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AN EXPLORATION OF BEST PRACTICESSERVING PARENTS AND CHILDREN 0-12
Kara DeCarloLIS 771
Best Practices for Identifying Community Needs
1. Identify the culture/client group
2. Identify community stakeholders
3. Identify goals of client group
Determine Goals
Parents Face-to-face
interviews Focus Groups Paper SurveysChildren Paper Surveys Focus Groups
Community Stakeholders
Educators Pediatricians Social Workers Caregivers Parents Children
Community needs are fulfilled by the programs, materials, services that will help the group achieve their goals.
“We need to model existing behaviors, attitudes and values and then apply what we know about future trends to create experiences that surprise and delight consumers”
STEVE MCCALLION
Future trends for Parents and Children 0-12 Newest
Curriculum Standards
Kindergarten Readiness Expectations
Newest Child Development Findings
Needs of Parents and Children ages 0-12
Access to materials and services
Information on community resources
Support of literacy (functional, informational,
media)
Curriculum Support
Development of parenting skills
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)
Goals of children's services• To facilitate the right of every child to- information- functional, visual, digital and media literacy- cultural development- lifelong learning- creative programs in leisure time • To provide children with open access to all resources and media • To provide various activities for children, parents and caregivers• To facilitate families' entry into the community• To empower children and to advocate for their freedom and safety• To encourage children to become confident and competent people • To strive for a peaceful world.
Oregon’s Ready to Read Program
Dahlgreen, MaryKay. “Ready to Read in Oregon: Building Best Practice in Library Service to Children,” Children and Libraries. Winter 2004. 4-10
Pennsylvania Public Libraries: Best Practices in Early Learning 2009.
Gilbert, Paula. “Pennsylvania Public Libraries: Best Practices in Early Learning,” Pennsylvania Library Association Bulletin, May/June 2009. 4-6.
Pennsylvania Public Libraries: Best Practices in Early Learning 2009
Gilbert, Paula. “Pennsylvania Public Libraries: Best Practices in Early Learning,” Pennsylvania Library Association Bulletin, May/June 2009. 4-6.
Curriculum Support
Knowledge of current standards
Access to materials
Educational programs that coincide with
school holidays
Information Literacy
Teaching Information Literacy Using Children’s LiteratureBy Dana Dukic 1 instructional session, 40 minutes long Children worked in groups to research
information and design oral presentations with a web-based component
Presentations were published on school library webpage
Digital Literacy Through Transmedia Storytelling
Already in use in classrooms in Australia and Canada, digital novels are an exciting way to familiarize children with technology through the medium of storytelling.
Library as Family Resource CenterCommunity Resources Illinois Head Start
Association Cook County
Department of Public Health
Franklin County Whole Child Preschool Project
Library Resources Books/Programs
on parenting Storytimes to
support early literacy
Orientations for students
School-Library collaboration
Franklin County Whole Child Preschool Project
Franklin County Whole Child Preschool Project http://frcowholechild.webs.com/
Bristol-Meyers Squibb Children’s Hospital Library, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
Forsberg, Nancy N. “Family Friendly Space for Research, Reflection, and Respite: A Family Resource Center and Library in a Pediatric Hospital Setting.” Journal of Hospital Librarianship, volume 10, 2010. 82-87.
Conclusion
By familiarizing ourselves with the goals of our client groups we can determine their needs and be the bridge to success.
Resources
Bon, Ingrid. “Best Practices of Children’s Library Services Around the World,” World Library and Information Congress: 71th IFLA General Conference and Council Report, August 2005
Cook County Department of Health http://www.cookcountypublichealth.org/
Dahlgreen, MaryKay. “Ready to Read in Oregon: Building Best Practice in Library Service to Children,” Children and Libraries. Winter 2004. 4-10
Druin, Allison. “What Children Can Teach Us: Developing Digital Libraries For Children With Children.” The Library Quarterly, Volume 75, no. 1. 2005. 20-41.
Dukic, Dana. “Teaching Information Literacy Using Children’s Literature,” Access, June 2007. 21-26
Forsberg, Nancy N. “Family Friendly Space for Research, Reflection, and Respite: A Family Resource Center and Library in a Pediatric Hospital Setting.” Journal of Hospital Librarianship, volume 10, 2010. 82-87.
Franklin County Whole Child Preschool Project http://frcowholechild.webs.com/
Gilbert, Paula. “Pennsylvania Public Libraries: Best Practices in Early Learning,” Pennsylvania Library Association Bulletin, May/June 2009. 4-6.
Illinois Head Start Association http://ilheadstart.org/
Indian Valley Public Library website https://sites.google.com/a/ivpl.org/school-age-children/home/programs
Pullinger, Kate and Joseph, Chris. Inanimate Alice http://www.inanimatealice.com/index.html