[Michlib-l] Summer Reading: how to count unpublished stories

[Linda Smith]

I have our teens report how many hours they read. That way slower readers
can compete with faster readers and manga readers don't get any more credit
than someone reading Dante's Inferno. This also helps with the online fan
fiction and original self published titles, a huge source of reading for
the teens at my library.

Linda Smith
Teen Services Coordinator
   Traverse Area District Library
   610 Woodmere Ave.
   Traverse City MI, 49686
   www.tadl.org
   231-932-8500 ext. 270

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Laura Orlowski <camden at monroe.lib.mi.us>
wrote:

> Hi all;
>
> In an attempt to keep our patrons (especially teens) into reading this
> summer, we are allowing all formats of reading (books, magazines, ebooks,
> audiobooks, etc.).  Because we are allowing so many different formats to be
> used, we chose to go with page counts for all ages (seems to be the fairest
> way to track).  For online ebooks and audiobooks, we typically use the
> standard hardcover page count for those titles.
>
> One of my teen patrons asked if they could count a book they are reading
> online that is from a site for writers to "self publish".  Since these
> titles do not have a page count available, any suggestions as to how we can
> count these stories?  I don't want to tell our readers that they can't use
> these titles - the whole point of summer reading is to get
> kids/teens/adults reading for the fun of it.
>
> Any thoughts/suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> -Laura Orlowski, director
> Camden Twp. Library
> camden at monroe.lib.mi.us
>
>
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