Homewreckers: She so damn literate...(Reading Is Fundamental)
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Libraries in Brooklyn Add Hours and Staff
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/nyregion/libraries-in-brooklyn-add-hours-and-staff.html?_r=0
Even on a Friday morning, the Macon branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Bedford-Stuyvesant was buzzing: Every computer was being used, laptops had been lent out, patrons were asking for résumé advice and more than a few people were reading actual books.
“When we knew that we were getting more money, it wasn’t difficult to decide what to do with it,” said Linda Johnson, president of the Brooklyn Public Library. “We are always looking to have more hours for working families and for the communities that rely on us.”
Kevin Peel was at the Macon branch on Friday, doing Wikipedia research on a library laptop. Mr. Peel, who lives in a homeless shelter nearby, said he came to the library about three times a week for five hours a day.
“I’m writing sonnets today,” he said, “but I come here to read Hemingway and Faulkner and ‘Leaves of Grass’ by Walt Whitman.”
New librarians will be hired for the first time since 2008; training will focus on helping patrons with technology questions, which Ms. Johnson said librarians increasingly had to deal with.
Before the 2008 recession, the system’s annual operating budget was $72.1 million. By 2013, it had been cut to $57.2 million. For the 2015 fiscal year, which began on July 1, the system will be allocated $60.8 million. Compared with the 2014 fiscal year, that is $2.8 million more than projected.
Beyond the books and information services, Ms. Johnson said, libraries have increasingly become community spaces since the recent recession, when many more people came to use the computers or the Internet to look for jobs.
One of the most important things the Brooklyn library system offers, Ms. Johnson said, is programming for children under age 5. Some of that is reading to children, or teaching them how to read as they get older. The crucial part, she said, is getting parents to understand that they need to read to their children.
Lolita Darden had absorbed the lesson. She was reading to one of her grandchildren, Maurice Freeman, 3, at the library on Friday morning. The book was “My Little Sister Ate One Hare,” about a little girl who vomited after eating many live animals, and Ms. Darden changed the pitch of her voice and gestured wildly with her hands to make the book come alive. The suspense was palpable.
Ms. Darden said Maurice liked the library, so she brought him two or three days a week, and she was happy to hear that the branch would be open until 8 p.m. two more nights a week. “Now he can come here with his mom,” she said. “She’s a teacher, so she usually can’t come here to read with him, so that will be great.”
As for Mr. Peel, he said he would plan to stay into the evenings. “I like the ambience in here,” he said of the Macon branch, which was built in 1907 with money donated by Andrew Carnegie. “If they ever light that fireplace, it’ll be even more beautiful.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/08/nyregion/libraries-in-brooklyn-add-hours-and-staff.html?_r=0
Even on a Friday morning, the Macon branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Bedford-Stuyvesant was buzzing: Every computer was being used, laptops had been lent out, patrons were asking for résumé advice and more than a few people were reading actual books.
To accommodate that busyness, which borough librarians say is common to all 60 branches, the borough’s library system will be adding more hours, librarians and other staff members starting Oct. 4, a result of an additional $2.8 million for 2015 from the City Council and Mayor Bill de Blasio’s office.
“When we knew that we were getting more money, it wasn’t difficult to decide what to do with it,” said Linda Johnson, president of the Brooklyn Public Library. “We are always looking to have more hours for working families and for the communities that rely on us.”
Beginning next month, all 60 of the library’s branches will be open for an average of 45 hours a week, an overall increase of 200 hours. The library system is also expanding the number of branches that will be open six or seven days a week, to 41 from 25.
Kevin Peel was at the Macon branch on Friday, doing Wikipedia research on a library laptop. Mr. Peel, who lives in a homeless shelter nearby, said he came to the library about three times a week for five hours a day.
“I’m writing sonnets today,” he said, “but I come here to read Hemingway and Faulkner and ‘Leaves of Grass’ by Walt Whitman.”
New librarians will be hired for the first time since 2008; training will focus on helping patrons with technology questions, which Ms. Johnson said librarians increasingly had to deal with.
Before the 2008 recession, the system’s annual operating budget was $72.1 million. By 2013, it had been cut to $57.2 million. For the 2015 fiscal year, which began on July 1, the system will be allocated $60.8 million. Compared with the 2014 fiscal year, that is $2.8 million more than projected.
Among the services it will pay for: e-book and laptop lending programs at some branches; job-hunting skills, including résumé advice and mock interviews; and Wi-Fi access. And then there are the English as a second language classes, story time, afterschool programs and support for children with special needs. The libraries have a collection of four million books; last year they were checked out 19 million times.
Beyond the books and information services, Ms. Johnson said, libraries have increasingly become community spaces since the recent recession, when many more people came to use the computers or the Internet to look for jobs.
One of the most important things the Brooklyn library system offers, Ms. Johnson said, is programming for children under age 5. Some of that is reading to children, or teaching them how to read as they get older. The crucial part, she said, is getting parents to understand that they need to read to their children.
Lolita Darden had absorbed the lesson. She was reading to one of her grandchildren, Maurice Freeman, 3, at the library on Friday morning. The book was “My Little Sister Ate One Hare,” about a little girl who vomited after eating many live animals, and Ms. Darden changed the pitch of her voice and gestured wildly with her hands to make the book come alive. The suspense was palpable.
Ms. Darden said Maurice liked the library, so she brought him two or three days a week, and she was happy to hear that the branch would be open until 8 p.m. two more nights a week. “Now he can come here with his mom,” she said. “She’s a teacher, so she usually can’t come here to read with him, so that will be great.”
As for Mr. Peel, he said he would plan to stay into the evenings. “I like the ambience in here,” he said of the Macon branch, which was built in 1907 with money donated by Andrew Carnegie. “If they ever light that fireplace, it’ll be even more beautiful.”
