Staff Summer Reading Club

All,

I would like to encourage everyone to participate in the Staff Summer Reading Club this year. Unified service means that all staff who have an interest may do reader's advisory and by participating in SSRC, you will be exposed to books you may not normally choose to read. If you don't have a lot of time for reading, you may do as I often do and listen to unabridged audiobooks.

Please see the text below from a post Laurie Covington wrote for the NL Blog for more details.

Thanks,
John

Please join us in participating in the 2012 Staff Summer Reading Club. Besides being lots of fun, the purpose of the club is to make the participants better readers’ advisors. The guidelines are meant to encourage participants to read books from categories they might not normally choose. Past participants have been known to form new reading interests this way.

Participants must complete five books between June 1 and August 31. One or more titles must be nonfiction. You may either read the book or listen to the unabridged audiobook. Five of the books you read must be from five different categories out of the twelve listed in the guidelines. In 5 lines or less, tell us about each book you read using the SRP Reader Online Access on the Reference page of the Intranet. Rate the book on a scale of 1 to 5: (1) Recyclable; (2) Tolerable; (3) Readable; (4) Memorable; (5) Phenomenal.

The dues are only $3 (sent to Chris Hu in LMS), which goes toward the Celebration in the fall. Please see attachments for all the details.

Let the summer reading begin!

SSRC Guidelines
SSRC How To
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