Tools to Promote Family Literacy and Advocacy. Presented on June 26, 2010, at American Library Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. Moderators: Patty Wong County Librarian/Chief Archivist, Yolo County Library; Co-Chair 2008-2010, ALA President Camila Alire’s Steering Committee Presidential Initiative Leadership Committee Mary Jo Venetis Associate Library Director, Technical Services, University of Texas at Dallas Libraries 2009-2010 ALA President Camila Alire Diversity Initiative Committee, Family Literacy Focus Subcommittee Dale Lipschultz Literacy Officer, ALA Office for Literacy and Outreach Services (OLOS
West Coast, East Coast and the Heartland libraries for APALA’s geographic location coverage of the pilot libraries.
AILA’s tribal libraries in New Mexico and Alaska.
The diversity of activities, from story-telling reading from bilingual books, craft tables, story book-making to dancing, the cultural heritages were shared to diverse participants and with intergenerational interaction.
AILA libraries also shared drumming and storytelling, bingo and storytime, again with intergenerational interaction.
The programs are now captured and integrated in our project tools, www.talkstorytogether.org website, a resources for librarians, teachers, general public to organize family literacy events with APA or Native Amercan themes, with bibliographies for children literature in APA and Native American literature.
APALA and AILA book lists on the same website with own links.