National Take Your Child to the Library Day

On Saturday, February 1, Bossard Memorial Library invites parents and caregivers to visit the Library with their children in observance of National Take Your Child to the Library Day. The Youth Services Department staff has planned a special storytime event themed “The Tooth, the Whole Tooth, and Nothing but the Tooth”, complete with a visit from a friendly local dental hygienist. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in fun learning activities during this event, scheduled from 2:00 – 4:00.

This special program is just one of many programs offered by Bossard Library to the youth of our county. For ages birth-3, the Library offers its Wednesday Pat-a-Cake Lapsit, a program enjoyed by parents/caregivers with their child, as they listen to music, stories, and rhymes while stimulating the mind of the young child and introducing them to beginning literacy. For children ages 3-6, the Library offers weekly storytime on Mondays at 10:00 A.M. Storytime is a fun-filled half hour program complete with stories, songs, crafts, games, and much more. Attendance at storytime also provides an excellent opportunity for social interaction with other children (and parents).

Each summer, the Youth Services Department of Bossard Library offers an annual summer reading program, whereby children and youth earn prizes for reading. Participants are also encouraged to attend special weekly programs during the summer months. The theme for the 2014 program, which will commence in June, will be “Fizz, Boom, Read”. Both Rachael Barker and Kim Wilcoxon of the Youth Services Department are already busy planning many fun, science-oriented programs for area children and youth to go along with this theme.

Not only does Bossard Library provide in-house programming to the children and youth of Gallia County, but the Library also provides outreach programming in the area schools, at the Gallia County Jr. Fair, River Recreation Festival, Guiding Hands, area child care facilities, and special community events, such as Farm City Day.

We hope that families will take time to visit the Library on National Take Your Child to the Library Day on February 1. Your public library offers something for everyone – no matter what their age. In the words of author Dean Koontz, “This is a library. Kids and adventurers welcome”. I hope you will bring your sense of adventure to your public library soon.

–Debbie Saunders, Library Director