It has hundreds of stories submitted by real people. Want to read more personalized stories of how libraries change lives? Check out the At Your Library website ALA is sponsoring. This is even more true when one is either the same gender and/or ethnicity as a child or teen.
Librarians can serve as role models to children and young adults. These can then be used to obtain jobs, start a business, or start a new hobby. Libraries offer tutorial books to allow patrons to learn new skills, such as languages, repair works, or crafts. It can be as simple as being the only smiling face they see or more complicated, such as being the one to show them something that forever alters their life. Librarians can touch lives when they help patrons. Libraries provide reading material for those that could otherwise not afford it. When they attend story time or check out books to take home, the children are exposed to more words and ideas giving them a heads-up when they begin school. 
Besides the home, libraries are often the first place that expose young children to literacy. Examples include seeking information on a company when applying for jobs or seeking medical information to better understand a doctors’ diagnosis. Librarians can teach patrons to use library resources, helpful training that can be used to locate information needed for many purposes. This helps low-income families save money needed for necessities. Libraries offer low- or no-cost entertainment for patrons, often via speaker events, story times, crafting events, etc. Libraries provide computer training for those who grew up before the digital era, thus providing skills that directly lead to a job or indirectly to one, via applying online and/or offering word processors. Libraries provide a safe haven, especially true if one comes from a dysfunctional family or lives in a bad neighborhood. Now let’s look at the everyday ways a library changes lives. 
With that, the populace becomes more educated and learns just how important a library is to the community. Soon, the TV matters little and reading takes hold. When a storm causes her TV loving town to lose electricity for two weeks, she takes the townsfolk books to read. And this boy, Tomás Rivera, goes on to college and to become a writer, educator, and chancellor of the University of California at Riverside.Īlso presented in a book, Library Lil by Suzanne Williams, is the fictionalized story of the librarian Library Lil. Once there, the local librarian provides him specialized attention, providing books and helping him read. In one historic case, presented in the book Tomás and the Library Lady by Pat Mora, we see how one Hispanic boy was encouraged to visit the library by his grandfather. “Event: Santa Teresa Branch Library Halloween theme Preschool Storytime” from the San Jose Library via Flickr Creative Commons
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