Recipe Club: The Most Delicious Library Group
Once a month, twice a month, or weekly, you can have a group that loves to talk about food! What could be better?
Posts Tagged ‘library programming’
Adult Programming: How to Have Cooking Demos Without Cooking
How can you have a cooking class without cooking in the library? Easy. There are many options that you can do that involves food prep without heat.
Beer-Themed Programming at the Library
Partnerships with breweries and other local businesses can help public libraries engage with Millennial patrons
National Novel Writing Month Is Not Just for November
The goal is to write 50,000 words in one month. Writers register at NaNoWriMo.org and keep a running tally of their progress, and share their novel’s current word count and synopsis.
Food Center: Meeting Food Insecure Patrons Outside the Library
As a library, we have been long time supporters of our local food center. However, it wasn’t until the past few years that we actively began to provide programming at the center. It started as one of many places we were looking to try to share information about what the library had to offer, but it turned into something different over time.
Get Your Library In On the Eclipse Action
Public libraries have a tremendous opportunity to supplement STEM programming with the event — before and after.
Library Spells Success with Sip & Spell Event
How do you attract more readers to your library? Let them show off their dictionary know-how in a head-to-head spelling competition!
Build a Better World: Collaborative Summer Reading Program 2017
It’s that time of year again when our nation’s youth flock to their local public libraries to participate in this year’s summer reading program.
Will There Be Another Summer of Pokémon GO?
While the number of Pokémon GO players has declined considerably, there are signs that your library may need to prepare for a summer flare up of Pokémon Fever!
Library Lock-ins for Adults
It’s a Friday night and library staff are planning to be awake for the next twelve hours, plus the time it takes for them to drive home and fall exhausted into bed. It’s another lock-in, but this time the youngest attendees are 18. It’s an adult lock-in, and just like when they were in high school, there is no expectation of sleep. Squeezed in around jobs and school, new adults make time to gather with their friends at the library and be kids again.
A “Purrfect” Literacy Program
Looking for a creative way to encourage children’s literacy at your library? Reach out to a local humane society or shelter and develop a program for kids to read to cats. Reading is no longer just for the birds; it’s for the enrichment of both cat and child as well!
Promoting a Lifelong Love of Reading: PL Talks With Jenny Adams Perinovic
Jenny Adams Perinovic is taking public library outreach services to another level at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
Trend Alert: Stuffed Animal Sleepovers
Stuffed animal sleepovers provide the perfect mix of early literacy and fun.
Promoting Health and Fitness Literacy at the Library
Sonoma County Libraries offers fitness and healthy cooking classes in its Healthy Living at your Library series as a way to promote health and fitness literacy. This is a growing trend to look out for!
Libraries Branching Out
Public libraries have become community centers with a lot of services to offer. Whether big or small, they help customers satisfy everyday needs and interests. This article describes some services of the Cuyahoga (Ohio) County Public Library that are beyond the usual library operations.
