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February 20th, 2025

2/20/2025

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FOL IN THE SCHOOLS
One of the programs we have maintained for several years is Somos Lectores (WE ARE READERS), which is in cooperation with the local school system. Our team goes into the schools, bringing our bookmobile and working with classroom reading clubs, lending books, and holding reading comprehension contests.
For as many schools as possible we help them establish or reactivate their own  school libraries. FOL runs workshops for teachers and “parent chats” to share with mothers and fathers the importance of books and reading for their children's lives. We have worked for about 15 years with elementary schools, for 3 years with kindergartens and more recently with high schools as well. Every year, teachers and school directors look to us to team up and provide these services. All of this is possible thanks to the people who support our programs through memberships, donations and our fundraiser events. 
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The "routine" at the Bookmobile

9/19/2024

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See the “routine” as users arrive at one of our Bookmobile’s biweekly stops. Michele, one of our volunteers, walks you through the process.  As with Barbara,  also seen in the video at the checkout desk, she is totally bilingual. She can help our expat supporters understand how things work at the bookmobile. Then she can instantly change languages to interact with our users of all ages. These volunteers are a total blessing for us.
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Meet our bookmobile librarian...

2/26/2024

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She keeps the wheels rolling to promote the love of reading
  • She "does it all": drives the vehicle, keeps it maintained, catalogs the books, works with individual readers
  • She trains and manages a great team of volunteers, but her experience and expertise are the "magic" in our bookmobile programs. 
  • Her native Spanish language, her Mexican commercial driver's license, her background as a teacher and special training in reading promotion... all of this are what make her the "heart and soul" of the bookmobile week in and week out
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Jingle Books All the Way....

1/25/2024

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Kids stocked up with extra books from our bookmobile for a reading-fueled holiday break.
December brings school vacations, family gatherings, lots of holiday activities. But for an avid reader, reading never stops. And we know we are having success in our mission to create a community of readers when we see kids “stocking up” for the holidays
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Avid Reader:  Andrea is one of our BookMobile’s most enthusiastic readers. She wants to be a filmmaker, that’s why she wanted to read as many stories as possible over the holidays.

In Colonia Reforma, the Bookmobile makes a "pre-holiday" visit, so that users can return the books they have already read, and stock up on books they will read during the Christmas holidays. Without a doubt, books make great company all year round. See you soon! We'll return to this neighborhood on January 9 to begin a whole new year of reading!
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SOWING THE SEEDS....

12/13/2023

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... of the love for reading in Rosarito
Our BookMobile visits in schools create so much enthusiasm.
This past month we have reached over 1000 students in 4 elementary schools.
We sowed the seed for the love of books with help from teachers, parents and our great team of volunteers.
Our goal is to reach more people, especially kids, that will enjoy the pleasure of reading.
Thanks to the support of our donors and volunteers, we keep reaching more and more fun loving readers.
​Often our bookmobile visits have a theme. It's just another way to nurture excitement about reading.

Halloween and Day of the Dead was the theme in late October and early November at 2 of our bookmobile stops.
Marce read stories about both celebrations to kids, and some of our volunteers came in costume.
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WHO KNEW?

11/14/2023

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Can you guess the most important part of our budget?  If you are thinking, “of course the most important budget item is for books!” …guess again!Our most important expense doesn't have a title, publisher and card catalog number, but is a professional with a name!  Allow us to tell you about our gift from the reading gods, Marcela Felix.
At age 20, Marcela learned her most important life lesson. She befriended some people whose wealth of knowledge, positive attitudes, and sophisticated discussions awed her. The common element in their lives? A love of reading.
This experience led Marcela to begin reading for enjoyment, having grown up  in an environment where reading for pleasure wasn't done. Now she saw reading not as a chore but a passion, and felt compelled to bring the same excitement to others.
She pursued specialized training and experience and is now an esteemed member of a unique group of dedicated reading promotion professionals in Mexico who support each other, sharing tools, tips, and techniques.
Sound special?  She is.  Special and rare. We shake our heads in amazement that her path converged with that of Friends of the Library of Rosarito. She inspires hundreds of families in Rosarito to read, a habit that will provide opportunities throughout their lives. 

The stipends, for Marce our Program Coordinator and Jael our Bookmobile librarian, are now the biggest items in our budget. And they are by far our most effective expenditures. They make our success possible.
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BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THE REAL "SECRET" BEHIND OUR PROGRAMS

10/14/2023

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  • Our programs are back in more and more schools as teachers invite us in.
  • Our community programs are thriving.
  • The pandemic made us stronger.
  • Parents are more involved, a key success factor as they influence their children
  • We are seeing  kids show excitement about reading, the best evidence of our impact
How did all of this happen? It’s for one reason: the talent and creativity of our trained reading specialists.

MEET MARCELA FELIX. SEE HER IN ACTION.

"WHAT HAPPENS IN OUR READING ROOMS LOOKS LIKE MAGIC"
  • Girls and boys reading for pleasure.
  • Families reading together.
  • Children encouraging others to make their first visit to the library.
HOW IS IT POSSIBLE?
  • Our love of reading is contagious.  We read, we play, we chat, and joyfully explore and share the books that move us the most. We show them reading is more fun than they ever could have imagined.
  • From our actions, they see  our love of reading for pure enjoyment, which extends our learning and improves our lives
Our reading specialists are the heart and soul of our success. BUT THEIR WORK AND EXPERTISE IS NOT FREE. Each receives a monthly stipend for devoting themselves full time to our mission to make Rosarito a community of readers.
THEIR STIPENDS, for Marce our Program Coordinator and Jael our Bookmobile librarian, ARE NOW THE BIGGEST ITEMS IN OUR BUDGET.
And they are by far our most effective expenditures. They make our success possible.

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September 01st, 2023

9/1/2023

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FOL and  UABC COLLABORATE ON A SUMMER PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN
Our summer program in Rancho 40, a community we regularly serve, is at their “community center," in fact a centuries old oak tree. There, in one of Rosarito’s most remote communities, we started a 4-session summer program dedicated to dinosaurs, fossils and other prehistoric topics, in an interactive workshop along with our fabulous Bookmobile.  We are constantly creating bonds with local cultural and educational institutions, as well with community leaders, to accomplish these programs.
Thanks to our great volunteer team,and to all of our supporters, for making this happen. Read the article below from ECOS newspaper, translated from the Spanish.


Friends of the Library began the summer reading program called "Veranosaurio" [“Summersaurius Rex”] in the community of Rancho 40. It was the first session of a total of 4 sessions that FOL will carry out to promote reading, with the support of its bookmobile. During the first session, a professor from the Institute for Social Research and the Museum, part of the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC), Marcos Jaramillo, participated. He spoke to the children of the importance of paleontologists, who discover everything that is known about dinosaurs. He urged the children to explore the clues about life on earth through reading, and thus get to know it better in order to preserve it. He also talks about what fossils are, what they are used for and their importance today. As part of the day’s activities, the children did field observation to discover clues that give current information about life on Earth; they excavated and found their own “fossils” of ammonites, dinosaur teeth and footprints, which they colored. To carry out this activity, FOL, in addition to sharing the books on dinosaurs already in its collection, acquired others to complement this “adventure into prehistory.” It should be noted that FOL has teamed up with a number of institutions and community leaders so that this type of program can come into various communities in Rosarito. This is the second time that they have brought a summer program to the Rancho 40 community located in the south of the municipality, thanks to the collaboration of volunteers and UABC.

From ECOSdeRosarito.com July 14, 2023. Translated from the original Spanish

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