EmilyBufford

In LIS 5564, Information Needs of Children, our professor assigned a final project to focus on teaching parents about the importance of reading in the lives of children. What follows is the script I created, and here is a link to the slide presentation . I chose to focus on very young children. The Journey to Reading Slide 1: Introduction Hello everyone! My name is Emily Bufford, and I work for the New Orleans Public Library as a Children’s Librarian. I want to let you know that developing a love for reading happens well before a child can read. In fact, there are several early literacy milestones children reach before they can read. Something as simple as responding to words, such as gesturing or cooing when spoken to, suggests a baby is learning about words (Zettler-Greeley, 2018). For the earliest learners, everyday interactions that include words are the beginning of learning to read; learning to read is not about any special program or book series or video course. In your own home...

A prospective program written for my LIS7912 class, Fantastic Fiction. Library Type: Any size public library with a meeting room for up to ten people comfortably that has a base of teen users, or is in an area where many teens need extracurricular activities.   Program Type/Purpose: A science fiction, horror, and fantasy creative writing and reading club for teens to strengthen their reading analysis and creative writing skills.    Planning Chronology:  15 months ●       Research current teen/tween writing programs at other libraries ●       Read writing handbooks for teens ●       Network with monitors of other programs for ideas and guidance ●       Contact YA creative writing journals for ideas/guidance/permission to use pieces ●       Begin preparing written Plan with needed resources, budget, and agenda plus research on why it’s impor...

For my Instructional Role of the Information Professional course, our final project is a Lesson Plan to be taught at our choice of information organization. I chose to do a social media class at a public library. What follows is my lesson plan.  Take Your Social Media Temperature: How to maintain a healthy relationship with social media Inspiration First, my lesson plan research lead to one from the Academic Research and College Library association in their lesson plan sandbox entitled “Digital Wellness” (Penn State Berks, 2016). This particular series of classes at Penn State Berks focuses on past, current, and future privacy issues (2016). However, one class in the series particularly focuses on current digital behaviors (Penn State Berks, 2016). This series is geared toward college students and privacy, but what if I got young people thinking about their online behaviors and how they influence their real lives earlier? That was the light bulb moment: a social media class focused...