The Support Your Local Library Challenge

J. Kaye is hosting a fun challenge for 2009. It’s The Support Your Local Library Challenge.

I love that she made it flexible so participation is easy no matter what your level of library usage. Here are the details:

Since we are all different, there will be three sizes of challenges.

** The first is to read 12 books from your local library in 2009.

** The second is to read 25 books from your local library in 2009.

** The third is to read 50 books from your local library in 2009.

You decide which one of the three challenges is best for you. Here are the guidelines:

• You can join anytime as long as you don’t start reading your books prior to 2009.
• This challenge is for 2009 only. The last day to have all your books read is December 31, 2009.
• You can join anytime between now and December 31, 2009.
• Our goal is to read 12, 25, or 50 books checkout from our local library in 2009. Please decide which when you sign up and don’t change it.
• These can be audios, downloads, children’s, YA. As long as it’s a book, format and target age group does not matter.

Looking back, it appears that I got about 60% of my books from the library in 2008. In addition all of my audiobooks came from the library. I work in one county and live in another so I have easy access to two excellent library systems. I had a hard time deciding whether to try for 25 or 50 books. Since audiobooks are included and 25 would just be too easy, I’ve decided to go for the 50.

I’m not going to post a list ahead of time, but will keep a running list on my sidebar throughout the year.

Thanks J. Kaye. I love my libraries and need no encouragement to use them, but this challenge was just too perfect for me to resist.