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Our Summer Reading Program ended August 11 after 9 wild weeks. Almost all the children’s librarians at our 72 branches and Central Library reported record numbers of kids registering for the club and attending events. Was it the heat? The lack of summer school? The awesomeness of our SRP? Now is the time to evaluate the summer, reflect on our successes and lessons learned, and start planning for next year. Here’s how we’re evaluating our SRP: Counting registration numbers – While they don’t tell the whole story by a long shot, they can be quite revealing. Ours zoomed up this year, hurray! And many were first-timers, as we discovered from our surveys (see below). Counting minutes read and books read – We just started doing this last year. While the success of a program doesn’t necessarily hang on how many minutes were read, our administration, board of commissioners, city council,...https://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Palisades-kids-w-src-bags-release-June-2012-225x300.jpg