Adults

Do the whole challenge online with the Beanstack app (downloaded from your app store) or via your web browser.  (Playing online is even easier with Beanstack’s improved Bingo capabilities!)

OR

1. Download and print the Reading Record Package or pick one up at your branch.
2. Complete your BINGO squares, lines, and even your whole card!  Did you read something that qualifies for more than one square?  Mark it down for each one it applies to!
3. Make sure you check out our the bonus activity sheets in your Reading Record Package for more summer fun.
4. Draw slips and prizes work like this:
   • Find downloadable draw slips below. Participants can visit their branch to fill out them out.
   • Each BINGO square = one draw slip
   • Each BINGO line = a bonus draw slip
   • Each Puzzle sheet = a bonus draw slip
   • Each completed whole BINGO card = an entry for a system wide prize of $100 to a bookstore of your choice

• Grand Prize: One of three $100 gift card to a bookstore of your choice
• Branch Prizes: a book to keep!
• And other cool stuff!

• Reading Record Package, including bonus activities
• Draw slips -regular for completed BINGO squares & bonus puzzles
• Draw slips – for completed BINGO lines

1. Read a book with a time travel plot
   • Click here for a bunch of time travel books.
2. Read a book from your favourite era in history
   • Browse currently checked in historical fiction here, or do your own catalogue search using keywords or subjects like “middle ages“.
3. Read a book by an author who you would time travel with
   • Anyone you want will do!
4. Watch a sci-fi movie
   • Download the Kanopy app or view on your browser here.  Make sure you make an account with your library card to see their list of Sci-Fi and Fantasy titles!
   • Find DVDs in our catalogue here.
5. Time travel by “visiting” a museum
   • Try one of these:
     • SCIENCE
       • Dive Deeper -Virtual Exhibit for the Quoddy Region of the Bay of Fundy (Canadian content)
       • Spy Museum, Washington DC
       • International Space Station Tour
       • Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
       • Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
     • HISTORY
       • Vancouver Maritime Museum –Changing Perspectives exhibit (Canadian content)
       • MUMAQ (Musée des Métiers d’Art du Québec) –The Secret Life of Objects (Canadian content)
       • Boots & Blades: the story of Canadian figure skating (Canadian content)
       • Royal BC Museum: Stories Carved in Cedar (Canadian content)
       • From Tides to Tins: Salmon Canning in BC (Canadian content)
       • United States Holocaust Museum
       • BC Black Pioneers (Canadian content)
       • Circoluza: the wonderful world of circus arts (Canadian content)
       • And so many more from Digital Museums Canada!
     • ART
       • Metropolitan Museum of Art
       • Virtual Online Museum of Art (VOMA)
       • State Hermitage Museum of Russia
       • Vatican Museum
       • ᐃᓂᖓᑦ ᐃᓚᒌᑦ Iningat Ilagiit: Connecting Through the Cape Dorset Archive (Canadian content)
       • MMCA | National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Gwacheon, Korea
6. Read or listen to a book while in motion
   • Plane, train, automobile,… just please don’t hurt yourself, okay?
7. Read an author who is much younger or much older than you
   • We suggest some good old fashioned browsing while using your knowledge of names typical of different generations to find something new.
   • You can also ask a person who is much younger or older than you for a recommendation and see if that author works for this challenge.  (Many people like to read authors who are around their own age.)
8. Listen to Meet Me in the Stacks using present day technology
   • Find on your favourite podcasting app or find them here with show notes.
9. Visit or read about a local historic landmark
10. Listen to music from the decade when you were born
    • You can search Freegal for your decade by typing “1980s”, etc.
11. Read a post-apocalyptic book
    • Click here for a some post-apocalyptic books.
12. Read a book that takes place before the internet
    • January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet.
      
    • The World Wide Web became available to the broader public 30 years ago on April 30, 1993.
13. CHECK OUT A LIBRARY BOOK
14. Read a book about a dystopian future
    • Click here for some dystopian books.
15. Watch a historical film on Kanopy
    • If you really aren’t feeling the online watching angle, browse and check out a dvd.
16. Read a book about or set in an ancient time period
    • Click here to see a bunch.
17. Listen to futuristic music while staring out the window
    • Find a genre that sounds futuristic to you on Freegal Music + with your library card.  (Did you know that you get free access to over 15 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog with Freegal? In total the collection is comprised of music from over 40,000+ labels with music that originates in over 100 countries.  Each library member can download five songs per week, and stream up to three hours of music per day.)
18. Read a book that begins at the end, or gets stuck in a time loop
    • Click here for books that begin at the end and here for time loop fiction.
19. Live in the present!  Try a book from our Local Reads collection
    • • Click here to see our new Local Reads collection.
      • Can’t find a book there that appeals/is available?  Try a local author who isn’t in that collection here.
20. Read an article about space travel
    • • • Find articles in newspapers and magazines from the world’s largest online newspaper and magazine kiosk with PressReader.  Download it from your app store, or read online here (but make sure to click SIGN IN to access the library’s free portal).  You can use the magnifying glass to search.
21. Read a poem that transports you to another time
    • See a list of currently checked in poetry books here.  Filter by your home branch location on the left to get it even faster!
22. Read a book under a tree and pretend to be in a prehistoric forest
    • Try these Jurassic Dinosaur Sounds tracks on Freegal Music + with your library card.  (Did you know that you get free access to over 15 million songs, including Sony Music’s catalog with Freegal? In total the collection is comprised of music from over 40,000+ labels with music that originates in over 100 countries.  Each library member can download five songs per week, and stream up to three hours of music per day.)
23. Read a graphic novel set in the past or future
    • Check out a staff curated list here.
    • See a list of currently checked in Graphic Novels for adults here and pick one that is set in the past or future.  Filter by your home branch location on the left to get it even faster!
24. Doodle to your thoughts about time travel
    • You might even want to take a drawing course on Creativebug to really get doodling.  Make an account here with your library card and browse their classes to find something your speed.
25. Read a book with “clock” or “cuckoo” or “time” in the title
    • See a list of currently checked in titles for adults here or from our teen collection here.