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SUMMER READING
RENAISSANCE
An Interactive Exhibits Approach
Price: $45.00
ISBN13: 9781591585725
Publication Date: 09/30/2008
Libraries Unlimited
RENAISSANCE
An Interactive Exhibits Approach
Price: $45.00
ISBN13: 9781591585725
Publication Date: 09/30/2008
Libraries Unlimited
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
Appendix: Additional Outlined Themes
Index
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
Appendix: Additional Outlined Themes
Index