National Volunteer Week: Remote Learning
During National Volunteer Week, the Library celebrates its VITAL volunteers for their incredible efforts in support of adult literacy!
2019 Be More Award Recipients are VITAL
The City of Bloomington Volunteer Network Be More Awards is the local community's way of honoring and applauding the outstanding, but often unrecognized efforts of its volunteers. Ten awards are presented annually during a celebration honoring nominees in which a $500 check is presented to each of the recipient's volunteer organizations in honor of their outstanding service.
VITAL Conversations
For the first of an ongoing series of conversations with our volunteers and learners, we asked VITAL volunteer LuAnne to chat with tutor Dennis Davoren and learner Adam Garmon about what makes their partnership successful.
VITAL: Winner of the 2018 Tom Zupancic Literacy in Libraries Award
The ILF Tom Zupancic Literacy in Libraries Award recognizes community advocacy for literacy by an individual or organization in cooperation with a library. VITAL received this accolade for promoting the importance of literacy and adult education at the library. Since VITAL’s inception in 1977, our program has helped over 6,500 learners achieve their personal learning goals.
Community partners and individuals offered their support of VITAL stating:
Best Way to Learn a New Language Quickly
The most effective way to speak a new language quickly is to learn the 800 to 1,000 most common lemmas (word families). A lemma is a root word and all its variations, for example: do, does, did, doing; blue, bluer, bluest, blueish, etc. If you know the 800 most frequently-used lemmas in English, you'll understand 75% of everyday spoken English. From How Many Words Do You Need to Speak a Language?
VITAL Volunteer Mary DePew Featured on WFHB
Thanks to WFHB Community Radio for featuring VITAL volunteer Mary DePew recently on their Activate! news program. Mary’s herculean volunteer efforts in VITAL have directly impacted the lives of nearly 100 English language learners locally.