An Awesome Week!

It's that time of year. . . NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK!! Here at LPLS we are so excited to celebrate National Library Week with our staff, patrons, and community.

This year, National Library Week is being celebrated from April 13-19. This year's theme is "Lives change @ your library." We wanted to start the week off with a post offering some NLW facts, as well as some facts about LPLS that you may not have known. There are links throughout the post you can click on to be directed to the coordinating website.

National Library Week

Research conducted in the mid-1950's showed that Americans were spending less on books and more on radios, televisions, and musical instruments. Concerned that Americans were reading less, the American Library Association and the American Book Publishers formed a non-profit organization called the National Book Committee in 1954.

The committee developed a plan for NLW based on the idea that once people were motivated to read, they would support and use libraries. The first National Library Week was observed in 1958 with the theme "Wake Up and Read!"

After the second NLW was observed in 1959, the ALA Council voted to continue the annual celebration.

NLW is observed each year, generally during the second full week, in April.

Celebrations that take place during NLW include: National Library Workers Day (Tuesday) National Bookmobile Day (Wednesday), and Celebrate Teen Literature Day (Thursday).

                                           

Linebaugh Public Library

In addition to hardback and paperback books, the library also offers large print texts, MP3 audio books, CD books, music on CD, DVDs, TV on DVDs, and computers.

The main branch of LPLS, situated in downtown Murfreesboro, has 80,000 patrons, with 26,400 of those under the age of 18.

The library offers many classes and groups every month for the community, including computer systems/operations, genealogy, book clubs, French conversation class, writers groups, and workshops ranging in interests/topics.

LPLS is on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and multiple blogs (like this one!!). Also, the library offers free wifi for your laptop, smartphone, tablet, or Ereader while in the library.

With your Linebaugh Library membership, you have FREE access to the Regional Ebook and Audiobook Download System (R.E.A.D.S.) and the Tennessee Electronic Library. 

We hope everyone has an AWESOME and library-filled National Library Week!!