Prepare to fall down the rabbit hole of fascinating, fun, and intriguing free things that you can access from the Library of Congress website!
Here are a few ways one school librarian has been reaching out to students, for possible use and adoption at your library or school.
Librarians face challenges, dangerous work conditions, and layoffs, as decisions made in response to COVID-19 expose cracks in leadership and funding.
Learn about the Library Bill of Rights, with explanations and examples of how library users might apply them in their own use of their libraries and more.
Many libraries publish art and lit magazines featuring authors and artists from their local community and from all over the world.
On the numerous (sometimes baffling) ways young library patrons lash out at each other, and how one librarian resolves these spats.
There are resources for kids' book tastings, but what about the grown people? Here's a how-to for hosting a book tasting for adults at a public library.
A children's librarian recounts the ways in which the library's younger patrons resist structure and act out in often humorous ways.
On the importance of prison libraries to people who are incarcerated, and on the policies and backlash against stripping access to library resources.
Now, I recognize that many caregivers who come to storytime are just as uninformed about how to get the most out of storytime as I was when I first started.
