Literacy News

1 Comment Category: Information Literacy HELP
Tags: Activities, Good, Library, Primary, School, Some, Students

I’m taking some classes in the school library and I am supposed to be promoting information literacy, or reading for pleasure. Does anybody have some good ideas of interesting activities to do in the school library for k-6 students?

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1 Comment Category: Information Literacy VIDEOS
Tags: Edition, impossible, Library, Milne, Mission

Introductory video for an information literacy lesson plan taught at SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library. Copyright ©2008.
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4 Comments Category: Information Literacy VIDEOS
Tags: Library, Trailer, Uncatalogued

View the trailer of the information literacy film, The Library: Uncatalogued. Written, directed, and produced by the College of St. Catherine Library, St. Paul, MN.
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1 Comment Category: Literacy Instruction
Tags: Library, Science

What is the difference between Library Instruction and Information Literacy?

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2 Comments Category: General Literacy
Tags: Library, Pratham

Pratham library program
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Write Comment Category: Adult Literacy
Tags: Adult, ComputerLiteracy, learner, Library, Program, Queens

Queens Library’s Adult Learner Program offers classes in basic computer skills to adult literacy learners.
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1 Comment Category: Preschool Literacy
Tags: Books, Children's, Getting, Library, Love, Started, traveling

The Books-Go-Round program, offered by Pennsylvania’s district center for Montgomery County’s public libraries, serves to meet the growing need for Early Childhood Literacy programs. The Bookmobile and Outreach Services department of the Montgomery County-Norristown Public Library visits Head Start, Daycare, and Early Learning Centers throughout the county to introduce preschoolers to the library and instill a love of learning. Free music by www.danosongs.com
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25 Comments Category: General Literacy
Tags: Biblioburro, donkey, Library

Luis Soriano, a teacher in the small town of La Gloria, Colombia, has spent the past ten years bringing books to children of the rural communities on the back of his donkeys. For more information, visit www.ayokaproductions.org . Produced, directed and edited by Valentina Canavesio, DoP: Silas Hagerty for Ayoka Productions
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Write Comment Category: General Literacy
Tags: Central, Diego, Library

San Diego new Central Library Design Architect Rob Quigley describes the vision and functionality of the proposed new Central Library for San Diego–a regional center for information, literacy and learning. The long-awaited New Central Library, designed for LEED Silver certification, is a nine-story community gathering space that incorporates a new downtown charter high school. The school will have access to the a library’s amazing educational resources but also be architecturally separate with its own entrance, lobby, elevator, restrooms and ventilation system. Quigley describes the structure and its amenties, including a great, airy, reading room under the building’s iconic dome. On…

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2 Comments Category: Literacy Schools
Tags: have to, kind, Library, Meet, Regarding, Requirements, Schools, Their

My school is a small rural school in Northeast Kansas. In the last few months the library at my school has been closed due to lack of a librarian. There seems to be priorities higher on the list that literacy. I was wondering what the rules are regarding libraries in schools. My school library is open for a few hours a couple days a week but its not often and we aren’t usually allowed in there and are never allowed to check out books.

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