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Carnegie Public Library announces summer reading program June 2–July 12 with weekly events and prizes
Summary
Elizabeth, head of the children's department at Carnegie Public Library, outlined the library's summer reading program running June 2–July 12, with separate tracks by age, prize tiers for page- or minute-based logs and a schedule of Monday, Tuesday and Friday events including visiting performers and hands-on activities.
Miss Elizabeth, who oversees the children's department at Carnegie Public Library, said the library's summer reading program will run June 2–July 12 and will offer age-specific reading logs, prizes and in-person events designed to keep children engaged over the summer.
The library's program includes tracks for under-5 children, elementary, middle-grade and high-school students. Elizabeth said fifth-graders may choose to be classified as elementary or middle-grade readers if they prefer to log pages rather than minutes. For high-school participants, she described a prize tier that awards $10 gift cards for reading 1,200 pages.
The library plans a slate of weekly programs: Mondays will feature visiting performers such as Raza's Puppets and Science Central presentations; Tuesdays will include artist-led activities tied to the summer theme "Color Our World," and family story times for younger children; Fridays will host hands-on activities including Scoops ice cream giveaways, Relic Emporium pottery painting and a North West Indiana Woodworkers woodworking project for children.
Most summer activities will be drop-in; some special events require registration, which Elizabeth said opens two weeks before each event. She demonstrated how families can use the library's online event calendar (the presentation displayed cpls.org with an on-screen note that a letter was omitted) to filter by age group and date range for summer events.
Elizabeth said the children's department also offers literacy kits, audiobooks, internet access and a sensory room. She invited families to stop by the library to pick up printed schedules or to consult the event calendar on the library website.
The presentation concluded with an invitation for questions and a handoff to the Steuben County Literacy Coalition for information about coalition-run summer programming.
