Spring Seed Library
All CKPL branches offer a variety of vegetable, herb and flower seeds for residents to grow. Since starting the CKPL Grows Seed Library 9 years ago, more than 50,000 seed packages have been checked out by residents. Now that growing season is here, don’t miss out!
What is CKPL Grows Seed Library you ask? CKPL’s Seed Library provides free seeds for residents to borrow so they can grow healthy gardens, have access to affordable food, and create beautiful spaces in their own backyards and communities. What do you need to check out seeds? All you need is a valid CKPL library card!
Chatham-Kent Public Library is also looking for donations of any seed varieties for the Seed Library. Residents are also encouraged to save seeds from their gardens this year and donate them to CKPL to be used again next season. CKPL Grows Seed Library have been supported thus far in part by generous local growers donating their seeds.
Provincial Park Pass
Borrow a 2025 Ontario Parks Annual Vehicle Permit from any of our 11 branches. Passes are loaned for 7 days and provide day use access to all Ontario Provincial Parks. A limited number of passes will also be available as part of CKPL's Express Collection. Express Collection items are loaned on a "first come first served" basis. Items in this collection cannot be placed on hold, nor can they be set aside for pickup. Passes were provided by Ontario Parks as part of their library day-use vehicle lending program. The motivation behind this program is to help Ontarians spend more time in nature.
Lower Thames Valley Conservation Area Parking Pass
Borrow a 2025 LTVCA Parking Pass! These passes are available to all patrons and allow day use parking access to all LTVCA conservation areas, C.M. Wilson, Sharon Creek, and Longwoods Road/Ska-Nah-Doht Village. Passes are available for a loan period of 7 days and can be checked out at all 11 CKPL branches.
Audiobooks, eBooks, and More at Your Fingertips
With your CKPL card, you have access to digital platforms filled with thousands of ebooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, movies, and magazines... all for free! You can read, watch, and listen any time, anywhere.
Visit
www.ckpl.ca/virtual for more information about Hoopla, Kanopy, Libby, PressReader, and Tumblebook Library.
Decodable Books
CKPL received a grant from the
International Dyslexia Association of Ontario to purchase dyslexia friendly resources, called decodable books, for the library collection. Decoding means using knowledge of letter sounds and English spelling patterns to "sound out" a word. Decodable books are purposely written to help beginning and emerging readers master decoding.
CKPL's
decodable books include phonics books, early readers, beginner chapter books, and advanced chapter books for kids and teens. CKPL also has audiobooks that you can access from home! The
Tumblebooks database includes early reader, chapter book, and advanced reader read-alongs.
