Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.)

Research shows that many simple activities help kids be ready to learn to read and write when they start kindergarten. You help your child learn every day by talking, singing, reading, writing, and playing together from the very beginning.

The Counting on Results (COR) goals were to develop and demonstrate the potential utility of new tools for outcome-based evaluation of public library services. The project developed these tools and demonstrated their use by 45 public libraries representing 20 states and all four major regions of the United States (i.e., Northeast, South, Midwest, West). In addition to reporting data on conventional library service outputs, the project generated data...

Describes basic library functions and how library resources can help prisoners and ex-offenders alike.

Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of Wharton's The age of innocence, a novel about the upper classes of New York and the story of Newland Archer's love for Countess Olenska.

Readings of excerpts from and critical analysis of the novel by Carson McCullers about a deaf man named John Singer and the people he encounters in a 1930s mill town in Georgia.