Catch the Beat with SEMLS SRP 2007

A FEW MORE ONLINE SUMMER READING WORKSHOPS WILL BE OFFERED SO HURRY!

If you are still interested in participating in our statewide online reading program this summer www.readsinma.org, please sign up for our upcoming workshops. We have added two more June workshops in time for you to join in with your neighbors. And if you can't make either of those dates, please contact me for one-on-one training.

As the resident and self proclaimed newbie, I was wondering how you all went about putting together your coupon packets together.

I visualize these coupons being used as part of the sign-up, or as part of the incentives for SRP. Do you use every single one of the venues? That's a lot of coupons. Is it assumed that each kid gets one set of coupons, and that's it for the summer? Can these be requested by non-SRP patrons?

Please post comments on if you use the coupons, how you use them, and how you keep track of everything! Many thanks in advance!

Labels: coupons, SRP

COUPONS! COUPONS! COUPONS!

Woo hoo! We have our statewide coupons ready for you to view and download. You can reach the site through Western Region but you gotta go through me to get the passwords. You know how we like passwords. We have one for the public and that is not password protected but for the other site, look for an email from me that has the username and password.

We are also offering free tickets again for the Massachusetts Big Exposition Sept. 14-30 State Fair event, that's Big-E to you cowboys and girls. Many of you ordered them last year as summer reading prizes and they were mailed to you via delivery. This year however, if you would like to order tickets, please prepare an self-addressed envelope to Janet Eckert. More details of how and when you can order these will be forthcoming.

Now that our paper goods are showing up at our doors and inventory has been made, you may have heard that one of your neighbors received a surplus, others a slight deficit. In either case, if you would like to exchange a pack of this for a pack of that, feel free to wheel & deal with each other throughout the summer. We traditionally order extras just so that we can attempt to help you out in case you should run out, but as you can see it's not enough to cover everyone. I'll start first with all that I have to offer after handing out some from earlier this week:

7 packs of CERTIFICATES
6 packs of YA CARDS
25 packs of BLANK READING LOGS
18 POSTERS
19 packs of TIMED READ LOGS
34 packs of BOOKMARKS
178 packs of LINED READING LOGS
8 Paper MANUALS


As I said before, there's not a lot left. However if you tend to look at a glass half full, you'll see that our 178 packs of LINED READING LOGS can also serve as mini-posters--and we have tons of those. *SMILE* So what's the message for today boys & girls? Order a lot and order early when we start promoting the deadline each fall. You'll be a much happy camper when your orders finally arrive.

YEAH...our summer reading materials, i.e. bookmarks, posters and reading logs are being dropped off daily by UPS. I've heard back from a dozen libraries so far announcing that their materials arrived. Even our box of extras goods arrived today and I have to say that they look GREAT! In my opinion it was well worth the wait. If anyone needs materials for their school visits this week, please give me a call. I'll drop them off to your branch if you need it ASAP.

The summer reading materials are coming...S.L.O.W.L.Y. *sigh*

I've been hearing that some other libraries NOT in our region have at least received their incentives. I've talked with Janway and it looks like the paper products won't arrive until the end of this week or the beginning of next week. ARRGGHHH!!!! My apologies for the delay. I know that many of you are ready to do your school visits with materials in hand but maybe, just maybe you can show them our wonderful state website for online registration instead. It's not the bookmark but it's still a pretty object.

Although it's still in draft mode, it will look something like this--see.

Oooohhh pretty.

This online thingy will be ideal for your vacationing families and even those kids who can't get to the library as often as they'd like. So if you are interested in offering this instead of the paper logs or even if you would like to use both, sign up for any of the next Online Summer Reading Program Training workshops.