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All clued up
We are delighted that Reading Detectives, which we are running in partnership with Made in Britain
(a joint initiative from the Arts Council and BBC) was featured in the
Guardian books blog . Our library-based Reading Detectives groups plan to track down forgotten
or unknown writers living in five UK regions over the summer months. You can find out more and lend them a hand on the
Reading Detective's website.
You can also follow Reading Detectives on Twitter.
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Libraries Change Lives Award
Well we were delighted to make it as one of two finalists into the CILIP Libraries Change Lives Award.
To see what the Six Book Challenge is all about you can watch this YouTube clip featuring library and education staff and learners from Warrington.
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Summer Reading Challenge
This year's Quest Seekers Summer Reading Challenge is taking off fast and furiously in libraries across the UK.
Here are some of the comments we've had from the young people who are using
www.questseekers.org
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"Dear quest seekers thanks for starting it up this is the first ever quest seekers here in Clones its really starting me on Books. And again Thank you"
Jack, 9/10, Co. Monaghan, Ireland
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"my names grace my school teacher gave me a book marker today because a school librarian came in to tell us about the summer holiday challenge I just came in ate my dinner and found my bookmark and I looked on the
back and there was a website I went on it and here I am I made up a username and password and off I went its so cool on herexxx"
grace, 9, Essex
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Good luck to those of you running the Challenge this year. We look forward to hearing your stories and more from the young people you are supporting to take part.
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Reading for Life update
The Sun is about to launch the Great Family Escape
promotion which encourages families taking holidays at Haven Holiday Parks to get in to reading.
They'll get a pre-holiday reading pack with a free audio book, a reading welcome pack in their chalet,
plus reading activities on site run by Haven staff. Families who join the public library at the end of their holiday will be entered into
a prize draw. Please alert front-line library staff to this as when Haven holiday families come in to join the library, it will be a great
chance to get more children involved in Questseekers.
Marmite are also launching a reading promotion at the end of August.
Catch up on all the Reading for Life news.
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Involving young people
"When you get used to going to the library it's just like going round to your mate's house."
Alex Pendlebury, 15, from Woolston High School, volunteer member of Warrington Youth Council for Libraries.
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In the two years that The Reading Agency has been managing Fulfilling their Potential (FtP), the national youth strategy
for libraries, we've seen a massive shift in engagement with young people aged 11 to 19. Previously, the focus was passive - waiting for young
people to come in and programming for them. Increasingly it's about developing a conversation and sharing power. Read more about how we are
sharing power through our Headspace
and groupthing
projects or join the conversation.
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SCL survey
We'll be surveying SCL members during August to find the latest information about library led cross cutting reading
strategies. We're meeting members of SCL in September to discuss the survey findings and agree next steps in supporting libraries to further
this work. Read about the five things that SCL and The Reading Agency suggested that libraries might do following the
National Year of Reading
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Disney promotion
Our partnership with Disney is offering libraries new opportunities to promote reading and encourage families who don't see themselves as library users to join their local library. Over 1700 libraries have signed up to be part of this exciting new development which launches in September. Disney staff are volunteering their time to support this initiative.
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National Costa prize winner
Well over 100 organisations, schools, colleges, libraries and workplaces, entered people who had completed the Six Book Challenge into the prize draw sponsored by Costa Coffee. The winner is Dunja Kuhn, aged 22 from Germany, who got involved in the Six Book Challenge after joining an English conversation class in Battersea Park Library. For all the rest of our Six Book Challenge news and to find out how you can be involved visit Six Book Challenge.
"Diary 1 - Getting to read more.
Diary 2 - Love to read.
Diary 3 - I'm reading more books, finding things out about different people and different ways of life."Brian Powell, Bolton Community College, who completed three reading diaries
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Jobs at The Reading Agency
We are currently recruiting for two exciting new positions. Please feel free to send round your networks...
groupthing.org is a major new initiative from The Reading Agency and we are looking for a web producer/project manager with creativity and dynamism to develop groupthing further - into a thriving online community with a sustainable financial base. The closing date for applications is 5pm on Tuesday 4 August. Find out more and apply at www.readingagency.org.uk
The Cultural Leadership Programme (CLP) is a government funded investment in excellence in leadership across the creative and cultural industries. We are one of nine organisations that are working together to deliver new opportunities to extend leadership practice and experience and are offering a CLP 'Peach' Placement for a Development Associate. Further information for all placements is available on the opportunities page of the CLP website at www.culturalleadership.com
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Dates for your diary
We are holding a major Summer Reading Challenge conference on November 13 that we hope will be of particular interest to library Heads of Service and education partners. More details to follow, but speakers include Estelle Morris and Michael Rosen, and the UKLA team who will report on research into the impact schools perceive the challenge to have on children's reading. Booking isn't open yet but will be available through www.readingagency.org.uk/new-thinking/events when it is.
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Making Reading Count is the new Reading Agency training course which looks at how reading can support local authority priorities and targets. It's running on 22 October in Birmingham - for more details and to book your place email Jenny.Warner@readingagency.org.uk
Keep up to date with all our news on the website, tell use what you think at the discussion forum and follow us on Twitter.
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