National Library Week is an annual celebration that highlights the valuable role that libraries, librarians, and library workers play in our communities. This year's theme is inspired by famous Librarian, Mychal Threets who coined the term "Library Joy".
"There are so many library kids and library grown-ups who have yet to fully embrace their library joy, and I am so excited for them! When they enter the world of libraries and stories, I am confident they will find not only their library joy but their courage to believe in their own story and maybe even share it with others." —Mychal Threets
There are 4 special celebration days during National Library Week:
Monday: Right to Read Day
On this day the American Library Association (ALA) publishes its State of America's Libraries Report, which provides a comprehensive snapshot of trends, challenges, and statistics affecting public, school, and academic libraries. It contains the annual list of the most challenged books of the previous year. ALA defines a challenge as "an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group," and a book ban as "the removal of those materials."
Tuesday: National Library Worker's Day
NLWD is a day for library staff, users, administrators, and Friends groups to recognize the valuable contributions made by all library workers. For this day we asked patrons to share their kudos for library staff- we will be sharing them shortly!
Check back soon!
Wednesday: National Library Outreach Day
National Library Outreach Day (formerly National Bookmobile Day) is a day to celebrate library outreach and the dedicated library professionals who are meeting their patrons where they are.
*Last year Anywhere Library had 1,193 stops, 12,852 checkouts and 471 storytimes and programs!
Thursday: Take Action for Libraries Day
The last celebration day of National Library Week is Take Action for Libraries Day. Visit the ALA website for ways you can advocate and take action for libraries.
Whether you visited a library, shared your love of libraries with a friend, submitted a kudos for a library worker, checked out a new item, discovered a new program, or even just read this blog- we hope you found some library joy this week!
