Posts under ‘Summer reading’

Congratulations to the seven children in New York State who submitted videos about their favorite books to the nationwide StoryTubes video contest.
All the New York State entries have been posted to the NYS Summer Reading Program web site.
To enter the contest, children in grades 1 to 6 made short videos about their favorite books. And [...]

Summer reading bugs that is! Nioga Library System in Lockport NY has posted a bunch of photos of summer reading crafts on flickr. They’re wonderful! Some great ideas. Nioga, thanks for sharing.

I put this list together for the UHLS/MVLS summer reading planning workshop and was asked to share it with other library systems in NY. Hope it’s useful to others as well.
Promoting Your Summer Reading Program Online
Public Service Announcements

Use the CSLP public service announcement videos on your web site. See if your community partners will put [...]

Great fun and lots of ideas were shared at the SALS Summer Reading planning day last week. I’m looking forward to the planning day at UHLS and MVLS later this week.

Linda Braun has the group singing FAME along with Sims Onstage (less than great video recorded by me!)  Video on blip.tv
Animoto video from the day.

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Check out this fun ‘buggy music’ widget for the NYS Summer Reading website. It’s a sample of some fun music from Sonific. Really easy to create and free. The code for the sample widget is on the same page.

Summer reading programs have come to an end for the year and I’m having a vision of library staff far and wide relaxing on beaches or mountains this week, recovering from all the activities and programs they held over the summer. Ok, so that’s probably wishful thinking for you all. But well deserved kudos to [...]