Programming

Your library's programming brings to your community, rich opportunities for learning, entertainment, and building connections across all age groups. Find resources, templates and successful strategies for planning, marketing, implementing and evaluating your programming efforts.
Self-paced courses and webinar recordings on this topic are freely available in the WebJunction Course Catalog.
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February 5, Resources for Wellbeing: Toolkit Tour for Rural & Small Libraries
Publish Date: News / 5 February 2021
This webinar will introduce tools for helping libraries improve social wellbeing in their communities, created from the Rural Library Service & Social Wellbeing Project.
Activate Your Space with Programming
Publish Date: News / 26 January 2021
This resource is part of the Toolkit for Creating Smart Spaces, a toolkit to help you re-envision your library’s place as a center of community learning. There are many sources of ideas for programming —the internet, your library colleagues,...
2021 National Day of Racial Healing
Publish Date: News / 22 December 2020
The National Day of Racial Healing (NDORH) is an opportunity for people, organizations, and communities to call for racial healing, bring people together in their shared humanity and take action together to create a more just and equitable world. ...
Outdoor Winter Programming Ideas
Publish Date: News / 16 December 2020
Earlier this year, in Thinking Outside: Libraries and Placemaking in Pandemic Times, we shared how some libraries were moving library programming and services to the outdoors, as a way to stay engaged with their communities during the pandemic. And n...
One Step at a Time: How Libraries Can Promote Healthy, Thriving, and Livable Communities
Publish Date: Webinar / 22 October 2020
This webinar will highlight the multiple benefits of walking and walkable communities and how libraries can help lead community efforts.
Seed and Plant Swap Grows During COVID
Publish Date: News / 20 August 2020
Erie City Public Library in Erie, Kansas, serves a small town of about 1,085 people in Neosho County. We are a gathering place for the community.
One of the goals of our little library is to support the community as much as we can...
Take a StoryWalk Through Downtown with the Library
Publish Date: News / 11 August 2020
The StoryWalk® ranks among the most ingenious ideas of the last 20 years. From humble origins in Montpelier, Vermont, this idea has spread throughout libraries across North America, and beyond. And in recent years, and especially with libraries close...
Whose Turn Is It, Anyway? Online Board Gaming and Libraries
Publish Date: Webinar / 28 July 2020
This webinar explores platforms for online board gaming, how to moderate meetups, and facilitate discussions among participants.
Getting Started with Virtual Storytimes
Publish Date: Webinar / 16 June 2020
This 90-minute webinar provides a comprehensive introduction to virtual storytimes.
Think Outside the Library with a Sidewalk Obstacle Course
Publish Date: News / 11 June 2020
Noah Lenstra (Let's Move in Libraries) looks at how libraries can engage communities safely by taking programs and services outside, including creating obstacle courses.
In just one month, this idea of a sidewalk obstacle course has s....