Programming Resources

A Journey through a Goldmine: PBS.org Resources for Programming Librarians
Unless you’ve been living in a mine shaft, you know PBS creates excellent early literacy television shows. Between the Lions and Word World make reading fun for emergent and beginning readers. Read more...

Enriching Library Programs by Increasing Accessibility: A Primer from NLS
NLS is our shorthand for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped: it’s a mouthful, I agree, but rich in history and tradition, once you get past the clunky syllables and, some say, obsolescent vocabulary. Read more...

Libraries and the First Amendment
When five African American men entered the Audubon Regional Library in Clinton, Louisiana, they had already broken the law. The year was 1964 and their crime was entering a segregated, whites-only library. Read more...

Talking About the Civil War and Emancipation
February 1861. Abraham Lincoln has been elected as the sixteenth President of the United States. Seven states have seceded from the Union. Representatives from the seceding states gather in Montgomery, Alabama, where they frame and adopt a constitution for their new government. Jefferson Davis is elected President of the Confederacy. Within the next two months, Lincoln will be inaugurated. Read more...