Ready to help boost your child’s kindergarten readiness before they start school in the Fall? KiPS is a “jumpstart” into kindergarten program sponsored by the Jay County Public Library and Jay Schools. Any child who is eligible for kindergarten in the Jay Schools for the 2021-2022 school year can register. This year KiPS will be… Read more »
JCPL Loves our Military Community
JCPL wants to share our love with our military community in May. With your help we plan to send care packages to more than 10 active duty service men and women who have a connection with Jay County. We will be collecting items to send between May 1 and May 22. Packages will be mailed… Read more »
JCPL Poetry Contest
Jay County Public Library will be accepting submissions of original poetry from April 1st – April 20th, by Jay County residents. The rules for the contest are pretty simple. The poem must be from Jay County, your poem must be all original content and be able to be read in 3 minutes or less. It… Read more »
2020 Tax Forms
The Indiana Department of Revenue recently made the decision to stop printing State tax forms for distribution at public libraries. The State made this decision partly to cut costs and partly to encourage tax-payers to begin filing their taxes on-line. So, with that in mind, starting February 1, JCPL will print the State tax booklets… Read more »
Easy New Year’s Resolution
Keep your New Year’s Resolution simple this year. Just resolve to “Read More!” Your ‘More’ can be anything you want it to be. You could read more books about health, more books about historical people or events, more classic books or debut books, maybe read more books to your kids, or even more magazines. Maybe… Read more »
A New Way of Doing Things
Change is often a good idea but not always. Sometimes changes are forced upon us and we have to choose how we respond. Lately it seems there are new instructions every week as to what we can do and how to do it. Nobody imagined that a new Roaring ’20s would involve all the roaring… Read more »