Summer reading club
The Summer Reading Club (SLC) is one of the largest reading promotion projects in North Rhine-Westphalia . The SLC is implemented by the Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh in cooperation with the participating libraries and funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia . The SLC opens up an extracurricular field in which reading pleasure, fun and creativity are in the foreground. The new, innovative and digital concept was introduced in 2019.
concept
The summer reading club relies on creativity , teamwork and communication . Readers of all ages - friends, families, neighbors - can participate together as a team. They collect books read, audio books and attended literature-based events that take place in the library over the summer vacation. For successful participation, each team member participates in at least one activity, so that even "few readers" are motivated to take part in the summer reading club.
The team log contains creative tasks that can be solved as a team or individually. There is an online logbook for the summer reading club for libraries who want to expand their digital offering. Equipped with topic pages, the team logbook as well as the online logbook offer creative challenges, playful tasks and opportunities for discussion. The library becomes a meeting place and lingering place for the team members: many teams meet in the library to work on tasks on book heroes, photo stories, logos and more. The categories of the logbook can also play a role at the end of the summer reading club. At an Oscar award, particularly creative implementations are rewarded with "reading Oscars" and certificates are awarded to all successful participants.
history
The Brilon City Library introduced the Summer Reading Club in the summer holidays of 2002 as a component of its program to promote reading skills among children and young people. The model was the “Summer Reading Club” of the Los Angeles City Library, which the director of the Brilon City Library, Ute Hachmann, got to know during an internship in 2001. As part of the “International Library Grant” from the Bertelsmann Foundation and BI-International, this offer was installed as a model project for Germany in Brilon.
In summer 2005 the Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh took over the financial support, the organizational lead management of the project and the distribution in the state with special funds from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. At the time, the project was mainly based on borrowing newly published books and aimed exclusively at children and young people from the 5th grade.
In a two-year pilot phase from 2017 to 2018, the Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh, together with twelve libraries, tested new reading-promoting models to further develop the summer reading club and address new target groups. The result is the new concept described above, which was presented to the public for the first time in 2018 at the German Librarians' Day and which was introduced across the board in 2019. This year, 125 municipalities with 211 library locations were involved.
Junior Reading Club (JLC)
From 2008 to 2019, the Kultursekretariat NRW Gütersloh looked after the Junior Reading Club (JLC) as the “little brother” of the Summer Reading Club. The JLC was a reading promotion project for elementary school students, which was based on the summer reading club in terms of time and concept, but was specially tailored to the younger target group. The aim was to get children excited about literature and reading at an early age , especially outside of everyday school life. In return, the young readers received a club ID, a reading log and, if three books were read, a certificate. The junior reading club was held for the last time in 2019, as the target group is now covered by the new summer reading club concept. 17 libraries were involved in the last implementation.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reading Club in Summer: History of Creation , accessed on May 6, 2019
- ↑ Summer Reading Club: Imprint , accessed on May 6th. 2019
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