County Library Needs Reading Program Volunteers
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- Organization: St. Louis County Library
- Causes: Educational
- Contact person: Amy Gamache
- Phone: 314 994-3300
- Website: www.slcl.org
St. Louis County Library and the YMCA are teaming up to help find volunteers interested in helping St. Louisans improve their reading skills. The YMCA Community Literacy program will train volunteers to help children who are reading below grade level. Volunteers can use St. Louis County Library branches as meeting places to conduct tutoring sessions. This one-on-one program has proven very successful in the past: participants’ skills often show an improvement of two grade levels.
At this time there is a six-month waiting period for those who have requested tutoring, so volunteers are urgently needed. Applications for the YRead volunteer program can be obtained at all branches of St. Louis County Library. Those who apply will also be required to fill out paperwork for a background check since the program pairs children with adults.
For more information on how to volunteer please call Amy Gamache at 314 994-3300.
Program sites are accessible. Upon two weeks’ notice, accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities. Contact St. Louis County Library by phone 314-994-3300, or visit www.slcl.org.
Information was provided by the St. Louis County Library.
Billy Frank Thornton
12:47 pm on Friday, February 10, 2012
Here's another old gripe. St Louis County Library refused to issue my a library card based upon my residence in the University City Library District. This was disappointing cause I spend most my awake hours in North County. Finally received my STL Co. library card based upon my lie that I lived in Olivette (because of my 63132 zip). I have always enjoyed reading...silently or aloud. If I volunteer to read for the St Louis County Library...will I need to continue living the LIE?
Kim
11:56 am on Monday, February 13, 2012
We live in UCity and our kids all have cards for the Clayton branch of the County Library (it's a little closer to our house than the loop). They have never had any trouble getting cards or checking out books. That being said, it still seems strange to me that all of the county libraries don't form one big consortium.
Billy Frank Thornton
1:43 pm on Monday, February 13, 2012
The refusal to issue a library card could have been as long as twenty years ago. My reconning was U.City Library was a member of a consortium with other municipal libraries...but, not St Louis County Library. It did seem strange that some of my St Louis County taxes did not find its way into the STL Co. Library coffers. Hopefully, a crack investigative reporter could clarify the current status of Library policy. Kindle has proved a tremendous blessing here in Belize. The St Louis Post-Dispatch arrives daily at a $5 p/month rate.