NCompass Live: The Big Read: Book Discussions @ your library
Channel: Nebraska Library Commission
Date: 2013-08-05

Recorded on Oct. 6, 2010
NCompass Live - http://nlc.nebraska.gov/NCompassLive/

Are you looking for ways to spice up the book discussions or book clubs at your library? Or are you hunting for a good book to suggest for a group discussion? The Nebraska Library Commission has Big Read Discussion Packets (reader guides, audio guides, and teacher guides) that can be used in school and public libraries. Join Mary Jo Ryan, NLC Communications Coordinator, for a discussion of how these materials can be used in libraries and to see a sample of the materials. 

These packets help illuminate fantastic books like Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin, and many more. 

An example of what the packets offer can be found at http://www.neabigread.org/books/myantonia. 

The Big Read is a program of the National Endowment for the Arts, designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.