Find out where your library card can take you!
As the weather gets warmer, you may be looking for things to do outside the home. We all love tending to our yards, and gardens, and being outside after a cold winter, but if it’s too rainy to spend time out there, visit your library! Starting 7 April 2024, libraries across LaSalle, Bureau, and Putnam counties are participating in a Library Road Trip!
We invite everyone to visit their home library, pick up a passport, and hit the road with their favorite music and snacks! Once you get to another library, have your passport stamped at the circulation desk, and take a look around! Every library has its own specialty collection, and we’d love for everyone to see and experience all Illinois Valley libraries. Have your passport stamped at as many libraries as you’re comfortable visiting and return to your home library to turn in your passport. Your passport and stamps will get you a chance to win a prize from your home library in May.
The road trip will run from 7 April to 18 May. Not all libraries have the same hours or rules, so we encourage you to call or visit their website or Facebook page before you head out for your trip for the day.
Did you know, that you can use your library card at all area libraries? You can also return items at any area library and the item will return to where it came from through a delivery system provided by Reaching Across Illinois Libraries. Additionally, if a library doesn’t have what you’re looking for, another local library may, or we can order it from one of the 139 other libraries that are members of the PrairieCat consortia. You can have your items delivered to your home library or, your library of choice.
Participating libraries include
Earlville Public Library
Graves Hume Public Library (Mendota)
Ladd Public Library
LaMoille-Clarion Public Library
LaSalle Public Library
Oglesby Public Library
Ohio Public Library
PawPaw Public Library
Peru Public Library
Princeton Public Library
Putnam County Public Library (all branches!)
Raymond A. Sapp Memorial Library (Wyanet)
Reddick Public Library
Richard A. Mautino Public Library (Spring Valley)
Selby Township Library
Streator Public Library
Tiskilwa Public Library
Utica Public Library District
Walnut Public Library
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The above was sent to publicity contacts, and appeared in the LaSalle NewsTribune. The news article can be found here