Sharon, What was the outcome of this?  I am still putting programs in
place for the summer so I just want to make sure that I didn't overlook
anything.
Lisa

>>> NJYAC <sraw...@njstatelib.org> 6/9/2008 9:54 AM >>>
Hi Everyone,

I have a question to pose to all of you working with middle school aged
kids and up.

Marvel Comics approached the NJ State Library asking whether they can
use the Super Librarian comic character in one of their single issue
comic books to distribute in NJ schools and libraries.

They have a separate in-house education resources division called Cover
Concepts that uses a company’s brand (i.e. Jeep or The Home Depot or
in this case, Super Librarian) in their materials to add educational
value to the in-school environment.  They propose to use Super Librarian0D
and one of their existing superheroes (Spiderman, Hulk, Fantastic Four,
etc.) to create a comic.

Nancy Dowd and I are trying to come up with a program idea that would
get the schools and public libraries involved with Marvel’s
proposition. We might have the kids vote on which Marvel superhero to
include with Super Librarian in a comic and then when we distribute the
comic books have them rate the drawing and the story plot - just to show
us they read it.

We need to know if you think the kids will be enthusiastic about
getting involved in something like this and if doing something with
Marvel is a worthwhile idea. We don’t know if the kids even cared that
much about the Super Librarian comic that the State Library created so
we want to make sure the kids would go for this before we finalize
anything.  We think that this won’t happen until 2009 but we need to
start discussing the details now.

Would you please respond to this message and just let me know if it’s
a worthwhile idea. I don’t necessarily need any program ideas, just
whether you think the kids will initially go for it. It could tie in
nicely with the art theme for the 2009 Summer Reading Program.

Thank you!

Sharon Rawlins
Youth Services Consultant
NJ State Library
185 West State St.
P.O. Box 520
Trenton, NJ 08625-0520
sraw...@njstatelib.org
609-278-2640 ext. 116 -=2
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