Read@UTS: Creating a Reading Culture
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Read@UTS: Creating a Reading CultureBelinda Tiffen, Director Library Resources Unit, UTS [email protected] | @bella1609
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What is READ@UTS
• Reading Club
• Facebook group
• Pilot program commenced 2010
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Why?
• Support retention and success programs
• Build academic language competency
• Build communication and presentation skills
• Encourage a culture of reading and literacy
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Expanded Programs
• Read@UTS Blog
• Book displays
• Book Club in a Bag
• Leisure Collection: Overdrive
• eReader and iPad loan scheme
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What next?
• Indigenous Reading Group
• National Year of Reading Program:
• Movie screenings
• Author Talks
• Competitions (trivia, Edible Books)
• eBook & eReader mini-workshops
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Partnerships
• Support from SLNSW and public library sector: National Year of Reading, Love2read Reading Group monthly reading themes, NSW Reader’s Advisory Working Group
• UTS support units (U:PASS, Equity and Diversity, Network Cafe, Housing, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning)
• Gratuitous purloining of good ideas wherever we find them!
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NYR: Monthly Themes
DisplaysBlog posts Teaser Tuesdays
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NYR: The Amazing Read (Jan)
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NYR: Laugh (Feb)
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NYR: Think (Mar)
• Movie screening
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NYR: Feel (Apr)
• Edible books competition • Edible books competition
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Collaboration and Play
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Read@UTS: http://read.lib.uts.edu.au/