Camden County Public Library

Mark your calendar to see Bluey this Wednesday 💙

Bluey will be back this Wednesday at 10am 💙

Our Teen Advisory Board will meet on August 12th at 4pm. This is a great way for middle and high school teens that need volunteer hours or are looking to help in their community. You can get an application at the library. Please call 912-729-3741 with any questions.

Mark your calendars for August 10th for our end of summer Block Party! We will have lots of fun indoor and outdoor activities including character photo ops with food trucks 🌞

Thank you to the cast of the 'Sound of Music' with the Saltwater Performing Arts for giving us a sneak preview of your amazing show! We sang along and cannot wait to see it this weekend! Check out their website for their show schedule and ticket information 🎭

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Stop by at 10:00am for our Drop-In Book Babies time. Enjoy conversations, books, and play~

We had fun at Jr. Officer Camp with the Kingsland Police Department! Big thank you to the KPD for joining us for another great program this summer 🐕‍🦺

Stop by at 10:00am tomorrow for our Drop-In Book Babies time. Enjoy conversations, books, and play~

Click the link to apply for a spot on our library board.

Camden County is seeking applicants for the Camden County Public Library Board of Trustees. Learn more at: https://bit.ly/3S86rSK.

Apply 📋 online at: http://bit.ly/2w8V1na.

Check out this morning's times, we are almost there!!

As of this morning we have read 483,750 minutes of our 500,000 minute community goal! We can beat this goal with no problem, just be sure to keep logging your time read even if you have completed your individual challenge so you can help us beat our community goal for the fourth year in a row to !

If you have not joined our challenge yet, you still can! We have prizes for every age group. Download the app or go to the website trrl.beanstack.org to register for Three Rivers Regional Library System. Pick CCPL and join the challenges available. Once you join the challenge you can log all your time read since May 22nd!
*Don't forget that once you complete your challenge, you can enter your virtual tickets into a prize drawing of your choice! Tons of fun prizes to be had for every age group!

Our local school system Camden County Schools challenge is off! This challenge will run concurrently with our other challenges, ending July 31st. Who will cross the finish line first and claim the top school spot for summer 2024?

*If the school you are reading for has not changed for this year, it will automatically add your minutes to the school selected the previous year. If you are unsure if you selected a school, you can call the library and they can pull up your profile to double check the school selected (912) 729-3741.

Our current standings for the Camden County Schools Challenge are:

1. Crooked River Elementary School 94,285 (they might just hit 100,00 minutes this year!)
2. Sugarmill Elementary 57,386
3. Camden County High School 40,402

Our homeschool readers have logged: 68,159

Keep tracking those minutes and enjoy reading your way to fun prizes!

We are going to have tons of fun this morning with Saltwater Performing Arts. See you at 10:00!

We have some special visitors joining us tomorrow from Saltwater Performing Arts!! You don't want to miss their theatrical antics :)

We are so close to meeting our community challenge goal!!

We are only 32,637 minutes away from hitting our 500,000 minutes reading goal. As of this morning we have read a grand total of 467,363 minutes, giving us a total of 7,789 hours of reading and over 324 days of reading! Be sure to keep logging your time read even if you have completed your individual challenge so you can help us beat our community goal for the fourth year in a row to !

If you have not joined our challenge yet, you still can! We have prizes for every age group. Download the app or go to the website trrl.beanstack.org to register for Three Rivers Regional Library System. Pick CCPL and join the challenges available. Once you join the challenge you can log all your time read since May 22nd!

*Don't forget that once you complete your challenge, you can enter your virtual tickets into a prize drawing of your choice! Tons of fun prizes to be had for every age group!

Our local school system Camden County Schools challenge is off! This challenge will run concurrently with our other challenges, ending July 31st. Who will cross the finish line first and claim the top school spot for summer 2024? Keep logging those minutes, to help your school win the 2024 challenge!

*If the school you are reading for has not changed for this year, it will automatically add your minutes to the school selected the previous year. If you are unsure if you selected a school, you can call the library and they can pull up your profile to double check the school selected (912) 729-3741.

Our current standings for the Camden County Schools Challenge are:

1. Crooked River Elementary School 91,929
2. Sugarmill Elementary 56,870
3. Camden County High School 39,677

Our homeschool readers have logged: 65,350

Keep tracking those minutes and enjoy reading your way to fun prizes!

It's another fun summer program at CCPL this morning at 10:00am!

Join us in the morning for some interactive fun with special visitors!

We have some fun programs headed your way next week!

Time for a Summer Reading Challenge Update!

We are working our way to hitting our community challenge goal of 500,000 minutes read to help this summer!! This morning we have read a grand total of 436,022 minutes. Giving us a total of 7,267 hours of reading and over 302 days of reading! Be sure to keep logging your time read even if you have completed your individual challenge so you can help us beat our community goal for the fourth year in a row!

If you have not joined our challenge yet, you still can! We have prizes for every age group. Download the app or go to the website trrl.beanstack.org to register for Three Rivers Regional Library System. Pick CCPL and join the challenges available. Once you join the challenge you can log all your time read since May 22nd!

*Don't forget that once you complete your challenge, you can enter your virtual tickets into a prize drawing of your choice! Tons of fun prizes to be had for every age group. We have prizes from Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp, Ellianos Coffee Company - Kingsland, Ga, Buenos Dias, Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, Surcheros - Kingsland, GA, and much more!

Our local school system Camden County Schools challenge is off! This challenge will run concurrently with our other challenges, ending July 31st. Who will cross the finish line first and claim the top school spot for summer 2024? Keep logging those minutes, to help your school win the 2024 challenge!

*If the school you are reading for has not changed for this year, it will automatically add your minutes to the school selected the previous year. If you are unsure if you selected a school, you can call the library and they can pull up your profile to double check the school selected (912) 729-3741.

Our current standings for the Camden County Schools Challenge are:

1. Crooked River Elementary School 90,512
2. Sugarmill Elementary 55,586
3. Camden County High School 29,486

Our homeschool readers have logged: 63,759

Keep tracking those minutes and enjoy reading your way to fun prizes!

Saltwater Performing Arts will be joining us for a special program on Wednesday at 10am.

See you on Monday with the KPD!!

Thank you to Team Sandman for showing off your cool robot and talking to us about coding! Can't wait to have you all back 🤖

We know it's early but we have our dates and can't wait to share. Here is your save the date notice for two of our biggest programs of the year!

*More details coming soon*

We learned all about our new digital service, Kanopy, at our family story time yesterday by watching some of our favorite books on the Kanopy for Kids section.

Crafter's Corner at 10:30!

It's a busy morning at the library!

We are on our way to hitting our goal of 500,000 minutes read! Make sure you are tracking your reading minutes on Beanstack.

Our summer reading challenge numbers are spiking! Be sure to keep tracking your reading through Beanstack so you can enter to win one of our awesome reading prizes. We really do have some great options this year from places like St. Augustine Alligator Farm Zoological Park, Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens, Jacksonville Hands On Children's Museum, Wild Adventures Theme Park, and so many more! There is still time to join the challenge! Download the app or go to the website: trrl.beanstack.org to register for Three Rivers Regional Library System. Pick Camden County Public Library and join the challenges available. Once you officially join the challenge, you can log all your time read since May 22nd! Then you are on your way to gaining digital tickets that can be entered to win one of our prize drawings of your choice.

Our Camden County School system challenge update:
*If the school you are reading for has not changed for this year, it will automatically add your minutes to the school selected from the previous year. If you are unsure if you selected a school, you can call the library and they can pull up your profile to double check the school selected and make any changes if needed (912) 729-3741.
Our current standings for the Camden County Schools are:
1. Crooked River Elementary School 88, 769
2. Sugarmill Elementary 53, 972
3. Camden County High School 28,630
Our homeschool readers have logged 59, 370 minutes of reading!
Keep up the effort Camden and we'll see if we can meet or surpass our summer 2024 reading goal!!

Thank you to Veronica and Anna for teaching us all about the owls out at Okefenokee Refuge, it was a hoot 😁

Join us in the morning at 10:30am for crafting!

See you tomorrow for Book Babies at 10am!