Background

ALIA is delighted to present this year's Summer Reading Club from 1 December 2008 to early February 2009. Most public libraries throughout Australia will offer a Summer Reading Club and holiday activities for children aged five years and older and their families over the summer break. The Summer Reading Club includes promotional posters, reading records, puzzles, activities, reading incentives, a website and a library manual - everything a library needs to run the program.

Why hold a summer reading club?

• Summer reading helps students return to school in the new year ready to learn and with greater reading fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension.
• The materials are ready to use and the program is flexible to allow it to be tailored to your library environment and your clients.
• Holiday activities can be incorporated as part of the club at your library.
• Maintain or even increase library use by children and their families over the summer break.
• Create excitement in children about reading for leisure;
• By combining reading and other activities dispel the myth that libraries are boring places and that reading is only ever done alone.
• Provide reading support to families through booklists, and sharing your knowledge and expertise.

When

1 December 2008 - 15 February 2009

Official Website

Visit the official Summer Reading Club website for all the latest information http://www.summerreadingclub.org.au

Merchandise

We are pleased to offer a range of material for Summer Reading Club. Library kits will be available (3 posters, 100 wristbands, 100 stickers, 100 tattoos ) and additional posters, stickers, tattoos, wristbands and SRC Resource CD-ROM are being sold separately.

* Summer Reading Club merchandise will distributed in October to all locations *

Orders

Summer Reading Club orders closed on 15 August 2008.

For further information please phone 02 6215 8214 or e-mail (please remove '.nospam' from address).

Librarians

Summer Reading Club 2009 librarians planning wiki http://www.alia.org.au/src/wiki/

Previous year's SRC

2007