Building Successful Library-Museum Partnerships
A new report shares examples of successful library-museum partnerships and highlights several promising areas for future collaboration between these community pillars.
Enhancing Library Accessibility for Older Adults in Small and Rural Communities
Though age is not a disability, many older adults experience barriers with vision, mobility, cognition and other age-related changes that directly impact their interactions with their environment. Senior patrons share what they're looking for in library accessibility upgrades.
Building Accessibility into Community Conversations
How can your library engage populations with disabilities? Take these tips and insights to help build accessibility into community outreach and conversation programs.
Find Joy in Nature First, Then Be Inspired to Protect It: The Blueberry Award and Children’s Earth Day Books and Programs
A lot of children’s nature literature, though well-meaning, pushes a narrative of “it’s up to you to save the world!” The librarians behind the Blueberry Award share ideas for excellent Earth Day programs and book suggestions that inspire a love for nature in young people without inciting climate anxiety or fear.
What Makes a Library Partnership Effective
Five factors are key to the development of strong and effective relationships between libraries and their partners.
Apply Now: Imagining Tomorrow
ALA invites grant applications for a brand-new Great Stories Club series featuring YA sci-fi titles.
How Libraries & Partners Collaborate
How can partnerships help libraries reach their programming goals?
Health, Media, and More: What Partners Help Libraries Do
Libraries pursue partnerships to create a wide range of programs. What do these partnerships focus on? Here's what 800+ libraries told us.
9 Places You Can Apply to for Program Funds
Looking to fund your library's programs? We've got you covered with nine places to start.
Reaching Teen Readers
Need some ideas for a creative teen program? Here are five unique ways to use the Great Stories Club.
Who do Libraries Serve? Defining the “Public”
In order to do public programming, libraries first need to have an idea of who “the public” they’re serving is.
A Weekly Escape Into Stories
Learn about the impact of the Great Stories Club and how to use the (free!) resources at your library.
Learning About Your Community Partnerships
Check out this overview of initial survey results on library partnerships.
Getting People Talking
What are libraries talking about? Learn about the variety of conversation topics that libraries are having with their communities.
They Want To Shut Us Down
Downers Grove (Ill.) Public Library staff reflect on threats that led to canceling Drag Queen Bingo.
4 Crafts To Highlight Culture and Traditions
Combine a cultural lesson with one of these four crafty hands-on activities.