The following message is from the Youth Services Committee of the South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative, a member of the New Jersey Library Network.
Summer is a special time of relaxation, freedom, and recreation.
During the school year, the public library helps parents and children with reports, homework needs and with the selection of good books to read for assignments or pleasure. Over the summer, the library shifts the attention to the pleasures of recreational reading. A summer reading program promotes reading as a lifetime recreational habit. Special summer events encourage library use. Reading over the summer helps the children maintain skills developed during the school year and lets them explore personal interests too.