Showing posts with label Glendale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Glendale. Show all posts

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Glendale Library :: Tutor Appreciation Day

Tutor Appreciation Day at Downtown Central Library

It's that time of year again to thank our amazing volunteers for their hard-work and dedication.


Join us in thanking the countless volunteers in the Adult Literacy Program and while attending the event take the time to sign up for our upcoming volunteer wokshops.
No prior teaching experience is needed.

For more information contact J. Guillermo Garcia at 818-548-6450

Friday, December 9, 2016

Glendale Library :: Tutor Appreciation :: December 8

Glendale Library Tutor Appreciation
December 8 2016


The Library, Arts & Culture Department Adult Literacy Program offers services to help adults improve their reading, writing, and speaking. Instruction is provided by trained volunteers. The Adult Literacy Program is free and open to all adults ages eighteen and over.

Students Literacy Class

The Adult Literacy Program helps adults who want to learn English as well as English-speaking adults who need to improve their reading and writing skills. Conversation classes and one-on-one tutoring sessions are offered.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Glendale Library :: In the Spirit of Holiday Giving, Meet Carol Shaub Who Volunteers her Time as an Adult Literacy Tutor

In the spirit of Holiday giving, meet Carol Shaub who volunteers her time as an Adult Literacy Tutor


The Library, Arts & Culture Department Adult Literacy Program offers services to help adults improve their reading, writing, and speaking. Instruction is provided by trained volunteers. The Adult Literacy Program is free and open to all adults ages eighteen and over.

The Adult Literacy Program helps adults who want to learn English as well as English-speaking adults who need to improve their reading and writing skills. Conversation classes and one-on-one tutoring sessions are offered.

Do you want to share your love of reading? The Adult Literacy Program is seeking volunteers to work with adults to improve their reading, writing, and speaking skills. No prior teaching experience is necessary. Successful volunteers need to make a commitment of at least one hour per week for a minimum of six months.

If you or someone you know is interested in learning more about this Program, please email Juan Garcia or call 818-548-6450.

Monday, April 25, 2016

Literacy Library Jobs :: West Marin | Glendale | Beaumont

Literacy Library Jobs – California

Spanish Language Services
West Marin Literacy Program and Point Reyes Library
ESL classes and one-on-one tutoring to English language learners throughout West Marin County.
DEADLINE:  May 16

performs duties that routinely draw upon and require specialized knowledge, experience and skills and abilities related to literacy programming. 

Early Literacy Outreach Librarian - FT

driving a van for outreach delivery of library service to child-care providers, programming for the target audience and collection development for the children's collections and the outreach Ready to Read Van.


Thursday, April 14, 2016

Literacy Library Jobs :: Glendale :: Beaumont

Literacy Library Jobs – California

performs duties that routinely draw upon and require specialized knowledge, experience and skills and abilities related to literacy programming. 

Early Literacy Outreach Librarian - FT

driving a van for outreach delivery of library service to child-care providers, programming for the target audience and collection development for the children's collections and the outreach Ready to Read Van.


Wednesday, September 16, 2015

California Library Literacy Services :: Welcomes 5 Libraries



So happy to be able to announce that with a portion of the funds restored to us by the Governor and Legislature this year we have been able to welcome 5 libraries into California Library Literacy Services! Congrats to


Hooray for all the new adult learners we can serve with awesome new volunteers!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Adult Literacy Awareness Month :: Glendale :: Glendora


Adult Literacy Awareness Month
September Spotlight
on SCLLN Literacy Programs

Glendale Public Library Adult Reading Program

Literacy is a fancy word for the ability to read and write--simple skills most of us learned as youngsters.m But there are many people who never mastered these skills. For someone who struggles to sound out letters and put them into words, the effort can be frustrating as well as embarrassing.
People who don't read well don't look different from anyone else. One out of every four people in the United States struggles to read, but they also raise families, go to work and participate in their communities.


The Glendale Public Library Literacy Department offers a unique approach to learning literacy skills. Our program combines basic instruction with the adult students' goals, making it possible for adults who struggle with reading to learn and use the tools necessary for life, family, job and pride. Almost anyone can learn to read. The enjoyment found in reading becomes the joy found in a journey, taking them anywhere they want to go.

Glendora Public Library

The GLENDORA READS! Literacy program offers free one-to-one tutoring for English speaking adults, age 16 or older, who are not in high school. Anyone who would like to read better or improve their reading and writing skills is welcome - all inquiries are kept confidential.
Contact the library's Literacy Office at (626) 852-4897.


Thursday, September 11, 2008

In Memoriam :: Mary Miller 1955-2008 Glendale Library

Mary Louise Miller 1955 - 2008

Legacy: 2008

Mary Miller, the Library’s Literacy Coordinator passed away this Saturday after a relatively short battle with cancer. She is survived by her husband, two daughters and six beloved grandchildren. A service is planned for Sunday in Victorville.

Mary came to Glendale in 1996 from the San Bernardino County Library. Under Mary’s leadership the Glendale Library Literacy program grew and served the needs of our changing community. She started a Family Reading Program that targeted adult literacy learners with small children.

She helped develop literacy partnerships with local public schools, and businesses such as hospitals, restaurants and convalescent homes. Wherever Mary found a need for adult literacy she found a way for the Library to help.

Mary’s reach went beyond the Library. She was a GCEA Representative who was an active participant for Relay for Life and the Community Alliance Committee. She was a past president of the Glendale Community Coordinating Council. She also served on the Executive Board of the Workforce Investment Board and chaired its Resource Mapping Committee.

Mary was active in the State Library’s California Library Literacy Services organization as well as the Southern California Library Literacy Network. She was recognized as a top “trainer of trainers” in her field, and in 2004, she was the only literacy professional selected from Los Angeles County as a MEDALS Fellow, funded by the S. Mark Taper Foundation.


In this program Mary traveled around the United States observing innovative literacy programs. As a result of that experience she developed workshops for many California literacy providers and incorporated innovative ideas into the Glendale Library program.


The benefits of Mary’s hard work are easy to see in the numbers of volunteers and students that participate in the Literacy program. There are many success stories of Mary’s Literacy program changing lives by giving people the ability to read.read.


Mary will be dearly missed by her family, by Library and City staff, and by the Glendale community who came to know her as a fun-loving, energetic, and passionate leader for literacy, reading and the Library.


In Lieu of Flowers


The family has asked that donations be made to the Glendale Public Library Literacy Program. Checks payable to the Friends of the Glendale Public Library. Donations should indicate that they are intended for the Mary Miller Literacy Fund.

Wednesday, May 30, 1990

Glendale Library :: Expansion of Literacy Aid Sought

EXPANSION OF LITERACY AID SOUGHT -
GLENDALE PROGRAM WOULD SERVE PARENTS
Daily News: May 25, 1990 by Laurence Darmiento

In an effort to break what experts say can be a cycle of illiteracy, Glendale officials said Thursday they will try to expand Glendale's adult literacy program to target students who have young children.

City library officials are seeking an $18,500 grant from the California State Library so they can teach parents in the program how to encourage their children to read, said Georganna Ahlfors, coordinator of the adult reading program.

"Studies have found most people who have a reading problem . . . don't have a reading ethic, because their families don't value that," Ahlfors said. ''We are trying to intervene in childhood, so that their children don't have the same problem."

The program would target parents with children five years or younger, she said. It would try to teach the parents how to read to their children, how to pick out books for them and, more generally, how reading can be pleasurable.

"We're doing a little of everything," she said.

At its Tuesday meeting, the City Council unanimously approved a request by Library Director Susan Curzon to apply for the grant.

Ahlfors said the program would include classes to teach them how to read to their children and workshops aimed at both parents and children. In addition, professional storytellers would be hired to ply their craft, demonstrating to parents how to tell an entertaining story while showing children the value of storytelling.

Ahlfors said the $18,500 would pay for the salary of a part-time program coordinator for one year, along with the fees charged by the storytellers and other incidental expenses. She said it also includes the cost of buying up to six children's books for each family.

"We want them to start their own libraries," she said.

The three-year-old literacy program currently serves 110 adults, 31 of whom have children five years old or younger, according to a report prepared by Curzon for Tuesday's council meeting. Volunteer tutors serve each of the adults.

Ahlfors said the decision to apply for the state funds was not made earlier than this year because library officials have been concentrating their efforts on expanding the original program, which served 35 adults last January.

"Our program has reached enough maturity that we can branch off," she said.

If the state library approves the grant, the program would start sometime later this year, according to Curzon..

Ahlfors said she hopes that even when the grant runs out the program will continue through volunteer efforts. But she said it would be difficult to start such a program without a paid coordinator.

Monday, October 30, 1989

Glendale Library :: Joins Reading Improvement Effort

LIBRARY IN GLENDALE JOINS READING-IMPROVEMENT EFFORTDaily News: October 22, 1989 by Denise Haddix-Niemiec

The Glendale Public Library Adult Reading Program and 45 other libraries have pooled their financial resources to fund two public-service announcements aimed at people who want to improve their reading.

The Glendale program contributed $500 in California Adult Literacy Campaign funds to $14,000 gathered to produce 30- and 15-second television commercials set to be broadcast on independent and national stations statewide sometime this month, said Georganna Ahlfors, coordinator of Glendale's tutor service.

"About one-third of the people in California need reading-and-writing help," Ahlfors said. "It is the (people with reading problems) that we need to reach because they don't read the newspaper and they don't read billboards or signs, so we need to reach them in a different way."

Bea Lewis, manager of public service for television station KNBC, said the station received their tapes of the commercials this week.

If the messages are cleared for air time, the spots could be broadcast on Channel 4 within two weeks, Lewis said.

Ahlfors said there are always tutors volunteering, but the ratio is 200 prospective teachers to 100 students.

This disparity prompted the Glendale Library System to spend part of their $79,000 annual operating budget on the promotion that is geared to finding readers who need help, she said.

The Santa Barbara-based Bradley Mansfield Agency and Los Angeles director Daniel Berkowitz developed the concept for the commercials which depict black- and-white images of adults who have reading problems and its effect on their job and family situations.

The final color segment shows the learners getting help in a library setting.

Glendale officials hope that the commercials will expand awareness of their program's offerings because the state library system plans to start phasing out the funding.