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Applications Available for State Farm Good Neighbor Service-Learning Grants
State Farm is teaming up with Youth Service America (YSA) to offer grants of up to $1,000 to youth-led service-learning initiatives in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Ontario, and New Brunswick. Eligible programs will engage youth in service-learning, an effective teaching and learning strategy that promotes student [...]
Richmond (Calif.) Public Library Opens Seed-Lending Library
A project of the Richmond Rivets in collaboration with the Richmond Public Library, the ‘Richmond Grows Seed-Lending Library’ opened in May 2010 and allows the public to ‘borrow’ seeds for free, hoping that borrowers will donate seeds back to the library following harvest. It is believed to be the only seed-lending library currently operating [...]
SAVE up to 50% on reading kits for young readers!
Parents are always looking for new ways to entertain their kids. So help them out! Send them home with one of these engaging reading tools. You’ll find book lists, posters, stickers, sing-a-longs, rhymes–they’re packets full of fun and education! And for a limited time, they’re on sale! Each publication below is 40% off through August [...]
Opportunity for your Library?
The following requests for proposals were posted on Philanthropy News Digest:
Ashoka’s Changemakers and CommunityMatters Announce Strong Communities: Engaging Citizens, Strengthening Place, Inspiring Change Competition
Through the Strong Communities: Engaging Citizens, Strengthening Place, Inspiring Change competition, Ashoka’s Changemakers and CommunityMatters are inviting individuals and organizations to submit innovative projects and ideas to engage citizens in building strong [...]
Experiencing ALA Annual Through Twitter
I admit I was skeptical when signing up for a Twitter account last spring. Another site to check when I pop online? Did I really want to commit to that? I quickly fell down the rabbit hole that is Twitter when I discovered how easy it was to stay up-to-date with concurrent conference events during [...]
(another) Top 5 ALA Annual Experiences
I have to echo P. Sweeney: I really did plan to blog more, but I got sucked into the whirlwind of activity and joy and exhaustion that IS conference. Additionally, I spent a lot of time doing committee and process work for YALSA, some of which is confidential, so it doesn’t really lend itself to [...]
Poetry as a Community Builder – ALA Saturday Morning
At ALA there are always multiple session that I want to attend that are scheduled at the same time. Knowing that you can leave a session before it is completely over; I left the “I’m Doing Events at My Library” session with 45 minutes to go so that I could pop in on the “Poetry [...]
I’m Doing Events at My Library from Now On – ALA Saturday Morning
This session dealt with bringing authors to libraries to provide programs for the community. These programs are also worthwhile as fund-raising events and provide public relations opportunities. The session was presented by librarians from the St. Louis County Library. They have an awesome program, run by Carrie Robb, who was spirited away [...]
My Top 5 ALA Annual Experiences
This year’s annual American Library Association conference was a whirlwind of activity for me. I was hoping that I could write blog posts everyday on everything amazing that happened. Unfortunately, I never had any time between meetings, sessions, and social events to write anything including a stack of postcards that I bought at [...]
