QPL Launches Bookcycle Summer Tour, Delivering Books, Resources and Fun to Queens Communities

The Bookcycle Will Make Stops in Areas Where Book Buses Cannot Fit 

Jamaica, NY_ Queens Public Library is launching its first-ever Bookcycle Summer Tour with its three-wheeled vehicles reaching various parts of the borough to provide local residents with free access to library services and information. 

The public will be able to sign up for library cards, learn about QPL's summer events, and get library giveaways, including free books (while supplies last). 

The seven-stop tour will begin with a visit to Rufus King Park (150-29 Jamaica Avenue) on Wednesday, July 10, from 12 to 1 PM. 

Other stops include Rockaway Beach Boardwalk (Beach 86th Street and Shore Front Parkway) on Wednesday, July 24, from 11 AM to 1 PM, Queens Botanical Garden (43-50 Main Street) on Wednesday, July 31, from 11 AM to 1 PM and Cambria Heights Community Garden (116-98 227th Street) on Wednesday, August 14, from 11 AM to 1 PM. 

A full list of stops can be found here. 

Queens Public Library launched its first bookcycle in 2018. Currently, the Library has two such vehicles that go to various parks and community events across the borough. They serve as an extension of QPL’s locations, reaching places where the Library’s book buses cannot fit, enabling staff to deliver library resources to people who might not otherwise have access to them. 

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About Queens Public Library
Queens Public Library is one of the largest and busiest public library systems in the United States, dedicated to serving the most ethnically and culturally diverse area in the country. An independent, non-profit organization founded in 1896, Queens Public Library offers free access to a collection of more than 5 million books and other materials in 50 languages, technology and digital resources. Each year, the Library hosts tens of thousands of online and in-person educational, cultural, and civic programs and welcomes millions of visitors through its doors. With a presence in nearly every neighborhood across the borough of Queens, the Library consists of 66 locations, including branch libraries, a Central Library, seven adult learning centers, a technology center located in the Queensbridge Houses, the nation’s largest public housing complex, and a community learning center at another public housing complex, the Ravenswood Houses. It also has five teen centers, two bookmobiles, and two book bicycles. 

CONTACT: Ewa Kern-Jedrychowska, ekern@queenslibrary.org