Screven-Jenkins library wins state award

From left, Wilma Gainey, library branch manager, and Constance Wade display the Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System's winning entry in the statewide competition to advertise the Vacation Reading Program. "The Bugsville Public Library" was the grand prize winner. (Staff photo by Deborah Bennett)

The Screven-Jenkins Regional Library System (SJRLS) is proud to announce that thanks to the hard work and imagination of staffers Belinda Waters and Sharon Blank, the library has won a statewide competition among children's librarians.

The competition was to create a table centerpiece that best exemplifies the theme of the 2008 Vacation Reading Program, "Catch the Reading Bug". There was a lot of very stiff competition, but the SJRLS entry, "The Bugsville Public Library," walked off with the grand prize at the Children's Services Annual Conference, held in Macon on Feb. 4.

The centerpiece, a giant bug house featuring bugs sitting at tables reading, spinner racks and shelves full of books, and even a bug-sized book drop, garnered a lot of attention at the conference, which is held to help children's librarians to come up with ideas to make each year's summer reading program even better than the year before.

This year's Vacation Reading Program will begin in June and continue until August, and every child and teen in Screven and Jenkins counties is invited to join the program and make themselves at home in Bugsville!