{"id":24541,"date":"2021-01-17T19:40:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T00:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=24541"},"modified":"2021-01-17T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T00:41:00","slug":"redefining-reading-goals-in-2021-readbetter-readmore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/redefining-reading-goals-in-2021-readbetter-readmore\/","title":{"rendered":"Redefining Reading Goals in 2021 #readbetter #readmore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve found in recent years my reading goals<\/a> have been pretty standard: read all the books on [INSERT NAME HERE] national, state award list. A coworker posed an interesting question: what books are we missing that aren’t necessary said award contenders? Which leads me to my new 2021 objective: how can we redefine our reading goals in 2021?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Read the Kid Recommendations– <\/strong>What book does a kid want you to read? Next time you talk to a kid- (yes it’s harder in a pandemic) ask them to assign YOU what to read next!<\/li>
  2. Finish those Series– <\/strong>I recently told my book club how rarely I read the second book in a series and how it’s even rarer for me to read an entire series. One of my attendees said, “but Ms. Emily, you’re supposed to be the person I talk books with, and I can’t even talk about the second Artemis Fowl<\/a> with you?!” So OK… I need to read the second Artemis Fowl, the second Aru Shah<\/a> and more of the 39 Clues.<\/a><\/li>
  3. Read the Readers Advisory<\/strong>– The most common readers advisory question I get is “my kid wants to start reading chapter books, where should they go?” I know what to recommend- Owl Diaries,<\/a> Bunjitsu Bunny<\/a>, King and Kayla, <\/a>but how many of those titles have I actually read? The lucky part of this is they are not even too long.<\/li>
  4. Read your Population<\/strong>– We are doing our best to fill our shelves with diverse titles and titles that reflect our population, but am I reading those titles? This is another reading goal I can amp up a notch.<\/li>
  5. Read the Board Books<\/strong>– Now that I’m a mom, I’ve found myself appreciating board books in a whole new manner, and asking for board books in a whole new manner. There is such a wide variety of developmental levels reading board books and different needs for example: newborns wanting high contrast books, infants hoping for sensory titles, toddlers looking to learn concepts. This is definitely a category I can do better in.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Now some of these titles will show up on the “best of lists” and “mock award titles,” (and I’ll probably end up reading a good amount of those anyways) but I know that making a focused effort in these categories will help challenge myself in a new way, and reach more of my customers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    What are your reading goals in 2021?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    This post addresses core competency I: commitment to client group.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I’ve found in recent years my reading goals have been pretty standard: read all the books on [INSERT NAME HERE] national, state award list. A coworker posed an interesting question: what books are we missing that aren’t necessary said award contenders? Which leads me to my new 2021 objective: how can we redefine our reading goals in 2021? Read the Kid Recommendations– What book does a kid want you to read? Next time you talk to a kid- (yes it’s harder in a pandemic) ask them to assign YOU what to read next! Finish those Series– I recently told my book club how rarely I read the second book in a series and how it’s even rarer for me to read an entire series. One of my attendees said, “but Ms. Emily, you’re supposed to be the person I talk books with, and I can’t even talk about the second…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"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":[1174,1604],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-emily-mroczek-bayci","category-competencies-for-librarians-serving-children-in-public-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541","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\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}