Imperial County Library Receives $10,000 for Adult Literacy ImperialValley Press: October 5, 2009, by Elizabeth Varin
County Librarian Connie Barrington has seen people who need to learn to read to pass driving tests, to read their Bibles or even to read with their children, she said.
She remembers a man who came in, asking for help because his child was going into third grade, she said. He didn’t want his child to find out he couldn’t read well. He wanted his child to look up to him.
He was one of the people who took advantage of the free, confidential adult literacy program held at the Imperial County Library, she said.
The library can now afford more training and more workbooks as it goes before the Imperial County Board of Supervisors today to accept an adult literacy grant.
The money will go to training the staff that coordinates the program, buying materials like general education booklets and workbooks for both the tutors and learners, and advertising the program, she said.
“It all goes back into the library literacy program,” she said.
The Imperial County Public Library is one of about 105 libraries that receive state funding, said Jacquie Brinkley, library program consultant for the California State Library. READ MORE !
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