Better World Books and the National Center for Family Literacy recently announced that the Providence Public Library (Providence, RI) was one of three library programs that received this year’s Better World Books/NCFL Libraries and Families Award. Each library program will receive a $10,000 award.
The Providence Public Library’s Chace Children’s Discovery Library features hands-on activity centers focused on key elements of early childhood literacy development. The grant money will be used for critical outreach for the library to non-native English speakers by identifying, training, and utilizing immigrant parents as guides for the hands-on activities. They also will recruit families to the library and support their ongoing use of the library. In addition, the trained guides will help develop an outreach plan to engage immigrant families, provide recruitment, and outreach strategies for immigrant families, and serve as spokespeople for the library in their communities.
Funding for the program comes from the Better World Books for Libraries program, a free service that is designed to help libraries manage their unwanted books. Better World Books sells those books online, sharing the revenues with the libraries and its nonprofit literacy partners
Media report:
Providence Business News: PPL earns Better World Books award (27 APR 12)
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