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COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTCriss Library & Girls Inc.
Joyce Neujahr, Nora Hillyer
Service Learning vs.Community Engagement
• Service Learning
– Integrates community service with academic learning
• Community Engagement
– UNO partners with community to:
• Build relationships
• Share knowledge, resources and energies to address community issues
Service Learning –Construction Engineering Class
Background
• Conversations with Service Learning Academy
• Identified Possible Partners
– Douglas County Corrections
• Read-to-me program
• Donated Scholastic Books
– Girls Inc.
• North and South Campus Libraries
• Needed ability to find books
• 1864 The first Girls Club was started in Waterbury, Connecticut.
• 1975 Girls Club of Omaha opened doors to Girls for the first time.
Girls Inc.
Girls Inc. by the NumbersAge groups
Five to Eight..................................................................................... 42%
Nine to Eleven ................................................................................. 31%
Twelve to Fourteen.......................................................................... 19%
Fifteen to Eighteen........................................................................... 8%
Ethnic Groups
African American............................................................................. 70%
Caucasian......................................................................................... 9%
Hispanic............................................................................................ 7%
Native American................................................................................ 1%
Multiracial.......................................................................................... 9%
Other................................................................................................. 4%
Girls Served
Through our Girls Inc. Centers. 884
Through Outreach Programs .... 383
Boys and Girls Served
Through “Kid-Ability!”............. 7,126
Grand Total............................... 8,393
Number of snacks
& meals served...................... 63,328
Lunch for Girls Speakers:
•Madeleine Albright
•Barack Obama
•Bill Clinton
•Hillary Clinton
•Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Girls Inc. Background
1986 Walter Scott purchased the old St.
Nicholas Serbian Orthodox Church at 30th
& S Streets for $51,000 as the new home
for the South Omaha programs
1991 Purchased the Clifton Hills
Elementary School from the Omaha Public
Schools for the North Campus programs
Background
• Met with Girls Inc and toured libraries at North and South campuses
• Met with TED Library Science Instructors
– Collection Development
– Cataloging
– Library Administration
• Three year MOU
• (Memorandum of Understanding)
Girls Inc North Omaha Library
Before Weeding
Girls Inc North Omaha Library
Before Weeding
• Collection Development Class spent 4 hours at North Campus
• Complete library evaluated, 58 boxes of de-selected material
• Students selected two books for replacement
March 26, 2010
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Student Comments
• I gained a new appreciation for the librarians who do selection for libraries. I had no idea how difficult it could be to select the right book within certain parameters. - Colina
• The biggest thing I learned from weeding the Girls, Inc. library was that the amount of library books in a library is not near as important as the content and quality of the books in the library.
The library looked so much more appealing after we discarded some of the torn, old, or out-of date books.
I am very excited to get to help choose some of the new books for the library. Thank you for the opportunity to help such a great organization!
- Callie
Where we are now
• Verizon grant for $25,000 written and submitted
– Includes new furniture from Cornhusker State Industries
– Koha Open Source LIS
• LibLime Support for five years included in grant
Cornhusker State Industries Library Furniture
Where we are now
• $400 from Service Learning Academy purchased new books for Girls Inc.
• Titles purchased were taken from the Collection Development Class’ bibliographies
• Girls Inc. will be recepient of Scholastic Book Fair Fall 2010
Where we are now
• Great Stories Club from ALA
– Second Chances
Hate List by Jennifer Brown
Dope Sick by Walter Dean Meyers
The Brothers Torres by Coert Voorhees
What’s Next
• Grant approval
– Furniture and design of libraries
– Implement Koha
– Cataloging Class
– Training of Girls Inc. Staff
– South Campus Library
• Collection Development Class
• Do it all again!
