Get Your Pens Ready: SPL Offers New NOTE-ABLE Books

Have you ever wanted to write, draw, or underline in a library book -- to share your inner thoughts with other readers who just might pick up the book?​ Well, now is your chance!

Young Adult Services Librarian Michelle Parker leaves a note in a NOTE-ABLE Book.

The Syracuse Public Library's young adult services department is introducing NOTE-ABLE Books. These books allow library patrons to write thoughts, create drawings, or underline favorite passages. All notes and drawings must be kept G-rated.

NOTE-ABLE Books can be found in the Rosalyn Jones Room/YA space under the nonfiction books. These books will have "NOTE-ABLE" labeled on their spines. On the first page, there is also a label, describing it as a "NOTE-ABLE BOOK" and encouraging readers to write in it.

Do not write in any library book that does not have the "NOTE-ABLE" designation.​

We hope this program will encourage readers to engage with books in new ways and spark different readings for their fellow readers.

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Pictured are included NOTE-ABLE Books. These books are labeled as NOTE-ABLE on their spines.

All NOTE-ABLE Books will have this label in their interiors.

Here are some fresh notes in one of the included books.

Feel free to write, draw, or underline in NOTE-ABLE Books, but only in them!