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FROM: Nicole Marcucilli <[removed]@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/20/01, 4:41 PM

Just curious to know what other libraries are doing for their teen summer
reading programs. What is everyone having the teens read? How is your
game composed? What kinds of prizes are you giving out? I am looking to
start preparing for ours, and I wanted to get more ideas. So far I am
playing with the idea of having a punch card instead of having the kids
write down every single book they read.

Nicole Marcuccilli
YA Librarian
Glenview (IL) Public Library

FROM: "Kelly Benson" <[removed]@htls.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/20/01, 5:02 PM

We're doing our first one this summer, so I'd be interested in hearing what
others are doing. We did our first adult one last year, so this is all new
ground for us. So far, our Young Adult Summer Reading Program has one
prize, a 16 oz Koozie sports bottle, which you get when you read 5 books. I
toyed with having books read in different categories, but I think for this
time around, I'm going to have the kids just read any books they would like
from the YA, Adult or J hardcover areas. The only stipulation is that the
books have more than a hundred pages. Every book read gets them in the
drawing for monthly prizes which at this point consist of some fast food
restaurant coupons [but I'm hoping that some more of the local businesses
will be donating something soon.], I also will have a grand prize drawing
for a 50 dollar Best Buy gift certificate. I was going to do Barnes and
Noble like I do for the adults, but my director pointed out that with kids,
Best Buy is a bigger draw. Our reading program is for 11 to 15 year olds.
I'm going to try it with comment cards for this time around as well.


Kelly Benson
Adult Services Librarian
Three Rivers Public Library District
Channahon, Illinois

FROM: Nicole Marcucilli <[removed]@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us>
REC'D: 3/20/01, 5:13 PM

My summer reading program is for high schoolers only, ages 14-18. As far
as prizes go, I was thinking of having a grand prize of a DVD player
instead of my normal gift certificates. A couple of years ago we gave out
a mountain bike for the grand prize. I am going to make up a bibliography
box that has all the different bibliographies I have written, both
annotated and non-annotated, for the kids to use as a genre guide. I will
also do some ordering from the ALA graphics book for smaller prizes, such
as flashlight keychains and such.

Nicole Marcuccilli
YA Librarian
Glenview (IL) Public Library

On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Kelly Benson wrote:

> We're doing our first one this summer, so I'd be interested in hearing what
> others are doing. We did our first adult one last year, so this is all new
> ground for us. So far, our Young Adult Summer Reading Program has one
> prize, a 16 oz Koozie sports bottle, which you get when you read 5 books. I
> toyed with having books read in different categories, but I think for this
> time around, I'm going to have the kids just read any books they would like
> from the YA, Adult or J hardcover areas. The only stipulation is that the
> books have more than a hundred pages. Every book read gets them in the
> drawing for monthly prizes which at this point consist of some fast food
> restaurant coupons [but I'm hoping that some more of the local businesses
> will be donating something soon.], I also will have a grand prize drawing
> for a 50 dollar Best Buy gift certificate. I was going to do Barnes and
> Noble like I do for the adults, but my director pointed out that with kids,
> Best Buy is a bigger draw. Our reading program is for 11 to 15 year olds.
> I'm going to try it with comment cards for this time around as well.
>
>
> Kelly Benson
> Adult Services Librarian
> Three Rivers Public Library District
> Channahon, Illinois
>
>
>
>
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FROM: Heuer <[removed]@itol.com>
REC'D: 3/21/01, 10:36 AM

We have really toned ours down this last year mainly because we also
instituted an adult reading program and we have some major staff shortages
due to a hiring freeze. BUT.. a few years back we did a great program, ran
it for a couple of years. The gist was Adventure. We contacted people in the
community and asked them to offer a day, a half day or a few hours with the
winning teen. So the teen could spend a day with a DJ, or a newspaper
cartoonist, or a lawyer, or a zookeeper, or a museum curator, or a pizza
maker....we contacted a lot of local people. For every 100 pages read, a
teen could put their name in for one of the "adventures". You could put your
name all in one adventure or you could spread them around. They would get a
slip or a sheet of slips (since they read like crazy), and on it they would
put their name, phone number and the number of the adventure. We had a list
posted with all the adventures numbered and a brief description of each.
Each day we would sort the slips into the various boxes we were drawing
from. The kids loved it! And it didn't cost any money. We also found it
easier to get people to donate a little time than goods.
The hard part was the sorting at the end before the drawing. We have 8
branch libraries and all the last minute slips came in a day or two before
the drawing and we were frantically cutting and sorting. But that was the
first year, later we got more librarians cutting and sorting before they
sent the slips to the central library. I know this is a pretty rough
description so if you have any questions, email me offlist.

--
Jeanne Heuer
Brown County Library
Green Bay, WI
[removed]@itol.com

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, Art is knowing which ones
to keep." -anonymous
> From: Nicole Marcucilli <[removed]@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us>
> Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
> Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 16:46:40 -0600 (CST)
> To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
> Subject: Summer Reading Program for Teens
>
> Just curious to know what other libraries are doing for their teen summer
> reading programs. What is everyone having the teens read? How is your
> game composed? What kinds of prizes are you giving out? I am looking to
> start preparing for ours, and I wanted to get more ideas. So far I am
> playing with the idea of having a punch card instead of having the kids
> write down every single book they read.
>
> Nicole Marcuccilli
> YA Librarian
> Glenview (IL) Public Library
>
>
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: "Trish Klein" <[removed]@rdpl.org>
REC'D: 3/21/01, 9:09 PM

Our Summer Reading Program this year is called Island Quest. This will be the second year that we have had teens read for a specific amount of time (total of 2.5 hours per week), instead of going by the number of books read. This allows some of the slower readers to qualify for prizes. We give out one prize every two weeks for a total of 4. One of the prizes is a book. Other prizes have been a library totebag, a CD case with our logo on it, a movie pass, erasers, pencils and bookmarks.

We also have prizes for bonus reading hours. This year the teens will be able to collect "clams" to be spent bidding on silent auction prizes. I'm also developing a board game (Read _Treasure Island_ - Collect 4 clams; Lost in the Jungle? - Read a book on Survival) that the teens can play to collect more clams.

The teens can read whatever they want - fiction, nonfiction or magazines, but we do provide booklists that incorporate the theme. We hope that the game will encourage them to read more books off the booklist this year.

Trish Klein
[removed]@rdpl.org
Readers' Services Coordinator
Red Deer Public Library
4818-49 St. Red Deer, AB T4N 1T9
403-342-9110 Fax: 403-341-3110


>>> [removed]@CLSN3046.glenview.lib.il.us 03/20/01 03:46PM >>>
Just curious to know what other libraries are doing for their teen summer
reading programs. What is everyone having the teens read? How is your
game composed? What kinds of prizes are you giving out? I am looking to
start preparing for ours, and I wanted to get more ideas. So far I am
playing with the idea of having a punch card instead of having the kids
write down every single book they read.

Nicole Marcuccilli
YA Librarian
Glenview (IL) Public Library

FROM: Jackie Todor <[removed]@spart.spt.lib.sc.us>
REC'D: 3/23/01, 8:40 AM

>X-Sender: [removed]@spart.spt.lib.sc.us
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:59:06 -0500
>To: [removed]@spart.spt.lib.sc.us
>From: Pam Maggio <[removed]@spart.spt.lib.sc.us>
>Subject: Re: Summer Reading Program for Teens
>
>We're holding our 3rd annual Teen Read Summer Program this year. Program
>is open to ages 12-17 or enterring grades 7-12. Program is based on a
>"game card" with 16 spots featuring different reading or library activities:
>
>Read a book & submit a comment card (9 spots)
>Read a magazine (1 spot)
>Read anything for 1 hour (1 spot)
>Listen to someone else read aloud for 30 minutes (1 spot)
>Read aloud to someone else for 30 minutes (1 spot)
>Attend a Library Program (1 spot)
>Complete the Internet Treasure Hunt (1 spot)
>Enter the Vacation Celebration Photo Contest (1 spot)
>
>There are few rules. Listening to an audiobook equals reading a book, but
>no double-dipping is allowed. One reading activity equals one stamp. We
>ask participants to stick to books at or above their normal reading level.
>
>Eight stamps on a game card gets a teen one duck in our "Duck Drop." Duck
>Drop is the rubber duck race we hold in the large 5-tiered fountain in
>front of our HQ library. The teen with the winning duck takes home the
>Grand Prize. We throw a Duck Drop Pizza Bash at the end of July when we
>have the race and give away lots of other door prizes from local businesses.
>
>Last year the grand prize was a Sega Dreamcast plus Hydrothunder boat race
>game. Branch Libraries held video game tournaments with the prize
>throughout the summer before we gave it away.
>
>Pam Maggio
>
>
>>We're doing our first one this summer, so I'd be interested in hearing what
>>others are doing. We did our first adult one last year, so this is all new
>>ground for us. So far, our Young Adult Summer Reading Program has one
>>prize, a 16 oz Koozie sports bottle, which you get when you read 5 books. I
>>toyed with having books read in different categories, but I think for this
>>time around, I'm going to have the kids just read any books they would like
>>from the YA, Adult or J hardcover areas. The only stipulation is that the
>>books have more than a hundred pages. Every book read gets them in the
>>drawing for monthly prizes which at this point consist of some fast food
>>restaurant coupons [but I'm hoping that some more of the local businesses
>>will be donating something soon.], I also will have a grand prize drawing
>>for a 50 dollar Best Buy gift certificate. I was going to do Barnes and
>>Noble like I do for the adults, but my director pointed out that with kids,
>>Best Buy is a bigger draw. Our reading program is for 11 to 15 year olds.
>>I'm going to try it with comment cards for this time around as well.
>>
>>
>>Kelly Benson
>>Adult Services Librarian
>>Three Rivers Public Library District
>>Channahon, Illinois
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>
>Pamela Maggio
>Teen and Adult Services Librarian
>Spartanburg County Public Libraries
>151 South Church Street
>Spartanburg, SC 29306
>(864)596-3500 ext.1241
>Fax: (864)596-3518
>
>"Any opinions expressed are those of the individual and may not reflect the
>opinions or policies of the Spartanburg County Public Libraries."
>
Jackie Todor
AV/Reader's Advisory Services
Spartanburg County Public Libraries
151 South Church Street
Spartanburg, SC 29306
(864)596-3502


"Any opinions expressed are those of the individual and may not reflect the
opinions or policies of Spartanburg County Public Libraries."

FROM: Karen Migaldi <[removed]@nslsilus.org>
REC'D: 3/23/01, 10:03 AM

Nicole,

This year we will be trying a new tracking method for both our Adult
and Young Adult Summer Reading programs. Rather than tracking the
titles they've read, teens will track the number of minutes that they
read. A number of local schools use this method already so we thought
we'd see how it works. We also hope that this method will level the
playing field for those teens who choose more challenging material.
Teens track their time on a log which has minutes on one side. We have
included a place for them to write the titles on the reverse side since
many of them like to log the books they read for their own records.
As for what teens read, we let them read anything they want. We want
them to have fun.
We give them an opportunity to win small prizes (they really like
candy) by participating in a trivia game. They receive coupons for
local restaurants, ice rinks, roller rinks, etc. as well as a paperback
book when they have completed three levels. They also get a chance for
a weekly prize drawing. We encourage them to keep reading after they've
completed the required levels by letting them continue to play the
trivia game (They still receive candy if they answer the question.) and
giving them chances after they've completed another level.
All prizes except for the candy and paperback books are donated by
local businesses. While our tracking method is new, we've had a lot of
success with our previous programs. Last year we had over 300 teens
sign-up for the program.

Karen Migaldi
Crystal Lake Public Library
Crystal Lake, IL


Nicole Marcucilli wrote:
>
> Just curious to know what other libraries are doing for their teen summer
> reading programs. What is everyone having the teens read? How is your
> game composed? What kinds of prizes are you giving out? I am looking to
> start preparing for ours, and I wanted to get more ideas. So far I am
> playing with the idea of having a punch card instead of having the kids
> write down every single book they read.
>
> Nicole Marcuccilli
> YA Librarian
> Glenview (IL) Public Library
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://www.webrary.org/rs/flmenu.html

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