The Show Me Librarian

Starting with this year, my role in summer reading is a specific one: I work at developing and implementing our measurement tools and strate...

Two summers ago, I wrote about our forays into pop-up programming for the summer . I mentioned in that post that I'd be assessing this v...

The team of folks here at my library who curate the Civic Lab were having a meeting a few weeks ago where we were discussing potential topic...

My library aims to observe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day each year with multigenerational programming that engages our community on issues fro...

When we started the Civic Lab at the end of this past summer, we knew one of our major goals would be to engage our community in conversati...

In this first iteration of our Civic Lab here at my library, most of the modes for participation are passive: voting on the major questio...

Civic engagement is on our minds at my library. Not just because this is an election year--although that certainly adds a layer to the conve...