February is Library Lovers’ Month, a month dedicated to people that love libraries and everything they have to offer and that lauds everyone who advocates for libraries. Show your library love by playing some BINGO! Pick up your Bingo Sheet at the Library Lovers' Month display we will be putting up for February. Complete library activities and cross out boxes to get 5 in a row, column, or diagonally. Bring your Bingo Sheet to the Reference Desk to enter a drawing for a library swag bag. You can visit the Reference Desk or email bcplreference@gmail.com if you have questions about how to do any of the Bingo tasks.
We are also celebrating with our Library Lovers’ hearts. Click here to create a heart, or visit any of the desks at BCPL to get a heart and make your own! The hearts we already have are hanging up in Circulation, Reference, and the Children’s Room.
Here are some other ways in addition to Library Lovers’ Bingo and creating a heart to decorate BCPL that you can celebrate Library Lovers’ Month and support libraries:
- Attend a library program
- Visit the physical library
- Borrow books and movies from the library
- Watch movies on Hoopla
- Borrow e-books and e-audiobooks on Libby and Hoopla
- Help others find books and resources that you have discovered
- Create a new library card if you don’t already have one. Click here for the eligibility requirements for a BCPL card. (Fun fact- if you already have a card with us, did you know that all New York State residents, workers, and students are eligible for a card at the New York Public Library, Queens Public Library, and the Brooklyn Public Library?)
Celebrating by Reading about Libraries and Librarians
Fiction
- The haunting of Hecate Cavendish- Brackston, Paula
- Bad animals- Braunstein, Sarah
- Two to tango- Fuller, Kathleen
- The next best fling- Gamez, Gabriella
- The little village of book lovers- George, Nina
- The library of borrowed hearts- Gilmore, Lucy
- Library for the war-wounded- Helfer, Monika
- Funny story- Henry, Emily
- Twelve angry librarians- James, Miranda
- The lost Book of Bonn - Labuskes, Brianna
- Once upon a murder- Larsen, Samantha
- The book that broke the world- Lawrence, Mark
- Remedial magic- Marr, Melissa
- Love at first book- McKinlay, Jenn
- A storybook wedding- Micciche, K. J.
- Lula Dean's little library of banned books- Miller, Kirsten
- The memory librarian : and other stories of dirty computer- Monáe, Janelle
- The city and its uncertain walls- Murakami, Haruki
- Our missing hearts- Ng, Celeste
- The Banned Books Club- Novak, Brenda
- The parliament- Pokwatka, Aimee
- Buried too deep- Rose, Karen
- The underground library- Ryan, Jennifer
- Lore of the wilds- Sbrana, Analeigh
- The Titanic Survivors Book Club - Schaffert, Timothy
- Miss Morgan's book brigade- Skeslien Charles, Janet
- A talent for murder- Swanson, Peter,
- The village library demon-hunting society- Waggoner, C. M.
Nonfiction
- Books under fire : a hit list of banned and challenged children's books- Scales, Pat R. 016.098 SCALES
- Irrepressible reformer : a biography of Melvil Dewey - Wiegand, Wayne A. 020.92 DEWEY W PAPER
- The world's strongest librarian : a memoir of Tourette's, faith, strength, and the power of family- Hanagarne, Joshua 020.92 HANAGARNE
- That librarian : the fight against book banning in America- Jones, Amanda 025.213 JONES
- On censorship : a public librarian examines cancel culture in the US- LaRue, James 025.213 LARUE
- 25 ready-to-use sustainable living programs for libraries- Kroski, Ellyssa 025.5 TWENTY-FIVE
- The bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu : and their race to save the world's most precious manuscripts- Hammer, Joshua 025.8209 HAMMER
- The library book- Orlean, Susan 027.4794 ORLEAN
- Gather me : a memoir in praise of the books that saved me - Edim, Glory 028.8 EDIM
- The secret lives of booksellers and librarians : true stories of the magic of reading- Patterson, James 028.9 PATTERSON
- Palaces for the people : how social infrastructure can help fight inequality, polarization, and the decline of civic life- Klinenberg, Eric, 307.76 KLINENBERG
- Compact copyright : quick answers to common questions- Benson, Sara R. 346.0482 BENSON
- A place called home: a memoir- Ambroz, David 362.7756 AMBROZ
- The dictionary wars : the American fight over the English language - Martin, Peter 423.09 MARTIN
- Dewey's nine lives : the legacy of the small-town library cat who inspired millions- Myron, Vicki 636.8 MYRON
- Book and dagger : how scholars and librarians became the unlikely spies of World War II- Graham, Elyse 940.5486 GRAHAM
- The book collectors : a band of Syrian rebels and the stories that carried them through a war- Minoui, Delphine 956.9104 MINOUI
- Syria's secret library : reading and redemption in a town under siege- Thomson, Mike 956.9104 THOMSON