More Upcoming Events Winter 2025

Funding Environmental Action at Your Local Library

February 27, 2025 2 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

In communities across the country, libraries play an important role in building community resilience to climate change. Libraries serve as accessible community spaces that foster knowledge building and civic engagement. In small communities, local libraries play an especially crucial role as a community gathering space. In this installment of our TCTAC Webinar Series for Small Municipal Governments, we’ll hear from two communities where libraries nurtured climate action with support from federal grants.

First, Librarian Brenda Harrington and Sarah Kirn from Belfast, Maine will share about how the Belfast Free Library won an Institute for Museum and Library Services grant to fund the All of Belfast: Climate Dialogues. The program engaged a broad range of Belfast residents in conversations about climate change and documented the communities’ ideas and priorities for climate action.

Free STAR Net Webinar: Summer Fun for All Ages with GLOBE Citizen Science!

March 4, 2025 from 11 AM – 12 PM Mountain Time

Join STARnet and the NASA Earth Science Education Collaborative (NESEC) to round out planning for your 2025 summer library programs. Discover hands-on STEAM activities that can support either the Collaborative Summer Library Program (Color Our World) or iREAD (Level up at your Library with games and puzzles). These can be used in active and passive library programs to inspire and prepare patrons of all ages – from kids to seniors – to participate in NASA GLOBE Observer citizen science. This webinar will take place at 11:00 am Mountain Standard Time.