Banned Books Week :: SCLLN Member Libraries

Banned Books Week :: SCLLN Member Libraries

Celebrate and learn about Banned Books Week by attending LAPLs BANNED BOOKS WEEK kickoff event. We will discuss why some books are considered controversial and look at Teen Books that some people think should be censored.

Saturday, September 26, 2015     

2:00pm to 3:00pm     

Donald Bruce Kaufman - Brentwood Branch Library

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Eagle Rock Branch Library

Teens

OC Public Libraries celebrates the freedom to read and to seek and express ideas, even those some think are unorthodox or unpopular. Did you know that the following books have been challenged or censored in some parts of the country?

More lists of banned books

More about Banned Books Week from the American Library Association

Altadena Library promotes awareness of challenges to library materials and celebrates freedom of speech during Banned Books Week, September 27 — October 3.

Banned Books Week (Carlsbad Library Learning Center)

Get caught reading banned books and enter to win a prize and treat!

For grades 6-12.

Monday, September 28, 2015

9:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Library Learning Center, 3368 Eureka Pl, Carlsbad, CA, 92008

Teen Programs

Covina Library

Dates: September 29 - October 3

Celebrate National Banned Books Week by reading a book that has been banned or challenged by libraries or school districts. Books will be on display in the library and a list will be available online.

All-Day Read-Aloud Read-a-Thon

San Diego Central Library, 330 Park Boulevard, San Diego, 92101

Friday, October 2, 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. PDT

To help raise awareness regarding the censorship of books, the San Diego Public Library, in partnership with the San Diego Costume Guild, presents the 4th annual All-Day Read-Aloud Read-a-thon on Friday, October 2, 2015 from 12 to 5 p.m. in the Garden Courtyard at the San Diego Central Library at the Joan Λ Irwin Jacobs Common, located at 330 Park Blvd in downtown San Diego.

The public is invited to read alongside librarians, volunteer and teen readers, and special guests from the Costume Guild, who will appear as costumed characters from many favorite books including Harry Potter and Alice in Wonderland.

“It’s important to realize that not every book will be right for every reader,” says library director Misty Jones. “The freedom to choose for ourselves what we want to read is a hard-won right that we must not take for granted. Reading, speaking, thinking and expressing ourselves freely are core American values.”

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar: October 2015

SCLLN Literacy Library Tutor Training Calendar: October 2015

For Local, California and National

Literacy or Library Conferences and Events

visit the

Southern California Library Literacy Network

Calendar

Health Literacy Month

Oct. 1 Literacy Tutor Orientation - South Bay Literacy Co, Torrance Library 7p

Oct. 3 Literacy Tutor Training - San Diego Co Library El Cajon 10a

Oct. 3 Literacy Tutor Training = SB County Library Rialto 10:30a
Oct. 3 Literacy Tutor Training = Whittier Area Literacy Council 9a
Oct. 5 Literacy Tutor Training = Ventura County Library 5p

Oct. 5 Literacy Tutor Orientation - Carlsbad Library 12N

Oct. 6 Literacy Adult & Youth Training = Commerce Library 5:30p

Oct. 7 Literacy Tutor Training = SB County Library Fontana 5p

Oct. 7 Manos Amigas/Helping Hands = Centro Latino for Literacy 5p

Oct. 7 Literacy Learner Orientation = READ/San Diego Library 5:45p

Oct. 8 Literacy Learner Orientation = READ/OC Library 1p

Oct. 8 Literacy Learner Orientation = READ/OC Library 6p

Oct. 8 Literacy Tutor Training = READ/San Diego Library 6p

Oct. 8 Literacy Open House = Carlsbad Library 5:30p
Oct. 10 Literacy Tutor Training = Azusa Library 8:30a
Oct. 10 Literacy Tutor Training = Glendora Library @ Azusa 8:30a

Oct. 10 Fall Conference - South Bay Literacy Co, Torrance Library

Oct. 10 Literacy Tutor Training = SB County Library Yucca Valley 9a

Oct. 10 Literacy Tutor Training - SB County Library Adelanto 11a

Oct. 13 Literacy Tutor Orientation - READ/OC Library 1p & 6p

Oct. 14 Literacy Tutor Training - SB County Library Barstow 11a

Oct. 14 Read Me Differently: Dyslexia Awareness Month, Corona Library 4p

Oct. 15 Literacy Tutor Orientation = Carlsbad Library 6p

Oct. 15 Literacy Tutor Training - SB Co Library Crestline 12N
Oct. 16 Literacy Scrabble Challenge = Whittier Area Literacy Council 6p

Oct. 17 Literacy Tutor Training - SB Co Library Crestline 12N

Oct. 17 Walk for Literacy - Monterey Park Library 7:30a

Oct. 19 Literacy Volunteer Orientation - Corona Library 7p

Oct. 20 Literacy Tutor Training - SB Co Library Hesperia 3p

Oct. 23 Wine & Words Literacy FUNraiser = Huntington Beach Library 7p

Oct. 24 Literacy Tutor Workshop = Upland Library 9a

Oct. 29 Literacy Learner Orientation = READ/San Diego Library 10a

LAPL Adult Literacy volunteers receive 7 hours of Online Instruction

Local Tutor Workshops :: Always Scrolling in the Right Frame.

Statewide Workshops @ California Library Literacy Services

Corona Library Readers=Leaders :: Adult Literacy Giving Day

Corona Public Library

September 18

Readers = Leaders: Adult Literacy Giving Day is one week from today! Imagine the fear of not being able to Get a Job, Read Medical Labels, Vote, or Help Children with Homework.

Support The Corona Public Library Foundation and help English-speaking adults who need to improve their lives through better reading & writing skills.

Please share and spread the word!

Watch throughout the week for facts about adult literacy right here in Corona and Western Riverside County.

Donate to Help New Adult Readers Become New Leaders!

Join in giving to Corona Public Library Foundation's campaign Help New Adult Readers Become New Leaders!

Imagine not being able to read street signs: That generally means no driver's license. Or what about being in an accident and coming out of a coma to find you can no longer read. These are just two examples of real situations facing adult learners in the Corona Public Library's Adult Reading Assistance Program.

Every day, staff & volunteers work with adults trying to improve their lives while facing the huge hurdle of limited reading and writing abilities. Your contribution will help provide new resources for the learners and their tutors, including workshops, tutor training, computer software for literacy and much more.

With your help, we can change someone's life: "Eloise" took the written driving test, only missed passing by one and will be taking it again very soon, while "Dennis" is now reading at a sixth grade level and negotiating with two companies for the best job offer. Don't hesitate: Please give now!

Hemet Library - Walk for Literacy Awareness 2015

Walk for Literacy Awareness

Hemet Library Adult Literacy

September 26 | 9:00am

Downtown Hemet

Join us as the Hemet Adult Literacy Advocates and the community walk for Literacy Awareness, Saturday, September 26, 2015.

Registration and checkin begin at 9:00 AM and we will begin our 1 mile walk around downtown Hemet at 9:30 AM.

Registration is  $10/adult and $5/children 5-12.
Join us in this fun and enlightening event!

Upland Library :: Trivia Bee & Silent Auction for Literacy :: September 24

Trivia Bee & Silent Auction for Literacy

Upland Library Adult Literacy

September 24 | 6:00pm

The Carnegie Cultural Center

Get ready to Play to the Rhythm at the 14th annual Trivia Bee and Silent Auction for Literacy, Tuesday, September 24th at 6:00 p.m.  Admission is $15 for adults, students no charge.  Watch Team Rutherford, sponsored by San Bernardino County Janice Rutherford, return to defend their title as the 2014 Trivia Bee Champions.

All proceeds will benefit the Upland Library Adult Literacy program for which state funding is determined by the amount of local monies raised.

For information on sponsoring or participating as a team ($300 donation team entry fee) or on donating goods and/or services as action items, please contact Literacy Coordinator, Liz Barbee at (909) 931-4211.

Los Angeles Public Library :: National Voter Registration Day | September 22

National Voter Registration Day

September 22

Register To Vote At Your Library

Los Angeles Public Library

National Voter Registration Day is a huge national effort to get as many people to register to vote as possible. The goal is not to advocate on behalf of a candidate or party, but to make sure that people have access to voting.

Have you've moved since the last election? Have you've recently turned 18? Not sure if you are registered to vote? Drop by any time between 1:00 to 4:30 pm, and volunteers from the League of Women Voters will help you register to vote on the spot, verify your voter registration status, or help answer your questions.

Alma Reaves Woods - Watts Branch  September 24, 2015 3:00PM to 5:00PM

Canoga Park Branch  September 22, 2015 3:00PM to 5:00PM

Chatsworth Branch  September 22, 2015 3:00PM to 5:00PM

Donald Bruce Kaufman - Brentwood Branch September 24, 2015 3:30PM to 5:30PM

Eagle Rock Branch September 22, 2015 1:30PM to 3:30PM

John Muir Branch  September 23, 2015 3:00PM to 5:00PM

Little Tokyo Branch September 22, 2015 3:00PM to 5:00PM

Los Feliz Branch  September 22, 2015 3:00PM to 5:00PM

Memorial Branch  September 24, 2015 1:00PM to 3:00PM

Northridge Branch  September 24, 2015 3:00PM to 5:00PM

Panorama City Branch  September 22, 2015 3:00PM to 5:00PM

Robertson Branch  September 21, 2015 3:00PM to 5:00PM

Sherman Oaks Martin Pollard Branch  September 21, 2015 3:00PM to 4:30PM

Studio City Branch  September 24, 2015 3:00PM to 5:00PM

Sylmar Branch  September 24, 2015 3:00PM to 5:00PM

Venice - Abbot Kinney Memorial Branch  September 25, 2015 3:30PM to 5:30PM

Glendora Library :: Parent and Teacher Phonics Workshop | Sep 26

Parent and Teacher Phonics Workshop

Glendora Public Library -- Bidwell Forum

September 26

9:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Have you or your child ever read a word and thought, "Well, English is just crazy, that is a word that just has to be memorized?” If you have, we have good news for you: English is not crazy and there is a way to investigate words along with your child or students (dyslexic and non-dyslexic) to learn the true underlying structure, and never utter those words again!

You are invited to attend a Community Literacy Program on Structure Word Inquiry featuring Dr. Kelli Sandman-Hurley and Tracy Block-Zaretsky.  Dr. Sandman-Hurley is a published author and researcher of dyslexia and received her doctorate in Literacy with a specialization in reading and dyslexia from San Diego State University and the University of San Diego. Ms. Block-Zaretsky is a trained Special Education Advocate assisting parents and children through the Individual Education Plan (IEP) and 504Plan process and has tutored children and adults with learning disabilities for the past 18 years. Together, they formed the Dyslexia Training Institute in San Diego.

Presented jointly by the Glendora, Azusa, Covina and Monrovia Public Library Literacy programs, as well as Glendora Public Library Friends Foundation, this program is offered free to all community members, including teachers, parents, students and anyone interested in adult and family literacy.

•Learn to find the sense in English and “sight words”.

•Become a word detective by conducting word hypothesis and creating word sums.

•Learn about the interrelationship between morphology, etymology and phonology.

The Glendora Public Library is located at 140 S. Glendora Ave., Glendora CA 91741. To register for this program, please call the Library at 626-852-4891.