FYI...not necessarily endorsing; just passing along... Kind regards, Deb D. B. Thomas, MA AMLS MeL & Library Outreach Coordinator Library of Michigan 517-373-4466 [LMSigforEmail] Visit MeL at: http://mel.org<http://mel.org/> and on Facebook at: http://facebook.com/mel.org The Library of Michigan is pleased to share a new video series highlighting Michigan libraries and how they are making a difference in their communities. To experience Michigan libraries in a new light, visit http://brightside.cedam.info/ and watch the 21st Century Libraries episode. From: ron.maas@starwalkkids.com [mailto:ron.maas@starwalkkids.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 5:29 PM To: BiggThomas, Deb (MDE) Subject: PopUp Library with free eBook access coming in July Dear Deb, I'm contacting you to let you know that StarWalk Kids Media is repeating our wildly popular Free Summer Reading program, the PopUpLibrary, for the entire month of July 2014. During this month, our entire collection of 500+ eBooks will be available free to anyone with Internet access - children, families, educators - who would like to access and read our engaging non-fiction and fiction eBooks for children. We hope that you will share this information with all of your member libraries, and urge them to share this URL with their patrons: http://starwalkkids.com/popup Visitors to this site in July can immediately read any eBook in our Pre-K thru 8th grade eBook collection, which is carefully curated for exceptional quality and written by well-known and respected authors including our founder, noted science author Seymour Simon. We allow multiple simultaneous access with no check-in or check-out required. Most of our eBooks also offer a "Read to Me" option for kids, with high quality, professional narration that accompanies the text. We don't require any form of user identification to use this program; we just want to make sure more kids read more eBooks this summer than ever before, and we hope that you will choose to share this great resource with your members. If you have any questions or need more information about the PopUpLibrary, please feel free to contact me at this address for more information. We will also be making promotional support materials like tent-cards and send-home flyers available in pdf form if you would like to share these with your member libraries. Thanks so much for your support, and for encouraging summer reading for children everywhere. Best regards, Ron Maas StarWalk Kids Media Customer Support and Operations 203-257-4077