September is Library Card Sign-up Month

Posted 8/21/12

REGION — Celebrated throughout the month of September, the nationwide Library Card Sign-up Month encourages the public to discover the things a library card gives you access to.

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September is Library Card Sign-up Month

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REGION — Celebrated throughout the month of September, the nationwide Library Card Sign-up Month encourages the public to discover the things a library card gives you access to.

“Your library card is your ticket to opportunity,” said Robert Hubsher, executive director of the Ramapo Catskill Library System (RCLS). “No other card in your wallet gives you free access to books, CDs, magazines and DVDs at your library and opens up the digital world to you with free access to downloadable ebooks, audiobooks, music, movies and magazine articles.”

Today’s libraries are people’s first or only choice for computer and Internet access, free with a library card. All the public libraries within the RCLS service area offer public access to the Internet and will help you learn to use this valuable tool.

If you have a computer and Internet access, you can connect to the website of your local library. Today, you can even download audiobooks, videos and ebooks to your computer or personal media device. The RCLS home page, www.rcls.org, provides a link to all member libraries and their branches 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

Library cards are free to those living in the library’s service area. In most cases, borrowing privileges are granted on the spot, based on providing some form of identification, proof of residency or the signature of a guardian.

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