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TD Summer Reading Club E-Newsletter
Vol. 1., No. 9, July 2009
In this issue:
The TD Summer Reading Club program is well under way across Canada. Another month to go for super sleuths to help Agent 009 crack the case.
Results of the National Vote
Thank you very much for taking the time to vote for next year's theme. We tallied the counts and the winning theme for 2010 is Jungles which received 145 of your votes. Adventure/Fantasy received 75 and arrgh, Pirates got 65.
What adventures will be had in those remote, exotic jungles and what friends will we find! Preparations begin very soon.
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Submit your Request for Next Year's Illustrator
Now that we have the theme for 2010 in place, we need an illustrator. If you know of a published Canadian illustrator who would be interested in drawing for this theme, please let us know. We are always interested in finding new illustrators for the program. Kindly send details to the TD Summer Reading Club Coordinator for Toronto, Anna Cocca. Please see contact details at the end of this newsletter.
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Hamilton Launch at the Ultra Modern Turner Library
Budding secret agents were out in force at Hamilton Public Library's stunning, newest Turner Park branch for the June 9th kick off of the 2009 TD Summer Reading Club. Grade 2 students from Ray Lewis Elementary School received a personal spy kit from our well known illustrator, Werner Zimmermann that included a trench coat, moustache and sun glasses.
Dignitaries present at the event included: Frank McKenna, Deputy Chair, TD Bank Group and TD Literacy Champion, Donna Sianchuk, Director General, Programs Branch, Library and Archives Canada, Ken Roberts, Chief Librarian, Hamilton Public Library and Ken Setterington, Children and Youth Advocate at Toronto Public Library.
The launch also featured the announcement of a new partnership with Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) as children with vision loss will join in the TD Summer Reading Club.
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Kids National Web Site
The exciting, revamped Kids National TD Summer Reading Club web site http://tdsrc.torontopubliclibrary.ca (English) and http://cletd.torontopubliclibrary.ca/ (French) is now online and in full swing with all kinds of activities, reading lists and sleuthing fun. Kids can review what they've read and watch the book count grow, solve a different mystery each week, and take part online in the contest to name Agent 009. Librarians can also submit the number of books read at their branch to have them added to the book count.
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Winners of the TD Summer Reading Club Library Awards 2008
Library and Archives Canada and the TD Summer Reading Club are pleased to announce the winners of the TD Summer Reading Club Library Awards for 2008. Four prizes were awarded — a first and second prize in both English and French. First prize winners each receive $5000 to invest in their libraries and second prize winners receive $2000.
The first prize winners are the Point Alexander Branch, Laurentian Hills Public Library in Deep River, ON (English) and Bibliothèque de Dudswell, Marbleton, QC (Francophone). Second prize winners are the Wapiti Branch, Reid-Thompson Public Library, Humboldt, SK and Bibliothèque Léo-Pol-Morin, Cap-St-Ignace, QC.
The awards were officially presented in Montreal on June 1st at the closing session of the annual conference of the Canadian Library Association.
Congratulations as well to those libraries who received Honourable Mention for their exceptional programs:
- Bibliothèque Madeleine-Doyon, Beauceville, QC;
- Bibliothèque municipale Saul-Bellow, Lachine, QC;
- Carleton Place Public Library, Carleton Place, ON;
- Georgetown Branch, Halton Hills Public Library, Georgetown, ON;
- Govan Branch, Parkland Regional Library, Govan, SK;
- Fort McMurray Public Library, Fort McMurray, AB; and
- Springfield Library, Springfield, ON.
Thanks to all of the libraries who participated in the TD Summer Reading Club during the summer of 2008 and especially to those who shared their ideas through their outstanding submissions to the TD Summer Reading Club Library Awards 2008!
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 9 is written by the TD Summer Reading Club Coordinator at the Toronto Public Library, Anna Cocca.
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