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.
Good Question: Requiring Registration
How can we explain registering for programs in a way that encourages rather than discourages?
New for November at EDSITEment
EDSITEment celebrates the Mexican Revolution Centennial and Native American History Month.
New for October at EDSITEment
Visit EDSITEment to discover the origins of Halloween and find out what happens when worlds collide.
New for September at EDSITEment
EDSITEment celebrates the signing of the Constitution and announces the launch of Mission US.
National Reading Group Month and Booklist
"Booklist" is a partner for the Women’s National Book Association’s National Reading Group Month in October.
Q&A with the 2007 Jaffarian Award Winner
School librarian Barbara Ungar talks about the award-winning program.
Q&A with 2008 Jaffarian Award Winner
Woodsdale Elementary School won the 2008 Jaffarian Award for History Hits the Road to Woodsdale.
Q&A with the 2009 Jaffarian Award Winner
School librarian Sally Rasch talks about the award-winning program, Learning about the World with a Global Perspective.
New for August at EDSITEment
EDSITEment highlights the Statue of Liberty and Thomas Hart Benton’s "The Sources of Country Music".
Q&A with 2010 Jaffarian Award Winner
The Sara Jaffarian Award recognizes and promotes excellent humanities programming in K-8 libraries.
Early Literacy Parties in Spanish
Fiestas de Alfabetización Temprana en Español, or Early Literacy Parties in Spanish, are free weekly workshops for Spanish-speaking parents.
Science in the Summer
The program, sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, is designed to get kids excited about science through hands-on experiments.