that i gather where you services if i'm alright well ok from the youth services department into your home and i was thinking when i was you know were getting ready to like do the opening i thought what a great summer to be like bringing it into their home because all we've had is either rain or hot and humid yeah except to the library where it's really cold it is our are going to sing does work yeah he does yeah you escape from the he or the rain you can come here and i what we do what we have to do yes that's ok no get up or in part it's not necessarily the props it's about the information right yes and melinda has some great information i do actually this is going to be i thought it was going to be a two parter it actually could be a three parter there's a lot of information here that would be overwhelming to do and as i was going through it and if we do it in three parts then we're talking we're going into numbers september so that might be so just give us much as i can in the two parts of will be the first part this was a this is based on a study that was done by the harvard family research project in conjunction with the public library association and it's called public libraries have title space for family and gage mint and they talked a little bit about its talking about how libraries have changed over the years and we've talked about that a lot you know there's so much going on so it begins like this it's starts off with the harvard family research project says that they've partnered with a the public library association to better  understand family engagement in public libraries ok so that feels like being a part of it it feels like a no brainer because we're here and we see that we know the importance of libraries but i don't think not everybody understands it so what they did was they went in and did a study simply put what they've learned is that what libraries are doing as we know has been extraordinary we heard from a librarian in alaska who reaches out to family so dear graphically disbursed that you need a plane to get to them by setting up satellite bookshelves in fire stations that's one librarian in california who brings the ideas of predominately spanish speaking parents from low income households to all of its services so they're bringing the people in you know let's we're going to come out and get you we're going to bring you here a librarian an ohio goes on home visits to help reinforce library concepts among families who seldon can't get to a library so they're going to them kind of like we do with our you know we have home visits and stuff with  also nursing homes and stuff to where we go and behaviors and we have for the seniors and things which is nice spoke with a librarian in maine who offers with the help of a community volunteer a weekly opportunity for families to play games together in meet their neighbors and they heard from the library system in pennsylvania when they first was reading this i thought i wonder if it's going to be us without even knowing really what they were going to say i was hoping that you know we're always kind of on the you know leading edge of things of that  know and i'm wondering if that you mean there's a lot of cities in pennsylvania i mean of that so you read that that that's a huge program i mean even in our township where we have it it would be huge for us to bring running it instead of like how the district runs right up the after school stuff all right so then they just kept going into all of this to find support and further the efforts of libraries and promoting family engagement so what they realized is how but we've already known this how important it is and what a unique situation the public libraries are in to be able to interact in meaningful ways with all members of a family and the project that's called libraries for the twenty motto of libraries for the twenty first century it's a family thing i think we could call commercials on that they work on a one hour day i don't work on that so they do this you know an assessment of the libraries and how libraries c be the significant changes so let me just read a little bit about this that's kind of the background and like i said this could go into three four hundred or highlight or feel like that i did but not as well highlighted that you have highlighted that i wasn't go museum and library services for example has called for libraries to play a stronger role in early learning for young children i'm not surprised by that but i also want to say we should pat ourselves on the back that we do that we have a lot we do play an active role and getting our young kids are young children involved national surveys underscore that as libraries stand at these crosswords where we are the public wants and needs more services for themselves and their communities and we are on it like i look at this and feel like we are so we are so on it but there are so many that aren't yeah you know but i also like to read this kind of stuff because it does enforce the fact that those in our community are we're fortunate to have this yet you know to have the opportunities libraries are always changing the way they engage with entire families including those that are increasing increasingly diverse linguistically and culturally librarians are intentionally providing services to support and enhanced family wellbeing and to guide children's learning in ways that extend well beyond early literacy which for example is like all the stuff we do here the stem activities in the maker spaces in the garden things and it's way more than even just offering story time right you know all the other opportunities that we do gauge mint is no longer just about how families are in d involved in schools it is much broader children and youth learn anywhere any time not just in school and we know that you mean you know that now as as a mom to anywhere you go your child's learning i mean i need to make road trips fun just sitting in the car playing games and you'd be learning things not because oh i can imagine you making anything fun when you know i know  good go to slave you wake up will be there that all kinds of things they talk about at school home libraries museums after school programs parks and rec activities and families connect with children if you connect  these various learning spaces we're building a pathway for lifelong learning that's what we are doing far children as a family as even beyond us as a library engaging families in anywhere anytime learning is critical for children's academic and social development but it's also a matter of equity and this is true too unfortunately but families with high incomes speer spend nearly seven times more money on an out of school in richmond activities such as music less and summer camps travel than families from low income homes unfortunately but the opportunities for success for low income children become then diminished but libraries are free trusted safe and welcoming places  virtually every community they can help counter balance these inequalities which is we offer something for everybody absolutely talks everything from the books a digital resources the expertise all of the things that we have to offer then a move on and maybe i will wait and talk about this part for the next time the the most important part that that's discussed is what is family engagement and what does that mean for the families to be engaged in the children's learning experiences i mean it feels like it's obvious but it's a little bit more than the obvious so i think i will wait that i'll do that as my as my part to be a good on we're we're lucky and fortunate to be a part of it yes i agree with you i could stuff those are the stuff bar right yeah stick around for part two in our next episode yes all right food for thought to how i feel national watermelon day and it is and so last year i had a watermelon eating contest thirteen and we had a decent turnout for that and the kids really enjoyed it and i was like the list is easy enough let's do this year early so now every year on august third or around august third we have this is fancy goes like silverware well yes into different things they gave us a fork and a spoon and i couldn't tell which we were going to need for this kind of well so i do yeah is capes so this is a portion of a shirt and so i'm going to show you quickly how you do this so this is your full shirt yeah it's a little like when it's still together all you do is you simply cut up the one side and cut the other and do not cut the color because then you cut around the color and makes the cape and then all of a sudden you have i keep that's huge so we're going to be making those this summer and you can easily make them you know kids make sure you have mom and dad's permission before you start cutting up dad's old t shirts but it's a really great you know way to recycle and reuse an old old shirt i just had this thought when you did that you were like pulling it every head it did this in a white t shirt i could use this is a  last time because i was trying to be like all neat and stuff and i am so aware but in a watermelon eating contest you're not supposed to do that are like hot dogs you don't use or fair right so i don't use of aware when i had the contest with my kids but i did take them outside know be extremely polite and girly book of the day i think the last one actually is the night guard right which is yeah which should be good and then you know them will be coming up i think in november we're going to be reading wonder again because the movie is coming out so yes so this time while it's still for girls between book and victoria schwab's every day angel this looks now this is a person to have a serious yeah i'm trying to remember how many were she's forgotten who she is and when a new school offers her a fresh start gabby learns it's hard to make friends while keeping half of her life secret for things that scarred that age anyway then area shows up area who knows exactly what to sounds like a good line and that's a lead by likely to the first book in a series because then i girls who do it and they have other books to read think that this the the wings in the angel thing have anything to do with it i would think so yes she's a guardian angel and to earn her wings she merlin the magician to help save camelot so once again they're trying to say you know these kids are pretty brave they're only saving somebody from doing something and they're like eight yeah that's way more afraid than i would be yeah but they're good and you know what i really like about the series is it shows the bond between a brother and a sister which so many times we see like siblings being portrayed as they don't get along but jack and i always do the right i like that yeah that's going to look out after each other so it's a great siblings are good friends to have  regular kids a new kids i think every month we get people that call and say you know this is still going on and we still com eventually i mean this was our first year like trying it and what we want to do is get it up and hooked up with the lego our fault because of our fault but because of issues on that side on that lego league site i don't know so we'll keep trying on that but at least now they're they're working on what it would be like you know to make all right so of course moving along yeah to our partners and friends yes we love our friends and talking more about them next episode too because they're always helping us out with something and so every month we do our night with a view q e d and for this month already doing dinosaur train now we have tons of dinosaur train movies here at the library too so you know and check them out to catch up on an old episode or something but we're going to hopefully showing a new never before seen episode ascertain so that will are all the kids always would come home go home with like either a tattoo or some kind of prize a little give away on yes we love them and i started laughing in the middle of that was what you know because i was picturing your face know you're going to get really well you know what i better save that for next time because you'll get mad at me it's hard with one hand to hand no pun intended oh yeah oh this looks fun i was a are no riot this is the perfect for an idea that shakespear course we have both of them right now yeah and what it is is they take a journey through time through some where in time during shakespeare's time and it kind of interrupts what's supposed to happen and they have to help make sure that it that story gets finished and complete the way it's supposed to so they're going to learn to you know learn about shakespeare in a fun way and they said that this is they really recommend this for a very funny way but however you get it in there it's a these are a riot such as you are reading this dear reader and it's written you know that it's a letter that starts out from the narrator you are reading this because you expressed breast interest in  lost book club and what happens is you know the first one starts out where the girl left the book a book behind is in the library or in a room or whatever goes to to get it in they get swallowed up  was andrew and so it is her story and how she came to be amanda and she moves into a new town and she's not she seems to be your average new girl yet obviously she has a pretty big secret that she's done telling yeah so those are intense stories that are coming out with a lot more stories like that in the different the different issues you know with all the dr or versity said that's out there what you said too about what made me think i was you know the staying where they say it's your past doesn't have to define your future right or you're not even defined by your past so you know somebody that moved on even those may have something