From: Tessa Michaelson <tessa>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 12:39:10 -0600

Are you scrambling this September with back-to-school busyness? There's no need to worry about next month because the Kids _at_ Your LibraryR campaign is one step ahead.

Teen Read Week 2009 will be celebrated October 18th -24th. Whether you work with kids, teens, or kids, tweens, AND teens, the ALSC Public Awareness committee has some ideas for you!

 

Try out these ideas for Teen Read Week/Month:

1. "When I was a kid.." Solicit your library's teens to flag their former favorites from the children's collection. Offer memory suggestions and inspirational starters for the selection slips. 2. I can read U can read-Recruit reliable tweens and teens as reading buddies. For a one-time event or for story hour assistance, big kids can lend their talents to the younger set. 3. Design a character costume-Using the Teen Read Week theme of "Read Beyond Reality," set up a center in your library for creating costume sketches for favorite sci-fi or fantasy characters (imaginary or from a book). Include suggestions for costume materials using recycled or re-purposed materials. Display the artwork on a wall or in a gallery space-the designs might inspire homemade costumes for October 31st.

For more tried and true library activities, look no further than the Kids _at_ Your LibraryR online toolkit: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alsc/initiatives/kidscampaign/libraryactiv ities.cfm

 

Sincerely, Tessa Michaelson ALSC Public Awareness Committee Member

 

 

Tessa Michaelson

Librarian

Ruby M. Sisson Memorial Library

811 San Juan Street

PO Box 849

Pagosa Springs, CO 81147

(970) 264-2209

tessa at pagosalibrary.org

http://pagosa.colibraries.org/

 
Received on Tue 01 Sep 2009 01:39:10 PM CDT