Final Weekly Summer Reading Update

Happy final week of Summer Reading! 

What Makes Summer Reading Special (and other questions answered by Executive Director, Larry White, and Director of Outreach & Engagement Services, Kimberly Boldt)

Happy viewing and special thanks to Victoria Stephens for creating this video. 
https://vimeo.com/577189945

Statistics Update

This week's updated data visualizations can be found here. Thank you to Manisha for this week's figures. 

As of this afternoon, we are up to 11,423 Summer Reading participants, with over half of those participants logging their reading and a third completing the program. We are 98% of the way towards meeting our community goal of 8 million points, with participants logging 7,855,824 points thus far in our Summer Reading challenge! 

Prize Pickup & Retroactively Logging Points

Prize Pickup will occur August 1-31 this year. As a reminder, some customers may not have logged their points during June and July due to a variety of factors. Please allow customers to 'back date' their points earned June 1-July 31 through the August prize pickup window. 

This information can be found on the Summer Reading Prizes page. 

Drawing Prizes 

More information about this year's drawing prizes can be found here. Drawings will occur on August 2 and an email will be sent to Engagement staff and Library Management Team members on August 2 with winner names and follow-up information. Grand prizes will also be delivered to library locations on August 2. 

Commemorative Summer Reading T-shirts Available to Order

Click here for more information!

Key Dates 

July 23 - Drawing prizes delivered to libraries on or before this date
July 31 - Summer Reading ends
August 1 - Prize pickup begins
August 2 - Prize drawings occur, grand prizes delivered
August 16 - Staff and customer feedback surveys open
August 31 - Prize pickup ends

As always, please check out our Summer Reading Intranet page for assistance with all your questions or reach out to EPS via phone or email; we are here to help. While this is our final regularly scheduled weekly Summer Reading update email, additional emails regarding drawings, Read It Forward, final stats, and other end of Summer logistics will be shared over the upcoming weeks. 

Below are this week's featured animal friends! Thank you so much to everyone for sharing your beloved pet photos with us to celebrate a summer of Tails & Tales! Have a great week.

Featured (going clockwise, starting on top left):
Sandra Lanham, Milo 
Melissa Weathers, Tara 
Kirstie Brown, Zero 
Marcie Jackson, Peach 
Paige Harkins, Sasha 
Kirstie Brown, Ramona 

Featured (going clockwise, starting on top left):
Rebecca McNeely, Marley
Rebecca West, Puff
Dana Beach, Dollie Mae 
Kelley Riha, Bunny Jane 
Julie Schofield, Georgie 

Featured (going clockwise, starting on top left):
Dana Beach, Dash
Donna Adamek, Finley, Jaspur, & Aubree 
Metropolitan Library System, Spoticus
Courtney Taddonio, Bazaroni 
Brianna Gomes, Lilly

Featured (going clockwise, starting on top left):
Rondia Banks, Mr. Brown
Shana Lancaster, Hunny & Milady 
Anne Hall, Chloe 
Cindy Trebes, Stars 
Lauren Fletcher, Zoey