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Nashville Public Library

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Volunteer

615 Church St, Nashville, TN 37219, USA

EIN Number: 62-1681766

contact information

Phone: (615) 862-5800

Hours: Closed

Mon - Fri 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM (EST)

Sat 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM (EST)

Sun 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM (EST)

Website: https://library.nashville.org/events/jobs-lab

Email: admin@nplf.org

NTEE Code: B70: Libraries

MISSION - WHAT WE DO

Inspire Reading, Advance Learning, and Connect our Community.

SERVICES - HOW WE DO IT

Bringing Books to Life/Puppet Truck Bringing Books to Life is a free preschool literacy initiative. Built around the Library's famous marionette shows, the program features teacher training, story time & arts activities for children, and a performance by the Puppet Truck. Adult Education is addressed through "Family Literacy Celebrations" and "Loving and Learning" workshops where parents are introduced to library services for their children and for themselves, including: GED preparation materials, study rooms, English instruction materials, and books for all levels of readers, along with Adult Basic Education courses on computer literacy, discussion groups and job search assistance. After the initial program, BBTL staff continues to provide services for agencies through story times and marionette shows. Focus is on agencies that serve families with children (ages 3-5) who may attend low performing schools in Davidson County. Additionally, the Puppet Trucks perform at schools, branch libraries, museums, shopping malls, retirement homes and hospitals. BBTL began full-time program delivery in January 2005. The evaluation results have exceeded expectations. BBTL and the Puppet Truck have served more than 170,000 children and trained more than 1,300 teachers in over 790 classrooms during the course of the program. More than 7,000 adults have been served through Family Literacy Celebrations and the Loving and Learning programs. Teen Initiatives Studio NPL: Out-of-school learning experiences for middle and high school students are crucial for readying teens for college, the workforce and beyond. Through Studio NPL, the library is able to provide a nurturing space for teens to develop key talents and skills with support from friends and guidance from expert mentors. With access to sophisticated technology and media, teens are able to work outside the bounds of school curricula to develop their passions and turn them into educational, economic and life skills opportunities. Studio NPL’s four areas of concentration are music, writing, gaming and making. Students use the space to immerse themselves in a variety of hands-on, problem-solving activities and develop web literacy, digital skills and 21st century competencies key to higher education, employment and life-long success. Studio NPL consists of fixed and mobile learning environments. The Main Library houses the satellite studio while five smaller studio spaces exist at select library branches. In addition, a mobile unit will extend the Studio’s reach to public schools, community centers and other organizations with limited resources. ____ Limitless Libraries: Imagine students sitting in their school libraries with access to all the books and periodicals they could possibly need—from the latest fiction to today’s New York Times. The Nashville Public Library, with the support of the Mayor and Metro Nashville Public Schools, has made this dream a reality. Through Limitless Libraries, all 84,000 K-12 students in 128 Metro public schools can access the more than 1.5 million books in the NPL collection and have them delivered to their school libraries. This once ambitious initiative, designed to transform underfunded and outdated public school libraries into world class collections, has become a sought after program that increases literacy levels, discourages aliteracy and even prevents students from dropping out of school. Computer Skills and Job Application Lab Applying for jobs in today's society is done almost exclusively online, making basic computer skills imperative. Thousands of unemployed individuals lack the necessary computer skills and equipment to build a resume, search for job openings, and create an online application. The Foundation-sponsored Nashville Public Library Job Lab is equipped with laptop computers and a career coach. It provides underemployed and unemployed job-seekers with computer and internet access, assistance navigating web forms and assessment tests and hands-on coaching on building quality resumes and cover letters. Patrons receive individual services addressing common barriers to applying for jobs such as gaps in employment, lacking an email address or insufficient computer skills.