Library Registration Form
Requests for support for Idaho Family Reading Week (FRW) events will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. The ICfL can support up to 100 Idaho public, school, or tribal libraries this year. Please complete the program registration below.
Who will be the primary contact for Idaho Family Reading Week at your library? Please also provide a different, secondary email contact below. This helps us conduct follow-up regarding summary report information in December if staffing has changed.
2025 Program Details:
Gather your community and get ready to celebrate "Stories Under the Stars!" Idaho Family Reading Week invites families to cozy up with twinkling tales, bedtime adventures, stargazing stories, and nocturnal animals—all in the spirit of reading after dark.
The ICfL will provide themed materials to the first 100 Idaho libraries that register their FRW events via the event form from September 15 - October 15. The ICfL will provide themed give-away paperback books, custom activity booklets, and bookmarks. The rest is up to you and your library staff - and the sky is the limit! The ICfL focuses the program theme, materials, and supplies on kids ages preschool through 6th grade, but library staff are welcome to incorporate books and activities for older kids or teens on your own.
All Idaho libraries, whether they register for one of the 100 program spaces or not, may utilize the following resources from the FRW website:
All resources can be found at: https://libraries.idaho.gov/outreach/idaho-family-reading-week-2025/
By applying for the Idaho Family Reading Week program, your library agrees to:
We have several fun, literacy and night-themed materials to provide to each registered library this year. Please read through this entire description & request limits BEFORE you complete your request in the table below:
1) Each registered library will receive themed, paperback books to give away to youth participants who attend your FRW events. In an effort to try to provide one book to every participating child (up to 10,000 statewide), ICfL has developed the following book bundles and request parameters for your libraries to use as guide when requesting your paperback books. Note: Each book bundle includes books for a variety of ages preK - 6th grade. If you are ONLY serving one specific age-group, please add that in a note below.
NOTE: Each branch of a library district can request paperbacks for the amounts listed above.
For population size numbers of public libraries, please use the FY2024 Public Library Statistics Report published by ICfL found here: https://libraries.idaho.gov/idaho-library-statistics/ (Excel doc; Column F).
2) In addition, we have a bundle of 9 transportation-themed English/Spanish bilingual books for those libraries serving Spanish-speaking families. This is a seperate request in the table below. Libraries should request what they need and we will distribute the bilingual books as equally as possible amongst the requesting libraries.
In addition to books, we have other themed, materials available for libraries to request:
1) Each registered library can receive some themed, activity booklets. There is one for preK-3rd grade and one for 4th - 7th grade. We have 7,000 copies of the preK-3rd booklets and 4,000 copies of the 4th - 7th booklets. Please keep these numbers in mind as you request between 50 - 150 copies of these booklets. We will contact you if we can't meet your request. We will have a Spanish translation document available for the content of each booklet that can be included as a handout.
2) Each registered library can receive approximately 100 night-themed bookmarks from Demco to be used as giveaways for children/families who participate in their event. If you do not need that many bookmarks and would like less, please indicate the amount you would like in the table below. If you could use more than 100 bookmarks, request that number and we will try to fill it.
Active partnerships are highly recommended and encouraged for participating libraries of this program. Public libraries are strongly encouraged to partner with their either local school library or tribal library (and vice versa and other combinations) to offer a joint event. What community organizations, local experts, speakers, teachers, or leaders can your library partner with to offer a fantastic FRW event? Please tell us about your planned or possible partnerships below.
Is there an additional information you would like to add to help clarify your numbers, mailing information, or questions you would like answered? Or you can just let us know how excited you are to host and Idaho Family Reading Week program!
After you select "Submit FRW Registration" below, a "Thank You" response will appear on the screen verifying your submission. You will also recieve an email with a pdf of your submitted application. Hang onto this for your own personal use or records. (If you do not see the 'thank you' screen and receive the auto-email from Jotform, please contact Josie Bradford by email or phone to verifiy that the submission was completed - see contact information below.)
We will be mailing out requested items between Oct. 3 and Oct. 10. Please anticipate receiving your items from ICfL approximately during this timeframe and the week following it. If you don't have your requested items by Oct. 21, please contact Josie at the ICfL to check the shipping status. While you wait for your materials to arrive, don't forget you can start planning your FRW program with many of the resources we have linked to on our digital FRW Choice Boards at: https://libraries.idaho.gov/outreach/idaho-family-reading-week-2025/ (Scroll down to the Program Resources section.)
If you have any questions about this program or your registration, please contact Youth Services Program Specialist, Josie Bradford, at the Idaho Commission for Libraries, at (208) 639-4159 or josephine.bradford@libraries.idaho.gov.