Tag Archives: SRP

Governor Martinez kicks off Summer Reading Program

Posted on by
The Governor holds up a bool for kids to see.

Governor Martinez does Storytime! (Dean Hanson/Albuquerque Journal)

Gov. Susana Martinez kicked of the 2015 Summer Reading Program in New Mexico’s libraries with a storytime at Albuquerque’s new Central & Unser Library. 

“I’ve never been in a library that is this awesome,” Martinez told the children. “And it belongs to you!”

“During the summer break, sometime some kids don’t pick up a book,” she explained to reporters. “We’re trying to encourage them: ‘pick up a book everyday, read at least half an hour, enjoy it, get books that you like…”

Read the full story and watch the Governor speak at ABQJournal.com.

Roswell Public Library Committee Looks at Overflow Crowds

Posted on by

The Roswell Public LibraryThe Roswell Daily Record reports on a committee formed by the public library to discuss how to handle overflow crowds at library events, especially during the library’s Summer Reading Program. The room where events are held can ‘only’ accommodate 150 people, by order of the Fire Marshall,  and it fills up fast.

Sounds like a good problem to have, but Children’s Librarian Deanne Dekle points out that the library doesn’t have the budget to offer the programs more than once. And so the library has to turn away the 151st child who wants to be part of a summer reading event.