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It's official: the 2020 Summer Reading Club for adults, teens, and children has officially begun!

This year, our theme is Reading is Your Passport to Adventure, which is appropriate because the Summer Reading Club is doing a little traveling and  moving to a brand new online format. We'll be using Beanstack, an online tool that allows you to track your reading progress. You can use Beanstack online or download the app through the App Store for your mobile or tablet device.

This isn’t exactly the way we envisioned making this announcement when our Board approved this exciting policy change a few months ago, but effective June 15, the Lake Bluff Public Library will be implementing autorenewal. This means that going forward, the system will automatically renew any eligible items before they become overdue. If an item can’t be renewed—if there’s a hold, if you’ve renewed it 3 times already, or if it’s a special loan like a Trending Title or ILL—the system will send you an alert. We hope that this change will make using the Library even easier and more convenient for you! 

For these last couple of weeks, our staff has been hard at work developing plans of action to bring key Library services online. At this point, we anticipate that all Library programming will be held virtually through at least the month of August. This includes the Summer Reading Clubs for adults, teens, and children.

This website redesign has been in progress for many years and we are so excited to finally show it to you. Some of the highlights of our new site include: