The Camden County Library System’s annual Books for Kids Holiday Campaign provides children with free books that they can keep and read again and again. Anyone can donate books to help the library in this important mission.
The library will be accepting new or gently-used books, appropriate for a range of ages from babies to young teens. All eight branches (Bellmawr, Cruz-Perez, Ferry Ave., Gloucester Twp., Haddon Twp., Merchantville, South County and Voorhees) will have clearly marked boxes available to collect the books.
“Each year we ask our customers to recognize the importance of reading by donating books to our holiday book campaign,” Camden County Library System Director Linda Devlin said. “You can help to foster and develop a love of reading in children throughout Camden County who may not have enough books at home to read.”
In conjunction with the book campaign Devlin notes that before the holidays would be a good time for parents to join the library’s 1,000 Books Before Kindergarten program to develop and strengthen a child’s literacy skills even before he or she starts school.
The book donation campaign will run through Dec. 6. The library sends the books to the Camden County Children’s Services Department in December to distribute to children throughout the county in time for the holidays.
The library is seeking new or “gently-used” books in very good condition. Gently-used can be understood to mean books that a person would be comfortable in giving as a gift to a close relative. Books cannot be inscribed with names nor have book plates indicating an organization’s name.
