One Read, coordinated by the Daniel Boone Regional Library (DBRL) and now in its sixth year, is a community-wide reading program sponsored by a task force of local media and community agencies.
Modeled after Chicago’s successful “One Book, One Chicago” project, this comprehensive program involves cities, counties, media, schools and businesses in encouraging adults of all ages to read one book and participate in thought-provoking discussion and activities.
The idea of having as many people as possible read a single book originated five years ago in Seattle. It has since spread to many other cities, including Chicago, Buffalo and Rochester, N.Y., Springfield, Ill., and Boise, Idaho. Credit for the original idea is given to Nancy Pearl, a Seattle librarian. “It’s based on the idea of community. My idea was that people would come together who would never come together any other way. Literature brings them together because a book touches them,” she said.
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