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  • Social Library, Volume 72

    In each edition of the Social Library, we highlight posts from innovative libraries we follow on Facebook. This week we're featuring libraries that host summer lunches, a media lab, fitness classes for seniors, a daily book giveaway, and a number of ...

  • Social Library, Volume 71

    Welcome to this week's edition of the Social Library, highlighting posts from libraries we follow on Facebook that showcase innovative and creative approaches to engaging their patrons in both brick and mortar spaces, and on social media. From a...

  • Social Library, Volume 70

    In this latest edition of our Social Library we're highlighting library projects, celebrations and festivals, a charity team-building event, and an inspiring TED Talk. Each edition of the Social Library brings a fresh set of ideas from libraries who ...

  • Social Library, Volume 69

    With this edition of the Social Library, we're featuring Facebook posts from libraries who are enriching their communities with fun events, informative workshops, audio heritage walks, library card awareness and tools for facilitating difficult discu...

  • Social Library, Voters' Edition

    Today is National Voter Registration Day and so we thought it only appropriate to feature in this edition of the Social Library, some of the ways in which libraries are raising awareness for voters in their communities. From voting workshops to mock ...

  • Social Library, Writers' Edition

    This edition of the Social Library features libraries that are hosting programs and groups in support of emerging and established writers. Writers' groups are hosted regularly, some with visiting authors and others with specific guidelines for how to...

  • Social Library, Volume 66

    Libraries highlighted in this edition of the Social Library provide examples of innovative ways to grow patron loyalty, host fundraising events or to join community recycling efforts. We've also featured a book club alternative and a wonderful projec...

  • Social Library, Volume 65

    In this latest edition of the Social Library we've highlighted a handful of libraries who are creating a stage for karaoke crooners, two libraries who are supporting Harry Potter fandom, one who is connecting locals to historic bars and breweries, an...

  • Social Library, Volume 64

    The latest edition of the Social Library brings inspiration from libraries we follow on Facebook in Texas, Washington, Georgia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. They demonstrate the ways in which libraries connect to teen interests, have a sense of humor in pr...

  • Social Library, Volume 63

    This edition of the Social Library features libraries who are partnering in various ways, to provide programs and incentives to patrons. We see many of the partnerships clearly represented in the Facebook posts, including a state-wide reading challen...