As a librarian, you see so many books come across your desk (either that you’ve ordered yourself or that your patrons are requesting) that you just don’t have time to read. Which sucks, honestly. Yes, you’ve ordered those books for your patrons, but let’s be honest: you’ve ordered them for yourself too. I order around 10-15 YA (and MG) books per month – remember when I said I’m at a tiny library? – all of which I want to read but end up just putting out into the library. As a library patron, I’m sure you have a LONG list of books you want to read, don’t you?
Well, Amy at Read What I Like and I have a solution for you! We’ve created the Reading My Library Challenge – a month long event in which we will try to read as many of those library books we’ve seen come in but haven’t had a chance to read yet! Sound fun? Join us!
Right now, we’re still in the planning stage, but we need help – from any other bloggers who work in libraries! This is what we know so far:
- The Challenge will take place throughout the whole month of April (April 12-18, 2015 is National Library Week)
- Anyone can participate as long as you have somewhere to share what you’re reading
- You don’t have to exclusively read library books, as long as you are reading some library books
- We’re going to have an EPIC Library Scavenger Hunt that will span all areas of a library and get you appreciating everything your library has to offer
- We’ll have TWO giveaways – one for the Scavenger Hunt and one for participating in the challenge
- We want you to have fun and save money – libraries are FREEEEE!
What we need right now is help ironing out all the details so we’re asking any bloggers who are also librarians to PLEASE sign up below (link will take you to a Google Form that will ask for your name and email). You can also feel free to send any questions or emails to caughtreadhanded [at] gmail [dot] com!
And of course, if you aren’t a librarian, but this challenge sounds like something you might like, keep your eyes open for a sign up post sometime next month! Leave any suggestions in the comments below or feel free to email me too!
If you want to talk about the challenge before April or would rather tweet suggestions, please use the hashtag #ReadingMyLibrary so we can all see what you have to say!
[Learn more about National Library Week]
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I’m joining a March challenge to read what I own so I will totally be ready to go back to library books by April and I love national library week. I’m working on posts for it right now.
Yay! Perfect timing! So glad you’ll be able to participate! 🙂
I’m trying to use my library more, at the minute it’s mostly overdrive I use but I’d like to borrow more from the library itself, looking forward to seeing what happens with this! R x
Yay! Everyone should use their library! It’s FREE! 🙂
Yet another instance where I wish I was a librarian! 😦
Well you can still participate in the challenge, of course! We’ll be posting about how to sign up in the next couple of weeks!
This is a great idea! Although, I never go to the library (for myself) anymore. *shrinks away* BUT, I take my daughter twice a month, so there’s that!! I just have too many books on my Kindle and at home I’m trying to get through. Not enough time!
Well maybe your daughter can sign up for the challenge! Haha. I completely understand the no time thing. That’s why we’re doing this challenge! 🙂
Not a librarian, but pretty sure I’m one at heart. I’m at my public library enough. 😉 So excited for any and all ways non-librarians can get involved! 🙂
Oh, and while I’m here, I nominated you for some survey things! http://shainareads.blogspot.com/2015/02/some-monday-stuff-so-many-tags.html
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YAY! We’ll have a post in another week or two for anyone who’s not a librarian but wants to participate! We want everyone in their library checking out books! 🙂
Signed up!!! SO excited for this.
YESSSS! I was going to tweet you if you didn’t see it. 🙂