The Tyrone-Snyder Public Library wishes to announce a recently awarded grant to become a “Family Place Library”, a national distinction with the goal of transforming public libraries to serve very young children and their families.
Key features of a “Family Place Library” include:
• The Parent/Child Workshop, a regularly scheduled program presented in an informal early childhood setting that brings parents and toddlers into contact with health and human service professionals from the community;
• A specially designed space for young children, parents, and caregivers, equipped with educational toys, audio-visual materials, and electronic resources as well as books, and
• A collection of reference and referral sources for parents, caregivers, educators and service providers.
This five-week workshop series brings together infants, toddlers and their parents in an early childhood setting filled with toys, art activities, and books, and encourages parents to play with their children, meet with other parents or caregivers, and become familiar with library and community resources.
The main focus of the workshop is to promote an atmosphere to develop early childhood literacy.
Professionals from local agencies such as child care centers, hospitals, speech clinics move casually about the room and chat informally with participants about issues pertinent to their children or services that their agency offers for families. The librarian facilitates the smooth flow among the children, parents or caregivers, resource professionals, and library staff, and closes the workshop with a simple circle game, song, or finger plays.
Parents or caregivers (the person who spends the daytime hours with the children) may sign up now by calling or stopping in at the library for the first session which runs Thursday mornings from 9 a.m. until 10:30 a.m. beginning May 4 and continuing through Thursday, June 8.
Space is limited, so please sign up early by calling the library at 684-1133.
