The Library: The Superhero of the Your Community

 by Abigail Hardison  Rowan Public Library

    Once a year, the American Library Association and libraries across the country make a concerted effort to encourage everyone to visit their local libraries and get a card. The benefits and joys of a library card are innumerable:

 Access to freely enjoy the latest bestselling book all your friends are talking about? Awesome!
How about those free online classes in PowerPoint that could get you the skills to impress your boss and get a raise? Amazing!

The possibility of bringing multiple generations of a family into one place and everybody finding something they are interested in? Unbelievable!

September is Library Card Sign-Up time month, a time that Rowan Public Library celebrates all the libraries have to offer, and the library celebrates its patrons, who make it all worthwhile. This year we are celebrating the hero in all of us!

RPL is providing entertainment for all ages at each branch (Headquarters in Salisbury, East Branch in Rockwell, and South Rowan Regional in China Grove) showcasing Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and more! Our “super” month will culminate Saturday, Sept. 30, at Headquarters, where we will show a double feature of “Batman vs. Superman” and the newly released “Wonder Woman.” We will also host a superhero costume contest that day: Homemade, store-bought, little kids, big kids, and adults who are kids at heart, capes, no capes, DC, Marvel – we want to see you get super!

Library Card Sign-Up month also features a contest to win a Kindle Fire. RPL, in conjunction with the Friends of Rowan Pubic Library, will be given out ten – that’s right, ten – Kindle Fire tablets. At each of our three branches, we will hold separate drawings for new adult library card holders, new teen library card holders, and existing patrons in good standing. We will also award a Kindle Fire to an Outreach patron. Each winner receives a free session with a librarian to set up the Kindle to access RPL’s digital resources. To enter, all you have to do is check out an item sometime during the month of September. That’s it!

For more information about RPL’s Library Card Sign-Up month celebrations, visit www.RowanPublicLibrary.org.