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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif;">P.S. One more: </span><span style="color: rgb(32, 31, 30); font-family: Candara, Optima, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;">I
took a rural programming webinar a while back and one of the prizes they did that I am excited to bring to my library post-Covid is the chance to watch a movie with two friends, popcorn, and one snack using library equipment during library open hours. </span></div>
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<p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"><span style="font-family:Cambria,Georgia,serif">Barbara Beaton</span></p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Michlib-l <michlib-l-bounces@mcls.org> on behalf of Barbara Beaton via Michlib-l <michlib-l@mcls.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, April 28, 2021 1:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> michlib-l <michlib-l@mail2.mcls.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Michlib-l] Sustainable Summer Reading Prizes</font>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">Thanks to everyone who responded with ideas and curiosity about sustainable summer reading prizes!
I’ve collected the responses below and highlighted key points to make this scannable. </span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">I think it’s great that you are looking to be more earth friendly with your prizes! Before Covid,
we gave out donated</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal"> coupons to local businesses each week of summer reading.</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">
Last year, because of Covid, we did drawings for “grand prizes,” with each of our four age groups (baby, child, teen, adult) having two grand prizes. This year we are doing something similar, but for baby, child, and teen, we are going to spread the love a
bit more and buy multiple medium size prizes (gift cards, books, games, nice toys, etc.) so that we can draw more winners.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">Another idea to consider is
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">prizes for the library</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">
itself. For example, you might choose four options of things that can be purchased for the library, and
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">patrons get tickets to vote for what they want</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">
throughout, or at the end, of summer reading. Whatever item gets the most votes, gets purchased for the library; the options are really endless depending on what you already have, tools to add to your Library of Things, a board game collection to enjoy at
the library, a 3D printer, a train table/play kitchen. I had also suggested using this model for choosing a children’s performer to visit in the fall.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">If you feel like you have to do frequent little prizes, I love things that are both fun but have
a purpose, like </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">unique erasers or crayons (fun sticky notes, binder clips, laptop decals for teens and adults?!),
anything that can be “used up.”</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">Books is probably an obvious suggestion 🙂, but when you said sustainable, I immediately thought
gardening. Maybe some </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">gardening kits?</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal"> My
son has several metal trowels he uses for various things (sand, mud, rocks), and a kit with a pot, seeds, and potting soil might be nice. Just a thought.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">Last year instead of buying cheap plastic doo-dads, whatchamacallits, and thingamajigs, we worked
with </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">a local toy store</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal"> who
gave us a pretty generous discount and bought prizes that people would actually want, then raffled them at the end.
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">So instead of getting a prize for each step of summer reading, they earned a raffle ticket.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">
It bums me out that not everyone will receive a prize, but that's life -- AND we were able to keep stuff out of landfills and put money back in the local economy. We will probably do something similar this year.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">We have been trying to move away from all the plastic waste with our </span><span style="font-weight:400; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal">prizes
too. We have been giving out prizes like a </span><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(32,31,30); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">free book from our</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">Friends used bookstore, candy bars, drawstring backpacks, gift cards to </span><span style="font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(32,31,30); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">local
bookstores like Barnes & Noble, passes for local activities</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal"> such</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">as laser tag and roller skating, and the local business coupons you </span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; font-weight:400">mentioned
for things like frozen yogurt too. One option that I'm hoping</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">we may implement in future is to also have a</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700; line-height:normal"> collective
prize donation </span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; font-weight:700">made on the library readers' behalf to a charity (a literacy charity</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">would be good!)</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">.
Depending on the total minutes/pages/books etc. that </span><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30); font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; font-size:12pt; font-weight:400">your whole base of readers completes, that counts towards a donation</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">amount of your library's ability.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">An idea just popped into my head, and I wonder if library policies or rules would allow for it. Possibly readers could choose that their
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">milestones</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400; line-height:normal"> of
books or minutes read (however you tally them) </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">could be turned into donations to a local animal shelter, food bank, books for
the economically disadvantaged, or planting trees or gardens at the library or local park?
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400; line-height:normal"> I am thinking of how a walk-a-thon or read-a-thon raises funds, but it would not be for the readers to get their own pledges.
Insted, the money budgeted for prizes would go toward the sustainable or more impactful project. If one or more charities or causes were designated, the readers could choose.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">I was a teen librarian for twelve years and I know the struggle to find useful items for prizes. The youth department often gave out</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:700; line-height:normal"> bags
of chips, fruit chews, or other snacks. I finally gave out candy bars and gum</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400; line-height:normal"> too, but these were always choices. For teens,
they were not big prizes, but they were in combination with other small prizes and each time they completed a reader sheet that sheet became a
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">raffle ticket for bigger prizes at the end of the program</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">.
The big prizes were usually gift cards and a number of other prizes.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">I hope this helps. I continue to think of trees and wonder how much
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">a batch of seedlings
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">like those one gets on Arbor Day and Earth Day, cost? I wonder if they are easy enough to keep alive to have them available for
prizes. These </span><a href="https://shop.arborday.org/tree-seedlings-in-bulk"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(17,85,204); font-weight:400; text-decoration:underline; line-height:normal">Arbor Day Foundation seedlings</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); font-weight:400; line-height:normal"> are
sold out, but if you like the idea, there are other options.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">What about
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">tickets to local places</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); font-weight:400; line-height:normal"> -
zoos, museums, public performances, etc?</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38; margin-top:0pt; margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">In college, I actually
participated in a summer education program that gave out </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">nature-friendly items that encouraged conservation</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">,
like </span><span style="font-weight:700; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">book-themed birdhouses, seeds to plant a 'fairy tale window garden' and reusable water
bottles</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal"> with the logo of the challenge on them! </span></p>
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with the local </span><span style="font-weight:700; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">ice cream stand</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal"> (for
cone coupon), </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">coffee shop</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">
(for cookie coupons), and </span><span style="font-weight:700; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal">pizza restaurant</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); line-height:normal"> (personal
pizza coupon). They have been very popular because they also become a family outing when kids read to earn the coupons. The pizza place gives us the pizza with no sharing of the cost, while the other two are subsidized through the library's grant to pay about
.80 - $1.00 per coupons. It really works out quite nicely for all. The library prepares the coupons with business approval, and staff fill in the reader's name and then initial it to make it active.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">We, too, have done the local food coupons. Beyond that, well, a
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">lego e-giftcard</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal"> for
one of the raffle grand prize choices (hands down </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:italic; line-height:normal">the
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">most popular choice), and that's plastic, too. But most people think of them differently
from "made overseas trinkets."</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal">We are trying to do the same thing. Instead of weekly prizes, we give out a
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(a </span><span style="font-weight:700; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal">sticker badge book for kids and a "Wreck this Journal" for teens</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal">)
and a </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal">middle of the summer priz</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal">e
(a </span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal">free book
</span><span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal">from the Friends of the Library bookstore and a
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</span><span style="font-weight:700; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); line-height:normal">gift cards to local businesses.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">Additionally, last year, we rented an
</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">ice cream trolley/cart for our end of the year/last summer reading program</span><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); font-weight:400; line-height:normal">.
Any kid who participated got to choose an ice cream treat for free. We had 4 choices including one non-dairy. We also sold ice-cream to others (parents, grandparents, passers-by (we were stationed outside)) and made $300 for the Friends of the Library. We
ran it for 3 days to allow families the chance to come by...I'm sure we had a couple families come twice, but we had plenty of ice cream with leftovers for staff.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30); font-weight:700; line-height:normal">From Cathy Lancaster:</span></p>
<span style="font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif; color:rgb(32,31,30)">We have some shared notes from our 2021 SRP workshop:
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but we didn’t focus much on prizes. However, last year’s prize list might be helpful for you:
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<a href="https://www.ecopromotionsonline.com/blog/02272017-1015/eco-friendly-promotional-products-2017-national-library-week-summer-reading" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(17,85,204); text-decoration:underline; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif">https://www.ecopromotionsonline.com/blog/02272017-1015/eco-friendly-promotional-products-2017-national-library-week-summer-reading</span></a></p>
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<a href="https://earthfriendlytips.com/best-eco-friendly-gifts-for-kids/" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px; font-weight:400; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal; color:rgb(17,85,204); text-decoration:underline; font-family:Candara,Optima,sans-serif">https://earthfriendlytips.com/best-eco-friendly-gifts-for-kids/</span></a></p>
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