Transforming Summer Programs at Your Library: Outreach and Outcomes in Action - Softcover

Cole, Natalie; Walter, Virginia A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838916287 ISBN 13: 9780838916285

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2017

Synopsis

"Traditional summer reading programs need to be reimagined. Working groups of librarians, in partnership with the California Library Association and the California State Library, have done just that, creating and implementing outcomes- and outreach-basedsummer reading programs that speak directly to diverse and changing communities" --

About this title

About the Author

Natalie Cole is a library programs consultant at the California State Library. Previously, she was interim executive director at the California Library Association where she also led the California Summer Reading Program and the Lunch at the Library program. She received her MA and PhD in Librarianship from the University of Sheffield, UK.

Virginia A. Walter has retired from her work as a full-time tenured professor at the UCLA Department of Information Studies. However, she continues to teach classes and advise students at UCLA and is an active library consultant and trainer, who has been invited to speak at many domestic and international venues. She is the author of many journal articles, nine monographs, and two books for young people. She has an MLS from UC Berkeley and a PhD in public administration from the University of Southern California. She is a past president of the Association for Library Service to Children.

Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838916287
• ISBN 13: 9780838916285
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160