BC Teen Summer Reading Club - Announcement 8 February 2005

As an extension of the very successful B.C. Summer Reading Club program for children aged 6-12, the British Columbia Library Association is thrilled to announce the creation of a province-wide Teen Summer Reading Club for 2005!

This pilot programme is made possible by the generous funding of Public Library InterLINK and the Public Library Services Branch of the Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services.

The major component of the BC teen reading club will be the website where young adult readers will register so they can submit book titles and reviews (thus entering their name in prize draws with each book review submitted), participate in book discussion groups, and consult theme-related book and website lists. Our vision for the website component is a highly participative, informative and exciting website with high teen-appeal for young adults: teen-friendly, sophisticated, simple, elegant and easy to navigate for young adults aged 13-18. Posters, bookmarks and reading records to support the web-based programme will be made available for free to all public libraries in B.C. who wish to participate.

Chosen by a group of teen/youth librarians and advisory teens, this year's inaugural theme will be "Summer Scrapbook".

Feel free to email me if you have any questions about this initiative.

Our thanks to both InterLINK and PLSB!

Jacqueline