Alzheimer’s Association, Georgia Chapter

Outreach Program

Libraries partner with GPLS and ALZ at the state and regional levels to provide programming in their libraries and communities, providing staff and patron education and resources on dementia.

Andalusia, Home of Flannery O’Connor

Exhibit Program

This book club and exhibit partnership encourages Georgia libraries to start a book club or host a discussion celebrating the life and works of Georgia native and renown American author, Flannery O’Connor. The exhibit is a timeline display of O’Connor and Andalusia that invites viewers to make connections between what was going on in O’Connor’s life, around Andalusia, and her works.

Andalusia is maintained and under the stewardship of the Department of Historic Museums, School of Continuing and Professional Studies at Georgia College and State University.

Atlanta Hawks – Check It Out Reading Challenge

Outreach Program

This program is available to youth in grades K-12. Participants must read five (5) books, then visit nba.com/hawks/community/checkitout to fill out the form, and with the purchase of an adult ticket, they receive a free youth ticket to one (1) select Hawks game.

Patrons receive their tickets via email towards the beginning of the season.

Fox Theatre Institute – Fox in a Box

Exhibit Program

This interactive banner exhibit focuses on how important events in the Fox Theatre’s timeline intersect with American history, the Civil Rights movement, economics and the importance of communities.

Georgia Aquarium

Outreach Program

The Poseiden Kit is currently unavailable.

Georgia Commission on the Holocaust

Exhibit Program

Libraries can host touring banner exhibits to help preserve the memory of the Holocaust and to promote public understanding of history.

Georgia Department of Human Services

Outreach Program

The Georgia Department of Human Services (DHS) and Georgia’s public libraries have the same service populations. The goal of this partnership is to form relationships on the local level between public libraries and the offices of the Divisions of Family and Children Services, Child Support Services, and Aging Services so organizations can collaborate to provide an extra measure of community relations and public service.

Georgia Farm Bureau

Outreach Program

Georgia Farm Bureau and Georgia Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture present one (1) copy of a selected book to every library branch. This book is typically the winner of the Book of the Year Award from the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture.

Libraries may request educational program visits from their local Georgia Farm Bureau offices. Ag in the Classroom and the Certified Farm Market Passport programs are also available to libraries.

Georgia Memory Net

Outreach Program

Georgia Memory Net is a statewide program dedicated to earlier diagnosis and customized care plans for those living with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The goal of this partnership program is to help raise awareness for this organization in our communities.

Georgia Peanut Commission

Outreach Program

This partnership serves to reinforce efforts to promote and educate people on the importance of agriculture in Georgia.

The Commission provides access to peanut and ag-based programming to Georgia public library patrons.

Georgia Public Broadcasting

Outreach Program

This partnership is a collaboration that continues to develop new ways to combine GPB and library initiatives into statewide programs, including reading challenges, special events, and exhibits.

Georgia Student Finance Commission

Outreach Program

The goal of this partnership is to reach as many Georgia residents as possible to raise awareness of continuing education beyond high school. The GSFC’s purpose to provide advisement, support, expertise for Georgians wishing to attend college. GSFC staff regularly schedule group or individual sessions with patrons in libraries and they can also schedule open sessions with the libraries themselves.

The GSFC administers the HOPE grant and a host of other grants to relieve the financial strains college can place on a prospective or current student. To further help, they developed GaFutures.org, a site where students can access all relevant information on: how to apply for grants, scholarship, or loans; what is needed to apply for higher education; career exploration; and accessing activities such as practice forms for FAFSA.

Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Exhibit Program

The Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library advances the research, instructional, and public service mission of the University of Georgia by collecting, preserving, and providing access to the published and unpublished works that document the evolving history and culture of Georgia and its peoples. The Hargrett Library documents the state’s literary, cultural, social, and economic legacy; and it builds collections of distinction in other areas, including natural history, ecology and environmentalism, history of the book, performing arts, women’s history, journalism and print media, and University history.

The Hargrett hosts a touring UGA Athletics exhibit, visiting libraries in different regions of Georgia each year.

Museum of History and Holocaust Education at Kennesaw State University

Exhibit Program

During the summer, Georgia’s public libraries have free access to the traveling banner exhibits from the MHHE.

The Rosalynn Carter Butterfly Trail

Outreach Program

The goal of the this project was to help our pollinator species propagate and thrive, educate communities on the importance of pollinator species, and to create attractive, sustainable green spaces at public libraries.

Several libraries participated in an LSTA grant funded program to plant or install pollinator friendly gardens at their libraries. These libraries also received an Observing Pollinators kit that can be checked out to encourage patrons to monitor and report data on pollinators in their communities.

Second Wind Dreams

Outreach Program

Second Wind Dreams is dedicated to those who suffer from forms of dementia, education surrounding forms of dementia, and patients in elder care facilities who have little to no family or visitors. This partnership includes the Virtual Dementia Tour and Gifts of Light/Cards of Light programs.

Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library at Emory University

Exhibit Program

Libraries can host the She Gathers Me banner exhibit from the Rose Library.

She Gathers Me explores the connections found within intimate correspondences, personal projects, and speaking engagements and furthers our understanding of the interconnectedness of Black women writers beyond their published works.