HomeMy WebLinkAbout2021-03-24; Library Board of Trustees; ; Carlsbad Reads Together 2021ITEM #7
Meeting Date: March 24, 2021
To: Library Board of Trustees
From: Sheila Crosby, Deputy Library Director
Staff Contact: Sheila Crosby, sheila.crosby@carlsbadca.gov
Subject: Carlsbad Reads Together 2021
District: All
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Executive Summary/Discussion
The board will be presented with an overview of Carlsbad Reads Together 2021. The Carlsbad City
Library is pleased to present a month of programming based around the author Tara Westover and
her book Educated. For details about Carlsbad Reads Together, please visit www.carlsbadca.gov/CRT.
An Evening with Tara Westover
April 8, 5:30 p.m. - Registration is required for this Zoom event. Visit www.carlsbadca.gov/CRT for
registration details. Sponsored by the Friends of the Carlsbad Library.
The following is a schedule of events for Carlsbad Reads Together 2021:
Educated Book Discussion
•April 5, 7-8:00 p.m. Zoom Virtual Event
Who Do You Think WE Are?
•April 22, 5:30 p.m. Zoom Virtual Genealogy Program
Telling your ancestors’ stories and creating a family history narrative.
Human Library
•April 24, 1-3:00 p.m. Zoom Virtual Event
The Human Library is a library where real people are the books and reading is a
conversation. Living Books (people with a particular life experience or story to tell) are
available to “check out” for a 20-minute conversation. Every “book” represents a group in
our society that may be subjected to prejudice because of their lifestyle, diagnosis, belief,
ethnic origin, etc.
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LIBRARY BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Make Your Own Herbal Scrub - Bilingual Craft for Adults
• Throughout April 2021
Teen Write-Your-Own-Memoir Kit
• Throughout April 2021, while supplies last.
Teen Book Warriors Book Club - The Reader by Traci Chee
• Zoom Virtual Event April 20, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
What would you do it no one in the world could read? What if you could read and had no
books?
Carlsbad Reads Together - For Kids - Nothing Stopped Sophie by Cheryl Bardoe
• April 14, 3:30 p.m. Zoom Virtual Event. Grades 1 – 5 and their families.
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Fiscal Analysis
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•An Evening with Tara Westover
•April 8, 5:30 p.m. -Registration is required. Visit
www.carlsbadca.gov/CRT for registration details.
Tara Westover is an American author, born in Idaho to a father opposed to
public education. She never attended school and spent her days working in
her father's junkyard or stewing herbs for her mother. She was seventeen the first
time she set foot in a classroom.
Sponsored by the Friends of the Carlsbad Library
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•Adults –Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
•Teens –The Reader by Traci Chee
•Children –Nothing Stopped Sophie by Cheryl Bardoe
www.carlsbadca.gov/CRT
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•Teen Write –Your –Own -Memoir Kit
•All of April -Distributed via Curbside
•Adult Bilingual -Herbal Scrub Craft Kit
•All of April –Distributed via Curbside
•Educated Book Discussion
•April 5, 7:00-8:00 p.m.
•An Evening with Tara Westover
•April 8, 5:30 p.m. -Registration is required. Visit
www.carlsbadca.gov/CRT for registration details.
•Carlsbad Reads Together –for Kids
•April 14, 3:30 p.m.
•Book Warriors Discussion Group
•April 20, 3:30-4:30 p.m.
•Who do you think WE are? Genealogy Program
•April 22, 5:30 p.m.
•Human Library
•April 24, 1:00-3:00 p.m. -The Human Library is a library
where real people are the books and reading is a
conversation.