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We hope you have You’ll get to enjoy a great genre you like. The more you from our SRC website, src. been enjoying our lineup. story in the sunshine and at a do, the more chances you have mobilepubliclibrary.org. Book Bundles Partnering with USA Children’s & O you need books for Women’s Hospital Dyour kids but don’t know what to request? Let us pick HE Mobile Public Library out a bundle of 10 books for Tand USA Children’s & you. Pick from three different Women’s Hospital have ISSUE 06 types. partnered with other local Until We Meet Again: Virtual Storytime Summer 2020 by Cherold Rhodes, Ben May Main Library A Beginner Reader agencies to provide literacy Bundle is perfect for your information and resources to OBILE Public Library Storytime is a person Storytimes to Virtual Storytimes felt little new readers, ages 4-10. newborns and their mothers. Mvaluable resource for our community. awkward to youth staff. They are accustomed Tell us their reading level The goal is to spark a love of It is more than just a story and a free form of to seeing and connecting with smiling faces and we will pick 10 books reading starting at birth. entertainment provided each week. Storytime as they present stories, songs and crafts. To recommended to new readers at that level. Bright Beginnings Books provides a whole host of benefits for families for Babies gives each newborn and young children. Children begin to learn at USA Children’s & Women’s skills fundamental to reading, and their Hospital a library bag, a copy of caregivers are inspired with ideas to expound “The Very Hungry Caterpillar,” upon at home. These skills include learning a brief library card application, how to listen and interact with a story, and a brochure explaining important vocabulary, how books work, letter the importance of reading to sounds, and that books and reading are fun. babies from the very beginning. Storytime connects caregivers and children in During the first three years, the a meaningful, fun environment, and it helps Kids Subject Bundles brain develops faster than at any other time in life. children gain skills that are important for contain books and DVDs The first batch of bags was their development. from our nonfiction delivered on December 31, just When the “Stay at Home” orders were overcome this obstacle they drew upon their collection on a subject of in time for the first children put into place to safeguard the community, experiences with children and thought of your choosing. born in the new year. The them as they gazed into a phone or camera. Request the Picture Book we used imagination and innovation to program will run throughout Bundle and get a mystery redesign Storytime and make it available in a As you watch the youth staff sharing bundle of books perfect for 2020 and looks to serve 2,700 safe environment. Our mission of providing Virtual Storytime, they are thinking of all the read-along time. In picture families in the Mobile area. this valuable resource for the community children who attended Storytimes before the books, the illustrations are as A large portion of the continued. Virtual Storytime was born. “Stay at Home” and “Safer at Home” orders. important to the story as the funding for the project comes Youth specialists from across the system When you leave comments, hearts, laughs text and are recommended from the Friends of the Mobile worked together in an effort to provide and likes on the videos, it helps remind youth for ages 9 and under. Public Library. Thank you! a sense of consistency and connection to staff that they do still have that audience. families with small children as they designed It lifts spirits and helps keep the Storytime Virtual Storytime. Making the switch from in- experience and connection going. Mobile Public Library 700 Government Street Mobile, AL 36602 Our Mission is to Support Literacy and Connect Our Community Expanding Access: Get Your Library Card Online N April 1, in response to our closure due to card updated in order to access online content, and OCOVID-19, we introduced a new service: virtual we were able to quickly take care of those requests as library cards. Also known as “e-cards,” the virtual well. library card is a fancy way of saying that we made We want as many citizens of all ages as possible it possible for citizens to get a library card without to experience all the digital entertainment, online having to visit our libraries in person. information and educational courses and databases To date, nearly 1,600 people have filled out a that we have to offer. Our virtual card is the solution simple online form asking for name, email, phone, to providing the greatest access and address. We are able to send requesters their to as many people as possible library card and PIN through email in about a day’s during a difficult time. We can’t time. We then send the physical library card through wait to continue serving our postal mail. Some users have simply needed their community online and in person.