Dominican University

The Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University will examine the impact of public library summer reading programs on student achievement among third- and fourth-grade students, as well as the effect of school and public libraries collaborating to support summer reading clubs. The results of this research will provide crucial data for librarians in the 95.2 percent of public libraries that have summer reading programs and school administrators eager to prevent summer learning loss. Partners on this project are the Center for Summer Learning at Johns Hopkins University, the Colorado State Library, and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission.