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| January/February 2007 Issue
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 On January 13, the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) welcomed a large and diverse group of participants to the Spring 2007 Training Workshop hosted at LEH’s brand new Louisiana Humanities Education Center. Seventy-two participants and fourteen PRIME TIME trainers attended the intensive two-day workshop, 55 from across Louisiana, 9 from New Mexico, 5 from Oregon and 3 from Georgia. It was the first event to inaugurate the new Louisiana Humanities Education Center.
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|  The Nebraska Humanities Council (NHC) has been a PRIME TIME partner/affiliate since 2002. Since then, the PRIME TIME bilingual program has experienced phenomenal support and growth while meeting the needs of Nebraska’s largest minority population, the Spanish/English speaking Hispanic community. In 2006, NHC sponsored 14 bilingual PRIME TIME programs across the state.
“In the northeast corner of Nebraska, a mother sat with her children near the picture windows of the South Sioux City Public Library and announced in Spanish: ‘We are just like Stellaluna, hanging from our thumbs and eating insects.’”
Read this article by Erika Hamilton, Program Officer, Nebraska Humanities Council
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 PRIME TIME Associate Director and experienced scholar and site-coordinator, Olivia Pass, Ph.D., explores what it takes to be a PRIME TIME scholar/discussion leader and answers the frequently asked questions on the subject.
- Why a Ph.D. in a humanities field?
- What are the skills necessary?
- What kind of a personality best fits the role?
- Who is the audience?
Read The PRIME TIME Scholar—
Not just another Ph.D.,
by Olivia Pass, Ph.D.
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“None of us will ever look at a children’s
book in the same way again,”
said Pam Wright, Bath County Even Start and Family Literacy Director, after her experience of bringing PRIME TIME to Bath County, Kentucky. The enthusiasm in this statement can only be justified and felt after a program that was executed with all the attention to detail. PRIME TIME was developed as a turn-key family literacy program that addresses the children as well as the adults in low-literacy and low-income households. When all the components of the program are implemented, PRIME TIME contains all four components of family literacy: adult education, child education, interactive literacy activities, and parenting.
Read more about Bath County, Kentucky PRIME TIME. |
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 The Zemurray Foundation spearheaded the implementation and development of bilingual programming across Louisiana, with an initial grant of $50,000 in 2005. Those funds sponsored the successful Bilingual PRIME TIME pilot program held in Ascension Parish Library in 2006, where a total of 120 Latino families were served and 21 new library cards issued. The Zemurray Foundation continues to support PRIME TIME, with an additional $50,000 grant for further expansion of bilingual programming in Louisiana in 2007. Two of the three bilingual programs scheduled in spring 2007 will be supported by funds from the Zemurray Foundation. The first program will be held at the International School of Louisiana in Orleans Parish, and the second program will be held at the North Kenner Library, in Jefferson Parish.
View a complete listing of Spring 2007 Louisiana sites. |
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 The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities purchased Turners’ Hall, a 138-year-old historic building in the Central Business District of New Orleans, in December 2000. The building’s architectural and historical significance and quality of construction account for the structure’s current estimated value of $10 million. The LEH currently occupies about 40% of the building including the entire third floor, having relocated post-Katrina from the flooded ground level. The move accelerated the much-anticipated planning and construction of the Louisiana Humanities Education Center on the first floor, including a 120 person auditorium, as a fully functional distance-learning facility that serves ALL Louisianans. Efficient space design and state-of-the-art learning technology make the space ideal for a number of different uses specific to the LEH and the greater Louisiana humanities and arts community. The space will be the future home of all in-state PRIME TIME training workshops.
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PRIME TIME: National Outreach, a grant awarded to the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) by the Division of Public Programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), provided funding for continued national expansion. Between October 1, 2005 and December 31, 2006, twenty-five PRIME TIME Family Reading Time programs (five more than originally proposed) were conducted in public libraries across five states, including California, Ohio, Kansas, Georgia and South Dakota. The funding for this project consisted of $298,000, which included a Chairman’s Supplement of $15,000 for projects affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The PRIME TIME: National Outreach Grant expanded the infrastructure of libraries, and numbers of scholars, storytellers and preschool coordinators in these five states and will provide a basis for continued programming in those states. |
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