Booked Up
The Booked Up programme gives all Year 7 children in England the chance to choose a free book from a list of specially selected titles when they begin secondary school. Booked Up's goal is to encourage reading for pleasure and independent choice.
In 2010, The Reading Agency was commissioned by Booktrust to promote Booked Up in public libraries and school library services.
Booked Up display competition
The winner of the Booked Up display competition 2010 was Ware Library in Hertfordshire. You can view their fantastic display, along with those of the three runners up, on the Booked Up website.
Booked Up in libraries
Library services signing up to the promotion received a free set of 13 Booked Up books for their library service points. They also received a pack of POS material, including plenty of suggestions for easy ways to make the most of the books. School library services could order one set of the books and a POS pack.
The Booked Up books and material are completely free, but libraries participating in Booked Up 2010, were asked to:
- Service the Booked Up books for loan
- Put up displays of the titles (see the Booked Up website for details of a great display competition)
- Make front line staff aware of the initiative and able to support young people asking about the books and wider reading
- Run activities in partnership with schools
- Provide feedback for evaluation: we will be sending out evaluation questionnaires to all service points involved with the project in the autumn
Please visit the Booked up website for more information about the 2011 programme.