Libraries Recruiting Younger Readers Drive Urges Parents To Get Kids Signed Up For Cards

Thu., Sept. 28, 2000

By Carlos Acevedo carlosa@spokesman.com

September is National Library Card Sign-up Month and local libraries are calling on parents to get their first-graders signed up.

“Studies show that children who are read to in the home and who use the library perform better in school,” said Spokane County Library staffer Eva Lusk.

From mid-September through mid-November, county library staff will visit first-graders in schools throughout the county and provide students with library information and a library card application to take home to their parents.

Likewise, the Spokane Public Library system is encouraging kids to use libraries by distributing library cards this week to first-graders in private and public city schools. Parents will receive a letter from the library director instructing them on how to activate the cards, according to spokeswoman Dolly Richendrfer.

Library cards for the county and city library systems are free to residents of those respective areas.

In connection with the library card campaigns, Mayor John Talbott proclaimed the month of September as Library Card Sign-up Month in Spokane at the Sept. 11 City Council meeting.

More information is available on the county library Web page at www.scld.org and the city library web page at www.spokanelibrary.org.

WHERE TO GO

Branches of city and county libraries for North Side residents are as follows:

Downtown, 906 W. Main, 444-5300

Deer Park, 208 S. Forest Ave., 276-2985

North Spokane, 44 E. Hawthorne, 467-5250

Hillyard, 4005 N. Cook, 444-5380

Indian Trail, 4909 W. Barnes Rd., 444-5395

Shadle, 2111 W. Wellesley, 444-5390

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