February is Love Your Library Month, and the staff and volunteers at libraries across North Texas want to feel your love.
The month-long celebration provides plenty of time for you and your family around you to rediscover your local library.
Throughout the month, libraries in the area will help you recognize the important role that they play in the cultural and economic success of local communities like ours. Whatever your reasons for loving your library “ personal enjoyment, intellectual stimulation, children's books and activities, research materials for school, home or work, or access to computers and the Internet, and more “ Texas libraries invite you to join us those celebrating those reasons.
To celebrate the reasons that North Texas residents love their local library, libraries will feature several special events and programs for patrons of all ages over the next month. These events offer the opportunity for the residents of North Texas to come together to help celebrate and enjoy the many reasons to love your local library and to recognize the important role our local library plays in the cultural and economic success of our community and our nation.
She Is Dallas Info: There are so many great resources and activities at the library! Check out our list below and you just might be surprised at all that you will find there. Visit your local library for wonderful events planned throughout the month of February. Here is a link that will help you locate all the public libraries in the state of Texas. Have fun with a book!
65 Reasons to Love Your Library
by the Texas Library Association
1. Get expert help with the Internet.
2. Use the library's computers free of charge.
3. Keep up with the news and trends through newspapers and magazines.
4. Check out the latest bestsellers.
5. Prepare to tackle home improvement projects with how-to books and DVDs.
6. Borrow CDs and books before you buy them.
7. Enjoy comfortable, safe study areas.
8. Find biographies of the great and the average.
9. Research your health concerns.
10. Explore science, history and the world.
11. Use consumer research print and websites to find best buys on what you want and need.
12. Learn how to invest in an IRA.
13. Investigate the best schools and colleges for yourself and your children.
14. Enjoy story time with your child.
15. Participate in a book club.
16. Seek and find that rich uncle you never knew about in our genealogy department.
17. Get tips on investing your inheritance now that you have found your rich Uncle Harry.
18. Learn to care for your iguana “or other pet.
19. Track stocks or mutual funds.
20. Enjoy book talks for teens or adults.
21. Get help with your science fair projects and term papers.
22. Find the movie of the book you enjoyed “and vice versa!
23. Take a continuing education class.
24. Teach someone how to read.
25. Relish the helpful assistance of librarians and volunteers who enjoy assisting you and others.
26. Research your local history. Maybe you ™ll find out where the skeletons are buried in your town.
27. Learn another language.
28. Ask your library to arrange a loan of a book or other resource from another library.
29. Locate back issues of magazines and newspapers.
30. Look for the print or electronic book or magazine your spouse threw away in your library.
31. Catch up on the classics.
32. Find selected foreign language books “libros del idioma extranjero.
33. Save money by borrowing your library's collections of books, DVD's, audio books, etc. rather than buying them.
34. Join in community-wide affairs.
35. Enjoy good air conditioning when it's hot and snuggly warmth when it is cold.
36. Plan a vacation anywhere from Argentina to Zanzibar.
37. Discover a love poem for your significant other.
38. Take a practice test for becoming a policeman, fireman, graduate student, citizen . . .
39. Find out what else happened on the day you were born.
40. Learn why all the fish died in your aquarium and how to train your puppy.
41. Get help on preparing your will, trust, etc.
42. Learn how to write a good letter of resignation and a new resume.
43. Check out a couple of great books on tape that the whole family can enjoy on the drive to Grandma's and other distant places.
44. Find out how to replace your lost birth certificate.
45. Check your e-mail with our free Internet access.
46. Get the lyrics or the CD of that old song you heard on the radio 37 years ago.
47. Obtain forms for federal financial aid.
48. Learn about how to obtain a U.S. patent or trademark.
49. Find out where to obtain free government publications.
50. Learn how to secure a copyright and get the forms, too.
51. Get your IRS forms online or at your library.
52. Find federal statistics on everything from cell phones to Internet use in the U.S. and world.
53. Get solid medical information from sources such as MEDLINE.
54. Use our easy access website to find links to free subscriptions to online resources and databases.
55. Find the correct temperature to cook your Thanksgiving turkey.
56. Return books to any branch library in your library system.
57. Research ideas for statewide history day, Women's History Month, Black History Month, Children's Library Week and more months, weeks and days of note.
58. Turn in a list of books and other materials that you would like to see the library acquire.
59. Check out the best books to read to your children.
60. Suggest improvements to your library and know your suggestions will be appreciated.
61. Help your library by volunteering, participating in the Friends group, assisting with special projects. Your investment in time and ideas will pay off big time to your community and to yourself.
62. Read the latest comic books before they become movies.
63. Use the convenient outside book drop when the library is closed.
64. See original works of art on display.
65. Check your library account online. (If this service is not available now, it will be soon!)
February is Love Your Library Month, and the staff and volunteers at libraries across North Texas want to feel your love.
The month-long celebration provides plenty of time for you and your family around you to rediscover your local library.
Throughout the month, libraries in the area will help you recognize the important role that they play in the cultural and economic success of local communities like ours. Whatever your reasons for loving your library “ personal enjoyment, intellectual stimulation, children's books and activities, research materials for school, home or work, or access to computers and the Internet, and more “ Texas libraries invite you to join us those celebrating those reasons.
To celebrate the reasons that North Texas residents love their local library, libraries will feature several special events and programs for patrons of all ages over the next month. These events offer the opportunity for the residents of North Texas to come together to help celebrate and enjoy the many reasons to love your local library and to recognize the important role our local library plays in the cultural and economic success of our community and our nation.
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