OCPL celebrating National Library Week

The Oconee County Public Library (OCPL) is joining libraries across the country this week to celebrate National Library Week, April 8-14. This year’s theme is “Libraries Lead.” OCPL Director Blair Hinson says they have been having fun celebrating all week long. “We’ve been having fun this week with National Library Week. It is a nationwide thing started by the American Library Association (ALA) a number of years ago to recognize the important of libraries in our communities. On Tuesday, it was National Library Workers Day, so we recognize all of our library workers within the county. Wednesday, was National Bookmobile Day, so Mrs. Brenda Lee was out on her regular route so we weren’t able to do anything really special but definitely appreciate all that our staff does for the community. I know a lot of people have wanted to write libraries off as being insignificant and that kind of thing but our library is still able to do a lot for the community. Hopefully in the very near future will be able to do a lot more. We are in the process of strategic planning now and so we are looking at what we want to do going forward. A lot of exciting things going on in our county as well and so just another opportunity for us to kind of have some fun with National Library Week. If you are friends with us on our Facebook page, we are doing a face swap this week, so if you get a chance to check that out and find a book somewhere with a face on it and swap your face out with it and send it into us. We are doing a little contest for that. So, yeah we are really having fun with National Library Week.” First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the ALA and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation’s libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support.