I assumed the Distributed Group Project and the Literature Review would help me find a resolution to the issue of rewards for our local summer reading program. As I have been planning the impending winter reading program, I realize that I am still ambivalent about what to do. Research indicates that rewards do help certain students with low-interest tasks. Will the children who consider the public library program a low-interest task participate? Parents will push and insist, but that turns the reading program away from a low-interest task into a power struggle between parent and child. I really want to keep on disliking Oriental Trading Company. In my collection development class it was stressed that keeping our personal belief system in check was very important. I am struggling with determining what is personal belief and what is research based. Deci and Cameron looked at many of the same studies and came to completely opposite conclusions. Part of my struggle is the waste of resources in making these trinkets and the zillions of catalogs I get weekly from Oriental Trading Company. I have call many times to cancel catalogs. As children's librarians we are care takers of public money and resources and expected to be knowledgeable about reading. Parents assume we are promoting reading in healthy ways. I want Johnny to be a life-long reader, but first he must pick up the book.