Idaho Family Reading Week 2024

"Rev Up Your Reading"

Summary Report Form for All Libraries

(Report Deadline: December 15, 2024)

Thank you for registering with Idaho Family Reading Week and implementing a family event at your local public, school, or tribal library. Please complete and submit a summary report for your event. The Idaho Commission for Libraries uses the information in this report to improve the program next year and to report back to our federal funder, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This information is important to our agency. Thank you for your time.

Participant Information:

Please enter the name of the library for which you are submitting this report. (This name should match the library name on your FRW registration form.)

Primary Contact Name:*

First NameLast Name

Primary Contact Phone*

Primary Contact E-mail*

A copy of your submitted report will be emailed to this address.

Program Report:

A note about attendance tracking: If you did multiple FRW events and/or formats (in-person as well as outreach, virtual, etc.) please combine these numbers into one partipant number and share more details in the text box below if you want to provide further clarification. Note: Your total number of participants may differ from the number of children you were able to give books, and that's OK. Thanks!

1) Total number of participants (children and adults) who attended/participated in your FRW activity/ies.*

2) Number of children who were given books and/or other literacy materials at your event.*

Optional: Please provide any clarification needed regarding your number of participants or number of children served:

3) Did you issue any new library cards at/during/as a result of your FRW event?*

YesNo

If you answered Yes to the above question, please enter the approx. number of new library cards you issued:

4) Please describe your Idaho Family Reading Week event or events. *

5) What did you like best about your Family Reading Week event/program this year? Please briefly describe your program successes:*

6) What was hardest about FRW this year? Please briefly describe your program challenges:*

7) Did you partner with another library, school, or a community organization to offer any of your FRW events or programs?*

YesNo

If you answered Yes above, please describe the partnership/s that occurred, including benefits and challenges.

8) What did you think about the 2024 FRW "transportation" theme and accompanying slogan "Rev Up Your Reading"? *

9) Did your library utilize transportation-themed activity booklets (either the preK-3rd grade or the 4th - 7th grades booklets)?*

YesNo

If you answered Yes above, what did you think of these booklets? How did you utilize them for FRW? How did it go? Please provide feedback.

10) The custom creation of the Idaho Family Reading Week program, theme, art, resources, materials, and roll-out takes a lot of ICfL staff time and energy each year - which we think is well worth it! However, are there aspects of the Idaho Family Reading Week program that you think we can let go of or sunset? Are there aspects of the program that you do not use or no longer want/need? Please share.

12) How important is it for your FRW programming to receive books/materials/activity ideas aimed for children in 5th-7th grades?*

Please answer the following questions required by our federal funder, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, using the Likert scale options to demonstrate how strongly you agree or disagree with these statements:*

	Strongly Agree	Agree	Neutral (Neither Agree or Disagree)	Disagree	Strongly Disagree
The Family Reading Week resources provided by ICfL meet my library's needs.
Applying the Family Reading Week resources will help to improve my library's services to the public.

Optional: Please tell us why you selected your responses above:

Optional: How could we improve this program? (the process, the resources provided, the theme, anything at all):

Optional: Upload your favorite 1-2 photos of your FRW events, activities, kids/families/volunteers in action, etc.

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Optional: Share with us your favorite anecdote, quote, or story from your FRW activities:

Optional: Suggest a FRW theme/idea for Fall 2025 (keep in mind the CSLP Summer Reading themes for 2025 (Color Our World/Art) and 2026 (Unearth a Story/Dinosaurs):

Thank you for your report!

A copy of your submitted report will be emailed to the address entered above. If you have any questions about this program, please contact Kristina Taylor at the Idaho Commission for Libraries, (208) 639-4136 or (800) 458-3271 or via email at kristina.taylor@libraries.idaho.gov.

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