Monday, June 27, 2011

Great Work--Keep it Going!

Keep up the REALLY terrific work, folks!

As of last night, you've surpassed our 2010 teen registrations by over 1250, are just 729 teens away from matching our 2009 total and just 1582 teens away from our goal of registering at least 10,000 teens!

YAY!!

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

:)

Half way there!

As of last night, we have more than 5,000 teens registered for Summer Reading 2011.

Rock on!!

Thursday, June 9, 2011

Ten Tips for Teen Summer Reading: #10

KICK-OFF DAY

We're finally here! Eight months and 35 posts later and Summer Reading Kick Off 2011 is here!

My last tip is this: YOU CAN DO IT!

We are already at 2,689 teens registered as of Tuesday night (7,599 for all ages) and we haven't even officially started yet. You've got this.

As a reminder and as an announcement for those not at the In-Service Tuesday, there's been a change in the challenge!

Instead of giving the cash to a youth-serving charity, I am donating the money to Queens Library!

To the three libraries with the highest PERCENTAGE increase over their 2010 teen registration numbers (minimum of 150 teens registered this year), a split of the cash as follows:

$250 Highest % increase
$150 2nd Highest % increase
$100 3rd Highest % increase

to be used for TEEN SERVICES at the library's discretion (ie. materials, programs, supplies, a party, etc.).

Rock on, team!

Cash in the Coffee Can: $502

Thursday, June 2, 2011

Ten Tips for Teen Summer Reading: #9

One More Week

The numbers are already looking great! We have a total of more than 5000 people registered for summer reading, with more than 3000 of them teens. ROCK ON!! We'll be ordering more library card holders as registration incentives and sending out the left overs we have to libraries in need of more in the meantime.

Use your teams, engage your teens, think BIG, be advocates and remember that LIBRARIES MATTER especially in the summer months.

Cash in the Coffee Can: $488