The State Library of North Carolina awarded SCC’s Boyd Library $19,928 to purchase books and videos to support the library’s literacy initiative. A second grant from the Donald and Elizabeth Cooke Foundation provides an additional $8,000 to the library. The Cooke Foundation, a local foundation, has supported SCC and the college’s library since 1988 with grants totally more than $200,000.
The library literacy initiative helps students learn literacy skills by developing adequate library resources for SCC students in targeted areas. The new materials focus on increasing writing, reading and verbal skills for developmental, GED and English as a Second Language students, as well as displaced workers, to better prepare them for employment and careers in their chosen fields.
Dr. Luella Teuton, director of learning resources, is involving the entire campus in selecting materials.
“Faculty and staff are on the front lines of library literacy,” Teuton said. “They are also specialists. They know what materials exist in their fields and can communicate to students what is available through the library.”
Students are also helping in the selection process. In December, Teuton arranged for a group of students targeted by the library literacy initiative to go to the Country Book Shop in Southern Pines so they could select books they wanted to see in Boyd Library.
Next month, Boyd Library will submit a marketing grant to the State Library to create materials designed to inform students of the resources available at Boyd Library.
For more information on Boyd Library or the library literacy initiative, go to the SCC Web site at www.sandhills.cc.nc.us or call (910) 695-3820.
The library literacy initiative is supported in part with federal LSTA funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library services, administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.
