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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, 2010

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. 
Public library programming and books for children make a difference in the lives of students. By providing school-age children with engaging programs and amazing collections, students from all backgrounds become excited and enthusiastic readers.
 A library card has always been the most important school supply of all,” says Assistant Library Director, Janet Davis.  “Today’s libraries are thriving technology hubs that millions rely on as either their first or only choice for computer and Internet access. In doing so, libraries provide children with not only the tools to be literate, but information literate as well.  There’s a lot happening at the Warren County Library and the best part for both children and parents – in these though economic times - 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.  This year our cards have a brand new design and we are offering convenient key ring cards. If you already have a Warren County Library card in good standing, you can trade it in for a shiny new card.
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.