Description:

In a café style setting, a panel of outstanding WMRLS member librarians and friends will share tips and techniques on the many aspects of planning, conducting, and evaluating a library summer reading program.

Agenda:

9:30    Welcome - Librarian participants arrive and visit the exhibits

9:45    Catch the Beat at Your Library!  Janet will introduce each speaker and each librarian summer program exhibitor.

10:00 Skit to Introduce Catch the Beat ~ Sarah Hodge Wetherbe & Laura Normand

10:20  Catch the Beat at the Granby Public Library – Janice McArdle

10:50  Catch the Beat at the Adams Free Library – Holli Jayko

11:10  The Nuts & Bolts of Catching the Beat at Your Library This Summer – Cindy MacNaught

11:30  Catch the Beat at the Emily Williston Library in Easthampton – Diana Norman

11:50  Et Tu Brute? A Canine Chorus at the Southwick Public Library – Diane Caruso

12:10  Top Ten Sure Fire Ways to Get Teens Reading @ Your Library This Summer – Maureen Ambrosino

12:30  Lunch Buffet

1:30    Visit the Displays:

• Storrs Library (Longmeadow) Decoration and Display Table
• Ellison Machines made possible by the East Longmeadow and Westhampton Libraries
• Presenter Displays
• Summer Freebies and more!

Presenters/Exhibitors:

• Holli Jayko, Adams Free Library
• Cindy MacNaught, East Longmeadow Public Library (Ellison)
• Joanne Parisi, East Longmeadow Public Library (Ellison)
• Diana Norman, Emily Williston Library, Easthampton
• Janice McArdle, Granby Public Library
• Martha Richard, Storrs Library, Longmeadow (Displays)
• Diane Caruso, Southwick Public Library
• Sarah Hodge Wetherbe, Springfield City Library
• Laura Normand, Springfield City Library
• Hilary Nolan, Westhampton Memorial Library (Ellison)
• Maureen Ambrosino, Central Massachusetts Regional Library System

Program Description:

Summer Reading Program Power Workshop! ~ 9:30 - 3:30

Tuesday, April 10 ~ Tekoa Country Club, Westfield

Meet with colleagues to brainstorm effective and creative ways to encourage children, teens, and families to visit the library and to read during summer vacation months.  Featured presentations will include effective library displays, unique ways to “catch the beat” this summer, tips and techniques on effective summer programming, teen summer reading programs, and more!  Janet Eckert is the WMRLS contact for this program.