Read@UTS: Creating a Reading CultureBelinda Tiffen, Director Library Resources Unit, UTS Librarybelinda.tiffen@uts.edu.au | @bella1609

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What is READ@UTS

• Reading Club

• Facebook group

• Pilot program commenced 2010

Why?

• Support retention and success programs

• Build academic language competency

• Build communication and presentation skills

• Encourage a culture of reading and literacy

Expanded Programs

• Read@UTS Blog

• Book displays

• Book Club in a Bag

• Leisure Collection: Overdrive

• eReader and iPad loan scheme

What next?

• Indigenous Reading Group

• National Year of Reading Program:

• Movie screenings

• Author Talks

• Competitions (trivia, Edible Books)

• eBook & eReader mini-workshops

Partnerships

• Support from SLNSW and public library sector: National Year of Reading, Love2read Reading Group monthly reading themes, NSW Reader’s Advisory Working Group

• UTS support units (U:PASS, Equity and Diversity, Network Cafe, Housing, Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning)

• Gratuitous purloining of good ideas wherever we find them!

NYR: Monthly Themes

DisplaysBlog posts Teaser Tuesdays

NYR: The Amazing Read (Jan)

NYR: Laugh (Feb)

NYR: Think (Mar)

• Movie screening

NYR: Feel (Apr)

• Edible books competition • Edible books competition

Collaboration and Play

Read@UTS: http://read.lib.uts.edu.au/