Boys and Girls Clubs Summer Reading Partnerships
Public Library Application 2014
Please read Requirements and Guidelinesbelow and keep for your records. Submit the application on Page 2 to Staci Shaw, Project Coordinator, by February 10.
Email r mail to Idaho Commission for Libraries, 325 W. State Street, Boise, ID 83702.
The purpose of this program is to minimize summer learning loss, especially among disadvantaged or underserved children.
Outcome: Children attending their local Boys and Girls Club (BGC) over the summer maintain reading proficiency levels when they return to school in the fall.
Objectives:
1) Children are given daily access to high-interest high-quality books.
2) Children are given time everyday to read.
3) Public libraries bring weekly summer programs to sites with high percentages of “underserved” children and teens.
The main requirements of the program are as follows. There is room for flexibility as to how to best meet these requirements, and ICfL will provide support as needed.
- The BGC administration must commit to establishing comfortable space and shelving for a “Reading Corner” that is accessible by children and teens. Space can be divided between the two age groups if desired.
- The library will inventory their BGC’s existing collection of books in February and March, and submit needs to ICfL. ICfL will provide approximately 200 titles to help establish reading corners at the Club. Reading Corners need to be ready by the end of May, 2014.
- Library staff, with support from ICfL, will present information about summer learning loss and access to print to each site’s staff before the summer programs begin. This training must be face-to-face.
- The library will work with the BGC to design weekly library outreach visits over the summer months.
- The library will work with the BGC to develop a way to track the amount of reading accomplished by students each week, either in minutes or number of books read.
- Surveys will be administered to BGC children in order to determine children’s attitudes toward reading, approximate amount of time spent reading at home, and self-perception of reading ability. (If the Club serves a large number of children a random sample of children is acceptable.)
- The library/BGC staff will survey children, as well as submit the final total of books/minutes read to ICfL for analysis of data.Library and BGC staff may also opt to collect and analyze additional data, or provide such data to school administrators, etc.
Boys and Girls Clubs Summer Reading Partnerships
Public Library Application 2014
Name of Public Library: ______
Applicant/Contact Person: ______
Email: ______Phone: ______
_____ I have read and understand the requirements and components of this program.
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Applicant signatureDateLibrary Director signatureDate
Name/Location of Boys and Girls Club: ______
Boys and Girls Club Director/Representative: ______
Email: ______Phone: ______
_____ I have read and understand the requirements and components of this program.
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Boys and Girls Club Director or Representative signatureDate
Briefly describe the current relationship between the library and the Boys and Girls Club.
Briefly describe how participating in this program will strengthen the relationship between the library and the Boys and Girls Club.