Parkes Shire Library: Integrating Art, Play, and Literacy

[Matt Finch]

The public library service I'm working with in Australia, Parkes Shire Library, just won a national award for innovation in youth services.

If you want to steal some of the Parkes magic, integrating learning, play, and literacy across a range of topics, you can find "how-to" articles and resources for some of their most exciting programmes online:

• Big Box Battle - monsters vs. robots
• Curating urban myths
• Paint Like Michelangelo, plus chocolate pudding swamps!
• Book publishing for teens
• Time travel in the library 
• Live action zombie siege - video of the two-day 2013 event, plus a report on the original 2012 project including "how-to" PDF