Date: July 23, 2015
Time: 1pm - 5pm
1000 Books Before Kindergarten:
Today I work on creating resources for the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program that the Germantown Community Library will be starting. I talked to Stephanie, the youth services librarian, more about what specifically she wanted out of the program. We talked a lot about the Germantown community and how to make the program fit the parents and children that live in the area. One thing that was mentioned was that there are a lot of "over achieving" parents that tend to try to finish programs as soon as possible. We discussed ways to encourage parents to spread out the program and come to the library more than once to turn in their 1000 books progress.
We also talked about the lack of staff and budget in the children's area and looked at ways to make the program low-budget and easy for staff to do. Staff usually work at the children's desk while the youth services librarian is busy answering reference questions and working on individual tasks so programs tend to work the best when there are few steps to signing up and continuing the program.
I worked on finding additonal resources for the program and made a brochure:
And bookmarks:
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