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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 February at EDSITEment

EDSITEment offers a collection of Black History Month resources and takes a look at the events of February 1968.

 

Author Events Made Easy

Author events can be perplexing, frustrating and hair-raising. They can also be a really good time.

Promoting Civic Engagement

The Project on Civic Reflection helps get reflective discussion going in order to build community.

Boost Survey Results

The act of planning programs is a big job. Asking people what they want is an important first step.

New for January at EDSITEment

EDSITEment remembers Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and explores President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

New for December at EDSITEment

EDSITEment looks at December celebrations and Emanuel Leutze’s depiction of George Washington’s December crossing of the Delaware.