Through an Education Innovation Research (EIR) Grant awarded by the US Department of Education's Office of Innovation and Improvement, Idaho will join five states in piloting the Waterford UPSTART [...]
We are happy to announce that ICfL along with the IDPR are offering free state park passes to Idaho libraries.
Register for a Read to Me training near you: The Read to Me team at ICfL will be offering regional training this spring for youth services staff working in [...]
Día de los Ninos is now an ICfL Micro-Grant!~ Application is open January 14 - February 1st Since 2005, ICfL has been supporting Día de los Ninos - originally a [...]
Applications for Bright Futures Outreach Opportunities are now open. These are opt-in programs for Idaho public libraries that want to reach more underserved children and families with summer reading [...]
FOR PUBLICLY-FUNDED PUBLIC LIBRARIES ONLY To help support the promotion of Idaho summer library programs, the Idaho Commission for Libraries will provide up to four Collaborative Summer Library [...]
Library Friends: Put some “teeth” into your storytimes! This free training for early childhood providers and educators is also open to library staff, and attendees receive fun materials to [...]
An exciting new pre-kindergarten literacy initiative from the Idaho State Department of Education and Achieve3000 brings free, research-based foundational literacy learning to all four-year-olds in Idaho. Libraries can help [...]
Our friend and storytime expert Saroj Ghoting recently put out a call for storytime resources that involve science, technology, engineering, art, and math. She generously compiled all the responses and [...]
The Idaho Early Years Conference is a two-day event for early childhood educators, practitioners, parents, health professionals, library staff, and library trustees. The conference is scheduled for October 24 - 25, 2018 [...]
