Passive Program: Summer Reading 2017

Summer reading has officially begun! This year's theme is Build a Better World. So my intention is to have small DIY projects that embrace "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" in order to be better community members. Each project will be tested out by me to make sure that they are easy and doable projects.

This week was a T-shirt tote. No sewing necessary! I did my research and read through at least three different blogs that did the same project, and I combined the instructions from two of them (find them here and here) to create my own in handout form. 

Passive Programming: Sports Themed Rebus Puzzles

The Book in a Jar was extremely popular! we had 24 entries, and most of them were correct. (The one that were incorrect were kids) So now it is time for the new passive program! I actually came up with this all by myself. I had been trying to figure out a way to incorporate sports, and this was what I came up with!

This one is also already pretty popular, I really liked how it came out.

The answers:

Passive Programming: Book in a Jar

My new passive programming display is up and running! my boss had heard about book in a jar, and after a quick google search I totally agreed that it would be something super cool that we could do.
And after three days slicing up a book, I really like how it turned out.

To make all of this work, I had to cut up a few of the pages myself because our shredder does a really good job and all that was really left of each shred fit one or two words on it. And since I wanted people to be able guess I put a few of the key pages to the side.

I know a few people already entered the correct answer, and at least one of my coworkers got it as well, can you guess the book? If not, here's the answer. 

I would also just like to add that I had to work on this project at the reference desk and cannot truly describe the odd looks I got putting all this together. I can say that no one freaked out even as I was literally tearing the pages out of the book. I had to tell people what I was doing fairly often, and luckily they all seemed pretty excited about it. Although I did have one person attempt to through a piece of trash in the jar as I was filling it. 

Either way, this project was definitely worth all the work. 

Passive Programming: Guess the Book from the First Line

I must have done a good job with the last program I ran because I was given charge of all the passive programming during summer reading.
I just finished my first attempt.

I think it came out pretty good if I do say so myself.
I went with "Can you Guess the Book from the First Line?" Each square on the poster board is numbered and contains a quote from the opening line of a book. I included classics and more recent popular books. I also created the submission forms because they can get entered to win a Marylou's gift card! I also included an answer key with all the titles plus one extra.