1. Outreach Services at the BCPL
Melanie Sperling
Outreach Manager

2. Boone County Public Library
Summer Learning Loss
Did You Know?
Research spanning 100 years shows that students typically score lower on standardized tests at the end of summer vacation than they do on the same tests at the beginning of the summer (White, 1906; Heyns, 1978; Entwisle & Alexander 1992; Cooper, 1996; Downey et al, 2004).
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3. Boone County Public Library
Summer Learning Loss
More than half of the achievement gap between lower- and higher-income youth can be explained by unequal access to summer learning opportunities. As a result, low-income youth are less likely to graduate from high school or enter college (Alexander et al, 2007).
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Read and Feed Summer 2012
A Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) Summer Read and Feed grant allowed the BCPL to offer children ages birth to 18:
Free lunches 4 times per week for 8 weeks
32 additional education programs
Supper meals to area hotels
Due to the rise in homeless and precariously housed children identified by the Boone County School District, the Library the BCPL received a Target Family Literacy Foundation Grant to offer meals and incentives to families. The summer read and feed grant allowed for staffing, supplies, literacy based games and activities. The literacy based programs following the lunches were for all ages so families could spend time together.
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5. Boone County Public Library
Read and Feed Summer 2012
A Target Family Literacy Foundation grant funded meals for the adults and incentives to families.
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Read and Feed Summer 2012
Based on statistics from 2011, 10 children per day were expected for lunch in 2012.
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7. Statistics Summer 2012
The average number of children per lunch increased to 30 per day.
751 children were fed in June.
638 children were fed in July.
The BCPL strenghthened the existing partnership with the Boone County Schools through this program by addressing both academic and non-academic barriers to learning, especially
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8. Fueling the Mind LSTA Preventing Summer Reading Loss 2013
The program lasted 8 weeks, 3 days
Lunches were offered at the Florence Branch Library followed by programs
Supper was offered Monday evenings at White Pine Mobile Home Park and Thursday evenings at Biederman Educational Center
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Fueling the Mind
Meals for adults were made possible by :
Heater Meals distributed via the Freestore Foodbank through the Brighton Center
Walmart Foundation Grant
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10. Boone County Public Library
Statistics Summer 2013
529 children were served in June
641 children were served in July
Total: 1,170
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11. Boone County Public Library
K-Count
Each year in Kentucky for a 24-hour period, we count the number of homeless and precariously housed people. When I first volunteered for the count, I was sent to a neighboring county because I was told that there were no homeless people in Boone County. After all, Boone county is the second most affluent county in Kentucky. Working in the library, I had run into at least one. Meanwhile, the local school system hired a very proactive executive director of its student services. Over 400 children were homeless according to the McKinney-Vento definition.
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12. Freestore Foodbank Mobile Food Pantry
The Mobile Pantry is a 26-foot refrigerated truck that has the capacity to carry 10,000 pounds of nutritious food. The refrigeration unit allows us to easily provide meats, fresh produce, dairy and baked goods.
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13. Freestore Foodbank Mobile Food Pantry
Why the Library? We are the community partner with a dedicated group of volunteers, including (but not limited to) the Boone County Extension Homemakers, the Florence Woman’s Club, and the Library’s Teen Advisory Group.
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This is the average cart of groceries. One of our neighborhood partners, the Seven Hills Church, borrows carts from a local grocery in order to help our patrons to their cars.
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17. Boone County Public Library
Adult Outreach
Freestore Foodbank Mobile Food Pantry visits
Funded by grants and donations
During 2013, the Library and its volunteers have
Distributed 67,500 pounds of food
One box truck full of personal care items
To 1,336 households
Totaling 3,490 people
To date, we have fed over 10 thousand people.
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Did you know?
ALA Policy B.8.10 Library Services for the Poor (formerly Council Document 61) from the ALA Policy Manual 14.) Promoting among library staff the collection of food and clothing donations, volunteering personal time to antipoverty activities and contributing money to direct-aid organizations.
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Freestore Foodbank
Questions? Melanie Sperling Outreach Manager Boone County Public Library , extension 8110
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