[Libs-Or] CCL seeks friendly competitor for SRP 2017

[Jane Scheppke]

Hey, you!


Are you looking to give your 2017 Adult Summer Reading program an edge? Want to put the C[ollaborative] back in CLSP? Think your program might benefit from a little bit of that "triumph of victory and the agony of defeat" sumpin-sumpin?


Simply put, we want to pit Crook County Library's adult readers against your library's adult readers and do some kind of friendly competition between our library and another Oregon library.


Motivating adult SRP registrants to keep reading and attending programs through the program has always been a bit of a challenge for us. We think introducing an element of competition (and a little bit of drama) between Crook County Library and another Oregon library might help. And if it doesn't help, we'll at least have some fun!


CCL has had great success partnering with other Oregon libraries on Summer Reading-related competitions in the past. Way back before ebooks complicated things, we did an annual who-can-read-the-most-pages competition with Jefferson County. In 2015, we competed with Driftwood in a Batman vs. Superman dressup contest. Admittedly, the latter one was more for kids (each library had a cardboard cutout of a superhero that we dressed in a fresh costume every week) but we had tons of fun coming up with something new every week and drawing out the Facebook drama.


Obviously, there's a lot of different ways we could do this. Some of the ideas floated by my colleagues have included...


  *   Who can read the most hours? Good because we could track it with one of those big wall thermometers, or maybe a gradually rising wall to match the "Build a Better World" theme.
  *   Who can read and recommend the most books? Could do some kind of activity to facilitate communication between patrons at both libraries (postcard exchange, Facebook discussion group, etc.)
  *   How many people can meet [reading goal]? For our teen summer reading program, we are asking participants to do a modified version of the Reading Without Walls challenge (read a book about a character who doesn't look/live like you, read a book about a new topic, and read a book in a new format). We could do something similar for adults and turn it into a numbers derby.

And these are just the things we spitballed in 15 minutes! If this proposition intrigues you, drop me a line. My crew and I will also be at OLA all program long. Just look for the tight, focused pack of weirdly competitive looking librarians.

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Jane Scheppke, MLIS
Assistant Director, Crook County Library
175 NW Meadow Lakes Drive
Prineville, OR 97754
(541) 447-7978 ext. 303
jscheppke at crooklib.org<https://mail.co.crook.or.us/owa/14.3.319.2/scripts/premium/redir.aspx?C=aIMhSZz7canS6XaBDNRRoWtySW92jzSPL_v78zl1353Vdvg6XjrUCA..&URL=mailto%3ajscheppke%40crooklib.org>

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