Taking the Show on the Road

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Taking the Show on the Road!

• Summer Library
• Program Outreach

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Collaboration

• Forming partnerships
• Finding staff
• Funding

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Form Partnerships

• YMCA/YWCA
• Boys and Girls Club
• Schools
• Daycares
• Scouts
• Big Brothers/Big Sisters
• Any other youth serving agency

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Finding Staff

• Volunteers
• Teens
• Staff from partnering agencies
• Outreach/Bookmobile staff

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Funding

• Friends of the Library group
• Library Foundation
• Grants
• Local
• Request made stronger through your partnerships

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Grant Resources

• Foundations in Wisconsin A Directory, 25th
  edition, 2006
• Marquette Universitys Funding Information Center
• Online version http//www.wifoundations.org/
• Order information for print or online version
  available on website

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Local Grant Resources

• Civic Organizations
• Rotary International/Rotary West
• www.rotary.org
• Kiwanis International
• www.kiwanis.org
• Lions Club International
• www.lionsclubs.org
• Junior Womans Club

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Programs that Work

• Books 2 U Multnomah County Library
• http//www.multcolib.org/los/books2u/
• Storytime on the Road - Amery Public Library

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Resources

• Taking the show on the road by Walter Minkel,
  School Library Journal, February 1, 2002
• Serving Summer Reading Needs Twenty Years at the
  Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library, Robert
  Lehnen and Chris Cairo, Children and Libraries,
  Summer/Fall 2006
• Google topics Summer reading program outreach
  or Summer library program outreach for ideas

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More Information

• Fiore, Carole D., Fiores Summer Library Reading
  Program Handbook, Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2005

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More Information

• Dresang, Eliza T.
• Dynamic Youth Services through Outcome-Based
  Planning and Evaluation,
• American Library Association, 2006