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PART IV PROGRAM NARRATIVE PROJECT IDENTIFICATION PROJECT LIBRARY NAME San Marcos Public Library I City of San Marcos, Texas AND THE AREA (CITY. COUNTY. CENSUS TRACTS) IT SERVES A. TOTAL POPULATION 23,420 IN THE PROJECT LIBRARY'S SERVICE AREA GROUP People for Whom English is a Second Language TO BE SERVED B. NUMBER OF GROUP C. 8,973 IN THE PROJECT LIBRARY IS SERVICE AREA GROUP PERCENT 38% . OF TOTAL POPULATION (B divided by A) 1980 u. S. Census of Population and Housing SOURCE supplied to us by the Capital Area Planning Council FOR POPULATION STATISTICS PROJECT GOALS: 1) To provide free English as a second language tutoring as well as continuing to provide free literacy and GED tutoring for adults. 2) To develop the library as a center for information about the services of local social service agencies. 3) To take a story time program into the Hispanic community in order to introduce this community to the library and the wonders of reading. 4) To publicize the services and resources of the public library to those for whom English is a second language. SUMMARY OF OBJECTIVES AND ACTIVITIES: We will "recruit and train volunteers to teach English as a second language. We will expand the libraryls Lifelong Learning Collection to include materials to support an ESL tutoring program. We will provide at least 1,300 hours of free ESL, GED and literacy tutoring. We will gather, display and distribute brochures about area social services. We will publish a bilingual social services directory and sponsor a social services fair. We will take twenty weekly story time programs out into the Hispanic commun- community. We will produce and distribute three bilingual fliers to advertise the services and materials of the public library. 10-1