Sign up for a library card

September is Library Card Sign-up Month -- a time when libraries across the country remind parents that a library card is the most important school supply of all.

The observance was launched in 1987 to meet the challenge of then Secretary of Education William J. Bennett who said: “Let’s have a national campaign...every child should obtain a library card - and use it.” Since then, thousands of public and school libraries join each fall in a national effort to ensure every child does just that.

During the month of September, the Sweetwater County Library System will get library card applications...