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Creating Library Connections
Early Literacy Outreach to Immigrant & Low-Income
Populations
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. Project Summary: What We Did
II. Background: Why We Did This Project
III. Essentials for Success: The Way We Did It
- A. Communication: Getting and Keeping
Staff Involvement
1. Communication with Center Staff
2. Communication with Library Staff
- B. Recruitment and Development of Interpreters
1. Recruitment
2. Reciprocal benefits
3. Training
4. Interpreters as Community Advocates
- A. Interpreter Training
1. Story Time Fun
2. Library Catalog and Internet
3. Creating Library Connections
- B. Library Staff Training
1. Working with Culturally Diverse Populations/Refugee & Immigrant Populations
2. Story Time with Interpreters
- A. Story Time at Centers
1. Setting
2. Timing
3. Size of group
4. Promotion
5. Interpreters
6. Food
7. Partnering with other agencies
- B. Story Time at Libraries
1. Setting
2. Timing
3. Staffing
4. Size of group
5. Tour
6. Transportation
7. Promotion
8. Interpreters
9. Food
- A. Language Availability
- B. Format & Content
1. Bilingual books versus Single Language Books
2. Story Collections versus Single-Story Books
3. Hardcover versus Paperback
4. Western Translations versus Original Cultural Folktales
- C. Book Availability
1. Bookstores
2. Vendors
- E. Giveaway books
- A. Language selection
- B. Audiocassettes
- C. Additional Suggestions
- D. Proofreading
· Items in English
· Numbers
· Web Sites
· Format
· Additional Tips
o Words in English
o Titles
o Identifiers
o Translation Date
VIII. Public Information Releases/Information Sharing
- A. Participants’ survey
- B. Surveys of Library and Center staff
- C. Input from Interpreters
- D. Measuring library use
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Last Updated: July 29, 2007