Newport Beach Library :: Helene Chaban: Spirit of Volunteerism Awards 2016

Helene Chaban:

Spirit of Volunteerism Awards 2016

Newport/Mesa Proliteracy

OneOC: 3.08.2016

Helene joined our program just two years ago as a volunteer tutor. In this time, she has taken on more and more responsibility. Helen began in the program by tutoring one adult learner. Soon, she took on another and another; teaching them not only literacy skills but changing their lives with her life skills lessons and friendship. In 2015, Helene stepped up to chair our annual fundraising event, The Gift of Literacy Luncheon. Her calm leadership and innate style inspired the committee and the community to support Newport/Mesa 

ProLiteracy, making the 2015 luncheon one of our most successful. Helene has not stopped here… always looking for the next mountain, she has now started to volunteer at the Friends of the Library bookstore where she will make a huge impact. Helene has been a terrific asset to our program in so many ways. Her leadership, enthusiasm, and calm under pressure is a lesson to all of us to be the best we can in whatever we do.

Summer Reading :: Lunch @ the Library | Summer Meals | Los Angeles | San Diego | Ventura | Glendora | Upland

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Read for the win!

Our summer reading programs—for kids, teens & adults—start 6/13.

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@LAPublicLibrary  3 Jun 2016

The Summer Reading Challenge starts tomorrow!

PREVIEW of the SRC prizes

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@sdcountylibrary 31 May 2016

Spread the word

CA Public Libraries are serving free lunches to kids this summer.

Find a site here: http://lunchatthelibrary.org/sites/

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@CAStateLibrary  7 Jun 2016

Summer Reading has begun.

This years theme is Read for the Win

 Sign up today and Stop Summer Slide!

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@vencolibrary 1 Jun 2016

Summer Reading is upon us!

This year registration will be taking place online

with our brand new Summer Reading...

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@UplandLibrary 3 Jun 2106

We're Starting Summer Early...

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The 2016 Summer Reading Challenge

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@CityofGlendora 25 May 2016

San Diego Public Library :: READ/San Diego :: Reading Turns Woman’s Life Around

Reading turns woman’s life around

READ/San Diego

San Diego Union Tribune: 5.22.2016 by  John Wilkens

With its nationally ranked universities and thriving science and engineering hubs, San Diego County is increasingly known as a place for smart people. More than 60 percent of those who move here now have college degrees, according to one recent study.

It’s also home to almost a half-million adults who are illiterate. They can’t help their kids with homework, can’t fill out job applications, can’t read this story.

Amelia Sandoval used to be one of them.

Born in San Diego, she grew up in a household with a mother who was there in theory and a father who wasn’t there at all, she said. She was left alone sometimes with a TV and a cat as companions.

“School,” she said, “wasn’t really enforced.”

She stopped going in the fifth grade. Authorities put her in foster care, but she kept running away to hang out downtown. “I sold drugs, stole stuff and did whatever I wanted to do,” she said. “I had my own little crew.”

Stints in Juvenile Hall and child-protection receiving homes didn’t steer Sandoval from the course she was on. Being unable to read didn’t bother her much, either. “You don’t need to know how to read to pop open a car,” she said.

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A letter she couldn’t read

When people hear Sandoval’s story, they sometimes ask whether her parents had books in the home when she was growing up.

“Books?” she replies. “We were lucky if we had furniture.”

That’s not unusual among adults who are illiterate, said Valerie Hardie, administrator for READ/San Diego, the city library’s adult literacy program, which is where Sandoval went for help. “They grew up in homes where the parents didn’t read well, there were no books in the home, and they couldn’t model a life of learning,” she said.

Others had health issues as children that took them out of school, or had learning disabilities that went undiagnosed or were poorly understood.  READ MORE @

Summer Reading :: Kate DiCamillo | Lunch @ Library :: CA State Library | Gifts for Grads | Re-Reading

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Newsmaker Kate DiCamillo

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@amlibraries  26 May 2016

summermeal Lunch @ the Library champions

@CAStateLibrary's Greg Lucas & Ontario Pub Lib's Mover&Shaker

@CA_SummerMeals 01 Jun 2016

Need summer reading recommendations for kids?

Lisa Fink's blog is chock-full of ReadWriteThink ideas

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Summer 2016’s Must-Have Children’s Books

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@BookishHQ 4 Jun 2016 

8 books that would make excellent gifts for grads

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@BookRiot  27 May 2016

Re-Reading Books From Childhood Through Adult Eyes

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@ReadBrightly  27 May 2016

Altadena Library :: Adult Literacy Tutor

Bob Lucas Memorial Branch Adult Literacy Tutor, Stephner White

Connect: May 2016 From the Director

The backbone of Let’s ReadAltadena’s Adult Literacy Program is our hard working and passionate volunteer tutors. Without their knowledge and assistance, our program would not be able to provide the tutoring services for our adult learners. Our tutors do not require advanced degrees in education or even experience in tutoring. They just need the desire to help another person to read and write. People coming in with that desire just need a place to work with a learner, a little bit of training, and the workbooks, which we provide.

Stephner “Steff” White has been a tutor with our literacy program for several years, and has worked with many learners in our program. During high school, she worked with computers and telephones, which led to her being involved in communications and training with the city of Los Angeles. Steff always felt a calling to be a teacher so she began tutoring during, and after, college. We asked Steff why she decided to tutor at Let’s Read Altadena and she expressed her wish to work with her Altadena community and that she had been influenced by Roberta Lauderdale, who was our literacy coordinator from 1996 to 2014 before she passed away.

While working with learners in our program, Steff said that her overall goal is to learn about the person she is tutoring and discovering what they want to accomplish with their literacy skills. This is a regular process for many of our tutors and the initial steps they take before working on the literacy needs of their learner. Steff uses many of the literacy materials we have for our tutors and learners, but she states, “being in a library,  I have all of the resources I need!”

California Book Festivals & Events :: June 2016

California Book Festivals & Events :: June 2016

Books, Comics, Poetry, Storytelling, Writing and More !

June 03+ Sacramento Black Book Fair

June 04+ Bay Book Fest, UC Berkeley and the City of Berkeley

June 04    Author Fair, El Segundo Library

June 04+ First Folio Tour The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, San Diego Library & Old Globe

June 04    LitFest Pasadena

June 11   Authors & Artists: Meet Your Local Authors, Glendora Library 11a

ALOUD: Library Foundation of Los Angeles  @ALOUDla

Los Angeles Literary Calendar  @LALitScene

Poets & Writers Los Angeles Literary Events Calendar

California Book Festivals

Book Reporter – Book Festivals

US Book Festivals

Children’s Book Council Kid Lit Events

Assembly and Senate Budget Subcommittees Approve Library Funding for CLSA

Assembly and Senate Budget Subcommittees Approve Library Funding for CLSA 

NEWS FROM THE CAPITOL: 5.24.2016 by Mike Dillon & Christina DiCaro, CLA Lobbyists

This morning at the State Capitol, the Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance approved, without discussion, $1.8 million in “ongoing funding” for the California Library Services Act and $3 million in “one time funding” for CLSA to encourage innovative “digital delivery” projects among the 8 regional Systems.  The vote of the Assembly Subcommittee was unanimous (5-0).  Last week, the Senate Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance also approved the same funding motions for the CLSA on a unanimous vote of 3-0.

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The Subcommittees did not approve new funding for broadband grants this year.

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The Conference Committee will likely commence hearings after the Memorial Day weekend in order to meet the Constitutional deadline of June 15 to have the Budget passed and sent to the Governor.  At this point in time, because the Senate and the Assembly adopted the exact same action on the CLSA items, we anticipate that this funding will remain in the Budget.  READ MORE @