More than anything, staffers make the difference,” Eva Mitnick, director of Los Angeles Public Library’s engagement and learning division, said to me about the library’s after-school Student Zone ...

Get ready for back-to-school by setting up a personalized school supply center to store items such as pencils, pens, markers and scissors. This project is both creative and functional and provides a ...

For Sheila Osborne, the best part about the Monday Night Homework Center at the Stoughton (Mass.) Public Library is when tutors work together on difficult problems or issues to help students ...

Cindy Mediavilla spent 18 years as a public librarian and managed the Friendly Stop, a homework center for Orange (Calif.) Public Library, in the early 1990s. She has been studying after-school ...