ALA invites applications from public libraries in the United States and territories interested in hosting the traveling exhibition World on the Move: 250,000 Years of Human Migration, developed by the American Anthropological Association and the Smithsonianâs Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.
ALA, in collaboration with the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural Historyâs (NMNH) Human Origins Program, invites applications from public libraries interested in hosting the traveling exhibition Exploring Human Origins: Promoting a National Conversation on Human Evolution.
The Yiddish Book Centerâs âStories of Exileâ Reading Groups for Public Libraries is a reading and discussion program to engage teens and adults in thinking about experiences of displacement, migration, and diaspora.
ALA has announced the âAsk, Listen, Empowerâ Virtual Book Club, a series of three virtual, interactive conversations about community engagement to be held once per month in January, February and March 2022.
Whether your library remains closed due to COVID-19 or you are beginning the careful process of re-opening to the public, we can be sure of one thing: normalcy will return, eventually.
ALAâs Public Programs Office is working hard (from home!) to prepare a series of grant opportunities for summer and fall 2020 â so when libraries do open their doors, they can offer the programming their communities need.
Hereâs what we have in store.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) and the ALA Public Programs Office invite libraries to apply to host Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition that examines the motives, pressures and fears that shaped Americansâ responses to Nazism, war and genocide in Europe during the 1930s and 1940s.
ALA is now accepting applications for the Great Stories Club, a grant program in which library workers lead reading and discussion programs with underserved teens in their communities.
Read the project guidelines and apply online. Applications are due July 9. Up to 150 grants will be awarded.
