Unshelved/Highsmith 2nd Trick My Bookcart contest is over and the winner’s have been announced. This is going to be so much fun next year for Oklahoma. Rally your teens and get those ideas flowing!

Heads up! McDonald’s toy prize for Happy Meals is a wind-up bee man. The toy is a tie-in with the Bee Movie that’s in theater’s now. By summer the toy could make a nice small prize.

August 2, 2007

Librarians, Teachers, and Volunteers
Public Libraries and Schools
The Great State of Oklahoma

Congratulations on your 2007 Summer Reading Program! You all are to be commended on a job very well done.

As this is my first summer reading program as the Youth Services Consultant, I admire all of your hard work. I am amazed at just how much you accomplished for the benefit of so many. This is truly a summer to remember for a long time to come.

If you haven’t had a chance to fill out the evaluation I have included the link below:

2007 SRP Evaluation:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=8tbR_2f4Rg7btI0yIibO81gQ_3d_3d

Also, here is the link to the online form for the 2008 Summer Reading Program:

2008 SRP Materials Order:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=hxCgX_2f3YSUF_2fdIYha8_2bN3A_3d_3d

I do hope to see many of you at the Share Fair workshops. The children librarian’s workshop is September 27th and the young adult librarian’s workshop is September 28th. More information and registration is here:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=kuTHckBEQRai8lbw_2b1s9iw_3d_3d

Now, go on vacation!

Yours truly,
Adrienne Butler
Youth Services Consultant
Oklahoma Department of Libraries
200 Northeast 18th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73105

abutler@oltn.odl.state.ok.us
405.522.3323

How is your summer reading going?

I’ve been busy gathering materials for school libraries that want to have a summer reading program and for public libraries who are running out of supplies. If you are running low, let me know and I’ll send you more.

When you get a chance you may want to look at Oklahoma Child Care: The Quarterly Journal for Caregivers Everywhere, vol. 2, 2007, page 34, ISSN: 1049-9466. There is information, activities and a short bibliography on bugs (2008 SRP theme). Contact:

Oklahoma Department of Human Services
Division of Child Care
PO Box 25352
Oklahoma City, OK 73125

Main phone numbers:

405.521.3561
800.347.2276

ODL is a depository of state publications so there are copies here for interlibrary loan.

This is an Oklahoma edition of the Texas Child Care which is published by the Texas Workforce Commission. (I’m not sure why, but the copy I have in front of me is cited as 2007, the online copy is Summer 2006.) You can request copies of articles by contacting them.

Thanks to Kelly at Tulsa City-County Library System for the heads up!

I leave for ALA in Washington, D.C. next week. This is my first time to ALA and my first trip to D.C. I’ll return the last week in June, and then it’s Library Day at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History on June 30th.

The links to the evaluation and materials order forms have changed. SurveyMonkey updated their web site. I have made the corrections on the CYA web site pdf’s of the manuals. I have also made the respective replacement pages a word document.

The shirts have been ordered. There is a three-day turnaround, but I am hoping they will be ready Wednesday, May 23. I will be mailing them first class after I pick them up. The company is here in OKC. If you want to pick your order up here at ODL instead of waiting for the mail, let me know.

Thank you for your patience.

The teen manual is online now. I did the same with it as with the children’s by having it in it’s entirety, and splitting it in half. Hopefully, this helps with downloads.

I’ve uploaded on the CYA: Children’s and Young Adult web site the 2007 Children’s Manual. It includes news release information, a list of past and future summer reading program slogans and the link to the end-of-summer evaluation and materials request form in SurveyMonkey.

I have put the manual in pdf format. There is one that is the entire manual, which is 117 pages. I also broke the manual in half, so there is just the news release information (47 pages) and bibliographies and programs (68 pages). Hopefully, that will make it easier to download and print.

The teen manual will be up very soon.

[From William Young, Public Information Manager]

• Folks–
• Meet the Summer Reading Artist at OLA!
• The artist for this year’s Oklahoma Summer Reading program, Kandy Radzinski, will be at the ODL booth (2nd Floor lobby of the Cox Center near the OLA booths) signing free copies of the Summer Reading poster.
  Kandy will also have copies of her Oklahoma Book Award-winning work, “S is for Sooner,” a perfect title for the Centennial.
• Kandy will be at the ODL booth, 1:30 to 3:30 on Tuesday, April 3. Please plan to stop by at this time and get a free, signed poster, and pick up a copy of “S is for Sooner” while you’re there!
• ( Oh! And check out the poster at this link:
  http://cya.oklibshare.org/childrens/poster.jpg )

William R. Young
Public Information Manager
Oklahoma Department of Libraries
200 N.E. 18th Street

The 2007 Summer Reading Workshop bibliography (word document) has been uploaded to the CYA web site. These are the books that were displayed for both children and teens. Download and take a look.