New: E-mail Newsletters for Children's Book Recommendations

Are you looking for recommendations for great kids' books?  The library is now featuring two new email newsletters for children: Picture Books and Kids' Books. Picture Books, written for parents and other interested adults, showcases the best new picture books being published and also offers thematic lists of picture books sure to captivate young imaginations.  Kids' Books, a newsletter for later-elementary through middle school ages, gives young readers a steady supply of book recommendations from the library—from the latest fiction to exceptional new nonfiction, as well as great older books that kids will enjoy.  These newsletters are part of NextReads, which offers newsletters on popular fiction and nonfiction topics.  The library currently offers e-mail newsletters for Fiction A-Z; Biography and Memoirs; Mystery; Romance; and Thrillers and Suspense.  Coming soon will be newsletters for young adults, fantasy and popular culture.

  Subscribers can link directly to the library catalog from books of interest on the newsletters, and place a hold or request immediately. Even those library patrons without email addresses can take advantage of the newsletters by viewing them online, either at the library or from any Internet access point.

View or subscribe to Nextreads newsletters

Summer Hours Begin at Voorhees and South County Branches

The Voorhees and South County branches will close on Sundays during the summer, beginning on May 27.  The library branches will resume normal Sunday hours after Labor Day.

Libraries to Close for Staff Day-Friday, May 11

On Friday, May 11, the Camden County Library System will close its branches for its staff development day.

The following locations will be closed on May 11:
* Bellmawr Branch Library
* Gloucester Township-Blackwood Rotary Public Library
* William G. Rohrer Memorial Library-Haddon Township Branch
* Merchantville Public Library
* South County Regional Branch Library (in Atco)
* Voorhees Regional Branch Library

Administrators and staff members will be attending offsite continuing education seminars and staff recognition sessions.

The library system will resume its normal schedule on Saturday, May 12.

Library Closed for New Year's Day

The Camden County Library System will be closed on Monday, January 1 for New Year's Day.  We will reopen on January 2 at 10 a.m. 

New blog on the Camden County Library website

The “New at the Camden County Library” webpage that you are currently reading is now a blog.  What will this mean to readers?  You can still view news releases by clicking on “New at the Library” on the homepage, or the titles of any news articles.  But now you can do more.  Each entry in a blog is dated, archived, and categorized.  Want to see what happened earlier in the year?  Looking for news in just one category?  You can find links to date and category archives in the left column. 

It’s much easier to share or save information with a blog.  At the bottom of each news item is a link for “Comments.”  Click on the link if you have a question, or have some information to add.  You can forward the item to a friend by clicking on the link for “E-mail this post.”  If you use the online bookmark site, del.icio.us, (what is this?) you can quickly add any news item to your list of favorites by clicking on the link "Add to del.icio.us."

Would you like to automatically receive a news item each time it is added?  You can subscribe to the RSS feed (what is this?), to receive Camden County Library news in a feed reader like Bloglines or Google Reader.  Click on the link at the bottom of the left column that says “Subscribe in a reader.”  Then choose the reader you use from the list on the next page.

Have questions or comments on this new blog?  Click on the “Comments” link below and let us know what you think!