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Oralia Garza de Cortés [email protected]
ALA Annual Conference June 24,2007
Washington, D. C.
The Context for Our Work with El día de los niños/ El día de los libros
ORIGINAL DÍA GOALS
• To promote literacy and the importance of linking all children to books, languages and cultures
• To honor children and their childhood
• To honor a child’s home language and culture
ORIGINAL DÍA GOALS
• To promote global under-standing through library collections that reflect our plurality
• To connect the public and school library to families and to the community
• To Promote bilingual and multilingual literacy in a multicultural society
Historical Context for Día in the U.S.: A REFORMA Perspective
• To address low literacy rates of Latino and poor children in the United States
• To provide children and families’ access to books and entr’eé to the library
• To address inequities in library services to Latino and other children and families of poverty
ISOLATION IS THE WORST POSSIBLE COUNSELOR.
Miguel de Unamuno(1864-1936)
How Día Benefits Children • Children First/ Los niños primeros • All children have equal access to library• All children have opportunity to experience fun learning
experiences • Families recognize libraries as essential to their learning• Every child and family feels welcome at the library and
learns about quality programs available at the public library
• Library partners with parents and other professionals in developing children’s literacy
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Día helps Libraries to:
• Honor cultures, traditions and languages of the communities that they serve
• Reach out to underserved populations
• Develop strategies for increasing library use among traditionally under-served populations
Día Provides Libraries Opportunities to:
• Develop library collections that mirrors and reflects the diverse communities that they are/should be serving
• Collaborate with other literacy-based organizations and professionals
Día Provides Librarians with Leadership Opportunities
To develop outstanding services and program for ALL children and families
To develop outstanding multicultural collections, resources, and services that reflect the needs and face of the community
To be innovative in providing high-quality services and programs that meet educational needs
Developing Networks of Relationships
Family Community
School
CHILD
ChurchSocial Networks
Public Library
A person working alone has all the power of social dust. Saul Alinsky. 1909-1972. Community activist
Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery
Eudora WeltyAmerican Autor
OUTCOMES
To institutionalize Día
(i.e. to make Día a permanent part of the library’s:
• Strategic plan
• Outreach Services
• Programming
• Our work as librarians serving
children and families
Core Ideology
To Create a Better Future for Children through Libraries
Día and the Día and the
ALSC Strategic Plan ALSC Strategic Plan (Approved 2006) (Approved 2006)
DÍa meets ALSC Criteria for Core Organizational Values
Member Services Collaboration Integrity and Respect Leadership Community Equity of Access Excellence and Innovation
Envisioned Future
Primary Goal: To lead the way in forging excellent library service for all children
Members are actively involved in the association and feel a part of
the ALSC community. Members are actively recruiting other members. Through the association, members have grown in their knowledge
and leadership skills in order to reach their full potential. Members are actively engaged in providing excellent services to
children. Association members are politically active.
Opportunities for ALSC Members
Collaborative ventures are synergetic and
results exceed expectations. ALSC is recognized as successfully
advocating for children and children’s service within ALA.
ALSC is considered an innovator for future library service.
There is an ALSC presence in every community.
ALSC is aggressively pursuing collaborations to benefit children’s literacy.
ALSC is viewed as a significant player within ALA.
Characteristics of Collaboration
• Individual Group• Independent Community• Dialogue• Creative Problem Solving• Opportunity for reform• Opportunity to Involve many in complex
educational problemsSource: Towards a Theory of Collaboration for Teachers and Librarians. Patricia Montiel Overall. www.ala.org/ala/aasl/aaslpubsandjournals/slmrb/slmrcontents/volumume82005/ALA/_pr…
Learning
• Socially constructed experience involving more capable people guiding those less capable to understand ideas beyond their development level.
Vygotsy (1962, 1978) cited in Montiel Overall Towards a Theory of Collaboration…)
Día Meets Two of Four ALSC Advocacy Objectives
Objective 1:
Increase awareness of the value of excellent
library service for all children.
Objective 4:
Increase access to library services.
“ Service is what life is all about.” Marian Wright Edelman
President, Children’s Defense Fund.
Día as a Tool for Collaboration
* GOAL: ALSC will work collaboratively within ALA, the profession, and the wider community to ensure excellent library service for all children.• Objective 1: Increase the effectiveness of
ALSC’s current collaborative efforts. Objective 2: Increase opportunities to work in
coalition with other related groups.• Objective 3: Increase public awareness of the
value of library service to children.
Leadership Opportunities for ALSC Members @ the National Level
We must do the things we think we cannot do. The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt ( 1884-1962) Humanitarian, U.N. Delegate
National Partnership Opportunities
• Children’s Defense Fund • Reach Out and Read• First Book • Web Presence
Colorín Colorado Reading Planet
Reading Rockets
Courage happens when Courage happens when people unite.people unite. AnonymousAnonymous
Partnership Opportunities at the National Level
The Library Profession PLA, Ethnic Caucuses, OLOS,AASL
National Council of La Raza-NCLR RIF-Reading is Fundamental NAEYC-National Association for Education of
Young Children Head Start
Strategies for Implementing Día at the State Level
Through State Library or State Library Association
• State-wide Steering/Planning Committee
Example: Ca. Planning Grant-LSTA
• Partnership with State Division or Round Table
• Partnerships with local REFORMA Chapters
Teacher Organizations
International Reading Association-IRA National Education Association-NEA NCTE –National Council Teachers of English State Teachers’ Associations State Bilingual Educators’ Associations
CABE/TABE State Affiliates of NAEYC Head Start, NCLR
Other State Partnership Opportunities
Developing a Culture of Literacy in the Community Through Día
Día helps libraries to:• Celebrate cultures and traditions • Outreach to underserved populations• Develop strategies for increased library use
among traditionally under-utilized populations• Develop library collections that mirrors the
communities that they are/should be serving
Community Outcomes A community that embraces reading as the key to a better future Children who love to read and be read to A library-going culture A college-going culture College graduates and beyond An educated community An educated citizenry A Strong Democracy
“ The reader, much like the writer before him will reach the
universe of words, “ not so that everyone can become an artist” as Rodari once said- but so that no one remain a slave.”
El lector, igual que antes lo consiguío el escritor, acederá al universo de las
palabras ‘no para que todos sean artistas’ decia Rodari-sino para que nadie sea esclavo.”
Ana María Machado in Antonio Ventura.Prologue. Lectura, escuela y creación literaria. Madrid: Grupo Anaya, 2002. Quote translated from the Spanish by Oralia Garza de Cortés.
Illustration by Raul Colón from Doña Flor: A Tall Tale about a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart. Random House/Knopf, 1995.
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