Total Hours: 115
Today was the fourth and final session of the Contando Cuentos Bilingual Storytime series. But, as I mentioned before, the library will be contracting with Araceli again in the fall for an eight week session since the demand was clearly there! We had to compile our attendance statistics for a report to Chris and they were as follows:
Week 1: 10
Week 2: 15
Week 3: 20
Week 4: 19
What's so great is that in addition to returning kids, there were new families each week! For this final session, we made a display of José Luis Orozco's books and CDs and printed out our final resource list along with a reading list and bilingual summer reading program worksheet from the Latinas for Latino Lit organization. Chris happened to have a stash of Spanish kids books to give away, so every child was able to take a book home as well! Today focused on counting, since we read Se venden gorras, the Spanish translation of the classic Caps for Sale. Afterwards the kids made bean bag caps from nylons filled with rice.
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| Reading Se venden gorras |
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| Making our "gorras" |
Araceli connected me with the resources she'll be using for the next series, the majority of which came from the curriculum that the King County Library system (which serves the Seattle Metropolitan area) uses. I kept coming across their name in my independent study work, and I already knew they were doing a good job with their Spanish-language services, but this program further proves that fact. The coordinator of the program has made a Pintrest page that highlights some of these early literacy "fiestas."
For the rest of my morning at the library I added and edited various events in the MPL calendar and met with Michael to catch up after his vacation. We both agreed that the area we will focus on for the rest of my time at the library will be spending time at the reference desk, since that is one of my learning outcomes that I have barely begun to meet, with only 2 hours shadowing last week. It has been so crazy at the library for most of the summer, with him downtown most of the time for interviews and the branch chronically understaffed, that it has been difficult to schedule effective shadowing time. We planned for two mornings next week, and he also gave me a brief lesson on ILL and using the World Cat Catalog. I look forward to getting more familiar with additional resources next week!
Then, in the afternoon I came home to work on the final part of my Spanish-language project: my recommendations. Here is a brief summary of what I came up with, drawn from all I have read in my independent study:
For the rest of my morning at the library I added and edited various events in the MPL calendar and met with Michael to catch up after his vacation. We both agreed that the area we will focus on for the rest of my time at the library will be spending time at the reference desk, since that is one of my learning outcomes that I have barely begun to meet, with only 2 hours shadowing last week. It has been so crazy at the library for most of the summer, with him downtown most of the time for interviews and the branch chronically understaffed, that it has been difficult to schedule effective shadowing time. We planned for two mornings next week, and he also gave me a brief lesson on ILL and using the World Cat Catalog. I look forward to getting more familiar with additional resources next week!
Then, in the afternoon I came home to work on the final part of my Spanish-language project: my recommendations. Here is a brief summary of what I came up with, drawn from all I have read in my independent study:
- Posting a sign on the door saying "Se habla Español"
- Posting a Spanish DDC chart by the non-fiction collection
- Considering adding Fotonovelas to the collection
- Offering English Conversation Clubs (ESL class needs are already well-met on the Southside)
- Collaborating with the Play and Read program at Centro Hispano for future Bilingual Storytime outreach
- Outreach at middle school and high school ESL classes
- Planing a Día de los Niños/Día de los Libros celebration
- Now I look forward to further distilling the knowledge I've gained over the summer in my final paper in a few weeks!
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