2. Best Practices for Identifying
Community Needs
1. Identify the culture/client group
2. Identify community stakeholders
3. Identify goals of client group
3. Determine Goals
Parents
Face-to-face
interviews
Focus Groups
Paper Surveys
Children
Paper Surveys
Focus Groups
Community
Stakeholders
Educators
Pediatricians
Social Workers
Caregivers
Parents
Children
4. Community needs are fulfilled by
the programs, materials, services
that will help the group achieve
their goals.
5. “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
6. 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
7. 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.
8. 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
9. 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
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.
11. Curriculum Support
Knowledge of current standards
Access to materials
Educational programs that coincide with
school holidays
12. Information Literacy
Teaching Information Literacy Using Children’s
Literature
By 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
13. 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.
14. Library as Family Resource
Center
Community
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
15. Franklin County Whole Child Preschool
Project
Franklin County Whole Child Preschool Project http://frcowholechild.webs.com/
16. 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 Hospita
Journal of Hospital Librarianship, volume 10, 2010. 82-87.
19. 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
Editor's Notes
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