Special Collections

Rub-A-Dub-Dub: Some Poems in a Tub

Through a LSTA Grant project, the Children's Services Department has everything you need to present a great poetry or folktale unit already assembled for you. Ten tubs are available for checkout. Each tub has a basic theme and contains 15 to 20 books. We can also include various hands on resources such as magnetic poetry, flannelgraphs, puppets and videos. Read more...

Picturing America

The Crete Public Library is proud to be a recipient of the Picturing America grant, an  initiative from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Library Assn. This art initiative brings masterpieces of American art into classrooms and libraries so students and citizens gain a deeper appreciation of our country’s history and character through the study and understanding of art. The library received high-quality reproductions of forty works of different types of American art covering everything from portraits to sculpture, 18th century to contemporary. These prints and corresponding teacher resource guides are available for checkout. Read more ...
To view all of the Picturing America prints click on http://picturingamerica.neh.gov/

Lincoln Legacy Learning Kits

Explore Lincoln's accomplishments and the contributions of his thoughts, ideals and actions in a way that will enlighten and inspire your students.

These self-contained kits are designed for use in grades 5 through 8 but can be adapted to suit both older and younger students. Each kit contains multiple copies of age appropriate books, reproduction documents, artifacts and photos, music CDs, and videos as well as lesson plans and a Teachers Resource Guide CD. Kits include four units of study on the life of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War Era. Lincoln Kits trifold

Abraham Lincoln Reading Kit

 Mary Todd Lincoln Kit

 Civil War Soldier Kit

Slavery in Illinois Kit

The Lincoln Legacy Learning Kits address Illinois' learning standards. They meet the needs for integrated curriculum by combining social studies topics with Language Arts, Reading, Fine Arts, and even, Mathematics, Geography, and Science. These kits and their concepts provide experiential learning using concrete objects and situations.

Read and view the Library's display of the Lincoln Legacy Learning Kits for the Abraham Lincoln Birthday Bicentennial 1809-2009

Funding for this project was awarded to the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum by the Illinois State Library, a Division of the Office of Secretary of State, using funds provided by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA).