{"id":11090,"date":"2012-06-02T20:38:43","date_gmt":"2012-06-03T00:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=11090"},"modified":"2012-08-01T14:06:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T18:06:37","slug":"librarians-help-with-early-literacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=11090","title":{"rendered":"Librarians Help! – With Early Literacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In my Librarians Help! series, I’ve decided to start providing links to sites explaining ways other Librarians Help. Here’s a link from Pierce County Library System<\/a> that I find extremely cool. They did an actual study with pre- and post-tests to show that when childcare providers are trained by librarians, the children under their care actually do increase in Early Literacy Skills. And they compared with a control group to show this was a significant improvement from the untrained providers.<\/p>\n

Don’t forget: Librarians are educators. And we help people learn at all ages and from all backgrounds.<\/p>\n

Now, here are some of the ways I got to help people this week.<\/p>\n

I got to help with some computer skills this week:
\n— Helped a woman load a picture onto Facebook.
\n— Helped another woman get data from a PDF file on the internet into an Excel spreadsheet on her laptop.<\/p>\n

I showed someone where we keep our tax forms now that tax season is past.<\/p>\n

Mostly, again, besides back room work (mostly about converting books from Reference to Circulation this week), my work was about helping people find books. Like ones about:<\/p>\n

— Various SAT Subject Tests
\n— Cooking in crock pots
\n— Ancient Chinese art
\n— The history of Batman
\n— French resources for kids
\n— Drawing
\n— Espionage<\/p>\n

People also asked for specific books, such as:
\n— The next one of the Psalm 23<\/em> Mysteries
\n— Running With the Kenyans<\/em>
\n— Bone<\/em> chapter books
\n— specific issues of Wired<\/em> magazine
\n— next Rick Riordan book
\n— First Harry Potter<\/em> book for a girl who currently does most of her reading in Korean. (Mom wants to tempt her. I did suggest that would be a good choice for listening to the audio version.)
\n— My Weird School<\/em> books<\/p>\n

By far the most fun question this week was for suggestions for books to tempt a 15-year-old son. Some of my suggestions that were chosen were:
\n— The Thief<\/a><\/em>, by Megan Whalen Turner
\n— White Cat<\/a><\/em>, by Holly Black
\n— Ship Breaker<\/a><\/em>, by Paolo Bacigalupi
\n— Octavian Nothing<\/a><\/em>, by M. T. Anderson<\/p>\n

Spread the word! Librarians Help!<\/p>\n

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