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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.

New for December at EDSITEment

EDSITEment looks back at Pearl Harbor, celebrates Mexican holiday traditions, and peeks into the life of Emily Dickinson.

 

New for November at EDSITEment

EDSITEment provides a teacher’s companion to the PBS film "The Dust Bowl" and looks at Steinbeck’s "Grapes of Wrath."

New for October at EDSITEment

EDSITEment explores Steinbeck, looks at what motivated Columbus’s travels, and remembers the Cuban Missile Crisis.

 

Multicultural Literacy in Libraries

Multicultural literacy is a celebration of culture, identity, color and community that engages all aspects of learning and growth.

New for August at EDSITEment

EDSITEment goes back to school; celebrates the Statue of Liberty; and marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.