Ararat Rural City Library will this year participate in the BIG Summer Read, an annual reading campaign aimed at encouraging young people to read and engage with their local public library.
This collaborative Public Libraries Victoria initiative is the largest Public Library supported reading challenge in Australia and focuses on ensuring that all children have access to the resources they need to maintain literacy skills over the summer school holidays.
Now in its fourth year, the campaign seeks to encourage children to read for pleasure and addresses the issue of the ‘summer slide’ which refers to the loss of literacy experienced over the long summer break if children are not exposed to books or reading.
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