Weaving library service via field trips into summer
camps.
Samson Summer Camp Visit to the Maskwacis Cultural College Library
July 28, 2014 from 2 to 3 pm
Community Invitation and Partnerships
This presentation showcases Maskwacis Library-Samson Recreation program partnership to enhance and enrich
the summer camp with books and a tour of learning places in the community. It highlights the goals,
network of people, tour agenda, media coverage, and TD Summer reading Club (TDSRC) statistics.
Goals
• To visit Maskwacis library• To use the services provided by Maskwacis library• To participate in the library portrait and book portrait
project• To take home reading packets and books• To engage summer students in library activities• To connect summer students working at the library with
summer students working at different organizations in the Maskwacis community
• To be accountable to our contributors and collaborators• To collaborate with more community agencies and their
programs
Tour network
• 17 people in the age group of 7 to 12 years (7 boys and 9 girls)
• 6 visiting summer students in the age group of 14 to 18 years
• 3 summer students working in the library• 1 student and program coordinator• 1 summer camp manager• 1 librarian• 1 business Gords NoFrills• We appreciate the support provided by our
contributors: TDSRC and Save the children
Tour agenda
• Library portrait• Pick a library service: listening, viewing, reading,
etc• Borrow books• One minute information literacy for summer
students (Internet CRAP: Current, Relevant, Authority, and Purpose)
• Meet a guest and learn about indigenous crafts• Book portrait
Library portrait
We are watching
Registering for the reading program
Access to books
Summer students recording library transactions at mobile checkout counters
Summer student at mobile counters
Summer students also checking out books for themselves
Rita Cutknife showing her moss baby creation
What would you like to do next?
We have our reading packets
Library’s summer students Ethan and Shakil with Sandy the summer camp staff
Book portrait
Media – People are talking
http://www.ponokanews.com/news/268295092.html
172 people registered for the summer reading program: A touch of reading in the life of boys &
girls
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37% Boys
51% Girls
12% Not specified
65% of the participants were in the age group of 4 to 11 years.
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Achieved our goal of reaching and providing access to books to the school aged children in the summer.
To book a library tour for your group contact
• Manisha Khetarpal• Tel: 780 585 3925• [email protected]