Join us at the Dixie Convention Center in St. George, Utah for the 2025 Utah Library Association Annual Conference!Registration is now open, with early bird pricing ending March 31. Soon after registering, you will receive a Sched invite to this event so you can plan your conference schedule. See you in St. George!
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Reading Nation Waterfall (RNW) is a $1.4 million IMLS grant that seeks to enhance literacy access for Native American communities. Collaborating with Head Start Centers, the Little Free Library organization, public and tribal libraries, and community-based partners, RNW has developed a sustainable Book Ecosystem Model and built children’s community book ecosystems in five communities: the Yurok, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Lumbee, Northern Cheyenne, and Santo Domingo Pueblo. To date, RNW has delivered over 45,000 books among 7,746 children with at least 12,079 documented books read at home, catalyzing a 17% increase in circulation and 100% increase in usage across RNW libraries.
Romance has been the highest-selling fiction genre for more than a decade. What makes it so popular? Why are romance readers ashamed of their reading preferences? Are romances really for feminists? Can reading romance be good for you?
The idea of library outreach can often feel overwhelming. Come learn how you can take some of the programs and services you already do inside your library, out into the community. The Provo City Library Outreach Librarians will share several different aspects of our outreach services like preschool story times to Title 1 schools, homebound outreach and offsite programs. We’ll also share the logistics of how we schedule our visits and some of the tips and tricks we’ve figured out along the way, so you can learn from our mistakes!
Learn how to introduce your patrons to short plays, Readers Theaters, and skits with a minimal budget and no rehearsal or previous drama experience required. Then try out your own acting skills (if you dare) with some fun skits to see how a program like that would run.
Two years after the Eccles Health Sciences Library's 50th anniversary in 2021, the library began a journey of transformation with a seismic retrofit project. This project provided an opportunity to preserve history in another unique way—a time capsule, to be placed in the new building core constructed for restrooms, elevators, and earthquake safety. This presentation will detail the process undertaken by a team of four librarians and five staff members to curate and create the time capsule without overburdening anyone’s schedule.
