Four in Nashville and one in Murfreesboro Join Growing List of  Library Spaces Dedicated to Multimedia Learning

The NPT PBS Kids Raising Readers Library Corner at Edmondson Pike

NASHVILLE, TN – June 8, 2010 – Building on its success at the Edmondson Pike Branch of the Nashville Public Library, Nashville Public Television (NPT) and PBS KIDS Raising Readers, together with the Nashville Public Library and the Linebaugh Library in Murfreesboro, is proud to announce the addition of five new NPT PBS Kids Raising Readers Library Corners in Middle Tennessee. The new locations, at the Nashville Public Library area branches in Bourdeaux, Madison, Pruitt and Looby, and in Rutherford County at the Linebaugh Library in Murfreesboro, will help children learn to read by offering fun, free multimedia reading activities all summer long.
 
NPT is one of twenty local PBS stations building partnerships and helping to test and develop models to provide caregivers, teachers and parents with access to engaging research-based, multi-platform content, activities and tools. This “Literacy 360” approach surrounds children with opportunities to read, and there’s no place better to start than the public library. Middle TN Libraries with NPT PBS Kids Raising Readers Library Corners, along with the partner libraries of all twenty local PBS Kids Raising Readers stations in the nation, have customized spaces in their libraries for kids to play reading games with their favorite PBS KIDS characters while highlighting and promoting library resources. Most contain books, board games, computer games and DVD clips. Many children will receive credit toward their summer reading program goal. For a complete list of materials in the NPT PBS Kids Raising Readers corner at various area libraries, please contact the libraries listed below.

Existing:

Edmondson Pike Library
5501 Edmondson Pike
Nashville, TN 37211-5808
(615) 880-3957

New:

Bordeaux Area Library                        
4000 Clarksville Pike,                 
Nashville, TN  37218                             
(615) 862-5856

Madison Area Library
610 Gallatin Pike South
Madison, TN 37115
(615) 862-5868

Pruitt Branch Library
117 Charles E Davis Blvd
Nashville, TN 37210
(615) 862-5985

Looby Branch library                        
2301 Rosa Parks Blvd                  
Nashville, TN 37228                            
(615) 862-5867                    
 
And in Rutherford County:

Linebaugh Library
105 East Vine Street
Murfreesboro, TN 37130-3573

About PBS Kids Raising Readers
PBS KIDS Raising Readers is a national literacy campaign focused on building reading skills at home, at school, in child care and in the community. PBS KIDS Raising Readers, funded by a Ready To Learn grant from the United States Department of Education, develops engaging PBS KIDS programs as well as exciting games, playful Web sites, and easy-to-use learning resources for kids, parents, caregivers, and teachers—all with the goal of helping children ages 2 - 8 build the skills they need to learn to read, with a focus on the needs of children from low-income families. All content is built incorporating the latest research about the most effective ways to use media to help kids learn to read.