Keweenaw Bay Indian Community

The project, Aabiji-Miinidiiwin or “Endless Gift,” planned by Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Michigan, is a cooperative effort between the Keweenaw Bay Tribal Education Department, Ojibwa Community Library, the Head Start/Early Head Start Program, and the Pre-Primary Education Center that will focus on expanding and enhancing existing library services to children up to the age of five and their caregivers. New books, audiovisual materials, comfortable furnishings, and expanded hours will enhance the library’s appeal to children and their families. School classes will visit regularly for library activities and grandparent storytelling events, while staff will initiate a supplemental in-school outreach program that takes the library to the children and establishes mini-libraries at the Zeba and Baraga centers on the reservation.