Florence County Library System

About

The Florence County Library System offers service to a diverse population through a main library, five branch libraries and a bookmobile. The children's staff makes regular weekly visits to schools, day care facilities and Head Starts to do story times and other programs, seeing more than 10,000 children annually. The system recently converted the bookmobile, which had previously gone to retirement homes and various neighborhoods throughout the county, into a Children's Literacy Bookmobile with the goal of promoting childhood literacy through reading. The Florence County Library System plans to use the Bookapalooza materials in coordination with the bookmobile while also dividing materials among their branches to use in story times around the library system.

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alsc_logo.jpg Bookapalooza Program
Creating a better future for all children through libraries is ALSC’s core purpose.
ALSC envisions a future where:
  • In every library, children come first.
  • All libraries acknowledge the importance of children’s service with adequate materials and resources.
  • All libraries recognize ALSC as a leader in promoting high quality service to children.
  • Libraries recognize and support the value of all staff serving children.
  • Resources, collections, services, and staff reflect the communities they serve.
  • The library’s physical space reflects the developmental needs of children.
  • Children and their families are being served by a variety of non-traditional programs and activities in off-site locations.
In keeping with this envisioned future, the Bookapalooza Program will offer select libraries a collection of materials that will help transform their collection and provide the opportunity for these materials to be used in their community in creative and innovative ways.
 2011 - Recipient(s)

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