tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77056303662982241692024-03-13T10:16:12.454-07:00Information Outreach for Children and Young AdultsT. Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17792175853139507757noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705630366298224169.post-60505331819676284992014-03-07T18:18:00.001-08:002014-03-07T18:28:35.654-08:00Reaching out to Teen Parents<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Teenagers
are one of the most difficult age groups to get involved with the library, and
often it takes some truly innovative thinking to devise programming and events
that will attract teens to the library. Combine those barriers with those
facing teen parents and the challenge becomes even bigger. Although teen
pregnancy occurs in all cultural, racial, and socio-economical groups, many
teen parents are themselves low-level readers. (Fesko, 2010) But even teen
parents who are academic achievers may not have the maturity or the knowledge
to understand the importance of reading to their children. The rationalization for this program is that teen parents are an underserved part of a difficult to engage demographic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> The
outreach/teen librarian should collaborate with homeless shelters, churches,
schools, and various other local programs designed to assist teen parents, and
offer a story time program designed to teach teens the importance of reading to
their children, and instruct them in reading and story telling techniques. Because teen parents may not often come to the library, or may even believe that the library has nothing to offer them, the librarians must search for resources that will help them connect to the target audience. Librarians should be sure to network, advertise the program not only at the library and online, but in places teen parents are likely to spend time or receive help from. The
benefit of a program like this is two-fold: first, it gets new parents reading
to their children. And second, it gets teens involved with the library and
gives those with lower reading skills the opportunity to improve with
encouragement and support. With many of the barriers to literacy that children face being rooted in inter-generational issues, a program such as this could improve parents' reading skills, foster bonding between parents and children, and nurture future literacy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Fesko,
S. (2010) Reaching out through outreach: Providing service to teen parents. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Voice <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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J. Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11760595489479727202noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705630366298224169.post-60036580590492665752014-03-07T15:00:00.000-08:002014-03-07T15:00:02.183-08:00The Libraries' Best FriendWhen it come to children's literacy, research has shown that all the senses are important in the child's development. For example, we learn from Shenton & Dixon that the ability to touch and interact with various items is an important part of early informational-seeking activities. Hearing, too, both in the forms of being read to and in reading aloud for themselves.<br />
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One activity used by many libraries that engages all of the sense is the use of animals - typically dogs, although <a href="http://www.mackinawareapl.michlibrary.org/news-events/lib-cal/beaks-n-books.ics">chickens</a> are not unknown and almost any animal could be used - as passive audiences for beginning readers to practice on. The results are, as we see in Shaw, very promising on both the intellectual and social levels.<br />
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Most of these programs, however, still rely on the child being brought to the library to participate in them. I would suggest that the animal, especially if it's a dog, can also be its own outreach. By holding a session of these programs outside of the library space - in a public park of some kind is most likely, weather and local laws permitting - the program can be exposed to children (and their parents) who might not have heard of it before, with the positive effects being multiplied.<br />
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Further Reading:<br />
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Shaw, Donita (2013) Man's Best Friend as a Reading Facilitator, <i>The Reading Teacher</i> 66(5), 365-71.<br />
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Shenton, A. K., & Dixon, P. (2004). The development of young people’s information-seeking behaviour. <i>Library & Information Research</i>, 28(90), 31-39.T. Everetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17792175853139507757noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705630366298224169.post-83707097957905897402014-03-07T14:57:00.002-08:002014-03-07T14:58:53.218-08:00Library Scavenger Hunt<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One of the important issues in library services to
children and young people is the need for this user group to receive adequate
training and instruction on how to effectively research. A library scavenger hunt is a fun and
interactive way to help this group receive instruction and practice the skills
that they need to develop. This program would be conducted in a public library
by the Youth Services staff and will be targeted to students in upper
elementary. The program will be held at the library and advertising will be
done by creating flyers to be distributed at the schools by upper elementary
teachers. The library staff will work with the teachers and the school
librarians to market this program.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The rationalization for this program is the
disconnection between children’s prior knowledge and their ability to create
and implement adequate search strategies. As noted in the literature review
there is research that indicates that while children may be very knowledgeable
in a particular subject area they often lack experience and skills needed to
effectively research further on their own Pattee
(2008). The scavenger hunt would also include some digital activities as well
since as noted by Bilal and Bichar (2007) children and young people often
experience difficulties with digital research as well. The children would be
allowed to work in groups, since as noted by Lippincott (2012) millennial or
net generation students often work in groups, enjoy using technology and
combine their social and academic lives.
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This goal of this program is to help
children of upper elementary school age to develop the skills needed to do
effective research on their own for both personal needs and academic
purposes. Allowing children to practice
these skills through a fun program and work together in groups will also help
to make children more comfortable in the public library. The staff will provide a handout that offers
tips and advice on conducting research that they can take home and use in the
future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Bilal, D., & Bachir, I. (January 01, 2007). Children’s
interaction with cross-cultural and multilingual digital libraries: I.
Understanding interface design representations. </span><i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Information Processing & Management, 43, </span></i><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">1, 47-64.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Lippincott,
J. K. (January 01, 2012). Information Commons: Meeting Millennials' Needs.<i>Journal
of Library Administration, 52, </i>538-548</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Pattee,
A. S. (2008). What Do You Know? Applying the K-W-L Method to the Reference
Transaction with Children. Children & Libraries: The Journal Of The
Association For Library Service To Children, 6(1), 30-39.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08350494129948963718noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7705630366298224169.post-34896262140812665952014-03-07T08:38:00.001-08:002014-03-07T08:38:09.120-08:00Booktalks and Book Clubs for teens: why not meet them at school?<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">
While researching the information
needs and behaviors of preteens and young adults, I came across an interesting
suggestion by way of a question: “Does the librarian ever appear in school
classrooms and assemblies to do booktalking so that his/her face, in
association with the public library, conjures up good stories and enthusiasm in
the minds of children and youth?” <w:sdt citation="t" id="-1969046089"><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span>CITATION Wil83 \p 152 \l 1033 <span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]-->(Wilson, 1983, p. 152)<!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--></w:sdt> I was familiar with
booktalks, and with the concept of strong collaboration between school and
public libraries, but this exact idea had not before occurred to me, and it
seems like an excellent way for the public library to reach out to this age
group.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Exploring this topic further, I
came across a paper entitled “Rethinking Reading Promotion” <w:sdt citation="t" id="-165866603"><!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>CITATION Cha12 \l 1033 <span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]-->(Chance & Lesesne, 2012)<!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--></w:sdt> which promotes the
idea of public librarians using booktalks and book trailers presented in middle
and high schools as successful methods of encouraging reading in young adults.
I was especially intrigued by the suggestion of recording a live booktalk and
using that as a form of book trailer that could be shared beyond the audience
of the initial talk. Given the right preparation such a venture could include
some of the other elements book trailers are popular for, such as images and
music to accompany the talk. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Taking it one step further, a teen
services librarian might also hold book clubs at a middle or high school, with
the cooperation of the school librarians. Jack Baur and Jessica Lee (a public
and school librarian, respectively, both serving teens in Berkeley, CA) detail
their successes with a comic book club held in the local middle school <w:sdt citation="t" id="1455669517"><!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:
field-begin'></span>CITATION Bau12 \n<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>\l 1033 <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]-->(Talking Comics, 2012)<!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--></w:sdt>. While they used
comics due to their appeal, and I would personally relish the opportunity to do
the same, it is likely that any popular books could be used just as easily.
Once a rapport is established, a librarian could then work to expand the club
member’s horizons a bit by suggesting similar books that are less well known
(as long as they are likely to hold their patrons’ interest). <o:p></o:p></div>
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Both the booktalk and book club
programs, when held in schools, provide the benefit of getting the public
librarian out of their building and to a place where the users are. This not
only directly gets around the problem of users not coming to the physical
library as often any more, but it also demonstrates the value of the public
library to the users, who may then decide to come in. Even if they don’t, as
long as they take part in the program they are engaged. Especially in the case
of the book club, once a rapport has developed between the teens and the public
librarian, other information needs might be uncovered and addressed, such as in
conversation before or after (or even during) the meeting. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Clearly, this would require a great
deal of coordination and cooperation between the public and school libraries,
but if Baur and Lee’s example isn’t enough to convince you that this isn’t just
possible but desirable, consider that there is a long history of such
cooperation, and as tightened budgets continue to strain resources and imperil
programs, the ALA is strongly encouraging more such cooperation<w:sdt citation="t" id="-2072188190"><!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:
field-begin'></span> CITATION Ama12 \l 1033 <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]--> (Amann &
Carnesi, 2012)<!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--></w:sdt>.
Another benefit of this collaboration is that the school library will be able
to promote the program(s) to kids very easily, perhaps using some of the other
methods discussed by Chance and Lesesne such as recording promotional messages
to be announced over the PA system after the morning announcements<w:sdt citation="t" id="-1159301500"><!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:
field-begin'></span>CITATION Cha12 \n<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>
</span>\l 1033 <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]--> (Rethinking
Reading Promotion, 2012)<!--[if supportFields]><span style='mso-element:
field-end'></span><![endif]--></w:sdt>. This might open the door to further
collaboration, such as mutual program promotion, resource sharing, reciprocal
lending etc. <w:sdt citation="t" id="40262843"><!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-begin'></span><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>CITATION Ama12 \l 1033 <span
style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]-->(Amann & Carnesi, 2012)<!--[if supportFields]><span
style='mso-element:field-end'></span><![endif]--></w:sdt>. Even if it doesn’t,
the school library, the public library, and most importantly the young people
being encouraged to read all benefit. This alone makes it worth pursuing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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While these are clearly not
entirely new ideas, given Wilson’s reference to it in 1983, it still has plenty
of merit and should be explored, or expanded upon, by any public library
looking for more ways to enhance outreach to young adults. <o:p></o:p></div>
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style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>BIBLIOGRAPHY <span style='mso-element:field-separator'></span><![endif]-->Amann, J., & Carnesi, S. (2012). C Is for
Cooperation. <i>Children & Libraries: The Journal of the Association for
Library Service to Children, 10</i>(3), 9-13.<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Baur, J., & Lee, J. (2012). Talking Comics. <i>Young
Adult Library Services, 10</i>(4), 17-21.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chance, R., & Lesesne, T. (2012, June).
Rethinking Reading Promotion. <i>Teacher Librarian, 39</i>(5), 26-28.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wilson, E. (1983). Reference needs of children and
young adults in public libraries. <i>The Reference Librarian</i>(7-8),
151-156.<o:p></o:p></div>
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