Reading as Social Capital
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- November
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OK, I must admit, this program title caught my attention more than others. So I read on and am sharing this Saturday event with everyone.ÂÂ Maybe it would be a good chilly day to head inside and learn a bit about something new.ÂÂ And since you will be in the White Plains Public Library, look at its neat collection.
The Westchester Library System is presenting a program at 2 p.m. tomorrow “Reading as a Social Capital: How We Use Text to Engage in the World.”
The speaker is Vanessa J. Morris, a professor in the College of Information Science and Technology at Drexel University. She was a teen librarian at the Philadelphia Free Library where she led book discussion groups to explore themes and images within the urban lit genre. She writes a column about urban lit for a library publication.
This discussion will explore the many ways that text and what we read make us understand our culture and help us in our daily lives.ÂÂ It is sponsored by the Westchester Library System (WLS) and Westchester Literacy and Learning Alliance’s (WLLA) and is the third annual “Engaging All Kinds of Readers” series. Each program features a researcher and focuses on readers.ÂÂ ÂÂ All programs are free and open to the public.ÂÂ Registration is not required.
It is at 2 p.m. at the White Plains Library, 100 Martine Ave., White Plains.
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