22. Please share thoughts, comments, and suggestions about the Texas State Library's Family Place Libraries Project. Response 1 The Texas State Library has been very supportive throughout the whole process. 1 Wonderful and very necessary! 1 As mentioned before we behind in our planning due to serious health issues of our staff. The staff member who attended the training has been out several months from back surgery. We have had to turn the project for to another individual who is getting up to speed with the material this month. We are hoping to host our first workshop mid-February /first of March. Sorry for the delay 1 We are so thrilled we were selected. The community is excited about the addition of Family Place Space to our library. 1 As more Texas libraries become Family Place Libraries, it would be great to have a training closer so that more libraries can attend. This has been such a great opportunity to offer more to our patrons and give our littlest patrons a head start. It has been a great success. Thank you. 1 We are fortunate to join other Texas libraries to implement Family Place Libraries program in our library. It is impossible to do so without the funding provided by the State Library. Thank you so much for all the support! 1 I would like to see more sharing between the Texas libraries that are Family Place or in the process of becoming Family Place libraries, there were quite a few groups that could benefit from resource sharing. 1 Our has been very excited about our FPLP since the very beginning of the project. Our staff has been busy setting up the areas, moving furniture, shelving and books. But from the recent media events that we have had they are extremely excited and positive. We had a Library Media Day last week and we invited the County Superintendent's and most of them had never been here. They were shocked that we had such a beautiful space and all the services that we were going to provide for our community, families, caregivers and children. 1 This project has allowed us to bring a new level of service to our community. It has inspired us to step into areas that we knew needed to be approached and nudged us into the right direction. I personally have felt myself challenged to learn new ways of reaching out to our parents and their little ones. I am discovering new avenues of storytelling, music, and fingerplay. We are excited about the new direction our library is taking.
22. Please share thoughts, comments, and suggestions about the Texas State Library's Family Place Libraries Project. Response 1 The Texas State Library has been very supportive throughout the whole process. 1 Wonderful and very necessary! 1 As mentioned before we behind in our planning due to serious health issues of our staff. The staff member who attended the training has been out several months from back surgery. We have had to turn the project for to another individual who is getting up to speed with the material this month. We are hoping to host our first workshop mid-February /first of March. Sorry for the delay 1 We are so thrilled we were selected. The community is excited about the addition of Family Place Space to our library. 1 As more Texas libraries become Family Place Libraries, it would be great to have a training closer so that more libraries can attend. This has been such a great opportunity to offer more to our patrons and give our littlest patrons a head start. It has been a great success. Thank you. 1 We are fortunate to join other Texas libraries to implement Family Place Libraries program in our library. It is impossible to do so without the funding provided by the State Library. Thank you so much for all the support! 1 I would like to see more sharing between the Texas libraries that are Family Place or in the process of becoming Family Place libraries, there were quite a few groups that could benefit from resource sharing. 1 Our has been very excited about our FPLP since the very beginning of the project. Our staff has been busy setting up the areas, moving furniture, shelving and books. But from the recent media events that we have had they are extremely excited and positive. We had a Library Media Day last week and we invited the County Superintendent's and most of them had never been here. They were shocked that we had such a beautiful space and all the services that we were going to provide for our community, families, caregivers and children. 1 This project has allowed us to bring a new level of service to our community. It has inspired us to step into areas that we knew needed to be approached and nudged us into the right direction. I personally have felt myself challenged to learn new ways of reaching out to our parents and their little ones. I am discovering new avenues of storytelling, music, and fingerplay. We are excited about the new direction our library is taking.
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