Mandel Public Library Of West Palm Beach Seeks New Volunteers

From the City of West Palm Beach:

August 27, 2020

Are you interested in volunteering? Do you love books, reading, and helping children? The Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach’s Let’s Read program is looking for new volunteers to share their love of reading with others.

Let’s Read is a community volunteer-based reading program established in 2003 by Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach’s staff. The program encourages a love of reading by training volunteers to bring story time into the classrooms of Title I pre-schools and elementary schools in the City of West Palm Beach. Let’s Read is designed to help children in preschool through second grade develop a love of reading and libraries by bringing great books and adult mentors into the classroom. During the school year, Let’s Read volunteers share stories and rhymes, distribute library cards, encourage library use, and support reading at home. Each week, approximately 900 children are reached by the Let’s Read program.

Let’s Read volunteer readers are assigned to a classroom that they will visit for 30 minutes once a week for a 10-week session. Due to COVID-19, the Let’s Read story time will be virtual this school year, and volunteers will be reading to classrooms via Google Meet.

To volunteer: Interested potential volunteers can learn more about how to bring story time magic to students in West Palm Beach by visiting: https://www.wpb.org/government/mandel-public-library-of-west-palm-beach/support-the-library/let-s-read-volunteer

To learn more about the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach, please visit https://www.wpb.org/government/mandel-public-library-of-west-palm-beach/mandel-public-library-notice or call (561) 868-7700 (TTY: 800-955-8771). For information about the City of West Palm Beach, please visit: https://www.wpb.org/.

This press release was produced by the City of West Palm Beach. The views expressed are the author's own.