Summer Reading Renaissance: An Interactive Exhibits Approach - Softcover

Soltan, Rita

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1591585724 ISBN 13: 9781591585725

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2008

Synopsis

Energize your library summer reading program with this new approach that involves all ages, and rekindles the desire for children and families to read together for recreation, pleasure, and their own curiosity. No more counting hours or books, no rewards and awards―just reading and learning fun! Drawing on the methodology of museums and learning centers, Soltan offers practical guidelines for designing an interactive, centers-based program; and presents four complete themed units that include complete directions for sample projects, materials lists, and suggested books. She also shows you how to build interest, secure funding, work with vendors, and use technology; as well as how to train staff, create a coordinated, intergenerational, volunteer and school-based community service effort; and how to evaluate your program. This is a creative, hands-on approach that will get readers involved and keep them involved summer after summer, and all summer long.

About this title

About the Author

Rita Soltan, an independent Library Youth Services Consultant, worked as a public children's librarian for 32 years in New York and Michigan, and she supervised youth services departments for 15 years. She is author of Reading Raps: A Book Club Guide for Librarians, Kids and Families (Libraries Unlimited, 2005) and she reviews children's books for Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal.

Reviews

A children’s librarian explores a new mode of summer-reading programming through an innovative, family-oriented series utilizing hands-on approaches for a six- to eight-week period, as done in many museums. The first part of the book provides the rationale for revising the traditional program and discusses how libraries can learn from the museum model as well as offering guidance on designing interactive-centers-based programs, including community volunteers, and measuring outcomes. In the second part, Soltan offers three fully developed units complete with sample projects, materials to use, suggested books, and reproducible graphics. An appendix provides five suggested outlines for additional programs. Well organized, with detailed directions and ideas, the book is good for any librarian working with children from beginning readers to sixth grade. --Sara Marcus

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1591585724
• ISBN 13: 9781591585725
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264