National Library Week 2020

It's easy to find the library at your place this National Library Week!

April 19-25, 2020

Find your local public library using this helpful tool

https://www.overdrive.com/libraries

Click your local library website and register online  to get a library card!

You can borrow ebooks, audiobooks and movies.

There are virtual services too!

( Reference, storytimes, databases  and more!)

Jersey City Library featured on Wendy Williams and Who Do You Think You Are? faces 800K budget cut, Happy National Library Week!

National Library Week will be celebrated April 10-April 16, 2011

Jersey City Public Library in New Jersey may not be celebrating.

The Jersey City Public Library is facing $800,000 in budget cuts.

This would mean:-

• closing branches


• laying off staff


• termination of the Bookmobile program


• no computer access for teens, seniors, and the unemployed


• no new books

Interested Jersey City Public Library supporters are asked to call the City Clerk at 201-547-5150 to go on the speakers list for the next City Council Meeting, April 13, 2011, at 6pm at 280 Grove street.

Suggested talking points:

• Why do you oppose Jersey City Public Library budget cuts?

• Why is the Jersey Public Library important to you?

Please support the Jersey City Public Library ( and all public libraries) during NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK.

(Note to fans of Who Do You Think You Are?- The main branch of the Jersey City Public Library has been featured on several episodes, especially the Rosie O'Donnell episode. http://www.nbc.com/who-do-you-think-you-are/episode-guide/

The staff of the library was featured on the Wendy Williams show. http://educationservicesnews.blogspot.com/2009/10/jersey-city-public-library-staff-on.html

It was also featured in the movie, Party Girl http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114095/)

NLW: National Library Week 2010- 4/11- 4/17-Save Libraries

What is the best way to celebrate National Library Week?
Work to save our local libraries!

In New Jersey
go to http://www.savemynjlibrary.org/
There you can find out about proposed state legislation that endangers library funding.

You can also click on Contact Legislators with 1 click
and
Scroll to the bottom of the page
to immediately contact the Governor and your state legislators!

and then tell others to take Action

ALSO

Honorary Chair of National Library Week,Neil Gaiman, the 2009 Newbery Medal winner for “The Graveyard Book,” will speak to his lifelong love of libraries and the role they play in a democratic society by supporting intellectual freedom and privacy.

Library lovers and Gaiman readers across the country who are interested in watching are encouraged to join in the event live via UStream.tv and will need a 1 Mbps Internet connection and Flash player. Internet2 will also multicast the event on its national network enabling any of its connected research and education members that are multicast-enabled to broadcast the event to their campuses. Multicast information can be found at http://www.internet2.edu/k20/gaiman.html.

National Library Week, April 13-19

National Library Week (NLW) begins on April 13th!
NLW also celebrates its 50th anniversary
Books about libraries and reading will be on display at the Guarini Library!

Julie Andrews, Julie Andrews,Honorary Chair of National Library Week 2008 (April 13-19),delivers a message just for you about NLW!

National Library Week April 15- April is School Media Library Month

April is School Media Library Month
Research shows that the highest achieving students attend schools with well-stocked and staffed school library media centers.

and
April 15-21 is National Library Week

April 15th
"Step Up to the Plate @ your library"
Kids and young adults between the ages 9 to 18 years of age are invited to go to their library from April 15 to September 1, 2007, pick out a baseball book and submit an essay on how their favorite character inspired them. One grand-prize winner will receive a trip to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in October 2007. More information on "Step Up to the Plate @ your library," at www.ala.org/baseball.

April 19
Teen Literature Day,
Libraries all across the country will host programs and celebrations to raise awareness among the general public that young adult literature is a vibrant, growing genre with much to offer today's teens. Programs will showcase award-winning authors and books in the genre, as well as highlight librarians' expertise in connecting teens with books and other reading materials.