Now You Know - How
To Volunteer With LEARN
If reading is your
thing, take some time and help an adult learn how to read.
Volunteer with the San
Diego County Library's Adult Literacy Program.
Friday, January 20, 2017
Monday, January 16, 2017
Kevin Starr, Author of California Histories and Former State Librarian, Dies at 76
Kevin Starr, author of
California histories and former state librarian, dies at 76
L A Times:
1.15.2017 by David Zahniser and Matt Hamilton
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Kevin
Starr entered this world in 1940 in a rare fraternity — a fourth-generation
Californian whose family's roots dated back to the Gold Rush era.
After
a rough-and-tumble childhood in San Francisco, he found himself a graduate
student at Harvard University, where he perused Widener Library's vast
collection for books about California.
He realized something was missing.
“I
thought, ‘There's all kinds of wonderful books on California, but they don't
seem to have the point of view we're encouraged to look at — the social drama
of the imagination,’” Starr told The Times.
Filling
this gap would become his life's work, making him the state's foremost
historian and one of its most revered public intellectuals. For half a century,
he chronicled the greed, cruelty, enlightenment, innovation, vanity and
sacrifice that took California from a place of Native American hamlets through
Spanish colonization, entry into the United States and growth into a diverse
powerhouse of technology, culture and trade.
Starr,
a professor at USC and the former California state librarian, died of a
heart attack Saturday at a hospital in San Francisco, according to his wife of
53 years, Sheila Starr. He was 76.
Starr
captured the state’s rise in influence, and its singular hold on the public
imagination, in “Americans and the California Dream,” a sweeping book series
that moves from the Gold Rush into the Progressive Era, the 1920s, the Great
Depression and other distinct chapters of California’s past.
Throughout
his work, Starr celebrated the state’s creativity and its openness to new
ideas. And he demonstrated a familiarity with a vast range of topics central to
the state’s development and its image of itself: architecture, agriculture,
literature, water infrastructure and the entertainment industry, among others.
“He
was the greatest historian Los Angeles and California ever had and ever will
have,” said former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, who hosts a book club
that counted Starr as one of its original members. READ MORE @
Saturday, January 14, 2017
Goal Setting :: Literacy | Reading | ESL | ELL | Writing | Vocabulary | Listening | Books | Tutor Resources
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Superlatives from SCLLN
Tell an awesome story & make your goals real in 2017!
Goal-setting tips for ESL learners:
We use this in our ESL program.
Actionable goals really make a huge
difference in our success in achieving them!
Create the life you've always wanted by setting SMART goals!
Specific, measurable, action oriented, reasonable, and time bound.
4 Flexible Strategies for Teaching ESL
Students
with Their Needs, Desires and Goals
in Mind
It’s Never Too Late to Set Goals
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December learning goals for English
learners
Friday, January 13, 2017
Governor Brown Releases 2017-18 State Budget Library Funding Holds The Line In Governor’s “Prudent” Plan
Governor Brown Releases
2017-18 State Budget
Library Funding Holds
The Line In Governor’s “Prudent” Plan
CLA News From the Capitol: 1.10.2017 by Mike Dillon and Christina DiCaro, CLA
Lobbyists
At
11 a.m. today, Governor Jerry Brown unveiled his 2017-18 State Budget before
the press corps at the Capitol. The
Governor called for cautious spending in the coming Budget year due to a
projected $2 billion shortfall, as well as the anticipation of federal policy
changes under the new Presidential Administration, which might significantly
affect the state’s General Fund.
Specifically, related to library funding in the Budget, the Governor
does not propose new spending; instead he holds the line on all of the current
baseline spending in the various library programs (e.g. California Library Services Act, the state literacy program, and funding for
the library broadband project in conjunction with the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California
- CENIC). The Governor
did highlight, however, the work of public libraries in a special section
entitled, “Investing in California’s Workforce.”
The
Governor dedicates a notable amount of space in his Budget document to the
issue of “Investing In California’s Workforce” and he discusses the specific
contributions of K-12 schools, community colleges, state universities, and
local libraries in this space. Of note, the Governor has asked the State
Librarian to convene discussions in the Spring regarding the opportunities for
libraries within workforce development. Specifically, with regard to
public libraries the Governor states:
Role
of Local Libraries
“Many other entities play roles as
part of pathways in the workforce, and the state’s strategy should consider
better integration. Public libraries already provide a space where
students and adults can earn high school diplomas or career certificates online,
learn literacy skills with volunteer tutors, or build upon their ideas in
dedicated “makerspaces” or innovation labs. The state now funds
high-speed Internet access for many libraries. Libraries can be hubs for
people to access online courses, particularly as libraries are in a unique
position to provide the additional support and guidance that some studies
suggest is essential for online education. The State Librarian will
engage stakeholders in the spring to create plans to better integrate the
libraries into the state’s workforce strategy.”
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Literacy Library Jobs :: Carlsbad :: Contra Costa County
Literacy Library Jobs
– California
performs learner assessments, tutor
training and reporting for the adult and teen literacy program in addition to
proving traditional library services.
ability to manage volunteer and
student groups effectively and tactfully, develop and manage projects, assess
reading ability and recommend curriculum, coordinate special events, speak well
in public, and direct the work of others.
Monday, January 9, 2017
Literacy Library Jobs :: Contra Costa County :: Tulare County
Literacy Library Jobs
– California
ability to manage volunteer and student groups
effectively and tactfully, develop and manage projects, assess reading ability
and recommend curriculum, coordinate special events, speak well in public, and
direct the work of others.
Coordinate Library Literacy Service Programs; identify,
implement, and evaluate methods to increase the
literacy rate in the community; recruit, train, monitor and evaluate literacy
volunteer tutors.
Thursday, January 5, 2017
Redlands Library :: Literacy Program celebrates 2016 achievements at A.K. Smiley Public Library
Redlands Adult Literacy
Program celebrates 2016 achievements at A.K. Smiley Public Library
Redlands Daily Facts: 12.31.2016 by Diane Shimota, Adult
Literacy Coordinator-A.K. Smiley Library
The
beginning of 2017 gives the Redlands Adult Literacy Program the
opportunity to celebrate its 2016 achievements and highlight plans for the new
year.
The
mission of the Redlands Adult Literacy Program is to help adults who want to
improve their reading and writing skills. This mission is achieved through the
hard work of adult learners, their dedicated tutors and community support and
partnerships.
Throughout
2016, learners expressed their gratitude for the adult literacy program. Their
gratitude is reflected in the following:
Salma
Marquez is grateful that she can now help her children with homework and
communicate with their teachers. Marquez’s long-term goal is to obtain a
nursing degree.
Veronica
Leon celebrates using her new reading and writing skills to correctly fill out
forms for her job.
Derek
Rodriquez said that the adult literacy program helps him motivate his daughter
to do well in school because she sees him working hard at his lessons every
day.
The
Redlands Adult Literacy Program served nearly 100 adult learners in 2016. Every
learner has a unique story about how the literacy program helped them, but all
learners showed increased confidence as a result of their improved literacy.
The
Redlands Adult Literacy Program relies on its dedicated volunteer tutors. Each
adult learner is matched to an individual tutor volunteer, who meets weekly
with the learner. -Tutors know the importance of adult literacy.
Tutor
Vicki Shaw said, “If you can read, you can learn to do almost anything.” This
sentiment was echoed by tutor Mary Bailey, who said, “Adult literacy impacts
every area of life. It opens windows of opportunity for jobs, becoming a
citizen, helping others in the home, schools and community. Adult learners have
a new future with improved literacy skills.”
In
2016, the Redlands Adult Literacy Program responded to requests from adult
learners by adding new learning opportunities — book clubs, a weekly literacy
class at the library and new computer classes.
Book
clubs for adult learners were formed using local donations and a matching grant
from Modern Woodmen. Book club members read biographies of Harriet Tubman and
Helen Keller and an autobiography, “The Circuit” by Francisco Jimenez.
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