AN EXPLORATION OF BEST PRACTICESSERVING PARENTS AND CHILDREN 0-12

Kara DeCarloLIS 771

Best Practices for Identifying Community Needs

1. Identify the culture/client group

2. Identify community stakeholders

3. Identify goals of client group

Determine Goals

Parents Face-to-face

interviews Focus Groups Paper SurveysChildren Paper Surveys Focus Groups

Community Stakeholders

Educators Pediatricians Social Workers Caregivers Parents Children

Community needs are fulfilled by the programs, materials, services that will help the group achieve their goals.

“We need to model existing behaviors, attitudes and values and then apply what we know about future trends to create experiences that surprise and delight consumers”

STEVE MCCALLION

Future trends for Parents and Children 0-12 Newest

Curriculum Standards

Kindergarten Readiness Expectations

Newest Child Development Findings

Needs of Parents and Children ages 0-12

Access to materials and services

Information on community resources

Support of literacy (functional, informational,

media)

Curriculum Support

Development of parenting skills

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)

Goals of children's services• To facilitate the right of every child to- information- functional, visual, digital and media literacy- cultural development- lifelong learning- creative programs in leisure time • To provide children with open access to all resources and media • To provide various activities for children, parents and caregivers• To facilitate families' entry into the community• To empower children and to advocate for their freedom and safety• To encourage children to become confident and competent people • To strive for a peaceful world.

Oregon’s Ready to Read Program

Dahlgreen, MaryKay. “Ready to Read in Oregon: Building Best Practice in Library Service to Children,” Children and Libraries. Winter 2004. 4-10

Pennsylvania Public Libraries: Best Practices in Early Learning 2009.

Gilbert, Paula. “Pennsylvania Public Libraries: Best Practices in Early Learning,” Pennsylvania Library Association Bulletin, May/June 2009. 4-6.

Pennsylvania Public Libraries: Best Practices in Early Learning 2009

Gilbert, Paula. “Pennsylvania Public Libraries: Best Practices in Early Learning,” Pennsylvania Library Association Bulletin, May/June 2009. 4-6.

Curriculum Support

Knowledge of current standards

Access to materials

Educational programs that coincide with

school holidays

Information Literacy

Teaching Information Literacy Using Children’s LiteratureBy Dana Dukic 1 instructional session, 40 minutes long Children worked in groups to research

information and design oral presentations with a web-based component

Presentations were published on school library webpage

Digital Literacy Through Transmedia Storytelling

Already in use in classrooms in Australia and Canada, digital novels are an exciting way to familiarize children with technology through the medium of storytelling.

Library as Family Resource CenterCommunity Resources Illinois Head Start

Association Cook County

Department of Public Health

Franklin County Whole Child Preschool Project

Library Resources Books/Programs

on parenting Storytimes to

support early literacy

Orientations for students

School-Library collaboration

Franklin County Whole Child Preschool Project

Franklin County Whole Child Preschool Project http://frcowholechild.webs.com/

Bristol-Meyers Squibb Children’s Hospital Library, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.

Forsberg, Nancy N. “Family Friendly Space for Research, Reflection, and Respite: A Family Resource Center and Library in a Pediatric Hospital Setting.” Journal of Hospital Librarianship, volume 10, 2010. 82-87.

Conclusion

By familiarizing ourselves with the goals of our client groups we can determine their needs and be the bridge to success.

Resources

Bon, Ingrid. “Best Practices of Children’s Library Services Around the World,” World Library and Information Congress: 71th IFLA General Conference and Council Report, August 2005

Cook County Department of Health http://www.cookcountypublichealth.org/

Dahlgreen, MaryKay. “Ready to Read in Oregon: Building Best Practice in Library Service to Children,” Children and Libraries. Winter 2004. 4-10

Druin, Allison. “What Children Can Teach Us: Developing Digital Libraries For Children With Children.” The Library Quarterly, Volume 75, no. 1. 2005. 20-41.

Dukic, Dana. “Teaching Information Literacy Using Children’s Literature,” Access, June 2007. 21-26

Forsberg, Nancy N. “Family Friendly Space for Research, Reflection, and Respite: A Family Resource Center and Library in a Pediatric Hospital Setting.” Journal of Hospital Librarianship, volume 10, 2010. 82-87.

Franklin County Whole Child Preschool Project http://frcowholechild.webs.com/

Gilbert, Paula. “Pennsylvania Public Libraries: Best Practices in Early Learning,” Pennsylvania Library Association Bulletin, May/June 2009. 4-6.

Illinois Head Start Association http://ilheadstart.org/

Indian Valley Public Library website https://sites.google.com/a/ivpl.org/school-age-children/home/programs

Pullinger, Kate and Joseph, Chris. Inanimate Alice http://www.inanimatealice.com/index.html