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We are conducting a program this summer that has turned out to be wildly popular in our area. It's called the Million Page Challenge. We are one of six small to medium-sized public libraries in our county. All of us are participating in the challenge. The Million Page Challenge is a take-off on similar programs in schools where classes challenge each other to see which class can read the most pages. We decided to challenge ourselves to see if the people in our county could read 1,000,000 pages over the summer. This program does not replace the summer reading programs, but is run concurrently with them. Readers do not have to sign up for the challenge. They can read both library materials and non-library materials. They can read magazines, books, whatever, just as long as the material has pages that can be counted. Each item is recorded on a slip of paper that we designed for this purpose. The slips are turned in to the library, and each library totals the number of pages on the slips each week. My library then gathers the numbers and adds them up. We advertise this info widely. Even people who aren't readers are fascinated by what's going on and comment on the challenge. So far, since June 1, we have read over 1,200,000. We obviously underestimated! However, people are very excited about this and want to keep reading. We have had requests to keep going to see how many pages we could read by the end of the year. We will definitely do this again next summer Charr Skirvin Plainfield-Guilford Twp. Public Library
