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Health & Fitness

505 North - Save money this month with your library card!

Nine local Barrington businesses have partnered with the Barrington Area Library to offer special deals and discounts for showing your library card.

Do you have a Barrington Area Library card? Do you know how valuable it is? Of course, throughout the year, your library card gives you access to FREE:

  • books
  • DVDs
  • CDs
  • downloadable e-books, audiobooks, music and magazines
  • meeting rooms
  • use of the library's Media Lab
  • concerts, children's entertainment, technology classes, crafting, lectures, cooking demonstrations and so much more!

During the month of September, however, your card is even more valuable. We've joined forces with nine amazing Barrington businesses who will offer you a discount just for showing your Barrington Area Library card. Who's in?

  • Acacia Organics
  • Barrington Martial Arts
  • bathhaus
  • Felde Chiropractic
  • McDonald's (Bear Restaurants, Barrington location only)
  • Mia Sorella
  • Nature's Select Pet Products
  • Norton's U.S.A.
  • Rainbow Records

Get the full details on available discounts, as well as the addresses, contact information and Web sites for these businesses on the library Web site.

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If you patronize one of these businesses, please say THANK YOU for supporting the library! We are delighted to partner with them, which encourages residents to get library cards while also giving local business a boost. Strong libraries and strong small businesses are important pieces in creating healthy, vibrant communities and we think Barrington is a wonderful place in which to live and work. So put your library card to use this September. Don't have a card? Stop by the main library at 505 N. Northwest Highway or our South Branch in the South Barrington Club and you can get a card in just a few minutes. Then enjoy these discounts and deals through September 30, 2012.

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