The READS-TO-GO committee is proud to announce that information about 8 new titles and 9 new kits has been added to the READS-TO-GO website. The eight new titles are 1,000 White Women, Eat, Pray, Love, March, Middlesex, The Road, Shadow of the Wind, The Time Traveler's Wife, and Without a Map. There is also a second kit of 15 copies of Three Cups of Tea.
For each title, the RTG website lists how to check for the kit’s availability. In some cases, a direct link to the record in the host library’s online catalog is provided. (How convenient is that ?!) In other cases, contact information is provided for the library’s RTG coordinator. In addition, discussion questions for the new titles are also available on the Discussion Questions page.
So we encourage you to take advantage of this very popular service. We hope to be adding even more titles to the collection in the coming months.
If you missed the READS-To-Go sessions at NHLA's conference, then all I can say is you missed out on a lot of fun. Even though this new READS program alone would get any librarian excited, RTG's creators outdid themselves donning costumes and performing numerous outlandish skits based on such famous gameshows as Family Feud and Lets Make a Deal to outline the rational behind READS-To-Go and its many well thought out features and processes.
But perhaps you still aren't familiar with RTG. Never fear, READS-To-Go has its own new website that is rapidly adding more information. Right now, you can browse a list of the more than twenty popular book titles that will be available in book bags along with kits including discussion questions and much, much more. So please visit the new website regularly and get your book groups ready to participate in this enthusiastic, innovative program.
READS-To-GO website address: http://www.nhlibrarians.org/reads/rtg.
If book discussion groups are your bag, then you will want to learn more about READS-TO-GO!
Join us at the library conference for the best time you've had in years! There'll be music, there'll be laughs, there'll be surprises, there'll be raffles and there'll be all the information you'll need to fall in love with this great new program! Librarians will be talking about this one for ages! You'll never forgive yourself if you miss it!
READS-TO-GO LAUNCH PARTY THURSDAY 9-10AM, FRIDAY 2-3PM
Hi All,
READS-TO-GO book club kits are coming soon to a library near you! The READS-TO-GO Steering Committee is interested in your extra copies of Measure of a Man by Sidney Poitier and The Road by Cormac McCarthy. If you have extra copies you are willing to part with, please send them on the van to Manchester Public Library attn: Claudia Mayer or Canaan Town Library attn: Amy Thurber. Thanks in advance!
The title list of bags that will be available after the Spring Conference has hit twenty, a great big thank you to all libraries that have offered to host bags so far. If your library would like to be a part of this new, exciting progam, email Amy at athurber@canaanlibrary.org.
Don't forget to visit the READS-TO-GO Launch Party at the Spring Conference -- you won't want to miss this!
