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The Smartest Card: Get It and Use It at Your Library
September is Library Card Sign-up Month, and the Mid- Hudson Library System wants to make sure that your child is among the two-thirds of Americans that carry the smartest card of all - a library card.
Studies show that children who are read to in the home and who use the library perform better in school and are more likely to continue to use the library as a source of lifetime learning.
"A library card has always been the most important school supply of all," says Rebekkah Smith Aldrich of the Mid- Hudson Library System. "Kids can come to their public library to get homework help and check out books, but they can also check out free music, DVDs and use the Internet to make after school life a little more fun. There's a lot happening in the 66 public libraries in the Hudson Valley."
Students can also use their library card to access library resources from home. Thousands of magazines, hundreds of newspapers, reference books and more can be accessed through local library web sites.
A recent study by the American Library Association also showed that families use libraries to spend time together. Forty-four percent of survey respondents report taking their children to the library for this reason.
For more information on how you can sign up for your library card, visit your local library - for contact information for your library visit midhudson.org/ libraries/.
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