For each collaboration you choose (two total), share these points in your post:

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• Title of the program

• Describe the program and what you like/dislike about it. How do you see it working/not working in your community? 

• Source

 

 

Children's Services: Partnerships for Success
Diamant-Cohen, Betsy 
Date Published: 01/2010 
pISBN: 9780838910443 
http://site.ebrary.com.allstate.libproxy.ivytech.edu/lib/ivytech/Doc?id=10482272

 

Librarians as Community Partners : An Outreach Handbook
Smallwood, Carol 
Publisher: American Library Association Editions 
Date Published: 01/2009 
pISBN: 9780838910061 
http://site.ebrary.com.allstate.libproxy.ivytech.edu/lib/ivytech/Doc?id=10469305

 

 

Children's Services: Partnerships for Success by Betsy Diamant-Cohen

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Statewide Summer Reading Program Goes Online for academic institutions and public libraries written by Maureen Ambrosino (Diamant-Cohen, p.8). This program was developed in Massachusetts in 2006 to reach rural families that were unable to physically go to the library because of distance, no local library, and for working parents.  The program was born out of the idea that most children and young adults today have grown up in the digital age and spend most of their time online.   The program allows patrons to register for the reading program online.  It notifies patrons when they qualify for a prize.  Since the whole program is online, reading selections can be accessed anywhere Internet is available.

 

Thinking back to some of my visits to the surrounding libraries in Northwest Indiana, and about the diverse communities the libraries in Lake County service, I think this program could work in many of the communities, but not all.  The Gary Public Library and the Lake Station/New Chicago Public Library have a high rate of patrons that visit the library because they do not have internet at home. 

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I think this is a good example of a library remaining relevant in an increasingly technology based society.

Librarians as Community Partners : An Outreach Handbook by Carol Smallwood
 

Collaborative Outreach for Homeschooled Teens for youth outreach (Smallwood, p. 15), is a program which focuses on teaching middle school and high school students the skills needed for preforming research for assignments in school and to make the transition to higher education easier.  The program written by Catherine Riehle in the Outreach Handbook was made possible by a collaboration with Purdue University Libraries, the Tippecanoe County Public Library, and the Ivy Tech Community College in Lafayette.  

 

I did a little bit of research on statistics for homeschooling in the United States and in Indiana.  Based on the numbers, I think this program is needed in more libraries with the increase of students who are homeschooled.  According the National Center for Education Statistics (https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_206.10.asp), in 1999 there were 850,000 students ages 5 through 17 that were homeschooled in the United States,  By 2016, the numbers jumped to 1,690,000.  According to the Coalition for Responsible Home Education, there is over 39,000 students in Indiana enrolled in home based education (https://www.responsiblehomeschooling.org/homeschooling-101/homeschooling-numbers/).  Based on these numbers, I believe this program would be a great benefit for the growing number of home-schooled children. 

 

The only negative to implementation is the large amount of time required for the collaboration between the library, area schools, and colleges.