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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOctober 26, 1995AGENDA CHILDREN'S LIBRARL&N'S MEETI2NG October 26, 1995 1:30 NTN II. III. a. b. C. tlc¥icw 0£ summer r~ading program 1995 a. what worked b. what did not work c, Rcnc asks that we discuss 1. Reviewing thc letter wc send to community groups soliciting monetary support for programs. Note: this year donations exceeded expenditures by $600 only, which the family in Anoka said we could use as needed, and with which we purchased easy audios for APL. In 1996, we all agree we need two programs at Bunker Hills. To pay for those would cost more than $600. : 2. Discuss possibility of developing a vision statement/goals for what we (ACL) would like our SRC to accomplish. 3. Discuss possibility of requesting MELSA children's committee to consider developing graphics that would be suitable for older young people. 4. Discuss ways to improve outreach to thc area's middle school children. 5. Review our incentives. School visits in 1996: should we plan on them? Other possible program for home school parents=-- 3'(J~v; possible collaborative grant proposal -- stickers for children getting first library card? ,,-- THE ANOKA Cf)ItNTy LII~RARV SltrlMER READINC, PROGRAM At the Anol~a County l.£bra-ry we ge~,l tibet summer presents a glorious oppor- ~Ulll[y ~0 ~E~ract ehilJren to t[~e public []brary. For nine months of the year, the majority of children rely almost exclusively on their school libraries. We want them to realize that we have much to offer too~ We instituted our summer reading program with the following goaJs in mind: 1. To introduce children to their neighborhood public libraries, arousing ~eir interests in library materials and services, and to create a positive image of libraries and librarians. 2. To encourage personal interaction between the librarian and the child, and to help the librarian get to know the children as unique individuals with widely divergent interests and abilities. 3. To provide children with a dynamic, stimulating and enjoyable learning environment. 4. To increase circulation of librar~materials. 6. To attract othe~ise disinterested children to us, to keep interested chi].dren from becoming disinterested, and to serve as a stimulus for continued library use. 7. To involve children actively in ~EIR library. I/sing these goals as guidelines, we designed our sum~er reading program and its materials. We devote a great deal of time and energy to the program, for we feel that It is a very important one and worth any effort we put into it. Reading programs, we know, are currently out of fashion, but they have done wonders for us and for our circulation. Ilelow I have listed the materials we feel are necessary t~ the success of our reading program, and the reasons why we feel they are important. FI.YER$-We print enough flyers to hand out to each first-sixth grade in the Anoka County Library service area. In the spring, preferably during tile last two weeks before school is out, the children's librarians visit ALL of the schools in the library service area and visit at least each first- fourth grade room, .leaving flyers for the teachers to distribute to the other two grades, As the children do not come to the libraries to get their flyers, we print the names, addresses and telephone numbers of all of our branches on the flyers. (We find we get a very large volume of telephone calls about the reading program after the school visits.) The flyers thus serve three purposes: tl~ey describe the reading program, they state the locations of the libraries and they outline the basic rules of the program.