Online Summer Reading Logs

[SNEARYA]

Selfishly promotional:
Creating lists on WorldCat.org is a great way to add an online component to
your summer reading program, at no cost.
WorldCat.org goes have a mobile view‹unfortunately lists/list creation is
not supported on a mobile. But your library can see statistics on the lists
usage, and teens can favorite each others¹ lists, too.

More ideas at http://www.oclc.org/us/en/info/summer/SummerReadingWW.htm!

-Alice Sneary
OCLC Marketing
snearya at oclc.org

On 3/20/12 3:49 PM, "Wilhelmina Randtke" <randtke at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> A summer reading specific app may be in the works.  The Digital Public Library
> of America, Audience workstrream listserv has been discussing what an app for
> libraries involved in summer reading would do.  This is a blog post
> summarizing some of that: 
> http://dp.la/2012/03/13/building-the-ultimate-summer-reading-app/
>  
> I don't think that activity will lead to anything this coming summer, but it's
> something to look out for.
>  
> -Wilhelmina Randtke
> 
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Ellen Paul <ellen.a.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Good Afternoon -
>> 
>> Slightly off topic.  We are ramping up our teen summer reading program and
>> I'd like to transition from traditional paper reading logs (which inevitably
>> get lost) to an online log, preferably one that can be accessed from a smart
>> phone.  Has any other library done this?  Does anyone have any suggestions
>> how we might implement this?  I'd love to do something that teens could log
>> into from anywhere but that the library could access as well to gather
>> statistics at the end of the summer.  Perhaps the solution is something like
>> LibraryThing or Good Reads but I wanted to crowd source just to make sure
>> someone doesn't have a great idea that I'm missing.
>> 
>> Thanks so much for any assistance.
>> 
>> Best Wishes,
>> Ellen
>> 


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