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Glen Ellyn Library Card Will Get You Discounts at Local Businesses In September

September is Library Card Sign-up Month. Don't have a card? Sign up today.

Several Glen Ellyn businesses have partnered with the Glen Ellyn Public Library to offer cardholder discounts during Library Card Sign-Up Month in September.

Glen Ellyn Public Library members can present their library cards during transactions at any of the following businesses: AliKat Boutique, Bird on a Wire, Bistro Monet, Blackberry Market, The Bookstore, Bottle & Bottega, Enchantments, Fire + Wine, Fuschia, Larc Jewelers, M and Ems, Olive ‘n Vinnie’s, Paisley on Main, The Prince’s Table, The Renaissance Art Studio, Sign of the Whale Antiques and Treasure House.

Glen Ellyn residents without a library card can sign up at the library’s circulation desk and can bring any of the following forms of identification: a valid school ID, driver’s license, state ID card, passport or country ID.

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Open Books, Open Doors

Recognizing the need to provide library card sign-up assistance to families of elementary school students with economic hardship in unincorporated areas, the Glen Ellyn Public Library has created the Open Books, Open Doors program, which subsidizes eligible families in unincorporated areas of school districts 41 and 89. 

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The program is available to families of elementary school students with demonstrable economic hardship and adults who have a valid Illinois LINK card. The library has issued over 100 library cards since the creation of the program in 2002. “Open Books, Open Doors” application forms are available at the library’s circulation desk.


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