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I went to visit the Rye Primary school Library Enhancement group last Friday; a great bunch of kids - and needless to say, they all share my passion for books and reading!

They presented me with a poster that will be hung in shop windows in Rye when people borrow a Nim's Island from the school - because they hope that all the families at the school have now had a chance to read Nim's Island together, and are 're now taking the book out to shops and places in town. (How great is it that the school's crest includes a seal?)

I couldn't scan it all in one, but the school's crest hangs down from the book poster.

(And the book is Nim's Island)


Here's the Rye Primary School library bulletin board. I had the most fabulous time there two weeks ago, when I opened their 'What if Everyone in Rye read the same book?' event. The band played, I cut a huge (and delicious!) cake – and best of all,met some fantastic kids and their super enthusiastic teaching staff. I think this project is quite incredible, and kids and staff all need to be commended for it. With their teachers' support, the kids in the Library Enhancement Group wrote to me to invite to their opening, organised the cake, the school band, and various other things behind the event... and now, as well as everyone in the school being encouraged to read Nim's Island or have their parents read it to them, they're going to take copies out to the Shire Offices, the Bowls Club, down the street to the local shops, so that wherever you go in Rye, you can chat to anyone you meet about the book.

I'd think this was the most fantastic, community & literature project I've ever heard of no matter what the book was. And that it's Nim's Island.... well, that's just incredibly special.

Digital Odyssey 2007 - Building Our Future - April 20, 2007

From the site:

Several recent developments have brought libraries to a watershed in the way we provide access to our resources. Moving beyond traditionally vended solutions, many libraries are beginning to branch out either by building their own software solutions, or looking to vendors outside of the library world to improve the way we present our resources to users.

Digital Odyssey 2007 will explore these new trends and look at how the future of the ILS and other resource discovery tools we depend on is being built today in the library community at large, and right here in Ontario. See how Ontario libraries and librarians are participating in the development of a viable open source ILS and offering next generation catalogues to their users. Learn the practical implications of becoming involved in these projects, what the potential payoff can be, and what the risks to our libraries are if we don’t become involved.

Plan now to attend Digital Odyssey 2007!