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<br />Narrative <br />page-8 <br /> <br />2) <br /> <br />Training for volunteer ESL, literacy and GED tutors. <br /> <br />The project currently provides tutor training for GED and <br />literacy tutors. Funding of the grant will allow us to <br />continue offering this training and to develop a new <br />training program for ESL tutors. The new program will <br />utilize a Literacy Volunteers of America slide-tape workshop <br />which we will purchase with grant funds. <br /> <br />3) <br /> <br />Expansion of the library's Lifelong Learning Collection to <br />include materials for ESL tutoring. <br /> <br />Specifically we will purchase books, cassette tapes, and <br />other audiovisual materials for ESL instruction; high <br />interest-low reading level books and bilingual life-skills <br />materials. We will also purchase ten portable cassette <br />players for use in the tutoring program. All materials and <br />equipment will circulate. <br /> <br />4) <br /> <br />Development of the library as a center for information about <br />local social service agencies. <br /> <br />The library will gather, display and distribute brochures <br />from local social service agencies. We will also develop <br />and distribute a bilingual (Spanîsh-English) social services <br />directory and sponsor a social services fair. While the <br />library has a well developed reference and information <br />service, we have never made any structured attempt to <br />provide this type of information to the community. <br /> <br />5) <br /> <br />Presentation of a story time program to the Hispanic <br />community to help ESL children learn English and to <br />introduce them to the library. <br /> <br />The library has always offered a popular story time program <br />for preschool children. Unfortunately, very few people from <br />the Hispanic community have attended this program. We hope <br />to reverse this situation by taking story time into the <br />Hispanic community. We feel that the story time program will <br />be an effective way to introduce Hispanics to the library <br />while helping them strengthen their English skills. The <br />program will include twenty weekly sessions which will be <br />held at the Southside Community Center. <br /> <br />6) <br /> <br />Development of an effective bilingual (Spanish-English) <br />publicity campaign to introduce members of the ESL community <br />to the services and resources of the public library. <br /> <br />The library has always had a very active publicity program. <br />We publish a monthly calendar of activities.and a quarterly <br />newsletter. We also have regular newspaper and radio <br />coverage of library activities. However, it appears that <br />this campaign has not been effective with regard to <br />