{"id":10718,"date":"2015-05-19T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-19T04:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=10718"},"modified":"2015-05-15T14:51:58","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T18:51:58","slug":"rpl-bookbike-shifting-gears-its-how-we-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/rpl-bookbike-shifting-gears-its-how-we-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"RPL BookBike: Shifting Gears, It’s How We Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Keri<\/a><\/p>\n

In April Rochester Public Library (MN) launched the BookBike outreach program. RPL\u2019s BookBike, a little library on wheels, will visit locations within a one-mile radius of the downtown library this spring, summer and fall. Pulled by library staff on bicycles, RPL\u2019s BookBike offers library books, library cards, program information, assistance with digital materials, bike trail maps and fun incentives for kids.<\/p>\n

The BookBike is in its infant stages, but we are already making a difference in our community. We are connecting with residents who would not have thought to enter the library doors, promoting biking as a transportation option, and creating positive relationships with kids and their grown ups. We are looking forward to a summer full of fun, biking and pedaling good books. (Get it?)\"BookBike\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In order to staff the BookBike we have made some hard choices about in-house programming, ultimately deciding to put the bulk of our summer efforts into outreach. We have a full schedule for May and June, with the rest of the summer expected to fill up soon. We don’t operate on a regular schedule, but work around special events and activities and fill in other days with visits to local grocery stores, parks and other locations.<\/p>\n

The BookBike project was funded in part with money from Minnesota\u2019s Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, through a Community Collaboration grant from Southeast Libraries Cooperating (SELCO).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In April Rochester Public Library (MN) launched the BookBike outreach program. RPL\u2019s BookBike, a little library on wheels, will visit locations within a one-mile radius of the downtown library this spring, summer and fall. Pulled by library staff on bicycles, RPL\u2019s BookBike offers library books, library cards, program information, assistance with digital materials, bike trail maps and fun incentives for kids. The BookBike is in its infant stages, but we are already making a difference in our community. We are connecting with residents who would not have thought to enter the library doors, promoting biking as a transportation option, and creating positive relationships with kids and their grown ups. We are looking forward to a summer full of fun, biking and pedaling good books. (Get it?) In order to staff the BookBike we have made some hard choices about in-house programming, ultimately deciding to put the bulk of our summer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[122,98,93,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-heather-acerro","category-grants-and-fundraising","category-outreach","category-programming-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}