Past Meetings
- July 1, 2020 – Targeting the hard to reach
- June 18, 2020 – Supporting vulnerable or at risk families
- May 4, 2020 – Impact evaluation
- Feb 13, 2020 – Maternity hospital and Health Clinic bookgifting
- Nov 20, 2019 – Best practice quality bookgifting
- Sept 12, 2019 – Using volunteers, and community invigoration
- June 11, 2019 – Multilingual provision and Diversity
- March 28, 2019 – Trial meeting: Bookstart in Belgium and in Japan
- March 21, 2019 – Trial meeting: Better Beginnings Western Australia, and Bookstart Netherlands
Powerpoints from meetings
July 2020 – Targeting the hard to reach
- Anna Hällgren and Nina Suatan: Swedish Arts Council, Kulturradet, Sweden – Testing different methods suited to specific local and regional needs‘
- Julia Norrish: Book Dash, South Africa – Flooding the country with books: Using innovative channels to access the hard to reach
- Catriona Wallace and Celia Richards: Scottish Book Trust, Scotland – Bookbug for the Home: Bookbug isn’t just a literacy programme, Bookbug builds families
June 2020 – Supporting vulnerable or at risk families
- Miriam Schembri: National Literacy Agency, Malta – Home Libraries: providing a literacy environment in the homes of vulnerable families
- Sue Hill and Julia Jones: Raising Literacy Australia Inc – Building Parental Capacity/Home Libraries, and Universal Book Gifting
May 2020 – Impact evaluation
- Prof Dr Simone C Ehmig: Stiftung Lesen, Germany – Impact Evaluation of the 3 Milestones Project 2011-19
- Brian Gallagher MPA: Reach Out and Read, USA – Reach Out and Read Research
Feb 2020 – Maternity hospital and Health Clinic bookgifting
- Gabriela Dul: Polish Book Institute – Small Book-Great Human – working with Polands 360 state hospitals
- Shanda LaRamee-Jones: Read to Me, Nova Scotia – Delivering a Bookgift Program at the Hospital Bedside
- Emmi Jäkkö: Finnish Reading Centre – Book Gift Program – Book bag for every child born 2019-2021
Nov 2019 – Best practice quality bookgifting
- Catriona Wallace: Scottish Book Trust – Quality book gifting: a recent impact study and learning what works
- Marijke Bos: Stichting Lezen, Netherlands – Improving the quality of bookgifting
- Jennifer Luk: BookTrust, UK – Using Bookstart with families: our programme best practice guidance
Sept 2019 – Using volunteers, and community invigoration
- Ahn, Chan-soo: Bookstart Korea, Book Culture Foundation, South Korea – Reading Promotion for Children in Korea: Using volunteers, and community invigoration
- Izumi Satou: Bookstart Japan – Bookstart in Japan: Working with volunteers and community invigoration
- Laurence Mc Laughlin: Books4Babies, Wexford, Ireland – Books4Babies: Encouraging voluntary involvement and community participation
June 2019 – Multilingual provision and Diversity
- Olivia Crill: BookTrust, UK – ‘Bookstart for English as an Additional Language (EAL) literature review and initial pilot results’
- Izumi Satou: Bookstart Japan – ‘Bookstart in Japan: Support for non Japanese Speakers’
- Carol McDougall: Read to me! Nova Scotia – ‘Addressing the language needs of First Nations communities. Nurturing new generations of Mi’kmaq speakers.’
March 2019 – Trial meetings
- Lotte Baert: Iedereen Leest Belgium – ‘Boekstart Flanders update and professionalisation.’
- Izumi Satou: Bookstart Japan – ‘Bookstart in Japan: A sustainable structure for self motivated programmes.’
- Marijke Bos: Stichting Lezen, Netherlands – ‘BoekStart in the Netherlands: Growth and development of an established programme.’
- Linda Thorne: Better Beginnings, Western Australia – ‘Better Beginnings, Partnerships.’
Videos
Videos of Presentations from meetings
1 July 2020 meeting – Targeting the hard to reach
Julia Norrish: Book Dash, South Africa – Flooding the country with books: using innovative channels to access the hard to reach
Catriona Wallace and Celia Richards: Scottish Book Trust, Scotland – Bookbug for the Home: Bookbug isn’t just a literacy programme, Bookbug builds families
18 June 2020 meeting – Supporting vulnerable or at risk families
Miriam Schembri: National Literacy Agency, Malta – Home Libraries: providing a literacy environment in the homes of vulnerable families
Sue Hill and Julia Jones: Raising Literacy Australia Inc – Building Parental Capacity/Home Libraries, and Universal Book Gifting
4 May 2020 meeting – Impact evaluation
Prof Dr Simone C Ehmig: Stiftung Lesen, Germany – Impact Evaluation of the 3 Milestones Project 2011-19
Brian Gallagher MPA: Reach Out and Read, USA – Reach Out and Read Research
13 February 2020 meeting – Maternity hospital and Health Clinic bookgifting
Gabriela Dul: Polish Book Institute – Small Book Great Human: working with Poland’s 360 state hospitals
Shanda LaRamee-Jones: Read to Me, Nova Scotia – Delivering a Bookgift Program at the Hospital Bedside
Emmi Jäkkö: Finnish Reading Centre – Book Gift Program – Book bag for every child born 2019-2021
20 November 2019 meeting – Best practice quality bookgifting
12 September 2019 meeting – Using volunteers, and community invigoration
11 June 2019 launch meeting – Multilingual provision and Diversity
28 March 2019 Trial Meeting