Summer Reading Program 2010

It's cold and wintry out but summer is coming fast! Start your planning with important links on this page. Watch this space for breaking news and updated information. It's going to be a fun summer!

Submit your Ellison requests ASAP

If your library uses our Ellison dies to prepare crafts, displays or bulletin boards for summer reading programs, please request the ones you will be using immediately. We anticipate that we will disband our die collection and distribute them out to libraries sometime later this spring. If there is anything AT ALL that you want to cut out, please request your dies now!

It's not too early to request fall/holiday dies so you can cut those items too! Once the collection is disbanded, it may be difficult or impossible to find the ones you want.

The link to the Ellison die form is:

http://www.cmrls.net/forms/die_request.htm

Don't forget to request a machine if you need to borrow one.

Please contact Maureen Ambrosino at CMRLS, 508-757-4110 x309, if you have any questions.

Summer Reading 2010 manual

This year, the summer reading manual will be online, as a wiki. Check out this web page for great program ideas, crafts, booklists and more. If you have ideas, websites, or other content to share, contact Maureen Ambrosino at CMRLS to find out how to contribute to the wiki.

Promotion

A toolkit to help promote the 2010 Summer Reading Program will be posted in the spring on the MBLC website. Stay tuned for details!

Credit line

Please be sure to use the following credit line on all your "Go green" and "tnk grEn" promotional materials:

"Go green at your library" is sponsored by your local library, the Massachusetts Regional Library Systems, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

"tnk grEn" is sponsored by your local library, the Massachusetts Regional Library Systems, and the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners.

You can also use the MRLS/MBLC logo in color or black and white in place of text if you wish. Thanks!

Incentives

The ordering site for Janway incentives is now up and running. Based on your feedback, we have banners, mood pencils, book packs and water bottles, plus teen incentives, a shirt with an adult-friendly design, and much more! If you wish to order large quantities of paper materials for prizes, you can also order those on the Janway site.

Incentive orders were due by the end of the day on February 5, 2010. If you did not place your order by the deadline, contact Janway to see if you can still order the items you want.

ReadsinMA

If you're not currently using our online reading program, ReadsinMA.org, it's not too late! Over 35,000 patrons across the state used it last summer, and many libraries have done successful fall and winter programs with it. Adults and kids alike really enjoy it. Contact Maureen Ambrosino at CMRLS for more information.

CE for 2010!

You don't want to miss the great lineup of workshops we have planned for you. There's lots of what you need to keep up-to-date with everything in a library.

You have lots of options, too, from attending in person to telephoning in to a meeting to working at your own pace.

Check out our Course Listings catalog or sign up now!

Development:

Statewide summer reading program 2010

DEVELOPMENT

Go green at your library and tnk grEn - 2010 Summer Reading!