In an effort to foster a sense of community through reading, area organizations joined in partnership in 2002 to establish On The Same Page, a citywide reading project. This program was modeled after the first organized community reading event, which was held in Seattle in 1997. Since then, thousands of people from around the Tristate came together to read:
2005
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (adult title)
Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix (young adult title)
2004
Crossing the River by Caryl Phillips (adult title)
Hush by Jacqueline Woodson (young adult title)
2003
Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol (adult title)
Marika by Andrea Cheng (young adult title)
2002
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest Gaines
The Library of Congress maintains a state-by-state list of past and current “one book” projects.
On the Same Page Mission
To celebrate reading and the arts.
Adult Title Selection Team
- Howard Cohen
- Marketing & PR Manager, Emmis Publishing
- Joan Luebering
- Manager, Reading Branch
- Annette Meurer
- Marketing & PR Manager, Joseph-Beth Booksellers
- Kathy Reick
- Manager, Hyde Park Branch
- Holbrook Sample
- Manager, Greenhills Branch
- Elizabeth Weigand
- Librarian, Fiction & Young Adults Department
Young Adult Title Selection Team:
- Carrie Conlin
- Teen Librarian, Fiction & Young Adults Department
- Betsey Cornwell
- Library Services Assistant, Madisonville Branch
- Carolyn Daly
- Teacher, Sacred Heart School, Fairfield and Bookseller, Blue Manatee Books, Oakley
- Daryl Elliott
- Library Services Assistant, Circulation Services Department
- Sarah Schellenger
- Manager, Northside Branch
Program Planning Committee:
- Faith Daughtry
- Library Services Assistant, Information Services Department
- Jennifer Korn
- Teen Librarian, Groesbeck Branch
- Joan Luebering
- Manager, Reading Branch
- David Siders
- Manager, Walnut Hills Branch
- Elizabeth Weigand
- Librarian, Fiction & Young Adults Department
- Susanne Wells
- Librarian, Collection Development Department
Listen to Barbara Gray (of WVXU) talk with library representatives about On the Same Page.
