MPLIC Summer Reading Club 2011

MEMPHIS PUBLIC LIBRARY’S SUMMER READING PROGRAM

STARTS MAY 31, 2011

Children, teens, and adults are invited to participate in the Memphis Public Library’s Summer Reading program.

Summer slide. It’s not a new dance nor is it children’s playground equipment. Unfortunately, the phrase refers to a phenomenon that occurs when students forget what they have learned while on break from school during the summer months. Learning loss affects all school subjects, can have cumulative effects, and isn’t limited to elementary-aged students. There is an antidote. Reading.

Reluctant or even voracious readers can benefit from the Library’s Summer Reading Club (SRC). Weekly incentives and prizes provide motivation for youth (teens included) to open a book while on vacation from the classroom. Children’s department Senior Manager and Youth Services Coordinator Mary Seratt explains how the SRC can help prevent learning loss: “Reading gets better when children practice it, and encouraging children to join the Library’s Summer Reading Club is a painless way to make their practice fun. The small tangible prizes are just the icing on the cake. The real reward is becoming a better reader. When a child’s reading improves, his/her writing improves, and very often he/she will do better in other subjects as comprehension improves.”

Teens 12-17 have age-appropriate prizes and activities as do adults to get them engaged.

For the 18 and older crowd, magazines, newspapers, eBooks, books on tape—even reading to a child—all qualify for weekly prize drawings. The adult grand prize is a Nook e-reader device. “Literacy is important from the cradle to the grave,” says Adult Services Coordinator Wang Ying Glasgow. “We want to make reading fun and accessible for everyone.”

Youth SRC signup takes just a few minutes at any library location.

Adults can signup online at memphislibrary.org/adult-summer-reading or in person at any library location. For more information, call 415-2700.

JobLINC Job Fair 6/30/10 @ Central Library 10-3.

Download of Book – The Difference by Jean Chatsky

The Oprah Winfrey Show is offering a free download of the book The Difference by Jean Chatsky.  The book gives advice on survival during these tough economic times.  It also gives job search strategies.

The download is available until 9:59 a.m Saturday, March 14, 2009.

Enjoy!

Job & Career eBooks

Our library has added a new way to access the books you need.  MyiLibrary offers online access to more than 40 titles, including:

• 50 Best Jobs for Your Personality
• Gallery of Best Resumes
• Test Prep guides for: ASVAB, GED, Police Exams, Praxis II, Real Estate License Exams, SAT Math and SAT Vocabulary.

To access these eBooks, go to the library’s Databases page.  Click on MyiLibrary under the E-Books heading.  Enjoy!

Occupational Outlook Handbook

If you’ve never used the Occupational Outlook Handbook, it is certainly time to start!  The OOH is the ultimate resource for information about particular types of jobs–how much they pay, what kind of training is required, and what the future might hold for the field. 

The print version of this resource is published every two years, but the most recent information is available on the website.