Digging Up Creative Ideas in Boyceville

Many thanks to Ginny Julson, director of the Boyceville Public Library, for this submission: Every year all the kids from the elementary school come over one class at a time and do a skit on our stage to gear up for the SRP–each year we choose volunteers from...

Eau Claire’s Out of This World Videos

The folks at the public library in Eau Claire have stepped up their game in promotion of the Summer Library Program.  They created two videos, one to promote their program for younger kids–complete with a sequence at the end featuring even the dignified...

SLP Promotion in Ellsworth is Golden

Julie (mean banker Mr. Bigglebottom, above) adapted the new book: The Gold Miner’s Daughter, A Melodramatic Fairy Tale written by Jackie Mims Hopkins into a play for the library staff (and a few volunteers) to perform for students to promote the Summer Library...

Summer Reading Gaps

I attended a meeting of system consultants trying to help their libraries serve traditionally underserved populations last week.  It’s always a treat to get together with other people who do your job, especially when those people are smart, thoughtful,...

SLP Incentives–take 2

I got a great message from Alisha at the public library in Eau Claire in response to a recent blog post about incentives (THANKS, Alisha!).  She’s trying out an exciting new incentive program for the Summer Library Program: I decided to try something new...