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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 May at EDSITEment

EDSITEment offers three Launchpads designed to spark discussion about three great works.

Finals Week, Inspired by Students

Roesch Library at the University of Dayton strives to make our spaces and services conducive to studying but also memorable.

'Tyrell' Author Coe Booth

Booth's book was featured as part of ALA's Great Stories CLUB, a book club for at-risk youth.

The Brothers Torres, Part I

Voorhees' book was featured as part of the ALA’s Great Stories CLUB, a book club for at-risk youth.

New for April at EDSITEment

EDSITEment celebrates poetry and jazz, compares giants of Hispanic literature, and looks back at the events of 1968.

Bringing Writers to Readers

How can libraries continue to host authors in a rapidly evolving book industry that is scaling down author tours?

New for March at EDSITEment

EDSITEment focuses on Women’s History Month, offers a new lesson on the Magna Carta and highlights some of the best humanities on the web.