Obscure Holidays: Fun for Everyone
National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day, anyone? Every day is an excuse to program with these holidays.
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.
Start Your Storytime on the Right Foot
To help keep expectations clear, programming librarians share some ground rules that help to start and end storytimes on a high note.
Pawsome Storytime
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Pawsome Storytime takes a standard storytime format but swaps the preschoolers for puppers.
Mindfulness Story Time
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Help younger patrons find their inner zen by incorporating aspects of yoga and breathing techniques into story time.
Books & Baking
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This take-and-make STEM program features a pre-recorded read-aloud followed by hands-on baking.
"A Christmas Carol" Read-Aloud
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Participants take turns reading out loud from the classic 1843 Dickens novella. Festive costumes and cozy drinks are encouraged!
Products To Create High-Quality Livestreams and Virtual Programs
Are your livestreams looking fuzzy lately? How's the sound quality? Here are some tech products that can greatly improve your virtual content.
Q&A With a Book Biking Librarian
Book bikes can start conversations and bring books and programs outside of the library's walls.
Mask Up for Story Time
"Don’t bother trying to pretend it’s not there." Tips for making story times fun while mask-wearing.