Family & Youth Programs
Family/Children’s Resources
Chiles
AKA Children & Libraries en Español, this site is dedicated to bringing together children’s librarians who serve Spanish-speaking youth, but who do not speak Spanish themselves. This site is intended to be a resource—for best practices, ideas, inspiration, language—as well as a community where librarians can share ideas and resources with each other.
Every Child Ready to Read @ your library
The Public Library Association and the Association for Library Service to Children, have incorporated the latest research into a series of parent and caregiver workshops to provide public libraries with vital tools to help prepare parents for their critical role as their child’s first teacher. These tools were developed by Dr. Grover C. Whitehurst and Dr. Christopher Lonigan, well-known researchers in emergent literacy, and have been tested and refined by library demonstrations sites around the country.
PRIME TIME Family Reading Time
Created by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) in 1991, PRIME TIME Family Reading Time is an award-winning reading, discussion, and storytelling series based on illustrated children’s books. PRIME TIME is designed specifically for under-served families with children aged 6 to 10. Pre-reading activities are also available for pre-school children aged 3 to 4. The program helps low-income, low-literacy families bond around the act of reading and talking about books. It models and encourages family reading and discussion of humanities topics, and aids parents and children in selecting books and becoming active public library users.
Teen Resources
Graphic Novels: Resources for Teachers & Librarians
The web site is designed to introduce librarians (as well as teachers and parents) to the rich, diverse offerings from today's comics book publishers, and to encourage the acquisition of graphic novels in libraries serving young adults.
Teenreads.com
Offers book club information and guidelines for teens as well as number of discussion guides for teen reading.
General Youth Resources
EZ Library Programs Directory
Maintained by the Mid-Hudson Library System to provide program ideas to our member libraries and other organizations and individuals who may find it useful. Programming librarians can search for programs by topic, audience, program type, and cost. You can also submit your own program to the database.
Know Kidding
Youth services handbook developed for public librarians in Illinois. Of particular interest is the section on programming, which covers guidelines for quality service, planning, budgeting, and policymaking as well as sample contracts, checklists, and evaluation forms.
Read Across America
NEA’s Read Across America is an annual reading motivation and awareness program that calls for every child in every community to celebrate reading on March 2, the birthday of beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss. It also provides resources and activities to keep reading on the calendar 365 days a year. In cities and towns across the nation, teachers, teenagers, librarians, politicians, actors, athletes, parents, grandparents, and others develop NEA’s Read Across America activities to bring reading excitement to children of all ages.
We the People Bookshelf
The We the People Bookshelf, a collection of classic books for young readers, is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) We the People program, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office. Each year, NEH identifies a theme important to the nation’s heritage and selects books that embody that theme to build the We the People Bookshelf. The Bookshelf grants are part of the NEH’s We the People initiative, which aims to encourage and strengthen the teaching, study, and understanding of American history and culture through libraries, schools, colleges, universities, and cultural institutions.
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