Households have new books to get pleasure from at Western Manitoba Regional Library rural branches because of a beneficiant grant from Winnipeg Basis’s Literacy for Life Grant program.
New board books and movie books have been bought for the Carberry/North Cypress, Glenboro/South Cypress, Hartney, and Neepawa Public Libraries to be used of their Storytime and Child Storytime packages, in addition to for households to borrow and browse at residence. Having a choice of various image books the place kids and their households see acquainted pictures encourages additional engagement with our libraries and our studying packages.
“These new books improve the inclusivity of our story books at our branches and supply a possibility to draw a extra various section of the inhabitants to our packages as a result of they are going to see themselves and their households within the books and packages,” stated Erika Martin, Director of Library Companies. “All of our branches have expertise internet hosting household literacy packages and kids’s programming is a necessary a part of selling and nurturing literacy in younger kids.”
Along with the books, this grant enabled the branches to buy craft provides to make use of with the packages. Every Storytime program consists of time for making crafts that are chosen to boost fantastic motor abilities and encourage particular person creativity.
The Winnipeg Basis is an endowment-based group that makes neighborhood grants to charitable organizations in help of many areas, together with household literacy.
Western Manitoba Regional Library is the second largest regional library system in Manitoba by inhabitants with branches in Brandon, Carberry, Glenboro, Hartney, and Neepawa. Our mission is to complement lives and strengthen communities by offering common entry to broad and various collections of assets related and aware of neighborhood wants.
For extra details about the Winnipeg Basis, discover them at wpgfdn.org
For extra details about Western Manitoba Regional Library and our packages, see wmrl.ca.
