April 2021 eNewsletter

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National Library Week 2021

Welcome to Your Library

April 4 - 10

Help us celebrate National Library week with book spine poems! Book spine poetry is created by arranging books so their titles create a poem.

Share your book spine poem on social media using the hashtag: #OCLNLW
Email your pictures or written poems to social@theoceancountylibrary.org

Poems will be featured on various OCL platforms

Young Adult Author Series

Dive into YA: It’s Not Just for Teens

Virtual Program

Crystal Maldonado

6pm Thursday, April 8

Crystal Maldonado's debut novel, Fat Chance, Charlie Vega centers around a teen who “follows her writing dreams, resists her mother’s weight-loss schemes, and even falls for the cute boy from art class – until she realizes that he may be after her BFF.”

Sandhya Menon

6pm Thursday, April 29

Sandhya has written When Dimple Met Rishi, There's Something about Sweetie, 10 Things I Hate about Pinky, Of Curses and Kisses, From Twinkle with Love and her new novel for adult's Make Up Break Up under the pen name Lily Menon.

hoopla Flex Begins March 31

Ocean County Library resident cardholders will still have 8 Instant borrows available each month, but will now also have 5 additional borrows for items in the Flex collection.
Instant borrows will continue to be available for hundreds of thousands of eBooks, audiobooks, comics, TV shows, movies, and music with no holds or waiting.
Flex borrows and holds can be placed on specially marked hoopla Flex eBooks and audiobooks.
Each hoopla Flex title is available for 21 days.
Customers can check out up to 5 Flex items at a time, and can place up to 5 holds on Flex items, as well.
Customers will have the option to allow “auto checkout” for holds on Flex titles.