LIBRARIES & FOOD JUSTICE Join us to discuss the intersections of food justice and public librarianship UNC Greensboro Department of Information, Libraries, and Research Associate Professor Noah Lenstra, along with Dr. Christine D’Arpa at Wayne State University in Detroit, were recently awarded an 18-month grant, from the Mellon Foundation’s Read More
OCTOBER 2023 NEWSLETTER The October 2023 newsletter of Let’s Move in Libraries includes: The call for submissions for StoryWalk Week 2023! The announcement of the 2023 I Partner with My Public Library Award winners A new blog post on the Farm to School movement and public libraries A call for participation in Read More
Farm to School and Public Libraries By Deborah Dutcher, Library Services Consultant, for the New Hampshire State Library This past summer I had the pleasure of being invited to and attending the Monadnock Farm to School Network for a “Farm to School Day Camp for Teachers” at the Read More
SEPTEMBER 2023 NEWSLETTER The September 2023 newsletter of Let’s Move in Libraries includes: An update on the I Partner with My Public Library Award The final release of Cultivating the Relationship-Driven Library Toolkit A summary of the August Birds of a Feather conversation and an invitation to join us in September A Read More
AUGUST 2023 NEWSLETTER The August 2023 newsletter of Let’s Move in Libraries includes: The final call for nominations for the I Partner with My Public Library Award An invitation to our next Birds of a Feather online conversation Inspiring stories and resources from Iowa This month’s featured image comes from AARP, the Read More
JULY 2023 NEWSLETTER The July 2023 newsletter of Let’s Move in Libraries includes: A call for nominations for the I Partner with My Public Library Award An invitation to our next Birds of a Feather online conversation Inspiring stories from Georgia and Maine This month's featured image comes from KidsGardening. They reached Read More
“There's lots of ways that things happen in our county” : Making connections to transform health in Anne Arundel County, Maryland In interviews with library staff and partners about how this goal supports community health, we discovered that this library is not afraid to try new things with partners. In Read More
“Everybody wants everyone else to succeed” in America's third most populous county When Fairbanks Branch Library Assistant Branch Manager Melinda Brinkle says “everybody wants everyone else to succeed” in Harris County she refers both to 1) everybody within the Harris County Library System and 2) everybody within Harris County Read More
Orchestrate and organize to launch and sustain bold new initiatives The success of the Gail Borden Public Library District in Elgin, Illinois comes down to a culture in which library staff are empowered and supported in launching bold new initiatives by changing how they work: Shifting from dedicating Read More
A simple strategy to get started: Empower everyone to be partnering Memphis Public Libraries (MPL) strives to empower all members of its community, including all library employees. MPL has created a number of formal and informal systems and initiatives to try to create a library system where a growth mindsets flourishes at Read More
