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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.

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Making Dementia-Friendly Libraries

How libraries can incorporate dementia-friendly principles into their spaces, their collections and their interactions with patrons.

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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.

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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.

Incubate Art at Your Library

Looking for ideas for arts-based programming or wondering how your library can better support the arts and artists in your community? 

New for October at EDSITEment

EDSITEment offers lesson plans for American history–related film resources, with topics including Prohibition and post-Columbus America.

See Picturing America on Screen

Picturing America on Screen is the new video online and on-air companion to the Picturing America initiative.

Free Moon Viewing Kit

The Lunar and Planetary Institute invites public and school libraries to apply for a free moon viewing kit.

New for August at EDSITEment

EDSITEment helps you get ready to go back to school and offers American Art Appreciation Month resources.