Thank you all for your quick responses to our (Hazelton’s) request for more medals. I believe we will have enough now.
And thanks to all of you who post cute, inspiring stories about your clubs. We all enjoy them.
Thank you all for your quick responses to our (Hazelton’s) request for more medals. I believe we will have enough now.
And thanks to all of you who post cute, inspiring stories about your clubs. We all enjoy them.
We received these lovely words from Gillian Guilmant-Smith over at the Vancouver Public Library’s Children’s library:
She and her 4 year old daughter proudly presented themselves to request the medal that had been earned. While situating themselves to take a picture with our frame, the mom commented, “The SRC activities were really good this year!”
I responded, “Oh, so you did the online activities?”
And she said, “Yes, we followed them and we printed out the coloring sheets. It was very good!”
We love to hear these stories, so please share in the comments with the feedback you’ve received as folks make their way back to libraries to pick up medals.
As the end of the 2020 KSRC comes, I’m left thinking of ideas for the final wrap up week!
Usually here at the Salmo Valley Public Library, we have a movie day and go to the local pool for a couple of hours. Seeing as we can’t do that, I’m wondering if anyone has any fun ideas for a wrap up! A zoom party is out of the question, as our turn out for zoom meetings hasn’t been great. Any ideas are appreciated!
Thanks!
Grace Salmo Valley Public Library Kids Summer Reading Club Coordinator
We’re in the final stretch for this year’s Summer Reading Club and wanted to highlight the wonderful interest and excitement we’ve received for our caption contests.
On average we receive about 150 submissions a week between the two age categories and they’ve been an absolute riot to read.
Here is an example from a few weeks ago
And the runner up captions included:
To build off this momentum, we want to introduce a Staff Caption Contest! Submit your captions below by next Tuesday, August 11th until 11:59pm and we’ll set up a vote and announce a winner on August 20th. The contest will receive an official Explore Our Universe SRC t-shirt!
And the winning caption is…
Thank you to everyone who submitted their captions!
It’s time to start thinking about SRC themes for… 2022!! (Our 2021 theme is Mystery).
First though, we want to do a little brainstorming and we’d love your help! Are there any theme suggestions you’d like to have included in the mix? Add a comment or use the form below and we’ll add them to the list!
We’ll leave the brainstorm open till August 15th. The following week we’ll send out a short-list of themes and then it will be time to vote on the three “finalists”.
Suggestions so far:
We had such a great time with Rachel Wang and Trish Pattison from the Space Centre today during our Ask an Astronomer event!
After a minor technical delay we launched straight into exploring our universe, straight from the Space Centre (notice the giant telescope behind Rachel!!) And we had so many great questions from viewers all over the province!
In case you weren’t able to attend, we’ve added a link to the recording (just scroll down to the Event Details section on our Ask an Astronomer page. We’ve also added info on stargazing apps, a DIY star finder, and how to find Comet Neowise in the sky (see it now! Next chance is in 6,800 years!)
Be sure to mark August 12th (2:30-3:00) in your calendar when Astronomer Rachel answers more questions just in time for the Perseids Meteor Shower!
Happy Summer Reading!
The Vancouver Island Regional Library (VIRL) is excited to share our SRC 2020 virtual events: https://virl.bc.ca/summer-reading-club-2/.
We have authors, artists, musicians, wolves (!), an astronaut candidate AND… Canadian Space Agency astronaut Jenni Sidey-Gibbons!
All BC libraries and their patrons are welcome to join us!
So much fun to see the promotional videos some of you have made! We are collecting them here in one place for everyone to enjoy:
Here is your handy 2020 BC SRC reference page:
Online registration & reading tracker |
bcsrc.ca |
Overview of online registration
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Staff Orientation Video |
Parent/Caregiver FAQ |
Online Registration & FAQ |
Preschooler Registration |
(The program is funded for 5-14; we have included “other” to capture anyone on either side of that range.) |
SRC T-shirts |
Adult and Ladies T-shirtsWe have a (very!) limited quantity of available for purchase, in case you missed out. Please contact bcsrc@bclibrary.ca with the sizes and quantities you are looking for. |
Survey |
2020 Survey and Evaluation |
Technical Issues |
Online Registration & FAQ page(scroll to bottom of page) |
Weekly Videos |
See Resources: Video Files (Includes video files for your website, etc. |