Summer Reading Program folks:
The Texas State Library is gathering Texas Reading Club memories for an online exhibit. Take a look below for details. Now's the time to brag about your fabulous programs - and CTLS libraries offer some of the best summer fun in the state! --Suzan Dear Librarians, To celebrate the Texas Reading Club Jubilee, we are preparing an online gallery with 50 years of Texas Reading Club artwork, newspaper articles, photos, oral histories, and memorabilia, similar to the online TLSAC exhibits at <http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/exhibits/index.html>. I am very excited about this project and would like to ask for your help in preparing the best possible gallery. You are all a part of the Texas Reading Club. More than 14 million children have participated at your libraries in the past half-century. Many of you have hosted reading clubs for years or decades. You will be a part of this online gallery also, and I believe you will be proud to share it to with your staff, patrons, friends groups, funders, and families. Will you please help us prepare a gallery that represents you, your libraries, your reading clubs, and your communities - by sending any of the following items? * Newspaper articles or clippings about your summer reading clubs from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, or 2000s. You may either send digital images via e-mail or CD, or you may mail the articles and clippings to me and we can scan them and return them to you. * Photos of displays in your library from throughout the decades. You may either send digital images via e-mail or CD, or you may mail photos to me and we can scan them and return them to you. * Completed certificates and reading logs from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, or 2000s. These may be yours, your co-workers', your parents', your children's, your patrons'. You may send digital photos of them, or digital photos of people holding them via e-mail or CD. You may also send actual certificates and reading logs and we will scan them and return them to you. * We would like to include photos of three generations of Texas Reading Club participants. This could be three generations of a single family, but this is not necessary. It would be great if one or more of them was holding certificates or reading logs. (Would you please consider talking to your patrons and arranging a photo?) You may either send digital images via e-mail or CD, or you may mail photos to me and we can scan them and return them to you. * If you, your staff, or your patrons have stories to tell about participating in the Texas Reading Club, or hosting past Texas Reading Clubs, please let me know so that I can schedule a date and time to record a telephone interview with you. * If you plan to prepare a promotional video for the Texas Reading Club Jubilee, please consider sending us a digital file to include in the online gallery. (And, please consider uploading your video to your library's web site or to YouTube, and sending a link that we may add the 2008 Texas Reading Club Jubilee web page.) If you plan to take photos of patrons, or if they provide photos, please let them know that the photos may be published on the Texas State Library web site and ask their permission. If you scan photos, certificates or reading logs, please scan them in their original size at a minimum resolution of 300 DPI in tiff or jpg format in RGB mode. If you send digital images via email or CD, please be sure to send tiff or jpg files with the minimum resolution is 300 dpi at the actual size of the item. When you send any of the items above, please include 1) your name, library, address, phone number, e-mail; 2) if you send photos, please include the names of individuals in photos, the years in which they participated in the reading club, the names of the libraries at which they participated, and please include a statement that we have permission to include them in the online gallery; and 3) if you send newspaper articles or clippings, if possible, please include the name of the newspaper in which they were printed and the publication date. We are planning additional exciting events to celebrate the Jubilee, and I will keep you posted as these are finalized. Thank you in advance for your help. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions; my mailing address and phone number are below. I look forward to hearing from you! Best regards, Christine McNew Youth Services Consultant Library Development Division Texas State Library and Archives Commission PO Box 12927 Austin, TX 78711-2927 Phone: 1-800-252-9386 (Texas only) or 512-463-6623 Fax: 512-463-8800 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
