Presentation given at the History@Dixson Forum for the NSW Readers Advisory Group, SLNSW, 7 March 2012

1. Read@UTS: Creating a Reading Culture
Belinda Tiffen, Director Library Resources Unit, UTS Library
belinda.tiffen@uts.edu.au | @bella1609

2. What is READ@UTS
• Reading Club
• Facebook group
• Pilot program commenced
2010

3. Why?
• Support retention and success
programs
• Build academic language
competency
• Build communication and
presentation skills
• Encourage a culture of reading
and literacy

4. Expanded Programs
• Read@UTS Blog
• Book displays
• Book Club in a Bag
• Leisure Collection: Overdrive
• eReader and iPad loan scheme

5. What next?
• Indigenous Reading Group
• National Year of Reading
Program:
• Movie screenings
• Author Talks
• Competitions (trivia, Edible
Books)
• eBook & eReader mini-
workshops

6. Partnerships
• Support from SLNSW and
public library sector: National
Year of Reading, Love2read
Reading Group monthly
reading themes, NSW Reader’s
Advisory Working Group
• UTS support units (U:PASS,
Equity and Diversity, Network
Cafe, Housing, Jumbunna
Indigenous House of Learning)
• Gratuitous purloining of good
ideas wherever we find them!

7. NYR: Monthly Themes
Blog posts Teaser Tuesdays Displays

8. NYR: The Amazing Read (Jan)

9. NYR: Laugh (Feb)

10. NYR: Think (Mar)
• Movie screening

11. NYR: Feel (Apr)
• Edible books competition • Edible books competition

12. Collaboration and Play

13. Read@UTS: http://read.lib.uts.edu.au/