May 17, 2023 • 22 mins
Whittney Mahle and Diane Watson from The Marion Public Library joined the show to give us the details of this years Summer Reading Fun program at the library. It runs from june 1st through July 31st and kids can win prizes and have awesome experiences!
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Join to me in studio today fromthe Merry in Public Libraries, Diane Watson
and Whitney Malee. How are youguys doing wonderful, doing really well?
How here? I am so gladyou guys are here because it is the
time of year we start talking aboutthe Summer Reading program and Summer Reading Fund
is so important. And I know, Whitney, you spend probably way way
more time then people think putting thistogether. You really want to make these
(00:25):
two months super special for kids,right yeah, this actually Summer Reading is
starting to get lined up months andmonths beforehand. We look for our main
big events like our magic show,our spoon Man, but we're also thinking
throughout the year of what things arecoming up that we can tie good programming
(00:45):
too. So we're just really excitedabout this lineup. We've been wanting to
bring back Pause for Reading for along time, and this summer is the
perfect opportunity our adventure authors creative writingfor kids. So we've got just some
really excited people who are happy thatwe're finally able to do a full summer.
(01:07):
I love it, and you're readyto kick off June. First,
guys, let's talk a little bitabout the Summer Reading Fund program and how
people get signed up and what aresome of the things they're going to be
experiencing this summer go ahead. Sure, there's a couple different parts in this.
So I want to say first thatas much as I want kids to
come in and get registered for SummerReading, and what that entails is they
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come in, they sign up,and then they keep track of their reading,
and once they hit five hours orten hours of reading, they get
prizes for that. That is aseparate thing from any of the actual programs
that are going on. Kids donot have to be signed up for Summer
Reading to come attend these great programs. They don't have to have a library
card to do any of it.I know that can be a barrier for
(01:53):
some people, not having a librarycard, and every year we have these
kids in families who just have themisconception that they have to have cards or
they have to be registered to cometo our great programs. Most of our
programs are drop in, open tothe community, no registration required, So
that's the most important thing. ButI absolutely do want kids and families to
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come and get cards, and Iwant kids to come and sign up for
Summer reading, track their reading andget prizes for that too. Excellent.
So everything starts on June first,and you're going to start with some things
that we're used to, story timethings like that. But talk a little
bit about pause for reading. Iknow you're excited about that because you guys
(02:36):
were able to do this program.Talk about it and why it's so fun.
Sure, Shared Brown is actually goingto be bringing a golden doodle.
I love it a fun dogs.Kids sometimes who are struggling with reading,
they get very self conscious, andwhen there is an adult present there who
is trying to help them with reading, it actually isn't as helpful as it
(02:58):
could be because the child is soself conscious and they're worried about it.
When you have a child reading toan animal, it takes all of that
away. It's calming, it's fun. The animal has no judgment. The
animal is just pure love and support. So when you have kids reading to
any kind of animal, it justit helps them in a way that sometimes
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adults, as well meaning as weare that we just can't right. I
get that. That's really cool.And then June tenth, you've got a
big event. You're going to gounder the Big Top talk about this one.
So this is the whiz Bang ScienceShow. Doctor Dave is coming back
again. Every time that he's comehe's brought an exciting group of activities.
(03:42):
They're all science based activities, andevery year he designs his programs to follow
the National Summer Reading theme. Thisyear, the National Summer Reading theme is
all together now it's about friendship andfun. So it's really pretty open ended.
So all of Doctor dave science experimentsare going to be explaining some of
(04:02):
the things that you see at thecircus, explaining some of the fun ways
that science works. So we don'tactually know what exactly he's going to be
doing this year. He's made balloonsexplode before, filled with liquid nitrogen.
He has he's said a couple ofthings on fire before. He always has
(04:24):
an explosive ending to show yes,yes, that'll be fun. And then
ten days later the Spoonman show.You got the Spoonman back. Yeah,
the Spoonman was really interesting. I'mglad that Jim Cruise is coming back this
year. He shows kids how toplay musical instruments with spoons, so it's
a little bit of performance. Healways brings up kids from the audience to
(04:47):
incorporate into kind of a skit.So all the kids are playing different instruments,
they're learning about different instruments about music, but they're also working together and
kind of understanding how you have towork together to make good music. I
love that team paper art. Sowe talk about kids, you're talking about
(05:09):
all kids, that includes the teens. So talk a little bit about some
of the team stuff right when weare serving teams. So we are serving
teams up through eighteen can sign upfor summer reading, and so we want
to make sure that they have programstoo, some of the paper art programs.
It's going to be a variety ofdifferent things. It couldn't compass or
a GAMMI. It could encompass papermaking, which is actually really easy and
(05:33):
fun to do. You just takethings. You take paper, you take
other things like dried flowers, blendthem up in a blender and then put
it out on a screen and drivesand you've got fantastic homemade paper. So
it's going to be a variety ofdifferent things that they'll be doing. There
might even be some recycled book crafts. I know that is very popular right
(05:55):
now, but we want to makesure to have opportunities, specifically for those
teams ages to have their own spaceand their own activities. Okay, Okay,
Saturday, July eighth, You've gotDana Hill coming in and this is
a magic show, right, Yeah, he's actually going to be performing at
the Popcorn Festival. So he contactedus and said, hey, I'll be
(06:15):
in town. Yeah, so whydon't I coming out there? Which I
love for our families because you know, people have so much going on through
that week. Some people might beout of town. They might miss him
at the Popcorn Festival or yeah,he might they might miss him at the
other events that he's going to beat in town. So we are so
happy that he is going to beat the library. We're hoping that a
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lot of families are able to makeit. That'll be cool. July fifteenth,
This summer signing for kids. Talkabout this. We have a gentleman
who has done a couple sign languageprograms for us, and so actually some
of the programs that we have goingon throughout the summer are geared towards adults
for sign language, but it hasbeen so popular for families and sign language
(07:00):
is really important for children, findingkids different ways to communicate. When one
form of language is frustrating, havingthem have another way that they can communicate
can take some of that frustration outof the equation. It's really important for
child development especially, and it helpswith a fine motor skills. There's just
(07:24):
there's so many good things about incorporatingsign language for kids and families of all
ages. So some of these Summersign programs are specifically for the adults,
and some of them are for kidsand families, right right. I love
that. And kids learning sign languageso much easier than us learning sign language.
(07:44):
I understand it. It really iseasy for them to pick up and
then keep forever and be really goodat it. So I love the fact
that that you've got that going onand you're kind of targeting a little bit
the six to twelve year olds.That's fun. And then the finale of
the Summer Eating Fun program July thirtyfirst, yet another birthday party for Swoop.
I love that. This is myfavorite event that we do every summer.
(08:09):
So we decided that Swoop's birthday isgoing to be Pirate themed. Pirates
seem to go over really well.We love pirate programs, and you know,
we already got the outfits, sowe might as well. But yeah,
but this year is just going tobe a lot of fun for SWOOP.
We're going to have the same stationbased activities so parents can come,
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they can bounce around to the differentstations. There's going to be a treasure
map with several different activities that oncethey get the specific activities marked off,
then they can go get their prize. But we're also going to be giving
away one of our finale prizes atthe end of July. We're going to
do two finale prizes or two grandprizes this summer, so there'll be a
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Finale prize in June and or aGrand Prize in June, a Grand prize
in July as well. We're goingto mix it up a little bit this
year and kids can get entries intothe Grand prize by doing ten hours of
reading. Once they complete one oftheir summer reading logs, that gets them
an entry into the Grand prize,and they can do two logs in a
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summer for a total of two entriesinto the Grand prizes. I love that.
Of course the program. You canread details of the program when you
go to the Marrying Public Libraries website. Marrion Library dot org and Diane.
I know. One of the bigfocuses of summer reading and it's been this
way forever, but we've really kindof got it figured out in recent years
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is to stop that summer slide.The idea is to keep the kids engaged
and learning so that they don't havea step back during the summer. Correctly,
that's what happens normally when kids getout of school, they'll say,
oh, I don't have to doanything all summer lung. So this is
the libraries way in Let's Read twentiesway of bringing activities and reading to those
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kids that think that they're they don'twant to do anything all summer long,
and this makes it fun. Ofcourse, we want them to stay engaged
and continue reading because it is fun, and that's why we bring a lot
of this stuff to the forefront.So Let's Read twenty has always partnered with
the library to make a lot ofthese things happen. So you'll find a
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lot of this information and a fulllist of all of the activities that are
going on throughout the summer at ourwebsite Marion Library dot org slash sr for
Summer Reading and then of course,if you go to the Let's Read twenty
website you'll find the same thing.It's that much of a partnership throughout the
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summer of keeping kids engaged because weknow studies show that there is that loss
when kids decide that, you know, oh it's summer, I'm not going
to do anything. So we justencourage parents out there to continue reading,
continuing encouraging, and continuing to getthem involved in in much things like this.
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There's many things in the community thatwill keep them engaged, but the
library specifically does it to keep themengaged all summer long, right, And
I know you guys just updated thebook at the book walk out at tall
Grass Trail. Even though there's someconstruction going on there here in the next
several months, it's still going towork out. Yeah, absolutely so getting
some things situated out there, butthe book walk will be open and will
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be accessible if that's going on.You guys just swapped the book out.
What's out there right now? Doyou know? The book? The book
is My Town to My Town,Meet Pueblo by Nicholas Soulis Okay, okay,
And it was done in cooperation withthe OSU Language Development Class at OSU
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Marion, doctor Patson is on theLet's three twenty board and she goes,
I have this class coming up,and she did this two years ago.
Came to us and said, whatcan we do or how can we get
them engaged in first of all doingsome of the story times and then second
of all, what project can wegive them? And I immediately said,
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well, the book needs changed outat the tall Grass Trail, yea.
And I said that it would begreat if we were able to do that
as a bilingual book, and shesaid that would be a great idea.
And then we came up with theidea of let's do QR codes and having
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the students linked with the QR codeswill be linked to videos and the students
reading the page spread in both Englishand Spanish. So it's a very interactive
walk this time and actually the nextone. They did two books, the
one that's up now and we'll probablyput one up in a few months that
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we'll do the same thing. TheQR code will link you to a video
of the book spread being read toyou. The kids had a great time
doing it. They found out thatit's not just a project that you say,
oh well, we're going to dothis, and and things just run
smoothly. They had a few hiccupsalong the way, including the weather.
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Yes, yes, yeah, that'swhat's really great about it because they are
they are in that learning and developingstage themselves, and this was a great
project for them to discover that noteverything goes as planned and you have to
figure out how to make things happen. Happen, right, But I would
say go out and enjoy the walk, spread the word that it's out there,
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that this is This is a veryinclusive walk book walk that is done
by local kids who want to makea difference in the community. And that's
why this partnership really really worked well. I love it. I love it,
Whitney. I love the idea forthe Summer Reading Fund, and I
know that you have incorporated things thatyou guys regularly do at the library into
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Summer Reading. And I love thefact that you don't have to have a
card, you don't have to beregistered, you can just show up.
But obviously the benefits of having thatcard and being in the program and signing
up for the program and going afterthe goals and the prizes and everything that
makes kids thrive even more. Rightright, it all kind of works together.
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We want kids to be able tocheck out books from the collection,
including our ebook collections. And actuallysomething I would like to highlight with our
ebook collections having a card and beingable to access the ebooks. We do
have a collection of Spanish language booksavailable, and I know that is a
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need and a population that is fastly, fastly growing. So we do have
that collection available excess with a librarycard. But just having kids be able
to access books, it makes sucha difference when they can come pick out
their own books, when they canexperience things that they are interested in,
and when they can follow their ownpassions, and when they can follow their
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own creativity. That is so important. That ability to explore and experience and
to dream and learn. It allgoes together into just making a more positive
life and having a more positive outlook. Right right, are we finding that
more textbooks in school are are digital? I mean are they using them on
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their devices and everything? So they'rereally used to doing all that reading on
devices and that gives them that abilityif they have the card and everything.
Right, Well, certainly we're seeinga lot of kids that are doing work
on their chromebooks. Rather than actualtextbooks, and we've seen a lot of
different changes and the things that kidsare coming in and looking for. We
don't have the kids coming in andneeding the books on the different states like
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they used to, the different bookson different countries like they used to.
Sometimes a teacher will do a projectwhere they'll need information on an area,
but we're just not seeing those kidscoming in and looking for those specific kinds
of resources. What kids are comingin and looking for now are much more
the narrative type books, fiction ornonfiction with a more narrative focus. So
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we're kind of shifting away from seeingthe kids coming in and needing those more
strictly textbook resources, which I lovebecause I love storytelling and I love the
power of stories. So they're gettinga lot more of that strictly informational textbook
information on the digital devices. Sowhat we're seeing is when kids come to
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the library, primarily they're not wantingto jump on the computer because they're doing
that all day. We're seeing aresurgence of pleasure reading, which makes me
really happy. We have a lotof people who will ask us, oh,
our ebooks the death of reading,and absolutely not, because we're seeing
the opposite. People are on computerso much in their normal life and in
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their working life that they are comingback to pleasure reading. Yeah, I
love that. I do see alot of people, especially when they take
trips or vacation or weekends off,they've got a hard bound book, you
know, and you know, sittingthere in their lap and they're reading wherever
they might be, which is obviouslysomething you can do this summer by stopping
out at the library or um.We talk about this all the time.
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My wife is a queen of ereading. She is. She takes advantage
of all those apps and you know, and she gets disappointed when she has
one and somebody else takes it fromher because she doesn't get it done or
whatever. And but that is theway it works. But no, I
love that. What else did youhave that you guys wanted to talk about
today? Well, I'm really interestedin a family fund night that's coming up
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in June. We have partnered withthe OSUM Biomedical Engineering program breenapp or out
there and she has a team ofother students and volunteers. They are going
to help us put on a steamfamily fun night that's focused on coding,
but it's not coding on the computer. We are taking activities that show the
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basics of coding through activities and computationalthinking patterns, properties, sequences, loops.
We're trying to show those concepts throughphysical activities that you wouldn't know you're
learning. We're going to be doingfun activities and trying to explain computational thinking
through those activities. So we're reallyexcited about this project. And then in
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July, we are doing a camp, a robotics camp using our Vex Robotics
kits, and that is actually somethingwe're going to require registration for because we
have limited spots. Registration will openin June on June first, same as
Summer Reading in person or over thephone, but breed Now and the OSU
team are going to be coming backto help us do the Vex Robotics Camp.
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I love that. Partnerships are awesome. That's fantastic. Yeah, I
get some And Brie is fantastic.I had a chance to meet her a
couple of years ago. She is. She's quite a gem around here,
she really is. What are someother stuff you have, Diane, I
think what we just need to stressis for the Summer reading This is for
those those kids zero who are justborn all the way up to eighteen.
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You can take a child and readto them and still get them registered in
the program for the summer. Itdoesn't have to be you know, a
elementary school kid or a middle schoolkid. It can be any age up
to eighteen. And then one ofthe things that I wanted to point out
is that we have a little bitof supplemental funds that came in for our
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Summer Reading Fun through Marin Community Foundation. The Greg and Janice Swept Him Fun
is helping us pay for one ofthe live productions. And that's always good
because last year we got a littlebit of that that money too, But
it's really you know, the MarinCommunity Foundation and Greg and janis recognizing that
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those are important to the programming thatis going on throughout the community to keep
the kids engaged. And so Idid want to highlight that today. But
it all starts June first, andI think we are ready for all of
the activities throughout the summer. Wemay even add a few of them as
we go along. But get whenyou get a chance, stop in the
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library and get one of the flyersthat sort of gives your rundown. I
was giving them out at kindergarten registration, say hey, put this on your
refrigerator. You know, pick uptwo if you need to, and put
them side by side on your refrigeratorand just you know, start checking off
the things that happen throughout the summerat your library, because we are here
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for you. Every person in thatlibrary is here for the whole community.
And we are always excited when summerreading comes around because it really brings a
flurry of activity into the building andaround. So we're excited for June first
to come around, and then we'llbe sad when July comes around, but
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we always have a lot of thingsthat are that are going on even afterwards,
so I love it. Marion Librarydot org is where you'll find all
of the details. Marion library dotorg. All of those resources are up
there. Slash sr for Summer Reading, but all of that is up there
and easy to link and get to. And of course it's always important to
follow the Marrion Public Library on socialmedia because you do a ton of stuff
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up there, and you remind everybodyon social media that this is coming up,
and you want to get the kidsor whatever and come and join in,
right, Yeah, good stuff tobe Diane Whitney, thank you guys
so much for being here once againfor the Marion Public Library. It's Marion
library dot org. And don't forgetwherever you're finding this podcast. All you
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Join to me in studio today fromthe Merry in Public Libraries, Diane Watson
and Whitney Malee. How are youguys doing wonderful, doing really well?
How here? I am so gladyou guys are here because it is the
time of year we start talking aboutthe Summer Reading program and Summer Reading Fund
is so important. And I know, Whitney, you spend probably way way
more time then people think putting thistogether. You really want to make these
(00:25):
two months super special for kids,right yeah, this actually Summer Reading is
starting to get lined up months andmonths beforehand. We look for our main
big events like our magic show,our spoon Man, but we're also thinking
throughout the year of what things arecoming up that we can tie good programming
(00:45):
too. So we're just really excitedabout this lineup. We've been wanting to
bring back Pause for Reading for along time, and this summer is the
perfect opportunity our adventure authors creative writingfor kids. So we've got just some
really excited people who are happy thatwe're finally able to do a full summer.
(01:07):
I love it, and you're readyto kick off June. First,
guys, let's talk a little bitabout the Summer Reading Fund program and how
people get signed up and what aresome of the things they're going to be
experiencing this summer go ahead. Sure, there's a couple different parts in this.
So I want to say first thatas much as I want kids to
come in and get registered for SummerReading, and what that entails is they
(01:30):
come in, they sign up,and then they keep track of their reading,
and once they hit five hours orten hours of reading, they get
prizes for that. That is aseparate thing from any of the actual programs
that are going on. Kids donot have to be signed up for Summer
Reading to come attend these great programs. They don't have to have a library
card to do any of it.I know that can be a barrier for
(01:53):
some people, not having a librarycard, and every year we have these
kids in families who just have themisconception that they have to have cards or
they have to be registered to cometo our great programs. Most of our
programs are drop in, open tothe community, no registration required, So
that's the most important thing. ButI absolutely do want kids and families to
(02:16):
come and get cards, and Iwant kids to come and sign up for
Summer reading, track their reading andget prizes for that too. Excellent.
So everything starts on June first,and you're going to start with some things
that we're used to, story timethings like that. But talk a little
bit about pause for reading. Iknow you're excited about that because you guys
(02:36):
were able to do this program.Talk about it and why it's so fun.
Sure, Shared Brown is actually goingto be bringing a golden doodle.
I love it a fun dogs.Kids sometimes who are struggling with reading,
they get very self conscious, andwhen there is an adult present there who
is trying to help them with reading, it actually isn't as helpful as it
(02:58):
could be because the child is soself conscious and they're worried about it.
When you have a child reading toan animal, it takes all of that
away. It's calming, it's fun. The animal has no judgment. The
animal is just pure love and support. So when you have kids reading to
any kind of animal, it justit helps them in a way that sometimes
(03:21):
adults, as well meaning as weare that we just can't right. I
get that. That's really cool.And then June tenth, you've got a
big event. You're going to gounder the Big Top talk about this one.
So this is the whiz Bang ScienceShow. Doctor Dave is coming back
again. Every time that he's comehe's brought an exciting group of activities.
(03:42):
They're all science based activities, andevery year he designs his programs to follow
the National Summer Reading theme. Thisyear, the National Summer Reading theme is
all together now it's about friendship andfun. So it's really pretty open ended.
So all of Doctor dave science experimentsare going to be explaining some of
(04:02):
the things that you see at thecircus, explaining some of the fun ways
that science works. So we don'tactually know what exactly he's going to be
doing this year. He's made balloonsexplode before, filled with liquid nitrogen.
He has he's said a couple ofthings on fire before. He always has
(04:24):
an explosive ending to show yes,yes, that'll be fun. And then
ten days later the Spoonman show.You got the Spoonman back. Yeah,
the Spoonman was really interesting. I'mglad that Jim Cruise is coming back this
year. He shows kids how toplay musical instruments with spoons, so it's
a little bit of performance. Healways brings up kids from the audience to
(04:47):
incorporate into kind of a skit.So all the kids are playing different instruments,
they're learning about different instruments about music, but they're also working together and
kind of understanding how you have towork together to make good music. I
love that team paper art. Sowe talk about kids, you're talking about
(05:09):
all kids, that includes the teens. So talk a little bit about some
of the team stuff right when weare serving teams. So we are serving
teams up through eighteen can sign upfor summer reading, and so we want
to make sure that they have programstoo, some of the paper art programs.
It's going to be a variety ofdifferent things. It couldn't compass or
a GAMMI. It could encompass papermaking, which is actually really easy and
(05:33):
fun to do. You just takethings. You take paper, you take
other things like dried flowers, blendthem up in a blender and then put
it out on a screen and drivesand you've got fantastic homemade paper. So
it's going to be a variety ofdifferent things that they'll be doing. There
might even be some recycled book crafts. I know that is very popular right
(05:55):
now, but we want to makesure to have opportunities, specifically for those
teams ages to have their own spaceand their own activities. Okay, Okay,
Saturday, July eighth, You've gotDana Hill coming in and this is
a magic show, right, Yeah, he's actually going to be performing at
the Popcorn Festival. So he contactedus and said, hey, I'll be
(06:15):
in town. Yeah, so whydon't I coming out there? Which I
love for our families because you know, people have so much going on through
that week. Some people might beout of town. They might miss him
at the Popcorn Festival or yeah,he might they might miss him at the
other events that he's going to beat in town. So we are so
happy that he is going to beat the library. We're hoping that a
(06:38):
lot of families are able to makeit. That'll be cool. July fifteenth,
This summer signing for kids. Talkabout this. We have a gentleman
who has done a couple sign languageprograms for us, and so actually some
of the programs that we have goingon throughout the summer are geared towards adults
for sign language, but it hasbeen so popular for families and sign language
(07:00):
is really important for children, findingkids different ways to communicate. When one
form of language is frustrating, havingthem have another way that they can communicate
can take some of that frustration outof the equation. It's really important for
child development especially, and it helpswith a fine motor skills. There's just
(07:24):
there's so many good things about incorporatingsign language for kids and families of all
ages. So some of these Summersign programs are specifically for the adults,
and some of them are for kidsand families, right right. I love
that. And kids learning sign languageso much easier than us learning sign language.
(07:44):
I understand it. It really iseasy for them to pick up and
then keep forever and be really goodat it. So I love the fact
that that you've got that going onand you're kind of targeting a little bit
the six to twelve year olds.That's fun. And then the finale of
the Summer Eating Fun program July thirtyfirst, yet another birthday party for Swoop.
I love that. This is myfavorite event that we do every summer.
(08:09):
So we decided that Swoop's birthday isgoing to be Pirate themed. Pirates
seem to go over really well.We love pirate programs, and you know,
we already got the outfits, sowe might as well. But yeah,
but this year is just going tobe a lot of fun for SWOOP.
We're going to have the same stationbased activities so parents can come,
(08:31):
they can bounce around to the differentstations. There's going to be a treasure
map with several different activities that oncethey get the specific activities marked off,
then they can go get their prize. But we're also going to be giving
away one of our finale prizes atthe end of July. We're going to
do two finale prizes or two grandprizes this summer, so there'll be a
(08:56):
Finale prize in June and or aGrand Prize in June, a Grand prize
in July as well. We're goingto mix it up a little bit this
year and kids can get entries intothe Grand prize by doing ten hours of
reading. Once they complete one oftheir summer reading logs, that gets them
an entry into the Grand prize,and they can do two logs in a
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summer for a total of two entriesinto the Grand prizes. I love that.
Of course the program. You canread details of the program when you
go to the Marrying Public Libraries website. Marrion Library dot org and Diane.
I know. One of the bigfocuses of summer reading and it's been this
way forever, but we've really kindof got it figured out in recent years
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is to stop that summer slide.The idea is to keep the kids engaged
and learning so that they don't havea step back during the summer. Correctly,
that's what happens normally when kids getout of school, they'll say,
oh, I don't have to doanything all summer lung. So this is
the libraries way in Let's Read twentiesway of bringing activities and reading to those
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kids that think that they're they don'twant to do anything all summer long,
and this makes it fun. Ofcourse, we want them to stay engaged
and continue reading because it is fun, and that's why we bring a lot
of this stuff to the forefront.So Let's Read twenty has always partnered with
the library to make a lot ofthese things happen. So you'll find a
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lot of this information and a fulllist of all of the activities that are
going on throughout the summer at ourwebsite Marion Library dot org slash sr for
Summer Reading and then of course,if you go to the Let's Read twenty
website you'll find the same thing.It's that much of a partnership throughout the
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summer of keeping kids engaged because weknow studies show that there is that loss
when kids decide that, you know, oh it's summer, I'm not going
to do anything. So we justencourage parents out there to continue reading,
continuing encouraging, and continuing to getthem involved in in much things like this.
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There's many things in the community thatwill keep them engaged, but the
library specifically does it to keep themengaged all summer long, right, And
I know you guys just updated thebook at the book walk out at tall
Grass Trail. Even though there's someconstruction going on there here in the next
several months, it's still going towork out. Yeah, absolutely so getting
some things situated out there, butthe book walk will be open and will
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be accessible if that's going on.You guys just swapped the book out.
What's out there right now? Doyou know? The book? The book
is My Town to My Town,Meet Pueblo by Nicholas Soulis Okay, okay,
And it was done in cooperation withthe OSU Language Development Class at OSU
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Marion, doctor Patson is on theLet's three twenty board and she goes,
I have this class coming up,and she did this two years ago.
Came to us and said, whatcan we do or how can we get
them engaged in first of all doingsome of the story times and then second
of all, what project can wegive them? And I immediately said,
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well, the book needs changed outat the tall Grass Trail, yea.
And I said that it would begreat if we were able to do that
as a bilingual book, and shesaid that would be a great idea.
And then we came up with theidea of let's do QR codes and having
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the students linked with the QR codeswill be linked to videos and the students
reading the page spread in both Englishand Spanish. So it's a very interactive
walk this time and actually the nextone. They did two books, the
one that's up now and we'll probablyput one up in a few months that
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we'll do the same thing. TheQR code will link you to a video
of the book spread being read toyou. The kids had a great time
doing it. They found out thatit's not just a project that you say,
oh well, we're going to dothis, and and things just run
smoothly. They had a few hiccupsalong the way, including the weather.
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Yes, yes, yeah, that'swhat's really great about it because they are
they are in that learning and developingstage themselves, and this was a great
project for them to discover that noteverything goes as planned and you have to
figure out how to make things happen. Happen, right, But I would
say go out and enjoy the walk, spread the word that it's out there,
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that this is This is a veryinclusive walk book walk that is done
by local kids who want to makea difference in the community. And that's
why this partnership really really worked well. I love it. I love it,
Whitney. I love the idea forthe Summer Reading Fund, and I
know that you have incorporated things thatyou guys regularly do at the library into
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Summer Reading. And I love thefact that you don't have to have a
card, you don't have to beregistered, you can just show up.
But obviously the benefits of having thatcard and being in the program and signing
up for the program and going afterthe goals and the prizes and everything that
makes kids thrive even more. Rightright, it all kind of works together.
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We want kids to be able tocheck out books from the collection,
including our ebook collections. And actuallysomething I would like to highlight with our
ebook collections having a card and beingable to access the ebooks. We do
have a collection of Spanish language booksavailable, and I know that is a
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need and a population that is fastly, fastly growing. So we do have
that collection available excess with a librarycard. But just having kids be able
to access books, it makes sucha difference when they can come pick out
their own books, when they canexperience things that they are interested in,
and when they can follow their ownpassions, and when they can follow their
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own creativity. That is so important. That ability to explore and experience and
to dream and learn. It allgoes together into just making a more positive
life and having a more positive outlook. Right right, are we finding that
more textbooks in school are are digital? I mean are they using them on
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their devices and everything? So they'rereally used to doing all that reading on
devices and that gives them that abilityif they have the card and everything.
Right, Well, certainly we're seeinga lot of kids that are doing work
on their chromebooks. Rather than actualtextbooks, and we've seen a lot of
different changes and the things that kidsare coming in and looking for. We
don't have the kids coming in andneeding the books on the different states like
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they used to, the different bookson different countries like they used to.
Sometimes a teacher will do a projectwhere they'll need information on an area,
but we're just not seeing those kidscoming in and looking for those specific kinds
of resources. What kids are comingin and looking for now are much more
the narrative type books, fiction ornonfiction with a more narrative focus. So
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we're kind of shifting away from seeingthe kids coming in and needing those more
strictly textbook resources, which I lovebecause I love storytelling and I love the
power of stories. So they're gettinga lot more of that strictly informational textbook
information on the digital devices. Sowhat we're seeing is when kids come to
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the library, primarily they're not wantingto jump on the computer because they're doing
that all day. We're seeing aresurgence of pleasure reading, which makes me
really happy. We have a lotof people who will ask us, oh,
our ebooks the death of reading,and absolutely not, because we're seeing
the opposite. People are on computerso much in their normal life and in
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their working life that they are comingback to pleasure reading. Yeah, I
love that. I do see alot of people, especially when they take
trips or vacation or weekends off,they've got a hard bound book, you
know, and you know, sittingthere in their lap and they're reading wherever
they might be, which is obviouslysomething you can do this summer by stopping
out at the library or um.We talk about this all the time.
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My wife is a queen of ereading. She is. She takes advantage
of all those apps and you know, and she gets disappointed when she has
one and somebody else takes it fromher because she doesn't get it done or
whatever. And but that is theway it works. But no, I
love that. What else did youhave that you guys wanted to talk about
today? Well, I'm really interestedin a family fund night that's coming up
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in June. We have partnered withthe OSUM Biomedical Engineering program breenapp or out
there and she has a team ofother students and volunteers. They are going
to help us put on a steamfamily fun night that's focused on coding,
but it's not coding on the computer. We are taking activities that show the
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basics of coding through activities and computationalthinking patterns, properties, sequences, loops.
We're trying to show those concepts throughphysical activities that you wouldn't know you're
learning. We're going to be doingfun activities and trying to explain computational thinking
through those activities. So we're reallyexcited about this project. And then in
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July, we are doing a camp, a robotics camp using our Vex Robotics
kits, and that is actually somethingwe're going to require registration for because we
have limited spots. Registration will openin June on June first, same as
Summer Reading in person or over thephone, but breed Now and the OSU
team are going to be coming backto help us do the Vex Robotics Camp.
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I love that. Partnerships are awesome. That's fantastic. Yeah, I
get some And Brie is fantastic.I had a chance to meet her a
couple of years ago. She is. She's quite a gem around here,
she really is. What are someother stuff you have, Diane, I
think what we just need to stressis for the Summer reading This is for
those those kids zero who are justborn all the way up to eighteen.
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You can take a child and readto them and still get them registered in
the program for the summer. Itdoesn't have to be you know, a
elementary school kid or a middle schoolkid. It can be any age up
to eighteen. And then one ofthe things that I wanted to point out
is that we have a little bitof supplemental funds that came in for our
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Summer Reading Fun through Marin Community Foundation. The Greg and Janice Swept Him Fun
is helping us pay for one ofthe live productions. And that's always good
because last year we got a littlebit of that that money too, But
it's really you know, the MarinCommunity Foundation and Greg and janis recognizing that
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those are important to the programming thatis going on throughout the community to keep
the kids engaged. And so Idid want to highlight that today. But
it all starts June first, andI think we are ready for all of
the activities throughout the summer. Wemay even add a few of them as
we go along. But get whenyou get a chance, stop in the
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library and get one of the flyersthat sort of gives your rundown. I
was giving them out at kindergarten registration, say hey, put this on your
refrigerator. You know, pick uptwo if you need to, and put
them side by side on your refrigeratorand just you know, start checking off
the things that happen throughout the summerat your library, because we are here
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for you. Every person in thatlibrary is here for the whole community.
And we are always excited when summerreading comes around because it really brings a
flurry of activity into the building andaround. So we're excited for June first
to come around, and then we'llbe sad when July comes around, but
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we always have a lot of thingsthat are that are going on even afterwards,
so I love it. Marion Librarydot org is where you'll find all
of the details. Marion library dotorg. All of those resources are up
there. Slash sr for Summer Reading, but all of that is up there
and easy to link and get to. And of course it's always important to
follow the Marrion Public Library on socialmedia because you do a ton of stuff
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up there, and you remind everybodyon social media that this is coming up,
and you want to get the kidsor whatever and come and join in,
right, Yeah, good stuff tobe Diane Whitney, thank you guys
so much for being here once againfor the Marion Public Library. It's Marion
library dot org. And don't forgetwherever you're finding this podcast. All you
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