To address this situation, Library Power staff will be working closely with district staff in Library Power districts this year to integrate staff development offerings so that they include librarians in teacher workshops and teachers in Library Power workshops. Smaller, neighboring states have fared even better. Pennsylvania logged in 694,176 books, Connecticut 1,114,661, Massachusetts 33,580 books and New Jersey counted 45,217. We know reading is stampeding in New York but the count is lagging behind. Many more libraries in New York State need to help pave the Thruway and, more important, encourage children to increase their joy of reading.
Participation is simple.
To enroll, complete and submit the registration form printed on page four. Either you, the teachers, or the students can keep the tally sheets. Every book, magazine or five comic books read paves 12 inches of the Thruway. Every book a child reads at school or at home can be counted. Each book read by an adult to a child, group, or class counts for the total number of children hearing the book.