Children’s Library Materials
Launchpads
Each Launchpad is pre-loaded with high-quality, ad-free learning apps and games for preschool through elementary school age children. Launchpads feature topics such as letters or numbers, as well as popular characters, and themes from animals to pirates, fantasy, nature and more.
Guidelines for Use:
- These devices can only be checked out with an Adult library card.
- One checkout per card
- 14-day loan period
- No renewal
Audiobooks
Available for a 3-week loan period
DVDs
Available for 1-week period with one renewal. Up to 5 DVDs nay be checked out at a time.
Wonderbooks
Wonderbooks are equipped with a ready-to-play audiobook that reads to, or with, a child. In Learning Mode, a child will answer questions and extend learning.
Guidelines for Use:
- Can only be checked out with an Adult library card.
- One checkout per card
- 14-day loan period
- No renewal
Toy Library
The RPL Children’s Department has a variety of children’s toys for check out on an adult card. These toys are for regular check out and not to be used inside the library.
Computers and Catalog Search
There is one computer solely devoted for searching our catalog. The remaining five computers are for general use by families.
Per RPL Policy, if a child is unaccompanied by a parent or guardian from ages 11-12, they can have paperwork filled in and signed by their parent/guardian to allow them to use the library and computers, as long as they adhere to the RPL’s code of conduct. This paperwork will be kept on file in the Children’s Department.
Children under 12: In accordance with Section 53-21 a-c of the Connecticut General Statutes (C.G.S.) any child under the age of 12 should have a responsible adult family member or caregiver with them.