How the local library can save you money

October 13, 2025

Life Kit

How the local library can save you money

October 13, 20253:00 AM ET, 16-Minute Listen

An illustration shows a close-up of a brown hand with teal fingernails, entering the frame from the bottom, holding a blue card that reads "Library Card" between their thumb and pointer finger. The background shows an array of illustrated items symbolizing resources you can access or borrow from your local library in shades of pink and orange, against yellow, including: tickets, a sewing machine, a music note, a saxophone, paper, cooking tools, online help, seeds, gardening tools, speech bubbles with different languages in them, a camera, and a fossil. — Kaz Fantone / NPR

Libraries provide so much more than books. This episode, get acquainted with the free or discounted resources of your local library, like free museum tickets, SAT tutors, language classes and more. This episode originally published Oct. 16, 2023.

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