The St. Joseph Public Library is encouraging residents to get a library card during library card sign up month. 

Director of the St. Joseph Public Library Mary Beth Revels said the American Library Association promotes the nationwide campaign in September for all libraries in the country. 

“With a library card, it just opens up the world to people, not only can you check out books on a myriad of subjects for all ages, you can also access the internet with a library card, you can sign in from home and log into one of our databases,” Revels said. “Our databases that we provide, online resources is another way to say them, we’ve got all kinds of different things, we have legal forms, we have genealogy help, we have car repair, we have resume help… and more, just all kinds of different things that you can do with your library card.” 

According to Revels, during the month, anyone who uses their library card can be entered in drawings for different ages at each of the different branches.

Revels said anyone can stop by any of the branches to find out what events are going on during the month or to get a library card.

For more information, contact the St. Joseph Public Library at (816) 232-7729 or visit their website.