Library Card Sign-up Month
Celebrate Library Card Sign-up Month 2025 with the theme "One Card, Endless Possibilities."
It may be small, but a library card packs a mighty punch. Borrow museum passes, musical instruments, and even tools from your library’s collection. Take part in engaging programs like book clubs, movie nights, crafting classes, and lectures. Access technology, Wi-Fi, and career resources to support your goals, whether you're a student, job seeker, entrepreneur, or lifelong learner. It’s one card with endless possibilities!
Free promotional tools for libraries will be available later this spring.
Poster, poster file, and bookmarks are available in the ALA Store!
Check Out Your Library
Library Card Sign-up Month sponsor OverDrive has an exciting new initiative, Check Out Your Library (COYL)! This multi-year program is designed to help libraries attract new and returning patrons by showcasing the incredible resources your library offers.
COYL has free resources to highlight your library's offerings and drive community engagement, including social images you can customize right in Canva, printable posters and fliers, a logo kit, programming guide, and more!
Plus, COYL will feature dozens of in-person events that shine a spotlight on the amazing resources available at libraries. OverDrive's Digital Bookmobile has been rebranded as The Library Vehicle (LV) and recently hit the road outfitted with book and film content designed to bring people on board, engage them, and ultimately sign up for a library card if they don’t already have one. Check out the LV's Fiction and Film Tour schedule.
Stay in Touch
Follow I Love Libraries, the American Library Association, and your library on social media.
#LibraryCardSignUpMonth
I Love Libraries: X (Twitter) @ILoveLibraries | Facebook @ILoveLibraries | @ilovelibrariesala
American Library Association: X (Twitter) @ALALibrary | Facebook @AmericanLibraryAssociation | Instagram @americanlibraryassociation | Threads @americanlibraryassociation
We'd like to hear what your library has planned for Library Card Sign-up Month or answer your questions. Contact us at campaign@ala.org.
Library Card Sign-up Month History
The campaign started in 1987 as a response to then Secretary of Education William Bennett, who stated, “Let’s have a campaign … Every child should obtain a library card and use it.” Read a detailed account in this 2015 blog post at the American Library Association Archives, A Library Card for Every Child: Library Card Sign-Up Month, by Cara Bertram.
For 25 years OverDrive has been on a mission to provide access to compelling, easy-to-use digital materials that reach, engage, and satisfy readers. Since 2002 we have worked with ALA member libraries to invest how libraries lend eBooks and digital audiobooks. Visit Overdrive.com to learn more.
Sora, the student reading app, is the easiest way for schools to provide ebooks and audiobooks to students. Developed by OverDrive Education, this app supports school libraries and classroom reading as well as free access to the local public library using school credentials. Available for iOS, Android and Chromebook.
OverDrive's free Libby app is the easiest way to get started with digital books, audiobooks, and magazines from your public library. Libby is available for Android, iOS, Windows 10, and some Chromebooks.
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