Theme: “Literacy Partnerships, K-12 and Beyond: Paths to the Workplace and Parent Involvement”

RSVP: info@literacyeveryday.org

“New Haven Reads provides all the training that is needed for our successful one-on-one program. No experience is necessary.  We are looking for people who have one hour a week that they can give to a child to share the joy and power of reading.  Please contact Keri Humphreys at keri@newhavenreads.org or 203-752-1923.”

Now, Cara Baruzzi has become Secretary of the Coalition’s board.  She serves in a similar capacity for the Connecticut Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

Her fellow Literacy Coalition board members welcomed Shirley Jackson to her first meeting on February 16.  They thank her SCSU colleague Lorrie Verplaetse, who preceded her on the Coalition board, for her service and also for helping to identify a worthy successor.

 February 2  Nonprofits interested in applying for a competitive Responsive New Grant from the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the Valley Community Foundation are invited to participate in a webinar. Attend from your desk(https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/293393638) or in person by emailing dcanning@cfgnh.org. The grant process begins with a submission of a pre-application, due March 2.

 February 4  “Take your child to the library day”

 February 21  Mardi Gras gala and silent auction to benefit New Haven Free Public Library

 March 21  Family Read program begins at Wilson branch of the New Haven Public Library. This free program runs for 10 weeks, Wednesdays through May 23. Parents explore classic children’s literature and receive a new book each week for their child’s library. Free on-site child care and lunch are provided, and the group is facilitated by trained volunteers through the CT Humanities Council. (A Spanish Family Read is planned for later in 2012.) Parents with children ages 0-5 are welcome. Contact Yania Padilla Sierra at (203) 688-8164 or yania.padillasierra@ynhh.org.

Also in 2010, the New Haven Review included Mark Oppenheimer’s interview –“On Running a Library in the Age of Kindles” – of the new city librarian, Christopher J. Korenowsky, in its issue 007.  Harvard Magazine described, in an article by Jonathan Shaw, how that university’s libraries are handling “disruptive change.”

 In a September 2011 article, Zoe Gorman’s Yale Daily News article explored digitization of Yale’s collections after the arrival of new university librarian Susan Gibbons.  An April 2011 NPR report addressed, “The Future of Libraries in the E-Book Age.”

 Now through January 28, as Joshua Mamis notes in a New Haven Independent article, an ArtSpace exhibition considers “Library Science.”