Today I actually started a shopping cart on Baker and Taylor for the board books Karen has approved on my list. It was pretty exciting. Heather logged me in and I went through and added 23 board books to the cart. I hope to add some more next Wednesday after Karen has a chance to … Continue reading »
Tag Archives: early literacy
Internship Day 12
I started off the morning by reviewing the music I had picked out last week and doing some more searching until I had at least one album for each category. Some categories have several to choose from. I then did some research and comparison for rewriting the early literacy page of the the Fayetteville Free Library webpage. … Continue reading »
Internship Day 10
It was another full day at the library. For about three hours I researched children’s music to put in each early literacy kit. Normally, I’m not a fan of children’s music. Especially the kind that has children singing. But I had a lot of fun looking for good kids music that wouldn’t be annoying for … Continue reading »
Internship Day 9
I spent a full day at the library today. From 9am until 1:30pm I worked on organizing the board books I’ve reviewed into categories, trying to narrow it down to about 25 categories with at least 3 books each. With Karen’s help I have a good working list for categories and can go ahead and … Continue reading »
Internship Day 7
Wednesdays are my usual youth services internship hours. I was able to observe the young First Steps Storytime program again before plunking myself down on the floor in the kids room to read all of the board books my library has available. In order to make it easy for me to keep track of the … Continue reading »
Internship Day 4
Today I observed two of the Storytime programs: First Steps which is for children up to age 3 who are walking, and Preschool Terrific 2′s and 3′s which is for children aged 2 and 3 who are ready to listen to stories. First Steps had about 15 kids and parents. It was pretty loud and … Continue reading »
Internship Day 1
I started part of my internship today. I spent about an hour talking with my supervisor about my internship and coming up with a basic outline of my project and a work plan. This half of my internship (75 hours) will be spent developing early literacy kits for babies (0-2 years old) as well as … Continue reading »
Internship
Tomorrow I begin my internship. 150 hours at the Fayetteville Free Library split into two parts. 75 hours will be spent shadowing on the reference desk and 75 hours will be spent working with the FFL’s Director of Early Literacy Services developing literacy kits for babies. I’m excited to start! Continue reading »
