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Contact:
Patricia Opitz, Library/Community Services
Warren County Library
Phone: 908-475-6246
Fax: 908-475-6359
Email: pattio@warrenlib.org
www.warrenlib.org

September 1. 2009

Get the Smartest Card @ your library®

(Belvidere, NJ) – September is Library Card Sign-up Month, and the Warren County Library wants to make sure that all children in Warren County have the smartest card of all – a library card. 

Studies show that children who are read to in the home, and who use the library, perform better in school and are more likely to continue to use the library as a source of lifetime learning.   

“A library card has always been the most important school supply of all,” says Assistant Library Director, Janet Davis. “Kids can come to the library to get homework help and check out books, but they can also play games, check out music, books and DVDs and use the Internet to help make after school life fun.  There’s a lot happening at the Warren County Library, and the best part for both kids and parents is that it’s all free with a library card.”
Getting a library card is easy.  Adults need proof of residence in one of Warren County’s seventeen townships, and their children need to be able to sign their first and last name.
Observed since 1987, Library Card Sign-up Month is a time when the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country remind parents that a library card is the most important school supply of all. 

For more information on how to sign up for a library card, call 908-475-6321 or visit our website at www.warrencounty.org for the address and phone number of each of our four Warren County locations.