Carmel Clay Public Library conducts reading program during summer
May 22, 2008
By: Cathy Chen <cchen@hilite.org>
Tessa Wilkerson, Teen Library Council member and sophomore, said she has participated in the Carmel Clay Public Library’s young adult summer reading program three or four times.
“The summer reading program’s really cool because (the Teen Library Council) puts a lot of time into planning it, like we start planning the theme in January,” Wilkerson said. “We put a lot of thought into what the prizes should be and all that kind of stuff.”
According to Hope Baugh, young adult services manager at the CCPL, this year’s summer reading program will begin June 2 and end Aug. 6. The theme this year is “Reading: The Final Frontier.”
“It was chosen to fit with the library-wide theme of adventures,” Baugh said. “(The Teen Library Council) imagined it as being kind of space-related.”
Baugh said that although the theme changes every year, the structure of the program has remained the same. Participants keep track of the number of pages they read, and they receive a summer souvenir after they’ve read 100 pages and another souvenir after 200 pages. Participants receive a raffle ticket for every 100 pages they read after that. Baugh said most of the raffle prizes this year will be gift cards to bookstores and other places.
Participants finish the program after reading 1000 pages, and they receive a free book from the book vault, but they can continue on with the voracious reader option if they wish. Voracious reader participants will receive another book from the vault once they read 5000 pages.
According to Baugh, this year is the first year they will have two separate book vaults: one for middle school readers and one for high school readers. She said, “I think the selection will be better than ever this year.”
Baugh said readers can read whatever they want for the summer reading program.
“It doesn’t have to be from the (young adult) section. It doesn’t even have to be from the library although we hope that people do use the library. People can even read magazines or listen to recorded books,” Baugh said. “Summer is for reading for yourself, for the pleasure of it.”
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