Register for Summer Reading and Free Lunch

            Summer Reading has begun at the Calhoun County Library and it’s not too late to register!

Our Summer Learning Challenge started on Thursday, June 6, 2024, with the Portable Planetarium from Roper Mountain. Our theme this summer is “Adventure Begins at Your Library,” and registration is now open. If you have not registered yourself or your child, now is the best time to do so. It’s not too late!

You can register several ways:

1.      Go straight to the website at https://calhouncountylibrary.beanstack.com/reader365.

2.      Come into the library and look for a QR code at the circulation desk or the children’s area desk. Scan and register!

3.      Come into the library and ask a staff member to help you register!

4.      Save the QR code that is posted on our Facebook and Instagram and scan in it in your photos on your phone!

5.      Find the QR code in the Calhoun Times newspaper and scan it!

Once you are registered, start reading and log your minutes. For every 60 minutes logged, you can come in to the library and receive a prize. Also, for every 60 minutes you log, your name goes into a drawing for a new tricycle, a new bike, or a new Kindle. The more you read, the better your chances are of winning!

Remember, there are multiple age categories for Summer Reading because we want everyone to be included. We have Early Literacy (ages 0 - 6), Children’s (Ages 7 - 12), Teens (ages 13 - 17), and Adults (ages 18 - 109). Register for the category that best fits your needs and participate to your hearts content!

In addition to coming to the library for the Summer Reading events and to get your prizes, we are giving away free lunches. The Calhoun County Library has partnered with the USDA SSO Program to serve as a distribution point for FREE LUNCHES for all children 18 and under. Lunches are available Mondays - Thursdays for the month of June from 10 AM - 2 PM. All the children have to do is stop by the library and pick up lunch. Maybe while they’re here, they’ll find a good book to check out! Come spend some time at the library and leave with a free lunch!

Thanks to Whittaker Williams, Calhoun County School Nutrition Director, and Terri Williams Parker, Health and Social Services Manager at the library, for making this program possible through the USDA SSO Program.