Strathmore Municipal Library seeks summer co-ordinators for reading program

Times Contributor

 

The Strathmore Municipal Library is launching its annual summer reading program this June and the library is currently looking for co-ordinators to take on this project. 

The Children’s Summer Reading Program runs for two months in the summer and requires two co-ordinators to plan, organize, advertise, and run the program, from June 4 to August 31.

The program is designed to help kids of all ages to keep up their reading skills over the summer by introducing reading in new, fun ways.

“The idea of the summer reading program is it’s a way to keep kids reading,” said Carmen Lefebvre, assistant director of Library Services.  

A lot of children will lose some of their reading skills over the summer months, and the library has devised a program to keep kids interested in reading while making it interesting and exciting for them. 

While the program isn’t solely based on reading, it is designed to keep children reading throughout the summer through the use of prizes, challenges, games and other activities.

The program’s details aren’t finalized, but Lefebvre says that the children will be split into age groups and assigned time slots in the morning or afternoon.

“We’re looking for someone who is strongly organized,” Lefebvre says. Resumes will be accepted until May 25, and then as soon as the co-ordinators are hired they have to “hit the ground running” because the program starts June 4. 

“Within that two weeks they need to start advertising the program, they need to be co-ordinated to go out to the schools,” Lefebvre explains. The co-ordinators have to be open and willing to get donations from the public, as well as present the idea to many schools. Open-minded, outgoing, friendly applicants are always well-received Lefebvre says.

“We like to give [this program] to our co-ordinators and say, this is yours, make it yours.”

 Lefebvre said the Library tends to hire people who are going to school for education or library programs, therefore this job will give them a hands-on experience.

“It honestly really brings out a lot in the person’s character,” said Lefebvre, “it’s a very good character building program.” 

The position is grant-funded and all applicants must have been in school full-time at some point during the previous 12 months.

“We want anybody who comes into this role, we want them to just make it their own,” Lefebvre says, “there is so much they can do.”

To e-mail your resumes, please contact Jesse Traquair at asmlibmgr@marigold.ab.ca or mail them to the Strathmore Municipal Library at 85 Lakeside Boulevard, Strathmore, AB, T1P 1A1. For more information, please visit www.strathmorelibrary.ca.