1. Reading Takes You Everywhere| Summer 2018
Adults Are People, Too!
Adult Summer Reading 2018
Morgan Rose Pershing Community Library Manager – Avalon Library County of Los Angeles Public Library
November 3, 2017
Reading Takes You Everywhere| Summer 2018

2. Why? Kids don’t vote. Parents do.
Parents modelling good behavior: Readers make readers
Promote literacy and literacy services
Active brains + social participation = Happy Adults!
And the most important reason…
Reading Takes You Everywhere | Summer 2018
November 3, 2017

3. Who? Know your audience Think beyond the usual suspects
Engage the whole spectrum
Don’t forget City/County employees
Reading Takes You Everywhere | Summer 2018
November 3, 2017

4. What? Virtually Anything!
Volunteer Vacations:
Hostelling International USA:
Summer Sci-Fi Reading Club
Armchair Travel Book Talk
International Food Fair
Cookbooks Around The World Book Talk (Better yet, get the author!)
Trivia Night – Geography
Wines Of The World
Reading Takes You Everywhere | Summer 2018
November 3, 2017

5. When & How
Coordinate with Youth Services and any other big community events
Check bus/dial-a-ride schedules
Evening programs may be harder for seniors
Consider weekend, after-hours, and off site programs
Put quarter sheets in all holds, new books, etc. announcing ASRP
Get Youth Services to sell to parents
Work with all levels of staff – get the Circ desk to sign up adults! Make it a contest.
Reading Takes You Everywhere | Summer 2018
November 3, 2017

6. Community Library Manager, Avalon Library
Contact:
Morgan Rose Pershing
Community Library Manager, Avalon Library
County of Los Angeles Public Library System
Your Library is a project of the California Library Association, supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
Reading Takes You Everywhere | Summer 2018
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