The normally calm Statesboro Regional Library was abuzz with activity Tuesday, as library staff conducted day 2 of an annual program encouraging children to read.Colorful decorations, free books, and a show were all on the menu for Langston Chapel Elementary School students taking part in the library’s two-week Reading is Fundamental event.The Reading is Fundamental, or RIF, program and book distribution — which started Monday and runs through May 9 — invites more than 4,000 Bulloch County prekindergarten through second-grade students to the library each year to get excited about books. “The primary goal is to motivate children to read. Everything we do here — the show, the decorations, etc. — is all part of a plan to make reading exciting and fun; to show that it is important,” said Elaine McDuffie, the library’s head of youth and family services.
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