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Image of Idina and Cara Mentzel, honorary chairs of 2022.

National Library Card Sign-up Month

September is Library Card Sign-up Month - a time when the American Library Association and libraries across the country remind parents that a library card is the most important school supply of all.

So, join us as we take this opportunity, observed since 1987, to celebrate your passport to fun and adventure; your library card!

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Graphic of free birds - Books Unite Us, and caged birds - Censorship Divides Us.

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read is observed during the last week of September each year. Observed since 1982, this annual American Library Association event reminds Americans not to take this precious democratic freedom for granted.

Banned Books Week celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them.

TeenTober

This October, Jasper County Public Library is participating in the Young Adult Library Services Association’s (YALSA) annual TeenTober celebration.

Teens in grades 6-12 who check out books, audiobooks or magazines during the month of October will be eligible to put their name in a drawing to win a prize. Prizes differ by location.

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