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• Established a Dads 'n' Lads project to try to encourage reluctant teenage readers. 

• Coventry City provided: a table football game, a signed football and a pair of match tickets to see Coventry vs. Liverpool. The latter items were used as draw prizes for completed evaluation forms and book reviews respectively. 

• Two Playstation consoles plus footie games were loaned from another county council youth project free of charge. 

• Sports Development officer attended from Nuneaton & Bedworth Borough Council with information about coaching, local football clubs etc. 

• Plenty of football magazines were also made available. 

David Reed, Divisional Librarian has kindly made his report available. From this you will be able to gain an idea of some of the practicalities and logistics of setting up such a project. 

Click here to view the report - you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader, click here if you don't have it.

Click here to see a copy of the review form used for parents and their children to note down their comments on books. 

Click here to view the invitations to the Dads 'n' Lads sessions. 

Islington Libraries

• Held an inter-secondary school quiz to test knowledge of World Cup countries. 

• Venue supplied by Arsenal FC, prizes from Sainsburys. 

• The winning school received a trophy and a replica World Cup football while the 6 winning team members got a bagful of goodies. 

• The runners-up each received a £5 book token. 

• The borough's 10 libraries put up exciting and imaginative displays of books, videos, DVDs and music. 

• 32 collectable World Cup cards are also available: one for each of the countries taking part, with questions testing knowledge on the history of the competition. Cards could be picked up from libraries, but not all cards were available from every library. 

• Held competitions to write a match report, published by local paper High & I, and to draw a picture from a match. 

Contact Geoff James: Geoff.James@islington.gov.uk. 

Click here to view the poster inviting pictures for the competition, here to view the blank poster for students to complete. 

Click here to view the poster inviting match reviews for the competition, here to view the blank report for students to complete. 

Click here to view the quiz (contains answers). 

Click here to view the poster welcoming schools and explaining some of the rules. 

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Doncaster Libraries

Joined up with Doncaster Rovers Football in the Community for the 2002 World Cup to help promote each other's services in the community. There was a quiz (you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to download this, click Acrobat Reader if you don't have it, to try the quiz online click online quiz) for the over eight's relating to the World Cup history. All the answers to this were on a big display within the library, and in books and websites.

Eric Randerson at FITC provided prizes of a family ticket for the first home game of the season, places on a football skills challenge day, and each week of the competition (which lasted throughout the World cup) there was a draw for a football. The under seven's had to design a football shirt, and the best received a 'goodie bag' from the Rovers and was entered into the draw for a football. Everyone who entered received a certificate from FITC and bookmarks from the Library service. During half term, the library hosted an activity which involved reading football poems and stories and making a footballing puppet.

On 22nd of July 2002, Eric Randerson from FITC came to the library, to talk about FITC & give out the prizes from the competition. The local radio and lots of children came along for a brilliant day. Following from this, Rovers have asked Carol Wootton of the library to write an article each week for their website, so permanently linking the library & the club. Now the website has an official children's area with lots of games, quizzes, book reviews, poems jokes and more. To see this visit
http://www.doncasterroversfc.premiumtv.co.uk/

 

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Displays of World Cup competition held in partnership with Doncaster Libraries.

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• Steve Claridge (currently Millwall FC but from Portsmouth) appeared on a bookmark with library service (he has also written a book). 
• A Dads and Lads librarian, originally funded by the Arts Council, has established after-school groups in four locations. 
• This post has now been expanded by the library authority. 
• Robbie Earle has visited one group, Bournemouth players another and there are plans for Southampton players to attend an event in September. 
• Reviews from their book discussions are posted online. 
• Some of their reviews have also featured on the RIF site and they have received prizes for these. 

• Have held several football writers' sessions in a local pub, where fans can talk about football and find out how to read more about it.
• Encouraged to write book reviews as 'homework'. 
• Have a website (launched by Nick Hornby in May) to encourage book/football discussions, with lots of literacy related activities such as swapping football songs, write a review of 90 words.