Gathering Words: How Two Libraries Worked Together to Keep Kids Reading

New York Teacher

Students in New York's Schodack School District have been traipsing down the hill to the local library for the last 20 summers. It started with an offer of free ice cream to children who completed a reading program created by the school and town library. "As an elementary teacher I saw a need for kids to continue reading in the summer," said Linda Wemple, president of the Schodack Central School Faculty Association. She brought the local union in to give the project some steam — and "another way we can help kids." Longtime Castleton Public Library librarian Darlene Miller was enthusiastic. "We're like bookends," Wemple said of the collaborators.

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