The Library staff at the T. A. Marryshow Community College embarked on their fifth outreach initiative as part of The Gilda Campos Library Outreach Program on Thursday October 10, 2024. The outreach initiative, named after TAMCC’s former librarian, Mrs. Gilda Campos, was launched during Library Week in March of 2023 and has since seen the execution of various outreach initiatives which include activities such as reading, quizzes, games, singing, praying and motivational speaking.
Two members of the library staff, Mrs. Leslie Ann Campbell and Ms. June James, facilitated the outreach programme at the St. George’s Anglican Senior School on Church Street, St. George. The initial target was Grades 5 and 6 but due to activities undertaken by the school for Child’s Month, TAMCC’s library staff read to the entire school.
As on previous occasions, it was well received by both the students and staff of the school. The students were engaged and eagerly answered all the questions posed by the library staff who gave them prizes for every correct answer. Mrs. Campbell presented the principal of the school, Mr. Nigel DeGale with some encyclopedias and a copy of The Kayak Tourist: a story for children by D. E. Ambrose, Dean of the School of Art, Science and Professional Studies.
The outreach program, coordinated by Mrs. Campbell, other library staff and a point person at the designated establishment targets primary and secondary schools, Homes for children and Homes for senior citizens. The goals are to promote reading, promote books by our local authors, encourage collaborative work among library staff and to build a rapport between the TAMCC community and the wider Grenadian community.
In an effort to ensure the success of these outreach initiatives, the library staff engages in fund raising activities and pool funds to purchase books, toiletries, snacks and other necessary items to present to the establishments selected.
A sixth outreach program is scheduled for December 2024 for the Christmas Season. TAMCC commends the library staff for this outreach programme and for the work they are doing to represent the TAMCC Community in a positive light and bring books and reading to the wider Grenadian Community.