Encourage Your Child to Be a Life Long Library User

Some things you can do to encourage your children in the use of the library:

Ask them what books they have checked out

Remind them to return books on time

Use standard resources available online and in print: Research Basics; Research Basics, Jr; and Writing Basics

Monitor Internet usage

Go to the public library

Demonstrate research and let them help plan a trip to the movies, to downtown, or the family vacation

Volunteer in the school library media center

Set an example by reading