Statewide Summer Reading Program

The Summer Reading Program also encourages youth to continue to improve their reading skills during the months school is not in session.  The State Library of North Carolina (SLNC) is a member of the Collaborative Summer Library Programs  and underwrites the statewide summer reading program for participating state-aid libraries.

Summer Reading Program Workshops & Planning Committees

The SRP workshops are help in early March in four locations (regions) throughout the state.  Each region has a planning committee  which works to provide the participants with innovative ideas and information to make each summer better than the last. 

All participants and committee members must register starting January 25th and ending on February 5, 2010 for the workshops via EventKeeper. Click on the word EventKeeper

to register for your chosen workshop.

The four locations for the Summer Reading Program Workshops are listed below.  Each participant may register for one (1) workshop per year.  Click on a location to view dates, times, agenda, and other information about the workshops. NOTE:  The committees for each region are still finalizing plans.  Agenda items may change.

Northeastern Region

Eastern Region

Central Region

Western Region

Please use the various locations to register participants in the various locations to make planning desk or work schedules easier.  Example:  Three youth servcies staff.  One may attend the Northeast Regional Workshop, while the other attend the Central Workshop, and another attends the Eastern Workshop.  The desk coverge is taken care of and all staff members get to network and receive training.

All libraries/systems must provide the State Library with Summer Reading Program Statistics by Wednesday, September 8, 2010.  A sample of the survey is located in all of the regional folders to the right. 

All statistics MUST be entered via Survey Monkey.  Click the underlines link here to access the End of Summer Reading Program Statistics survey.  Record all data and click submit to send the data to the State Library.

Contact Lori Special, Youth Services Consultant, or Marilyn Johns, Administrative Assistant with any questions.

Statistics for 2009:  SRP Bigger and Better!

Branford Marsalis asked the youth of North Carolina to "Be Creative" this year in televised public service announcements shown across the state.  Our library staff and our readers took that to heart and the kids vastly surpassed their previous reading records.  294,538 young people from birth through Grade 12 participated in the Summer Reading Program at their local public libraries.  That's over 150,000 more youth participation than last year!

NC libraries checked out over 5.7 million books to and for young people between June 1, and August 31, 2009.  This number completely surpassed the 2.1 million checked out from 2008. There were also more programs and more attendees than in previous years.  A total of 485,172 people attended 14,617 SRP programs sponsored by their public libraries across the state.  This number is almost double the 7,763 programs held in libraries during summer reading program last year.

We also welcomed back the North Carolina Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (LBPH) to participation in the summer reading program after a 30 year absence.  Outreach Librarian, Gina Powell, coordinated activities, reading lists, and prizes for youth.  One of their avid young readers read 64 books this summer checked out from the LBPH.

Congratulations and thank you for working to make the SRP bigger and better with so much less.  Now we begin planning for next year!

SRP 2008

In 2008, 136,000 individual children and teens registered at their local libraries for Summer Reading Program. Local public libraries hosted 365,000 youth and their caregivers at 7,763 programs/events and a total of over 2.1 million books were checked out by young people between June and August 2008.