Library card sign up month ideas

Going to libraries has remained an integral part of our culture. And this cultural project is propelled by our youth and particularly children. Realizing the significance of children’s connection to the library, Former United States Secretary of Education, William Bennett, created a campaign in 1987 today celebrated as Library Card Sign Up Month. William Bennett said: “Let’s

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In a few weeks is September's Library Card Sign-Up Month! This year's spokespeople are The Incredibles, and you can go to ALA's page to grab really awesome graphics to use for advertising and social media, like we used in our advertisement: But besides posting pictures, what is your library doing this year? Not sure? Here are a few ideas shared on Facebook, retold here for your convenience: Make a Visual To Represent New Cardholders To celebrate new library members, you could keep track of…

How Hauppuage is displaying Library Card Sign Up Month Consider this Part 2 of Lisa's post from earlier in the week about Snoopy representing libraries during Library Card Sign Up Month. Take a look at her post about Snoopy-fied temporary library cards and how you can order them by clicking here. While out presenting the teens in Hauppauge with their Battle of the Books plaque last week I was greeted by a most awesome Snoopy display! This had me thinking about how darn adorable Snoopy is and…

Library Cards Sign Up Month @ Annville

September 2021 Library card sign up month

September is Library Card Sign-Up Month! Library Card Sign-Up Month is an observance celebrated by the American Library Association (ALA) and many other libraries nationwide. The purpose of this September event is to promote and remind the importance of library visits, and how the first step to unlimited resources, knowledge and skills all lie with the simple step of getting a library card. The American Library Association is the oldest and largest library association in the world, going…

Library card sign up month

Library Card Signup Month is here! Getting a library card is important for so many reasons, and I want to promote it as much as possible at my library. When I saw this Pinterest post asking for guesses about the number of books in the library my first thought was: Why not have people guess how many library cards we give out in a year? At that moment a last minute passive program was born. I decided to have a contest where kids could guess the number of library cards given out. Whoever…