Swan says,"All throughout the week, we are waving fines on materials that are brought back this week that are currently checked out. So, if you have a couple library books at home, that are just laying around and you're afraid to bring them, this is the perfect week to bring them back and we'll wave the fines on those."
National Library Week comes but once a year, but when it does come, it gives the community new chances to discover all the library has to offer. This year is no different.
Youth Services Librarian, Celine Swan says,"We're really excited. Every year we celebrate National Library Week, it's an initiative of the American Library Association and it's the special week where we can really appreciate libraries all over. Not only public libraries, but school libraries, medical libraries and the librarians that also do the work. We also we have many volunteers and people in the community that come in and help us out."
And helping out could mean just reading. Patron Charlotte Baker says,"My kids read a lot, well [my son] can't read yet. But he looks through a lot of the books, but my daughter reads them to him and I read them to him. My daughter's in first grade and she reads...constantly! So we're here a lot checking out lots of books."
And if you are also guilty of checking out lots of books, National Library Week is absolutely the week to bring them back and then stock up on some more.
Swan says,"All throughout the week, we are waving fines on materials that are brought back this week that are currently checked out. So, if you have a couple library books at home, that are just laying around and you're afraid to bring them, this is the perfect week to bring them back and we'll wave the fines on those."
But why else should you come down for national library week? As Charlotte Baker's daughter, Hannah, would say, "Because it's so fun!"
