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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Cross-posted to Library Youth Services, SmLib, and OPLINlist. Please excuse duplication.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>The Ohio State Fair and Expo Center is again supporting Ohio libraries’ summer reading programs by offering a $4 discount voucher
</b>to any library wishing to distribute it to your summer readers. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The voucher is good for $4 off gate admission for children/youth ages 5-14 (State Fair admission is free for children under age 5). For 5-12 year olds, this is ½ off the regular admission price of $8. For 13 and 14 year olds, this is
40% off the regular admission price of $10.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All Ohio public libraries are invited to distribute the voucher to your summer reading program participants, at your discretion. You can offer it as a step prize, a completion prize, an enrollment incentive, or however works best for you.
Given the dates of the State Fair, I suggest handing the vouchers out earlier rather than later.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Download the voucher master here:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://library.ohio.gov/sites/default/files/State_fair_2015.pdf">http://library.ohio.gov/sites/default/files/State_fair_2015.pdf</a> (Adobe PDF file)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Please do not share this link or the electronic file with anyone outside the Ohio public library community.
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<p class="MsoNormal">This year, <b>make your copies on standard YELLOW copier paper.
</b>State Fair employees will only accept yellow SRP vouchers at the gate. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Libraries distributing this incentive will be asked to report the number of vouchers distributed. Plan to track your library’s distribution for the 2015 Ohio SRP Evaluation, so the State Library can report back to the Ohio State Fair.
The State Fair voucher and all statewide SRP resources are available to all Ohio public libraries, regardless of whether you use the collaborative theme or your own theme.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The State Fair will run from July 29 – August 9. More info is at
<a href="http://www.ohiostatefair.com/">http://www.ohiostatefair.com/</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Also, the <b>Ohio State Parks</b> will again offer a discount certificate on camping for Ohio summer reading program participants. There will be some exciting changes to the State Parks incentive this year, based on your past feedback.
That incentive will be announced on this list when I receive it from ODNR. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Janet<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#002E62"><img border="0" width="120" height="126" id="Picture_x0020_11" src="cid:image002.jpg@01D03B1C.49D4CBB0"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#002E62">Janet Ingraham Dwyer<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#002E62">Library Consultant<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#002E62">274 E. 1<sup>st</sup> Avenue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#002E62">Columbus, OH 43201<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#002E62">Tel: 614-644-6910<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#002E62">Fax: 614-466-3584<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif";color:#002E62"><a href="mailto:jdwyer@library.ohio.gov"><span style="color:blue">jdwyer@library.ohio.gov</span></a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><a href="http://library.ohio.gov"><span style="color:blue">http://library.ohio.gov</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic","sans-serif""><a href="http://library.ohio.gov/youthservices"><span style="color:blue">http://library.ohio.gov/youthservices</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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