Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science has received a $290,224 Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grant to examine the impact of public library summer reading programs on student achievement. Partners on this project are the Colorado State Library, and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. The research will be conducted by the Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University
The three-year research project will study the impact of public library and school partnerships on the reading achievement of disadvantaged third and fourth grade students. This project will seek to answer whether the summer reading clubs offered by 95.2% of public libraries in the United States actually accomplish the goals of preventing summer learning loss in reading performance and sustaining a love of reading in children.