Families gathered in Crescent Park out front of the Moose Jaw Public Library (MJPL) on June 17 for the annual Summer Reading Club launch.
Families gathered in Crescent Park out front of the Moose Jaw Public Library (MJPL) on June 17 for the annual Summer Reading Club launch, undertaken this year with financial support from the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).
Participants in the Summer Reading Club, designed to encourage literacy while on vacation, can earn rewards from the library for their hours spent reading. The club will run alongside a gradual rollout of improvements and opportunities from the CSA grant, which lasts for a full year and includes money for equipment upgrades.
“So, this is our launch for our summer reading, just to kick things off,” explained Andrew Martens, who runs the MJPL MakerSpace lab. “We’ve got Wall-E playing in the library theatre, and face…
