Bookmobile Post-it Program for Reading Awareness

By Holly Elliott

Our mission states that we promote community enrichment, economic validity, and individual achievement through reading and lifelong learning. Our director also values early literacy in young chil-dren and the need for reading at a young age. To cooperate with our librarys mission and promote reading to our young children, I wish to raise awareness through a fun & visual program in allowing all our patrons to read a book, and post it on the bookmobile. It is as simple as that! I wish to cover the en-tire bookmobile with post-it notes from our patrons. Not only does it promote books that are currently being read by our patrons, it allows for the children in our county to see that reading is for everyone and that reading is fun!

The purpose is to raise reading awareness! Allow early learners to get excited about reading and realize that everyone is doing it! The bookmobile patrons are already reading something, so it is not more for

them to do; it is more like an opportunity to give back to what they have been given! The ability to read and learn!

Steps to Setting up this program include:

Purchasing Post-it notes (Fun-Looking ones, maybe a book-shape!)

Providing them to the Daycares, Schools to prepare with names and titles ahead of time

Having Spares for community locations where patrons attend by free-will who want to participate

Making enough room available for post-it notes to go (whether a bulletin board, etc.)

This program is specifically written for the bookmobile, but could be tweaked for any library setting.

Promotion of the program (Flyers, Facebook, and the Library Website)

The Bookmobile schedule runs for a whole month, so this program will specifically run for a month!

Community Partners in this initiative

Schools

Daycares

How will we know it was a success?

In evaluation, the bookmobile patrons will be prepared to have read at least one book that month and the following month will fill out the post-it note. They will post-it on the bookmobile and it will stay through that whole month. Patrons, young and old, will see how many people are reading. We may take photos throughout the event to show children and adults posting their note on the bookmo-bile. We will also take pictures of the bookmobile filled with these notes at the end and post those pic-tures through Facebook and other means, if necessary. This programs intent is not necessarily for statis-tical purposes, but to raise excitement for reading to our younger generation!

News Release Will promote this the whole month before we Post through Facebook, flyers, and the Library Website!

The bookmobile does intend on trying out this program!

Bookmobile Department

Phone: 301-739-3250 x155

E-mail: bookmobile@washcolibrary.org

Facebook: Bookmobile WCFL

Lets Raise Reading

Awareness by Posting

the book YOU read to the

bookmobile!

Heres what you do:

Read a Book

Tell Us About it

Write the Title and

Your First name on a

Post-it Note

Post it on the Bookmobile and/or on Facebook!

Its that easy!

Did YOU know that

children develop

their capacity to

learn in their first

3 years of life? https://www2.ed.gov/pubs/startearly/ch_1.html

The City

of Ember

~Holly