Summer Reading Program Cancelled For 2010
Jun 8, 2010 8:25 - 1 Comment
Posted by: Cindy Cotte Griffiths
Department: Events In Rockville,News
Tags: by Cindy Cotte Griffiths, library
Department: Events In Rockville,News
Tags: by Cindy Cotte Griffiths, library
Sadly, the >Montgomery County Public Libraries website posted the following announcement:
Due to budget cuts, Montgomery County Public Libraries has fewer staff to implement a Summer Reading program in 2010.
We will have free programs in the libraries from July 12 through August 24, including presentations by the Maryland Science Center and Reptiles Alive!, plus puppet theater, magic shows, and music programs. We will not be distributing reading gameboards, prizes, or coupons.
The program required visiting your library with your kids on a regular basis in order to receive rewards. Those of us who need deadlines will have to make a habit of going to the library without the incentives.
But all is not lost. The library website has reading lists for each grade from pre-K to high school to help find some good summer reading. The blue tabs at the top of this page make it easy.
If your school doesn’t require a summer reading log, you can still choose to keep track of your reading with this reading log.
Here’s the Rockville Library Event Listing and the Twinbrook Library Event Listing.
You can choose a program by subject:
Science
Stories and Theater
Music
Animals
Magic.
Without the Summer Reading Program, parents may need to make an extra effort to get the kids to the library, but keep reading! Teachers can always tell if you made the effort when students return to school.
These types of programs are great. Its sad to see the hammer come down on our education and libraries budget. The Post had a great article recently. The public service unions have been been treated very well in the last 5-10 years by our elected officials. (and why unions? is the county a car factory or mine or something? ) Quite well indeed, in the rush to spend the piles of unexpected income that flowed into local coffers. There is probably no chance of any of them taking a pay cut, thus we end up with less staff and furloughs, countywide. And fewer nice programs like this during the summers.