Announcement
Dear BC Libraries!
Get ready for SRC 2010:
SRC 2010 Librarian's website: kidssrc.bclibrary.ca
(available now)
SRC 2010 Kids website: www.kidssrc.ca
(available June 10)
Special note! For 2010 SRC we'll be basing our print
run on actual orders so please be ready to fill out the order
sheet as soon as you see it in early February. There will be a
two week ordering period - so alert your staff to watch for it
if you're on vacation or away at the Olympics!
"Reading Rocks!" How much fun can reading
be? This summer kids in British Columbia will find out when they
pick up their "SRC 2010: Reading Rocks!" reading record,
stickers and bookmarks illustrated by Chris Tougas.
The seven themes for SRC 2010 will encourage kids to read about
music, rhymes, humour, transportation, riddles, adventure and
even dinosaurs! The themes are : Readers Roar, Rock n Roll Reading,
Riddled Readers, A Rocky Read, Read a Ruckus!, Rise Up Readers!,
and Risky Reads.
Libraries can use the general themes or the many
suggested sub-themes to create programs, displays or contests.
See the list of themes and suggested sub-themes on the SRC 2010
Librarian's website at kidssrc.bclibrary.ca.
Chris Tougas, author and illustrator of Art's Supplies
and Mechanimals has created the hilarious poster and reading record
for Summer Reading Club 2010: Reading Rocks! Preliminary artwork
will be up soon on the SRC 2010 Librarian's website.
The SRC 2010 manual with programs, activity sheets
and booklists based on the seven themes will shortly be available
on the SRC 2010 Librarian's website at kidssrc.bclibrary.ca. We
hope libraries can use the manual to enhance or help staff with
ideas to create Summer Reading Club fun at their libraries. Please
check the librarian's SRC website now as it is beginning to fill
up with information such as the weekly themes, artist biography
and preliminary artwork. Your questions or comments about SRC
2010 are welcome - see the link to Els Kushner, KidsSRC Coordinator
at the bottom of the SRC 2010 Librarian's webpage.
The SRC 2010 Kids website will have booklists, a
web game, activities and other kinds of information and will be
available in June 2010 at www.kidssrc.ca.
SRC is sponsored by the British Columbia Library Association and
local public libraries with funding assistance from the Public
Library Services Branch, Ministry of Education, Margaret MacDiarmid,
Minister.
The Provincial SRC Committee and coordinators of the manual materials
this year includes: Els Kushner, BC SRC coordinator; Kevin Coates
(Vancouver Island Reg'l Library); Anne Martin (Vancouver Public
Library; Allison Taylor McBryde (North Vancouver District Public
Library); Ginny Aho (Surrey Public Library) and Hilary Russell
(Fraser Valley Reg'l Library). Our creative geniuses include Chris
Tougas (original artwork for poster, record, stickers), and Roger
Handling (graphic artist). Website whizzes are Neil Firkins, and
Jentekk Web Solutions. Our thanks for assistance go to Jacqueline
van Dyk, Director, Public Library Services Branch, Ministry of
Education.
Questions, concerns, comments? Please contact Committee chair,
Hilary Russell at the Clearbrook Library at 604-859-7814 or hilary.russell@fvrl.bc.ca.
You can also contact Els Kushner, SRC Coordinator, at 778-737-0156
or elskushner@gmail.com