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Apply for an America’s Music Grant
The American Library Association Public Programs Office, the Tribeca Film Institute, and the National Endowment for the Humanities are pleased to announce America’s Music: A Film History of Our Popular Music from Blues to Bluegrass to Broadway, a six-week series of public programs featuring documentary film screenings and scholar-led discussions of twentieth-century American popular music.

Apply Now for a Free Moon Viewing Kit
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is pleased to invite public and school libraries to apply for a free Moon viewing kit! To qualify for a kit, applicants must commit to hosting an International Observe the Moon Night (InOMN) event on Saturday, October 8, 2011.

Attend a Free Webinar on 2012: The Science of the Maya Apocalypse
Calendar in the Sky is a NASA-funded project led by UC Berkeley to engage the American public, particularly Latino audiences, in NASA science (space exploration, astronomy, planetary and Earth sciences, etc.) via the broad interest in Maya culture.

Attend a Free Workshop on Astronomy and Maya Culture
“Calendar in the Sky” is a NASA-funded project led by the UC Berkeley Center for Science Education at the Space Sciences Laboratory to engage the American public in NASA science (space exploration, astronomy, planetary and Earth sciences, etc.) via the broad interest in Maya culture.

Bring the Universe to Your Library with NASA
Are you interested in expanding your library’s science programming? Would you like to receive materials and support for your programming efforts? And best of all, would you like access to this information for free?

Celebrate Science and Women’s History Month
NASA science education partners are celebrating National Women’s History Month in March with the expanded NASA Science4Girls and Their Families initiative. The theme for this year’s National Women’s History Month is “Women Inspiring Innovation Through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.”

Create Your Own Space Exhibitions (with Help from NASA)
Greetings from the NASA Astrobiology Institute! To celebrate NASA’s Year of the Solar System, we have put together a collection of high-resolution images to showcase the excitement of planetary exploration—our journey to understand the origin and evolution of the solar system and our search for life elsewhere.

Featured Library: Chillicothe Public Library
On July 7, visitors to the opening day of the traveling exhibit Visions of the Universe: Four Centuries of Discovery with will see a great display indoors at the Chillicothe (Ill.) Public Library, and will be able to take their new astronomical knowledge outdoors to witness the second penumbral eclipse of the year that evening.

Featured Library: Drake Community Library
It can often be difficult to create programming that accommodates more than one age group, but Drake Community Library in Grinnell, Iowa, has been successfully coordinating programs for children and adults alike.

Free NASA Training for Wisconsin Public Library Staff
The Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) is hosting a free, NASA-supported workshop, “Explore: Life on Mars?” on April 3–4, 2012, at the University of Wisconsin Geology Museum in Madison. The program is designed to help you bring earth and space science to your communities through fun and engaging hands-on activities.

Free Space Science Professional Development Opportunities
The Lunar and Planetary Institute invites public library staff who facilitate programs for children and tweens in select states to join us for FREE NASA-supported professional development trainings through our Explore program, which is designed to help you bring earth and space science to your communities through fun and engaging hands-on activities.

Help Kids and Teens Discover Earth
The Lunar and Planetary Institute is pleased to announce the release of Discover Earth: Hands-on Activities, a module to support hands-on Earth science explorations in libraries and other places of community learning. Educators are invited to download the activities, supporting reading games, and facilitator resources.

Help Kids Explore the Universe @ your library
Everyone knows that a library card is a ticket to far-off lands. Now through a partnership with IMAX and Warner Bros. Pictures, ALA will help library users explore the universe.

Launch Your Library into Space Science!
We invite you to participate in the Countdown to Curiosity and the launch of the latest mission to Mars on November 22–25 at the Hilton Cocoa Beach Oceanfront and the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This free, NASA-supported experience includes a two-day workshop, a VIP tour of Kennedy Space Center, and front row seats at the launch of the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity.

Launch Your Programming into Space with Three Opportunities from NASA
Looking for ways to add space-related programming to your library? NASA is offering a YA artwork contest, a traveling exhibition, and a programming workshop for librarians in Idaho and Montana.

More Free Workshops on Astronomy and Maya Culture
“Calendar in the Sky” is a NASA-funded project led by the UC Berkeley Center for Science Education at the Space Sciences Laboratory to engage the American public in NASA science (space exploration, astronomy, planetary and Earth sciences, etc.) via the broad interest in Maya culture.

NASA’s Rover Curiosity to Land On Mars in Early August: Invite Your Community to Get Involved at Your Library!
On August 5/6 the biggest, heaviest, most advanced robot ever sent to another planet will land on Mars! The Mars Rover, “Curiosity,” with its onboard Mars Science Laboratory, will spend two years on our near neighbor, helping us to determine if Mars has—or ever had—places suitable for life.

Special International Year of Astronomy Event Opportunity
Did you know that 2009 has been designated the International Year of Astronomy? We invite you to celebrate with NASA by holding a public event in your library featuring a special image of the center of our Milky Way Galaxy!

Visions of the Universe Hits the Road and NASA Lands in Libraries
Librarians are boldly going where no library has gone before in 2009. So said Frank Summers, astrophysicist and educator with the Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach (STScl), waking up a roomful of librarians with his excitement on a Sunday morning at the 2009 ALA Annual Conference.

Year of the Solar System
It is with great excitement that NASA’s Planetary Science Division announces the Year of the Solar System! Spanning a Martian year—twenty-three months—the Year of the Solar System celebrates the amazing discoveries of numerous NASA missions as they explore our planetary neighbors and probe the outer edges of our solar system.