April 2025

Bookmark Contest
Summer Reading Classroom Visits
Always Ready Resources
BIG Changes Coming Soon!
Celebrations & Observances
Connections
We are Warren County Library and we love to learn. You and your students have worked hard this school year, and now you are in the final stretch! At the library we are planning a summer full of activities that we hope will keep your students interested in continuing to read, explore, and create! Let us know if you would like a class visit to share the Summer Reading program.
 
Friday, April 4 is School Librarian Day! Send a note of thanks to your school library staff to thank them for all they do to support students. Warren County Library is hosting a afternoon of appreciation, library talk, and snacks. All school library staff are welcome!
 
Free library cards for Warren County Educators: Visit this page to see if your school qualifies. Teacher courtesy cards grant full access to library resources and services.

Bookmark Contest
We invite you and your students to put their "mark" on Summer Reading!
 
Kids, teens, and adults are invited to design a bookmark that relates to this year's summer reading theme "Color Our World."  Entered designs will be judged on use of theme, creativity, originality, and neatness of work. One winning bookmark in each of four age groups at each branch. Winning bookmarks will be included as part of the official Warren County Library Summer bookmark set.
 
Entries can be dropped off at any branch now through Saturday, May 3. Learn more and print the entry form on the library's website.
 
Summer Reading Classroom Visits
Summer is coming! We would love to visit your classroom to share information about the upcoming Summer Reading program! Visits can be short (10 minutes) or more extensive (40 minutes). We can meet with one class, hop to multiple classrooms, or meet with a full grade or several grades.
 
Click here to sign up for a visit!


Always Ready Resources
K-6: Bookmark Readers Corner for Kids for quick access to TumbleBooks and other e-books.

BIG Changes Coming Soon!
Warren County Library is one of the newest members of the MAIN Library Alliance! Over the next few months you will notice some changes:
  • New library catalog
  • Larger selection of materials
  • Access to over 50 libraries across Essex, Hunterdon, Morris, Somerset, Union, and Warren Counties
In preparation of the change, Hold and ILL requests will pause starting April 14. They will resume once the transition is complete (on or after May 5). We thank you in advance for your patience as we bring big things to Warren County!

Celebrations & Observances
Here are some holidays and observances that may not appear on a typical calendar. Be sure to request materials early if you plan to share these or other timely topics with students.
April
Community Service Month
D.E.A.R Drop Everything and Read Month
National Poetry Month
School Library Month
6-12 Be Kind to Spiders Week
20-26 Sky Awareness Week
6 Good Deeds Day
9 Unicorn Day
23 Talk Like Shakespeare Day
25 World Penguin Day
29 Poem in Your Pocket Day
May
Gardening for Wildlife Month
International Drum Month
National Bicycle Safety Month
National Inventors Month
18-24 National Backyard Games Week
1 Batman Day
3 National Two Different Colored Shoes Day
4 Star Wars Day
8 Make a Book Day
9 Lost Sock Memorial Day
20 World Bee Day

Connections
The next issue of Learning Link will be published June 1. Please contact our Youth Services Librarian with content requests or corrections (mbond@warrenlib.org).
 
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Warren County Library
2 Shotwell Drive
Belvidere, New Jersey 07823
908-818-1280
www.warrenlib.org