Conclusion

In the course of creating the year long early literacy plan for 2019-2020 at Warren Newport Public library, it was wonderful to see all of the different teachings, research, and implementation of various ideas that were brought up in class within the yearly plan. After talking with my coworkers, who have much more experience than me, and showing them my original plans, they said that it was great that I had all of these ideas but at the end of the day it was impractical for our library to run all of those programs. It was unlikely that I would be able to get a large impact out of them while also serving our community to the best of our ability. So by the end of my research and interviewing early literacy librarians, I whittled down my crazy calendar to a much more reasonable schedule that still reaches out to all parts of our community. I learned that sometimes more is not better when offering programs but excelling at the ones that our library does offer, with proper research and planning, we are much more likely to have a positive impact on the early literacy skills of our community. Overall, I increased the number of our programs versus what we normally offer and included some great ideas that were brought up in our class discussions and meetings! I think that the plan I was able to create really takes Saroj Ghoting’s teachings to heart and will have the most impact for my patrons. I hope that you are as excited as I am about our 2019-2020 schedule and I can’t wait to see you all at Storytime!