Saroj Ghoting, Early Childhood Literacy Consultant

About Saroj

Saroj Ghoting is an Early Childhood Literacy Consultant. She is currently a consultant for the Public Library Association and the Association for Library Service to Children of the American Library Association on the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library® early literacy initiative. She presents early literacy training and information sessions at national, regional, and state conferences, and training for library staff and their partners. She is a co-author of Early Literacy Storytimes @ your library: Partnering with Caregivers for Success published by ALA Editions. This book applies the information from the Every Child Ready to Read @ your library workshops to the storytime setting.

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In over 25 years as a children's librarian in several Maryland library systems, her broad experience ranges from doing storytimes for children ages newborn through six-years-old to training library staff in programming. She has presented workshops for parents and child care providers on ways to share books and language with young children, and has trained library staff to present similar workshops.

As the Early Childhood Services Coordinator for Montgomery County (MD) Public Libraries, Saroj developed partnerships with government agencies, businesses, early childhood organizations, and the faith communities. She also managed the Every Child Ready to Read Project @ your library® for Montgomery County, one of 14 national demonstration sites.

 

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