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experience and facilitates access to the Library’s materials collections. It includes such
features as seamless incorporation of eBooks and other digital content in the Library’s
catalog; refinements to narrow searches and structure searching; self-service options for
users including sharing reading lists
or saved searches with friends; and
Novelist Select® and Goodreads®
integration for readers’ advisory
including, “more like this”
recommendations, complete series
information and reader reviews,
anywhere, anytime users search.
Additionally, the Library offers a
variety of programs to support this
service including summer reading
programs for adults, teens and
children; fiction and non-fiction book
clubs and film discussion book clubs.
The Library has space to display new materials in a prominent location; display shelving to
merchandize collections and media and has meeting space to provide programs. Also, the
Library has knowledgeable staff who can provide reader/viewer/listener advisory services
to users and plan and present programs.

2. Provide early literacy programs and services to create young readers

2.1- Provide responsive, efficient city services
5.3- Provide attractive facilities for leisure and recreation

The Library offers an array of programs and services for children from birth to age five
designed to ensure that they will enter school ready to
learn to read, write, and listen. To support this service,
the Library offers weekly story time programs divided by
age of intended audience, pre-talkers, talkers and pre-
readers. The story programs include interactive
components such as stories, singing, puppets, action
rhymes, finger plays, crafts, and STEM/STEAM activities.
The Library supports the Every Child Ready to Read @ your
library early literacy initiative and incorporates the six pre-
reading skills that children must learn in order to learn to
read in story time programs. The Library sponsors a Books
for Babies program, which is a national literacy program
that acquaints parents of newborns with the important role
they play in the development of their children. Parents are
presented with a Books for Babies kit containing a board
book for baby, baby’s first library card, a bib, and a variety
of brochures with reading tips and early literacy
information from nationally-recognized educational
organizations. The Library includes a “Read to Me”
component in the summer reading program, and other
reading programs, with incentives for parents/caregivers
and the children. Additionally, the Library provides five
Early Literacy Station educational computers which feature
more than 70 educational software programs for preschool children. The Library’s materials
collection for youth includes print, media and electronic resources to support early literacy

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