BEA Reads 2017
This was our third year of a communities-wide reading program. The Blue Earth Community Library, Elmore Public Library and Muir Library worked together to make this program successful. This year we read
Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger. Along with several opportunities for discussion of the book,
we hosted William Kent Krueger and Rachael Hanel, her memoir is We'll be the last ones to let you down. She visited each library and facilitated a writing workshop to encourage people to try their hand at writing their own (hi)story. Rachael also teaches at MSU-Mankato. Blue Earth Area Community Education helped plan a bus tour to New Ulm to go along with this event, too. All events took place throughout the month of April and the program was announced in January.
165 participated
We expect more than 80% of people to have learned something new at an event.
We expect more than 80% of people who attend an event will enjoy themselves.
We expect more than 70% of people will plan to visit the library again in the next year.
We distributed surveys at each event throughout the month of April.
99% of people reported learning something new at the event/s they attended.
96% of people rated the event/s they attended a 4 or 5 on a scale of 1-5 of enjoyment (1 being none and 5 being a lot)
96% of people reported planning to visit their local library within the next year.
?Blue Earth Community Library - program planning, set-up, hosting, marketing
?Elmore Public Library ? program planning, set-up, hosting, marketing
?Muir Library ? Winnebago ? program planning, hosting, set-up, marketing, designing website
?Blue Earth Area Community Education ? help with marketing, distributing bookmarks and books
?Blue Earth Area School District ? providing space for Krueger event, and help with marketing
?Friends of the Library (3 groups ? BE, Elmore, Muir)
?Rachael Hanel ? facilitating writing workshops at all three libraries
http://www.rachaelhanel.com/books
?William Kent Krueger ? presenting to the community about Ordinary Grace and his writing
http://www.williamkentkrueger.com/about/
?New Ulm Area Chamber of Commerce ? helping arrange, executing bus tour