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Community Information
Ames
48,691 population
Mayor: Ted Tedesco
Ames' Iowa Stories 2000 literacy project, entitled Baby
Talk, is intended to nurture the relationship between
parents and children and to promote the importance of
developing language and literacy especially for children
from birth to age 3. The objectives of the project are
to have a Baby Talk volunteer visit every new mom at
Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames to deliver a Baby
Talk gift packet which includes a book entitled "Read
for Joy." The volunteer will also sign the family
up to receive a Baby Talk newsletter, informing them
of literacy development opportunities for their baby
such as how and what to read to their child and when
Baby Talk storytimes are scheduled at the Ames Public
Library. Future goals of the project are to create community
collaboration with Mid-Iowa Community Action (WIC and
Well Child Clinics) and to create a program to give
each one-year-old a free birthday book at the Ames Public
Library. A "Read to Succeed Community Forum,"
the Baby Talk project kickoff, will serve as an informational
meeting for community members concerning this project
and other literacy projects going on in the Ames community.
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Gina
Millsap, Director
Ames Public Library
515 Douglas Avenue
Ames, IA 50010-6215
515-239-5656
Dawn
Hayslett, Assistant Director
Ames Public Library
515-239-5633
Jen
Buckingham, Elementary Media Specialist
Roosevelt
Elementary School
Ames Community Schools
921 -- 9th Street
Ames, IA 50010
515-239-3785
Olivia
Madison,
Dean, Parks Library
Iowa State University
302 Parks Library
Ames, IA 50011
515-294-1443
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Results
of Ames Project Selection Meeting 
Results
of Ames Focus Group
Results
of Ames Public Forum
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