Impact of Mobile Library VisitsImpact of Mobile Library Visits on Young Children
- The selection of responses below are very typical of comments from children in primary school who use the mobile library as a result of the outreach work.
- These and other replies show a number of things of wider interest to anyone who wants a literate and learning community:
- Support and encouragement from parents and carers is often vital help children to start to read more regularly for themselves
- Many children have poor access to a steady supply of books that they find interesting
- Many children want and welcome the chance to read
- Most children respond to opportunities read for pleasure and quickly gain confidence with reading skills
- Convenient access and a good choice of stock is central to the modern library service and and key to our development plans
Q. Why did you start to use the library?
"Nan uses the library...and I wanted to try this one"
"Stuck on my reading so my mother thought I should join"
"I wanted to read more books"
"I was bored"
"My mother asked me to try the van and it’s made me much better at reading. Love it"
"It was in the yard and I wanted to read"
"I could get books for free so that I could read them before buying them"
"Didn't like reading, but went on the van and started to read. Read a Captain Underpants book and liked it"
Q. Why have you continued to use it? (some multiple reasons)
"Helped with my reading"
"I like picking books from the van"
"Great doors, plenty of books, loads to chose from"
"Enjoyed the books I was reading"
"Because of the Reading Mission. I finished it and this made me carry on reading"
"A good range of books"
Q. What did you read before the van?
"Only magazines"
"Nothing - only little baby books"
"Not so much"
"Back pages of newspapers - about football"
"Presents"
"Very thin books, my mother said they were childish"
"Comics"
"Some books"
"Books at home"
"Roald Dahl"
"Ones we bought from the shops"
We are acting on what these children, other children and adults tell us - what can you do?
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