littlest Patrons
Creating yoga programs for your littlest patrons and their caregivers.
Thinking Outside the Makerspace
Kansas City's Mid-Continent Public Library has created maker-style programming without building a dedicated makerspace.
We're Going on a Photo Hunt
The University of Dayton Libraries has replaced its traditional library tour with something more engaging.
Our Picks for ALA 2015
Going to ALA 2015? We've combed through the schedule to bring you these programming-related events.
25 Years of the ADA
Ideas your library can use to honor the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Creative Aging Midterm
The "Creative Aging in America's Libraries" project celebrates its halfway mark by sharing some notable outcomes.
If You Feed Them, They will Come
Summer Music Programs for Teens and Tweens
Drum Quest, Musical Freeze Tag and Song Jeopardy will get your teens and tweens "Reading to the Rhythm."
Robot Invasions at Your School Library
Allowing students to design and build their own robots encourages creativity and critical thinking skills.
Science Cafés: Engaging with Science
The winner of ALA's 2015 Programming Excellence Award helped its community get the facts on fracking.
Genealogy for Kids
In a three-hour workshop, kids at the Torrance (Calif.) Public Library dig into their family histories.