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Adaptive Technology at Asnuntuck Community College, Enfield
Asnuntuck has provided a variety of hardware, software, and equipment to help ensure that patrons with disabilities are served appropriately.
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Adaptive Technology at the Preston Public Library
The Preston Public Library added a variety of adaptive technology equipment to benefit persons with disabilities, further enhancing the attributes of one of the most barrier-free libraries in Eastern Connecticut.
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BOOM! The 50+ Transition Center at the New Haven Free Public Library
The New Haven Free Public Library's 50+ Transition Center is in the vanguard of efforts across the nation moving away from programs that focus on the homebound or the frail elderly and instead strive to include a youngish-older adult crowd.
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Bridgeport Public Library's Find Science Projects @ Your Library project
A series of workshops, a collection of materials, and a whole lot of energy helped Bridgeport 5th and 6th graders raise science grades and complete science fair projects.
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Bristol Public Library's Superhero Club
Winner of the 2008 ALSC/Tandem Library Books Literature Program Grant award.
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Danbury Public Library Empowers Teen Mothers
The Danbury Public Library implemented a literacy-based early child development program with a special emphasis on educating teenaged mothers on the basics of becoming their child’s first teacher.
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Danbury Public Library's Talk-Time Conversational Groups
The Danbury Public Library responded to demand for English language skills opportunities with this multi-tiered program.
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Danbury's Exciting LSTA Project
Find out what the Danbury Public Library is doing for their Non-English Speaking Populations.
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ESL at the Danbury Public Library
The Danbury Public Library provides individualized English as a Second Language (ESL) instruction to Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking residents using its Praxair Learning Laboratory.
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Family Literacy at the Thompson Public Library
Describes a successful family literacy program at the Thompson Public Library, financed in part with LSTA grant funds.
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Get Your Game On: Learning & Literacy at the Booth & Dimock Library
Get Your Game On is an LSTA-funded project that received $15,500 in LSTA funding for the 2008-2009 cycle. Managed by the Booth & Dimock Library in Coventry, this is an after school project for local young adults which incorporates fun and learning.
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Group Piano Lessons: the Senior Savvy Project, West Hartford Public Library
Older adults gained and strengthened their computer literacy skills and increased the frequency with which they could work comfortably and independently on the computer so as to more easily pursue their educational, social and recreational needs.
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Hartford is Home/Hartford is su Hogar
The Hartford Public Library earned the praise of Mayor Eddie Perez by partnering with community agencies to raise city homeownership rates among Latinos.
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Hartford Public Library American Place program
Supported with LSTA funding, the Hartford Public Library and its community partners are making a sustained effort to provide services to Hartford's ethnically diverse and immigrant populations.
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Hartford Public Library's Smart Start Family Literacy Program
The goal of the Hartford Public Library's Smart Start family literacy program is to enable Hartford preschoolers to be ready to read when they enter kindergarten. The project provides parents and caregivers the information and assistance they need to create environments that support literacy skill acquisition.
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Helping Refugees at the Hartford Public Library
The Bridge is a project by the Hartford Public Library to help recently settled refugees adjust to America with the library as their living room.
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Ladder to Literacy at the Canterbury Public Library
The Canterbury Public Library is helping local youngsters be ready to learn when they enter kindergarten with techniques that aren’t magic but sure seem like it.
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Learn English @ the Stratford Library
The Learn English @ the Stratford Library project provided services to those with limited English speaking ability.
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Ledyard Libraries Expand Services to Senior Citizens
Ledyard’s Bill Library and Gales Ferry Library bring people, books together.
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Let's Talk project at the Ferguson Library
In order to create a welcoming environment for Stamford's growing multicultural community, the Ferguson Library organized a program of ESL and literacy tutoring, materials, and programming.
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LIBROS Project, West Hartford
The West Hartford School system’s LIBROS project helped close the gap in educational achievement experienced by elementary school students (grades K through 5) whose native language is Spanish.
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Middlebury's Long Range Planning Project
This describes some of the process, findings, and best practices of the LSTA-funded long range planning project for the Middlebury Public Library in 2006.
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Moving from eBarriers to eSolutions at the Hartford Public Library
How adaptive technology aids patrons with disabilities in Hartford.
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New Britain Public Library's Reading Readiness Project
The New Britain Public Library's reading readiness project is a collaborative effort helping local pre-schoolers' emergent literacy skills.
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Old Lyme's Phoebe Noyes Griffin Library older adults LSTA grant project
This article reviews 'best practices' of Old Lyme's Phoebe Noyes Griffin Library's LSTA project that focused on homebound older adults during the 2006-2007 grant cycle.
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Plainville Community Needs Assessment Grant, 2008-2009
This summarizes the community needs assessment process that the Plainville Public Library undertook under the direction of Peter Chase during the 2008-2009 LSTA grant cycle.
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Plymouth Leaps at the Terryville Public Library
This article describes some of the best practices and lessons learned from Gretchen Durley's LSTA-funded project at the Terryville Public Library in Plymouth, CT.
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Raising a Reader preschool literacy project at Booth & Dimock Library
"Raising a Reader" helped the Booth & Dimock library positively impact the behavior of parents, raising the frequency with which they read to their children.
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Read, Rock, and Rhyme program at the Jonathan Trumbull Library in Lebanon
An emergent literacy program funded in part by a LSTA grant.
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Reading on the Road
New Haven Free Public Library's 2003 bilingual Literacy Program for Pre-School Children, introduces inner-city, pre-school children to books and to the joys of learning.
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Russell Library and Free-Choice Learning
The Russell Library in Middletown is serving mobile older adults with an array of materials and programs, including a Lunch & Learn series for nearly 6,000 residents aged 65 and over; just under $20,000 in LSTA funds was awarded to this project last year.
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S.O.S. - Senior Outreach Services at the Mansfield Public Library
This program provided residents of three living facilities in Mansfield with convenient access to informational and recreational materials and programs tailored to promote lifelong learning. The project also established a homebound delivery service.
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Successful LSTA-funded Programs for Older Adults
Read about how these LSTA-funded library programs have helped improve library servies to older adults.
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Teen Gaming Initiative at the Hartford Public Library
This describes the Teen Gaming Initiative at the Hartford Public Library, an LSTA-funded project for teenagers.
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The Americans Place Citizenship Program
The Hartford Public Library's structured program of service for U.S. citizenship applicants connected patrons vital city resources, library materials and resources.
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The Parent Teacher Resource Center at the Wilton Library Association
The Wilton Library Association made itself a welcoming, nurturing "magnet" for families with children who have disabilities, providing resources responsive to their needs.
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Webster's Bridge at the New Canaan Public Library
Describes New Canaan Library's LSTA grant titled Webster’s Bridge – a platform of materials, services, technology and programs supportive of children with disabilities.
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West Hartford Public Library Staff Development Workshop
Part of a Long-Range Planning Grant, the Library held a workshop that addressed aspects of the ongoing Long Range Planning process as well as the construction project underway on West Main Street’s main library.
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Willimantic’s YourSpace Teen Center opens
YourSpace is an LSTA-funded project written and managed by the Willimantic Public Library and the Windham High School Library Media Center. Awarded $25,000 in federal LSTA funding, the collaboration will increase the amount of programming, services, and materials available to Willimantic’s young adults.
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