Every Child Ready to Read: ECRR Outside the Library: Providing Meaningful Family-Focused Community Outreach

Campana, Kathleen; Mills, J. Elizabeth; Martin, Michelle H.

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“…Similarly, the participants of this study acknowledged the impact that storytime programming has on attracting patrons who might not otherwise use the library, including community members from diverse groups, which in turn, increases their likelihood of obtaining a library card. For these reasons, many libraries are expending more effort on outreach to families with young children (Arnold, 2002; Ptacek, 2016; Smith, 2008), and specifically targeting these efforts at hard-to-reach populations through collaborations with other agencies such as local health departments and parks and recreation departments (Campana et al, 2018; Conner, 2018), as well as providing programs in languages other than English (VanDyne, 2018). As might be expected, the library directors who participated in this study identified storytime programming as a means of addressing and achieving larger library goals and objectives.…”

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What is storytime good for and what makes storytime good? A survey of public library directors

Cahill¹,

Joo

Howard

et al. 2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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This article reports on the findings from a nationwide survey designed to investigate the perceptions of public library directors with regard to storytime programs. The results indicate that public library directors identify a number of reasons why storytime is important; prime among those are for encouraging children’s enjoyment of books, promoting children’s early literacy skills, and attracting patrons who might otherwise not participate in library services. The findings suggest that public library directors do not fully recognize how storytime programs might contribute to school readiness. Further, differences in library inputs to support storytime point to disparities based on library size. The implications for practice, education, and research are discussed.

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What is storytime good for and what makes storytime good? A survey of public library directors

Cahill¹,

Joo

Howard

et al. 2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…While libraries have indicated a strong interest in serving their community (Campana et al, 2018;Mills et al, 2019), it is possible that there is not enough of an understanding of how social justice concepts can guide libraries in engaging and empowering these families. Moreover, though libraries are engaging with their communities and gathering data on needs and aspirations, not all libraries know how to translate this data into impactful and community-based program development (Campana et al, 2019a).…”

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Understanding Social Justice Through Practitioners’ Language

Mills

Kociubuk

Campana

2021

IJIDI

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Researchers have recognized that aspects of social justice are present in library efforts by acknowledging the importance of using library programs and services to promote social justice and the significance of social justice for the LIS field. However, while public libraries have indicated a strong interest in reaching underserved communities, they may not yet possess a thorough understanding of various aspects of social justice, especially the concepts of equity, engagement, and empowerment, despite the increasing focus on social justice’s centrality in the library science field. This work-in-progress study presents a grounded theory analysis of twenty semi-structured interviews that were conducted as part of an existing study with library staff and their community partners (staff who work at organizations with which the libraries partner to offer outreach programs in the community). The analysis explores and unpacks practitioners’ language to demonstrate a complex, multifaceted portrait of how these practitioners describe equity, engagement, and empowerment. These practitioners express both broad and individual approaches to this social justice work in an effort to offer equal treatment to the whole community while also recognizing individual barriers. Moreover, they underscore the importance of a role for the community to play in achieving their own goals and strengthening connections between community members and institutions. This analysis yields a critical semantic foundation of social justice concepts, situated in practitioner understanding and prior research in social justice.

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“…They can offer a variety of free STEM learning opportunities for children (Center for Interactive Learning, 2016), but many children from underserved communities may not be able to take advantage of these opportunities because of a variety of barriers. To try and overcome these barriers, some libraries are offering programs out in community locations to reach and serve children in under‐served communities (Campana, Mills, & Martin, ). Project LOCAL (Library Outreach as a Community Anchor in Learning), an Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Planning Grant, endeavored to understand on a broader scale how libraries are reaching and serving children and families in underserved communities by offering programs and services out in the community.…”

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Building a future through STEM learning for children in underserved communities

Campana

Mills

Martin

2018

Proc. Assoc. Info. Sci. Tech.

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Public libraries offer a variety of STEM learning opportunities for children and youth to allow them to experience emerging technologies in a hands‐on, play‐based manner. Opportunities like these are important for all children as research has identified the importance of STEM learning in informal learning environments (Bell, Lewenstein, Shouse & Feder, 2009). However, a variety of barriers may prevent many children in underserved communities from taking advantage of the STEM opportunities that public libraries offer. Because of this, some libraries are taking their programs and services out to community locations to reach these children. This poster highlights findings from Project LOCAL, an IMLS‐funded planning grant, around STEM learning opportunities offered by libraries out in community locations for children in underserved communities.

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Every Child Ready to Read: ECRR Outside the Library: Providing Meaningful Family-Focused Community Outreach

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What is storytime good for and what makes storytime good? A survey of public library directors

What is storytime good for and what makes storytime good? A survey of public library directors

Understanding Social Justice Through Practitioners’ Language

Building a future through STEM learning for children in underserved communities

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