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TD Summer Reading Club E-Newsletter

Volume 1. Number 8. March 2009

In this issue:

• Vote for the 2010 Theme
• Upcoming Training in Ontario, Quebec and Prince Edward Island
• Library Awards

Vote for the 2010 Theme

Although we have not yet launched this year's Agent 009 program we would like your help with the vote for the 2010 theme now. We need to know next year's theme earlier in order to facilitate the book buying and transcribing process for CNIB. From the Harris Decima Evaluation Report the following shortlist of themes have been selected:

1. Jungles
2. Adventure/Fantasy
3. Pirates/Buccaneers

Please indicate your preference for the 2010 theme by sending an email to Anna Cocca, the Toronto TD Summer Reading Club Coordinator at acocca@torontopubliclibrary.ca by April 8^th, 2009. If you like, you can let us know your preference for a second choice too. The results will be sent out with in the next Newsletter. Thank you in advance for your help with next year's theme.

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Upcoming Training in Ontario, Quebec and Prince Edward Island

Starting in April, TD Summer Reading Club Toronto Creative Committee members will provide program training at the following locations:

• In Toronto, training sessions will be held in the east end of the city at the Agincourt Library on Thursday April 30 from 2-5pm.
• In the north at the North York Central Library on Tuesday, May 5^th from 2-5 pm.
• In the west at the Eatonville Public Library on Wednesday, May 6^th from 2-5 pm.
• In the south end at S. Walter Stewart Library on Thursday, May 7^th from 2-5 pm.
• In Shelburne Ontario, at the Shelburne Library on Tuesday, May 12^th from 1-4 pm.
• In Caledonia, Ontario at the Caledonia Branch of Haldimand County Library on Thursday, May 14^th from 1-4 pm.
• In Peterborough, Ontario at the main branch of the Peterborough Public Library on Tuesday, May 21^st from 1-4 pm.

Lianne Fortin will provide a workshop on the summer reading club program in French at the Réseau BIBLIO de la Capitale-Nationale et de la Chaudière-Appalaches in Charny, Québec on Thursday, May 28th. As well, she will be conducting both a French and English workshop in Charlottetown, P.E.I. on Monday, June 8th.

For more information on these or other workshop possibilities please contact your provincial/territorial coordinator.

Lianne will also be at the APLA Conference (Atlantic Provinces Library Association) in Halifax, June 10 - 13th to answer questions, provide clues and tricks for delivering this year's program as well as handing out our beautiful posters. Drop by and see her there!

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Library Awards

Thank you to all those libraries that submitted documentation to Library and Archives Canada to qualify for the 2008 TD Summer Reading Club Library Awards. This Newsletter will include information about the prize winners when they are announced later this year. The Awards will be given out at CLA in Montreal later this spring. Round-trip transportation and accommodations will be provided for first-place applicants in both the English and French categories. Stay tuned as Library and Archives Canada will issue a press release and post the information on their website at www.td-club-td.ca/index-e.html.

Many thanks from Ken Setterington, Children and Youth Advocate, Library Services, Toronto Public Library.

Please send any questions, comments or suggestions to the TD Summer Reading Club Coordinator at the Toronto Public Library, Anna Cocca at acocca@torontopubliclibrary.ca

Volume 1, Number 8 is written by the TD Summer Reading Club Coordinator at the Toronto Public Library, Anna Cocca.

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