Benefits Of Libraries 8 Creative Ways To Use Your Library Card In Addition To Checking Out Books
Books, thankfully, still fill America’s public libraries in the digital age. But dozens of other wonderful objects that feed the brain in different ways are also free for the asking, through creative lending programs. “Part of our job is to have enjoyable materials of all kinds that encourage curiosity,” says HeidiO’Hare, director of the Tomahawk Public Library in Wisconsin. Its popular Nature Backpack program—choices include insects, mammals, amphibians and reptiles, rocks and minerals and plants—is funded by a grant from local grandparents David and JoyceWeizenicker to the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin....