Community Partnerships: PLAT Multilingual Storytime and Read with Dad Days

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Community Partnerships PLAT Multilingual
Storytime and Read with Dad Days Presented by
Carolyn Bourke Community Outreach Librarian
Children and Youth Fairfield City Library
Service Cultural Connections Innovations and
Challenges for Information Professionals
Seminar State Library of NSW, 20th November 2007
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• Background
• Communities 4 Children program (funded by FaCSIA)
• Facilitated by The Smith Family and Learning
  Links
• PLAT (Playing, Listening and Talking) with Kids
  initiative

Kylie McDonald (Learning Links) and Quoc Ngo
(Fairfield City Library Service) at PLAT storytime
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• PLAT Multilingual
• Storytime Objectives
• To involve community members using family
  languages
• To encourage new arrivals to use the library
• To model the importance of early literacy
  practices in family languages

PLAT storytime Reading with Dad Day
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• Reading with Dad Day
• Importance of male reading role models
• Presented in Arabic, Chinese, English and
  Vietnamese
• Partners
• Learning Links (PLAT)
• UnitingCare Burnside (Engaging Fathers program)
• The Smith Family (C4C)
• Fairfield City Library Service

Promotional Display
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• Resources
• Staffing by UnitingCare Burnside and Fairfield
  City Library Service
• Program and giveaways organised by Learning Links
  with other services
• Funding from The Smith Family C4C program
  (FaCSIA)
• Fruit from Fruitland Fairfield

Sean Williams(Burnside), Quoc Ngo (FCLS), Isho
Georges (Burnside) and Kim Vu (FCLS) lead singing
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• Marketing
• Fliers in community languages
• Personal invitations from children
• Networks
• Local paper
• Councils Whats On guide
• Website
• Multiscreen
• Intranet

Arabic flier
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• Evaluation
• Debrief meeting with team
• Comments from participants
• Statistics 9 dads, 2 granddads
• Media coverage C4C newsletter, newspaper,
  Incite

Dads and children enjoy craft together