Early Literacy

Community Engagement and Early Literacy Programs

At the Fayetteville Free Library (FFL) we have embraced the idea of community engagement in a big way. We recognize that our community members are generous, talented, and have many varied and unique skill sets. Therefore, we invite them to share what they are passionate about and what they know – engaging them with the library in deeply meaningful ways. In order to capture this information, we developed a new community engagement tool that is available in our public spaces. This form has replaced our former volunteer application, which only allowed for more traditional types of volunteer activity. On the new form we ask three quick and simple questions: What do you love to do? What are you passionate about? Would you be willing to share what you know with your community members? Though the tool was originally developed in support of our makerspaces like the FFL Fab Lab (fflib.org/make),…