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Easy-to-Use Reading Tracking
Motivate more readers of all ages with tools like a reading timer, ISBN scanner, and title progress bars. Community members love logging everything from audiobooks and graphic novels to picture books and chapter books in their Beanstack reading logs. Leave paper logs behind with our innovative platform that can be used during and after each school year.
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Offer Something for Everyone
Easily offer summer reading challenges for all ages, from kids and parents to students and seniors. With Beanstack, you can grow your base of summer reading participants with tailored challenges, fun programs, and content for the whole family, young readers, teens, and older readers alike.
Supercharge Summer Learning
Students who read during summer break maintain and build up their hard-earned reading skills instead of backsliding. Running engaging and accessible summer reading programs lessens learning loss and closes the achievement gap, helping to meet reading goals.
Save Time and Effort
Streamline everything summer. We make it easy to customize your website, launch summer reading challenges and summer reading programs, manage staff and reader accounts, track fun prizes, and get data in the summer months.
Easily customize every aspect of your website, from registration information to nitty-gritty challenge details. Integrate your library catalog to promote your collection through reading lists and challenges.
Download reports of all your summer reading challenge data and gain valuable insights about your community and impact. Get as granular as the specific badges earned by each reader or obtain a bird's eye view of the total minutes or books read per month during the summer challenge or summer reading program.
Increase Summer Reading Participation
Libraries worldwide are growing their summer reading stats with Beanstack. In their first summer using Beanstack, Wellington City Libraries in New Zealand boosted participation in summer programs by more than 400% and the books read per participant by more than 200%.
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How We Fuel Summer Reading Growth
Amplify the reach of your summer reading program at your library branch with Beanstack's state-of-the-art technology and content.
Support Your Community With Summer Reading
Discover how summer reading programs and reading challenges can make a difference in your community by boosting engagement and encouraging more reading among individuals, from tackling the summer slide to building connections through library programs.
Showcase Library Services
Promote your summer reading programming and events with activity badges and fun activities like bingo cards to connect readers with technology services and resources. Boost circulation by turning your staff picks and recommended reads into reading list challenges.
Partner With Your Local Library or School
Sync up your site with your local public library location or school district with our one-of-a-kind tandem connection service. With tandems, readers can link their Beanstack accounts and log reading for all the challenges and programs in their community—helping you boost participation and engagement.
FAQs
Beanstack helps schools and libraries plan, run, and track summer reading challenges on one easy-to-use digital platform. Staff can easily pull participation stats and run prize drawings with this summer reading program, while readers stay motivated through badges, progress tracking, and fun goals in the app.
Libraries can use the built-in tools and templates to quickly set up a summer reading program in Beanstack. This makes it easy to launch on time, even with limited staff capacity.
Beanstack is designed to support all readers in a community, including students, families, and library patrons. Readers can participate in summer reading programs regardless of their age or reading level.All public libraries and schools with an active Beanstack subscription can run summer reading challenges for their communities. Summer reading programs can include kids, teens, and adults, making it easy for families and readers of all ages to participate together.
Yes! Beanstack supports a wide variety of reading activities beyond books, including audiobooks, e-books, and even non-fiction reading. You can customize your summer reading program to include any combination of these formats to meet the needs of your community.Yes. The Beanstack platform supports reading, activities, events, and learning goals. That flexibility helps libraries meet readers where they are and celebrate many ways to participate in a summer reading program.
Beanstack automates tracking, awarding badges and prizes, and generating reports. Staff spend less time on manual work and more time connecting with readers and promoting summer fun.
Yes, admins can enter offline reading and paper reading logs into Beanstack. This ensures all participants are counted, even if they do not log digitally.
Yes. Both small public libraries and large city-wide systems use Beanstack to run summer reading programs because it scales easily and adapts to local community needs.
Beanstack uses gamification elements such as badges, streaks, and visual progress tracking to make reading feel rewarding for participants. These playful elements help readers stay engaged longer and provide schools and public libraries with an easy way to celebrate participation.