GOALS & OBJECTIVES
What are YOUR goals?
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Motivate children to read?
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Develop positive attitude of the library and its services, of reading?
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Maintain reading level?
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Encourage regular use of the library?
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Attract new users?
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Promote library services and materials?
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Foster cooperation between community?
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Offer experiences at the Library?
OBJECTIVES
Objectives
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Register 10% more participants?
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Have 75% more participants compete?
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Increase library card registrations by 10%.?
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Have 10% more attendance at programs?
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Cooperate with at least one community agency?
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Enlist support of 3 community businesses?
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Recruit at least 10 volunteers?
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Provide summer programming for ..
• Non English speaking customers?
• Babies/toddlers/parents?
• Teens?
READING PROGRAMS – TYPES & TRACKING
Infant/Toddler
Read to me program|
Independent readers (p38 – 39, 40-41)
Teens
V for Volunteer is marked on activiites
Pledging to ready aloud (p6)(form p33)
Family Summer Reading (p 36-37)
MANUAL ARRANGEMENT
Early Literacy Manual
Summer Library Program Manual
Own the Night
Between the Covers
@ THE LIBRARY PROGRAMMING
Questions to ask oneself?
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Who is attending?
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With disabilities (p 7)?
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Accept other ages in programs
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Food or no food?
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Volunteers (volunteer recruitment forma p 16)
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Teens
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Friends
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Teachers
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Family
Planning timeline (calendars (p18- 24, planning form p 17)
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To register or not to register?
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Programming
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Reading program
THE GAME BOARD – READING LOG
Minutes versus books , versus pages
Visits to library
Prizes versus no prizes (incentives p 10)
Letter to business (p11)
Thank you poster (p31-32
SCHEDULING OF PRESENTERS/PROGRAMS
• Considerations
• How long is your program?
• Break for holiday
• Staffing
• Budget
• Donations
• Which sponsors
• Your own money
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Types of programming
• On-going
• Special events
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presenter letter (p29)
presenter contract (p30)
EVALUATION – PERCENT PARTICIPATION
Number of children
Total number of children in targeted age or grade in community
PER CAPITA CIRCULATION OF JUVENILE
MATERIALS
Number of juvenile materials circulated during program
Number of children in given age group
BOOKS OR MINUTES READ BY PARTICIPANT
Number of books (minutes or pages) each child reads
Total number of books read/by number of children participating
PROGRAM COMPLETION RATE
Number of children who complete
Total number of children who sign up to join
PER CAPITA DIRECT COSTS
Money spent
Number of children participated
EVALUATION THOUGHTS & REVIEW
Retreat
Determine next years goals
Comparison to other years
Improve services
Document results
Defend needs of budget and existence
PROMOTING – SETTING THE SCENE
Bookmarks (p 72-73), slogans (p 75-76), posters stickers, buttons, banners,
Press releases – newspapers, magazines, print materials (p 49)
PSA’s
Outreach – school, organizations, parent letters (p 51)
City channel
Social media
library’s website
Facebook
CSLP video
Interactive roster of performers
Blog
Video promotion
Lullabies and stories
Tweet links to books
SETTING THE SCENE - DISPLAYS (P 53)
Bulletin boards
constellations
quilt
star maps
Time line
display cases
3 dimensional and hanging displays
EVENTS – PROMOTIONAL & KICK OFF
School Elementary
Letters & calendar of events sent home (p 62-63)
Book talks
Participative skits
Poem – 12 nights of summer
Middle School and teen
Book talks
Volunteer opportunities
Teen volunteer program
SPECIAL TEEN NEEDS!
ASK THEM WHAT THEY WANT!
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Offer at same time ? All summer? Shortened version?
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Incentive
• Debate – motivation?
• $ to get them – should be different than younger reading program (P 11)
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Role AS volunteers?
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How will we get them here?
• Bookmarks (p 14 -15)
• Word of mouth
• School visits
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Decorate?
• Ask them to decorate!
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Get good books in their hands
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Booktalking, displays & book discussion groups
• Teen Book reviews (p16-17)
• Reading preference questionnaire (p18)
TEEN INFORMATION GATHERING &
RECRUITMENT
Names
Ages
Emails
Ask them about the summer.
What did they like, dislike? Why?
What would they like to see next year and then do it! Listen and follow through!
Ask them to join your teen advisory group.
Have them brainstorm the next years theme and send to Merri.