Unearth a Museum: Insights and Inspiration for Paleontology Summer Library Programming

Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Location: NC Museum of Natural Sciences, 11 W. Jones Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
Credit: 3.75 contact hours towards continuing education units or towards Criteria III of NC Environmental Certification program. 

Join fellow NC librarians for a special morning at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, designed to inspire ideas and support your planning for the 2026 CSLP summer reading theme, Unearth a Story. Enjoy behind-the-scenes access to the museum’s paleontology collections, including a guided tour featuring remarkable North Carolina specimens from the Late Triassic, Cretaceous, and Cenozoic periods. Travel back through deep time in the Prehistoric North Carolina exhibit, where you’ll explore fossils, ancient predators, and the earliest life in our region. Then immerse yourself in the interactive Dueling Dinosaurs experience to encounter one of the world’s most extraordinary paleontological discoveries: the fully articulated, 67-million-year-old fossils of a Nanotyrannus and Triceratops buried together.

Registration is first-come, first-served and there are a limited number of spaces available. If you need to cancel after registering, please make sure to do so by April 26th to make sure we can offer your spot to someone else on the waitlist.

This program is only for librarians. 

Organizer: Lisa Valdivia, 919-707-9883, [email protected]

Registration Instructions

• Please register (to create an account) or sign in (at the top of this page). 
• Members must sign in to receive a 15% discount. You will only see the discount once the item is added to your cart.
• Once you click Add to cart, you can register for additional Educator Treks before checking out.