News from library authorities:
Wigan
To celebrate National Poetry Day 2011, Wigan Libraries has created a town centre poetry trail in both Wigan and Leigh. A 'Games-themed' poem has been split into eight sections, which have then been turned into QR codes. Posters that feature the QR codes, together with the location of the next section in the sequence, are being displayed in shop windows and lead people from, and back to, the library. For the uninitiated: QR codes look like a large square, made up of tiny black and white squares, and they act in the same way as a bar code. They can be used to give information or to take people to a website.
Participants need to have an iPhone or Smart phone to take part, and to download a free QR scanner app. Once they have collected all eight sections, the final section returns them to the proximity of the library. They can then consult the scanning history to complete the online/hard copy entry form and go into a draw for a Kindle. The competition runs throughout October, to encompass half-term.
We are going to promote this via staff, hopefully people 'happening upon' the posters and being curious, and through high schools and colleges.
For more information please contact:
Carole Ogden
email:c.ogden@wlct.org
Librarians in the North West have pioneered partnership working to encourage new readers into libraries. Time To Read is a partnership of librarians engaged in reader development activity in public library authorities in the North West Region. All 23 public library authorities in the region currently support Time To Read.