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School of Information Alternative Spring Break 2000Queens Borough Public Library, New York |
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Three students worked with the New American Program: Michelle Bejian, John Doyle, and Michele Saunders. They provided digital photographs and scanned images for a Power Point presentation about New Americans Program's services. Their work will allow the program to present a more dynamic and effective image of our varied activities.
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The Adult Learning Centers are located in six of the branch libraries including Flushing where student Michael Krot and interns Lija Bentley and Kari Smith worked. The developed new webpages for the Adult Learning Centers that are undergoing review for addition to the Queens Borough Public Library website.
"The Queens Borough Public Library's Adult Literacy Program, established in 1976, provides free small-group instruction to English-speaking adults who cannot read and independent learning materials and small conversation groups for those studying English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL). In addition, through a grant from the Lila-Wallace Reader's Digest Foundation, the Queens Library Adult Literacy Program has undertaken initiatives that focus on how to empower students to take charge of their own learning and become independent lifelong learners. Special areas of expertise include learning styles, reading strategies and assessment, thematic curricula, and computer-assisted instruction". - Taken from the ALC website.
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Two students, Laurel Sandor and Angela Napili worked with the Adult Services division. They analyzed questionnaire results of the Adult Summer Reading Program and recommended changes based on the questionnaires. Cynthia Isaacs, Coordinator of Adults Services, wrote that "the analysis and recommendation will be used to enhance the program for next year and to offer suggestions to all of the library agencies involved in the project." Sandor and Napili produced a report, "Results of the 1999 Adult Summer Reading Club Questionnaire: Recommendations and Best Practices." This report was used by the Library as a springboard for discussion at its annual in-service Adult Summer Reading Program meeting.
In addition to project work, the administration and staff at the Queens Library provided the students many opportunities to learn more about the Queens Library system as well as Queens Borough. Some of the additional experiences were:
- attending the QBPL Library Page Fellows program orientation,
- touring the Queens Library Gallery as its exhibition of Rare Books and Special Collections from the National Library of China,
- visiting the Friends [Quaker] Meeting House in Flushing, and
- touring Queens Library branches.