Samarbeid mellom barnehage og bibliotek
Filmen viser at de største barna i barnehagen på hver avdeling har faste lesestunder med pedagog. Hun bruker tid på å aktivere barnas førforståelse før hun går i gang med å lese for dem. I tillegg benytter hun konkreter for å visualisere innholdet i boka, slik at det blir enklere for barna å forstå det de møter i teksten. Tilbake på avdelingene får barna mulighet til å snakke om boka de har lest, og kanskje også fortelle om boka på sitt morsmål.
FLPL -- Lawrence Public Library Book Sale
THE FRIENDS OF THE LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY OFTEN SAY YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY BOOKS, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE A GOOD DEAL. ANNAMARIE HILL SERVES AS CHAIR FOR THE GROUP, BUT SHE IS ALSO A CUSTOMER.
(OH YES I HAVE MORE THAN I CAN READ IN MY LIFETIME AND YES I DO KEEP BUYING MORE FROM HERE AS WELL LITTLE BIT OF AN ADDICT THERE)
200 VOLUNTEERS MOVED ACTUAL MOUNTAINS OF THOSE BOOKS, 68-THOUSAND TO BE EXACT, TO MAKE THE SALE HAPPEN. THE DONATIONS ALSO INCLUDED C-DS, D-V-DS, AUDIOBOOKS, VINYL, PUZZLE'S AND GAMES.
ANNAMARIE HILL SAYS THE HARD WORK PAID OFF.
(I LIKE WATCHING THE BOOKS DISAPPEAR OFF THE SHELVES I LOVE READING MYSELF AND SO IT MAKES ME HAPPY TO THINK THAT PEOPLE WILL BE HAPPY TO USE BOOKS IN EXCELLENT CONDITIONS FOR THE MOST PART)
THE BOOK SALE EVEN BROUGHT FAMILIES FROM OUT OF TOWN, TO FIND THAT SPECIAL BOOK FOR THEIR NEW BORN.
(WE LIVE IN TOPEKA SO WE WENT TO THE ONE THERE THIS ONE HAS A LOT MORE BOOKS (ITS BIGGER YEAH ITS ALSO NICE TO HAVE THEIR VERY AFFORDABLE SO YOU DON'T FEEL BAD ABOUT BUYING A BOOK)
(TEACHERS WITH USD 497 THEY CAN COME IN AND GET ANYTHING ON THE SHELVES FOR FREE SO WE TRY TO GET A LOT OF THE BOOKS TO GO OUT THAT WAY IF THERE ARE BOOKS STILL ON THE SHELVES THAT WE DON'T THINK WE CAN SALE AT THE NEXT SALE WE RECYCLE THOSE WITH K-U AND C-L-O)
AND AFTER ALL THE BOOKS ARE PURCHASED THIS IS WHERE THEY DUMP THE BOXES.
(ITS ALSO NICE JUST BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE BOOK GETS ADDITIONAL LIFE A LOT OF TIMES YOU BUY A BOOK AND THEN YOU READ IT AND THEN YOU THROW IT AWAY THIS IS A GOOD WAY TO GIVE IT A SECOND LIFE.)
THE FRIENDS MAKE SURE NO BOOK GOES TO WASTE...ALL THE NON-PROFITS IN LAWRENCE, PLUS TOPEKA AND DOUGLAS COUNTY CORRECTIONS CAN PICK (ARE ABLE TO PICK) FROM THE REMAINING SELECTION.
REPORTING AT LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY, JASMINE KEYS K-U-J-H NEWS. ###
Major metropolis İstanbul suffers educational dearth of decent libraries
In a city comprising an estimated 15 million people, it can be hard to find a quiet place to sit and read. In İstanbul, there is a serious dearth of decent libraries -- those ancient, archetypal establishments offering silence, books and perhaps a table or two.
If you're looking for a literary refuge in this chaotic city but you're not a student, researcher or academic, things can get a bit difficult. Sunday's Zaman hit the streets of İstanbul in search of such a haven.
Located next to the entrance of İstanbul University is the Beyazıt State Library, built in 1884. It stands aged and pretty, like most late-Ottoman era buildings. After the security check-in, and entry granted only via a passport or Turkish citizenship card, the library is anti-climactic. There are simply no books. There are not even shelves for books. It operates like a typical Turkish state-run building: old, outdated and dusty. After asking at the information desk where the books have gone, the answer was that they were in storage and can only be obtained upon request. Archived newspapers, bound in large books, are more readily available and can be examined on large tables. There are replicas of orientalist paintings on the walls, but otherwise the building is bare and offers almost nothing for visitors apart from tables amid peace and quiet.
Not far from the Beyazıt Library is the İstanbul Orhan Kemal City Public Library, directly across the street from the university's library. It is another old building, this one made of brick. Here too, one can only enter with a citizenship card, but unlike Beyazıt, there are actually books. Most are in Turkish, but there are a few volumes of English-language history books. Students take up most of the desks, though a mother with a young child and a senior citizen were also making use of the public services offered by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.
In the heart of city, just off Taksim Square and buried between several five-star hotels, is the Ataturk Library, which never closes. It's 9 p.m. on a Tuesday night, and a line of high-schoolers are waiting outside as if the library is one of the hottest nightclubs in town.
“It will only start emptying out towards 2 a.m.,” says the guard at the door. On the promise of not trying to take up table space, Sunday's Zaman is allowed in. Inside, it smells of a nauseating mix of stale books and teenagers who haven't yet figured out the importance of deodorant. Every table is occupied by teenagers hovering over Higher Education Examination (YGS) university entrance exam practice books. But the books in the stacks are outdated, obscure and have lost their color. As I exited, a teenager nearly jumped for joy, ecstatic that my exit would equate in his entry.
Sunday's Zaman also caught up with Erbil Sivaslıoğlu, one of the co-founders of Bookserf (bookserf.com), a start-up company featuring online book-sharing for non-Turkish language books. Based in İstanbul, the organization is making its way to other cities within Turkey and abroad.
Sivaslıoğlu laments the condition of state-run libraries. “When I was at Koç University I had access to the school's library, which was quite good. But I was also looking at the city's public libraries, such as the ones in Besiktaş and Kadıkoy, or in Taksim and the rest of Beyoğlu, and I found them [the books] to be quite old and irrelevant. You could only really find old Turkish classics, history books and school textbooks,” he says.
“They didn't even offer an ordering facility. Therefore, I was just stuck with the books they had there and never found the selection on offer to be very rich.
“That's why we started Bookserf. We not only wanted to share our libraries but also wanted a way of meeting others who are interested in these sorts of things. If they are also interested in books then there is going to be a certain level of understanding to a certain degree.” Bookserf is a great, free option for finding books, but it's more of a community of bibliophiles rather than a quiet space to read.
“Unfortunately, only a very small part of Turkish youth is interested in finding a good library. I'm sure if it went to a vote, more people would be interested in a new soccer field than a library with decent books,” Sivaslıoğlu added, half grinningly.