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Summer Reading Renaissance An Interactive Exhibits Approach
Rita Soltan
ISBN: 1-59158-572-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-59158-572-5
264 pages
Libraries Unlimited
Publication: 9/30/2008
List Price: $45.00 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Paperback
Trim Size: 8 1/2 x 11
Subjects: Reviews:
  • "Intended primarily for librarians and media specialists who run summer reading programs for children, this guidebook provides practical guidelines for creating interactive centers designed to encourage children to read. Rita Solton draws on ideas from the museum world to come up with exhibits that far transcend the traditional bulletin boards used in libraries of yesteryear."
    —Children's Literature Association     00/00/00
  • "Well organized, with detailed directions and ideas, the book is good for any librarian
    working with children from beginning readers to sixth grade."
    —Booklist     2/15/2009
Description: 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.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
    Introduction
    Part 1: Creating a Renaissance
    Chapter 1: Are Library Summer Reading Programs Passe?
    Chapter 2: Energized Enthusiasm: Adapting the Museum Model and Learning Centers Approach
    Chapter 3: A Summer Reading Revival: Designing a Centers-Based Program
    Chapter 4: The Essential Extra: Volunteer Boosters
    Chapter 5: Review and Reflect: Measuring Outcomes
    Part 2: Sample Centers-Based Programs
    Chapter 6: Interactive Intrigue
    Chapter 7: Summer Down Under: An Awesome Aussie Experience
    Chapter 8: Invention Convention
    Chapter 9: Traverse the Universe
    Index
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.
LCC Class: 27
PDF Catalogs:
LU Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
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