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Sign Up for a 2025 Summer Reading Committee!

Submitted by ewilliams on Tue, 09/03/2024 - 08:48
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Thank you again for a successful Summer Reading 2024! As we close the chapter on last summer, we are already looking ahead to start work on planning for Summer Reading 2025. To help us accomplish our goal of creating a community of readers and library users, we need your help. The team that plans our Summer Reading program changes every year, with leadership from Outreach & Engagement Services. OES has 5 Summer Reading subcommittees with 15 vacancies for the upcoming year. Listed below are the SR subcommittees, their duties, and the openings for your participation: 
 

Subcommittee

Duties 

Vacancies 

Community & School Engagement  

  • School communication and breakfast

  • Community & School Engagement Toolkit 

  • Determining RIF recipients  

  • School commercial

  • 1 - Lead (LM or ALM/EM) 

  • 1 - Adult engagement staff 

  • 1 - Youth engagement staff 

In-Library Engagement 

  • Displays 

  • Collection integration 

  • Passive programming 

  • In-Library Engagement Toolkit  

  • 1 - Lead (LM or ALM/EM) 

  • 1 - representative from Collection Development 

  • 1 - Adult engagement staff 

  • 1 - Youth engagement staff  

Logistics  

  • Supplies 

  • Inventory 

  • RIF delivery 

  • Best practices  

  • 1 - staff  

  • 1 - staff

Staff & Volunteer Engagement  

  • Training (staff & volunteer) 

  • Internal communication  

  • 1 - Engagement staff  

  • 1 – Teen engagement staff 

Program Planning 

  • Program catalog 

  • Coordinate programs with partner organizations 

  • Coordinate presenter paperwork

  • Systemwide program marketing requests

 

  • 1 – Lead (LM or ALM/EM) 

  • 1- Youth engagement staff 

  • 1 – Adult engagement staff 

  • 1 - Engagement staff
Click here to learn more about the subcommittee infrastructure and the duties of these groups.   
Applications are due by September 23 and require supervisor approval. Both returning and new members are welcome to apply. All applicants will be notified via email of the status of their application the week of September 30. A brief training for subcommittee leads will occur the week of October 7. The first Summer Reading Committee meeting will be on Tuesday, October 15 from 2:30-4pm. 
  
Please contact OES with any questions you have. Summer Reading couldn't happen every year without all of us working together-- thank you!
 
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