Published July 31. 2026 08:53AM<\/p>\n
A heartfelt thank you to everyone who embraced the Summer Reading Club!<\/p>\n
Please remember to submit your paper reading logs by 4 p.m. Aug. 8.<\/p>\n
For those using the Beanstack app, you can log in until the end of the day.<\/p>\n
Excitement builds as we prepare to announce the raffle winners the following week!<\/p>\n
Join us for a joyous closing party featuring a delightful movie about the Good Dinosaur from 12:30-2 p.m. Aug. 15. We will draw extra raffles at 2 p.m. for those who join us, and if you\u2019ve already won, your prize will be ready for pickup!<\/p>\n
We\u2019re thrilled to introduce new museum passes for the Mercer Museum, Eastern State Penitentiary, and James A. Michener Art Museum.<\/p>\n
Explore our expanded collection of board games and jigsaw puzzles for all ages.<\/p>\n
LOTE4Kids, a captivating digital library of audio-picture books for children in over 100 world languages, narrated by professional native speakers, is now accessible for free with your library card via app, website, and Hublet tablets.<\/p>\n
LOTE stands for Languages Other Than English.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t miss your chance at the Lehigh Carbon Library Cooperative passport raffle, ending on Aug. 29.<\/p>\n
Visit the tech center to enter for a chance to win a local prize.<\/p>\n
Or travel to six libraries, collect stamps on your passport, and unlock the opportunity for an iPad drawing.<\/p>\n
Join library staff in the community 7-9 p.m. on Aug. 14 for the South Whitehall Township movie at Springhouse West Park, 4320 Farm Drive, and 5-8 p.m. on Aug. 21 at the North Whitehall Township Back to School Party at Kolapechka Park, 4075 Coffeetown Road, Coplay.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s come together for a summer filled with inspiration at the library!<\/p>\n
As September approaches, we eagerly anticipate National Library Card Sign-up Month and the second annual Library Social!<\/p>\n
Additionally, the library will offer free monthly events at the Upper Macungie Township Community Lifestyle Center starting in September, including an adult book club, a teen anime club, and a story time on the first Wednesday of each month.<\/p>\n
Maryellen Kanarr is the executive director of the Parkland Community Library, South Whitehall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 31. 2026 08:53AM A heartfelt thank you to everyone who embraced the Summer Reading Club! Please…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239529,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-256373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}