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Wichita Public Library director outlines summer-reading gains and community impact
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Library Director Jamie Nicks told the council the library reached 6,626 young people with summer programming, achieved an 88% completion rate for reading goals and expanded outreach via a book bus and a United Way literacy partnership.
Jamie Nicks, director of the Wichita Public Library, told the Wichita City Council that the library’s summer programs reached thousands of children and bolstered literacy and community engagement.
Nicks presented summer-program metrics to the council, saying the library’s seven-person youth services team distributed 6,626 reading logs, of which 4,447 participants set personal reading goals and nearly 4,000 met them — "so we had an 88 completion rate," she said. The library’s mobile book bus reached about 650 children, the director…
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