[yscon] Advice for Making Big SRP Changes

[Staci Shaw]

And to just add one more thing to Stephanie's response below, we do also provide membership to CSLP and a program manual to each public library that submits its stats. I let them choose the format, but if they don't respond by the time I need to send the order to CSLP I order the USB for them. We also occasionally provide face-to-face training, dependent on other training goals for the year; however, that training is usually based on best practices-outreach, school partnerships, evaluation, summer meal partnerships, supporting early literacy and beginning readers-we don't really provide much on programming, but we do give them time to network and brainstorm program ideas. Hoping to do some regional training next fall on these topics as well. As Stephanie mentioned, we are really focusing on summer learning loss and trying to move that reading proficiency dial...

~Staci
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Subject: Re: [yscon] Advice for Making Big SRP Changes

Hi Danielle & all. I thought I'd chime in since Staci, our SRP lead, is taking a few vacation days this week. I'd go back to your goals - why you're supporting efforts and how you measure success. For Idaho, we really want to reach youth who are struggling with reading and those who face barriers getting to the library in the summer. The activities ICfL supports are designed to keep children reading over the summer, increase their access to print materials, and increase awareness of the importance of maintaining a reading routine in the summer. We're working on programs that keep school libraries open over the summer, Summer STEM micro-grants, school-public library collaborative efforts, and lots of support to encourage outreach efforts and partnerships with summer nutrition programs, etc. SR attendance in "regular" and outreach programs has never been higher, and while we believe we have a lot more work to do to ensure all youth have access to books and services over the summer, we know our efforts have made a difference statewide.

We had a small advisory group get together to help us focus our efforts on these goals many years ago and that helped "sell" our efforts to the library community. See http://libraries.idaho.gov/landing/summer-reading for more details on the programs we offer.

Best of luck,
Stephanie

Stephanie Bailey-White
Deputy State Librarian
Idaho Commission for Libraries
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From: yscon [mailto:yscon-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of Margarida, Danielle (DOA)
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 11:33 AM
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Subject: [yscon] Advice for Making Big SRP Changes

Hi everyone,
        We currently support our statewide SRP by purchasing manuals, providing vouchers for the purchase of posters and reading logs, and by paying for each library (71 buildings) to have one children's performer and one teen performer. The whole process of selecting, booking, and paying the performers is a very convoluted process involving applications, a showcase, a booking meeting, and lots and lots of paperwork on my end. I've streamlined the process quite a bit over the past two years, but it is very time consuming and I'm doubtful of the impact it has on the summer reading program. Because we only pay $160 per program we do not get a variety of (nor high quality) performers willing to participate. Attendance numbers for these performances has been steadily declining, and every year I field complaints from directors regarding the performers that are selected. (Directors want performers that can draw/accommodate large crowds, but we can't get these types of performers because of the low $160 rate). The Youth Services Advisory Council is responsible for reviewing applications and selecting performers, however I am the middle man dealing with performers, helping libraries/performers book their programs, and maintaining a calendar of all performances throughout the state.
        I would really like to stop providing the performers showcase and paying for performers. It takes a lot of time to coordinate and prevents me from working on other projects that I think would be more meaningful (such as offering more training on summer learning, building more online SRP resources, etc.) And while I don't make the performer selections, it does appear that our agency is promoting a specific group of performers over another - something I'm not very comfortable with. This year I had to deal with an aggressive performer who was not selected, and we had to involve our legal department.
        All of this is to ask - do you have something you do to support SRP that works really well? I have supervisor support to discontinue the performers showcase, but I need to provide something in its place. I'm getting too wrapped up in my own head and would appreciate hearing what's working for you, or if you have experience in making a big change (the showcase is a decades old institution and I'm a bit nervous about the blowback!) I am planning on sending out surveys and holding a forum to gather input from librarians, too.

Thank you!

Also, we may already be getting an online reading program  through our partnership with our state's grade level reading campaign, so I'm looking for something other than providing a service like Wandoo Reader or Beanstack.

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Danielle Margarida, Youth Services Coordinator
Office of Library & Information Services
Rhode Island Department of Administration
One Capitol Hill | Providence, RI  02908-5803

401.574.9309 (voice) | 401.574.9320 (fax) | www.olis.ri.gov<http://www.olis.ri.gov/>

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