Lifelong Learning

The Montana State Library provides lifelong learning support to all Montanans through a combination of librarian professional development and training, program development, and meaningful partnerships. Lifelong Learning projects include sustained, long-term efforts in early literacy, economic development, and summer reading, as well as other topics such as health information, STEM programming, wildlife education, and civic engagement.

Please see below for a list of current projects and initiatives. Please reach out to Amelea Kim (akim@mt.gov), the Lifelong Learning Librarian, for more information!

• Ready 2 Read: MSL's Early Literacy Initiative
• Summer Reading Program Support and the Collaborative Summer Library Program (CSLP)
• MSL Trunk Program
• MLN Virtual Programming Series
• The Democracy Project with Humanities Montana
• Food Programming in Libraries
• Bat Week
• Montana Libraries SPARK: MSL's Economic Development Initiative (on hiatus)

Want to stay informed on Lifelong Learning programs and opportunities? Sign up for MSL Email Updates on the MSL News page, and select the "Lifelong Learning" topic to subscribe to. You will receive the Lifelong Learning Digest as it gets sent out!

Here is a list of past Lifelong Learning projects. Please contact the Lifelong Learning Librarian if you have any questions!

• Early Childhood Development: Mind in the Making (2016 - 2018)
• Financial Literacy Outreach (2017)
• NASA @ My Library STEM Trunks (2019 - 2020)
• Earth Day 2020
• Lawyers in Libraries (2020 - 2022)

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