Ewan Scott from Aberdeen City Libraries has been in touch to about their plans for National Reading Group Day. Ewan tells us what will be happening:
Aberdeen City Libraries are organising a city-wide reading group on National Reading Group Day 2012 which will involve reading groups in the city reading the same book. Groups are being invited to vote for their favourite book, read it for the day and then discuss it online with other groups from the city and shire on the 30th June.
We’re hoping to get as many reading groups and book clubs as possible within Aberdeen taking part in order to make the day a success, so will be promoting the event in each of our 16 Community Libraries as well as our main Central Library.
Voting and reading
Aberdeen City Libraries have been building up a collection, for reading groups to use, which features about 110 titles of contemporary and classic fiction. We currently support a number of reading groups in the city, but are aware that there are many more that we could connect with so we are hoping that this project will allow us to do so.
The idea behind the project revolves around a blog that is being set-up on Wordpress. An online poll will be set-up on the blog to find out the book of choice for the event, allowing the reading groups that are taking part to vote on their preferred choice. We’re aiming to treat the event as a normal reading group meeting so the books will be distributed at the start of June, giving the participants 4 weeks to read it in preparation for the event.
Taking part in the online reading group
The actual discussion will take place on our Aberdeen City Libraries Facebook page and will run between 10am and 2pm on the 30th June with participants dropping in and out throughout the day. In fact, the only constant should be myself as I will be monitoring the debate!
The hope is that the event will grow in the following years and allow for a much greater discussion and interaction between book groups in Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire. Some of reading groups can be in isolated communities and we hope to encourage them to use our service through the event.
Get involved
Live in Aberdeen? In a reading group? Get in touch with Ewan to take part in their project.
Download the Aberdeen City Library reading group collection.
What are your plans for National Reading Group Day? Post a comment or tell us on Facebook.
