Pop Up Library

Hi, Team,
As a follow up to my August 4th email about the Pop Up Library,  I want to thank locations that have begun sending us Punch Cards and surveys.   Please keep asking your customers if they attended a Pop Up Library event and reward them with a free book.

During May, June and July, the Pop Up Library team has travelled throughout 35 zip codes in Houston delivering storytimes, interactive activities and iPad activities at area WIC clinics, parks, HEB grocery stores, housing authority sites and more.  To date, the team has completed the following:251 sessions,186 programming hours, and had a total of 4170 attendees!

• We are looking forward to a very busy August schedule!  One of our goals is reinforcing the positive experience of coming to the library. 
• When children visit, please ask them if they have participated in a Pop Up Library event. 
• When they say, “Yes”, please ask them for the punch card. 
• If they do not have a punch card, assure them that it is okay and please go ahead and award them a free Pop Up Library book.  Please make a hash mark on the tally sheet. 

The Pop Up Team thanks you for participating in the events at Houston Housing Authority by signing up youth for the Summer Reading program and library cards.  We thank you for notifying us about your programming schedule so we could share it at Pop Up events.  We thank you for awarding free books to Pop Up Library program participants at your local neighborhood library.  Your support of the program has been a huge factor in its success!  Thank you!

 Best regards,

Mary Wagoner

Pop Up Library in Your Neighborhood

Hi, Team,

Pop Up Library Program Manager Kapila Sankaran is currently booking Pop Up events at locations that attract low income families with young children, such as WIC Centers, Hermann Park Zoo, Multi-Service Centers and more. 

Please share with Kapila the name and contact information for any organization, church or apartments in your  library service area where we can present the program to entire families.  We are not interested in sites, such as schools, with only children in attendance.

• When we visit a venue that is in your service area this summer, we will distribute a location guide with your neighborhood library circled.
• We will promote your upcoming Summer Reading Program events. 
• We will distribute library card applications that will be stamped; or marked Pop Up Library or PUL.  We ask that you track the number submitted at your neighborhood library for us.
• We will create flyers to announce Pop Up events and request that you distribute them.

Once again, please send your recommendations to kapila.sanskaran@houstontx.gov. Your support in making this program a success is very appreciated.  Thank you.

Best regards,

Mary Wagoner