Summer Reading Renaissance - An Interactive Exhibits Approach

List 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
Index

About the author

Rita Soltan, an independent Library Youth Services Consultant, worked as a public children's librarian for 32 years in New York and Michigan, and she supervised youth services departments for 15 years. She is author of Reading Raps: A Book Club Guide for Librarians, Kids and Families (Libraries Unlimited, 2005) and she reviews children's books for Kirkus Reviews and School Library Journal.

Product details

• Authors: Rita Soltan, Soltan Rita
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2008
• EAN: 9781591585725
• ISBN: 978-1-59158-572-5
• No. of pages: 264
• Weight: 737 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Library, archive and information management, Library, Archive & Information Management, Children's and Young Adult Programs