From Aimee Meuchel, Tualatin PL
Jennifer Wolf, one of our amazing Teen Room Assistants at the Tualatin Public Library, came to me with an amazing program idea that every library in this state can do easily and cheaply! It’s a Read-In! Here’s the description going out for our teens:
1st Annual Teen Read-In!
Thursday, July 29th
All Day
Teen Room
Escape the heat with a good book at the library. The first annual Teen Read-In will include cool treats, hot reads, and prizes galore. Come for an hour, the afternoon, or the whole day! Best beach outfit will win a special prize.
I think it would be amazing if as many libraries as possible also held a Read-In on July 29th at their libraries. We could unify the state and encourage even more reading by teens! Why July 29th? We were looking for a hot day in the summer and the weather gurus said that is historically a hot date! If you really want to challenge yourselves, you could partner with a non-profit and have teens get sponsors for reading, with the money donated to the charity. You could give out special prizes to all participants. This could be huge! Join us in making this a new annual, state-wide event!
Apr 21, 2010 @ 21:10:12
Note from your editor: July 29 happens to be the day I had scheduled our summer Anime Fest, so I’m going to participate in the Read-in by having a Manga Marathon. There will be a cozy chair set up in the room where someone must be reading manga at
all times! Thanks for the great idea, Aimee. -Lisa