The Hudson Public Library participates in BRIDGES: Iowa’s eLibrary, offering eBooks, audiobooks and magazines to download for free anytime, anywhere via the Libby app.
There are currently 495 Bridges member libraries in the Iowa consortium. At the end of 2024, the Bridges collection held 104,439 eBook copies, 51,891 e-audiobook copies and 5,729 magazine copies. In 2024, circulation numbers showed that over 108,518 unique users checked out 3.158 million items. Bridges is facilitated by the State Library of Iowa.
City of Hudson and rural Black Hawk County library patrons can check out and download at http://bridges.lib.overdrive.com. Contact us at 319-988-4217 with any questions.
Adults (18 and older) with a Hudson Public Library card are eligible to participate. Get your bingo card from the library or print it off HERE and decide which squares you want to complete to make a bingo. First bingo earns a free new or gently used book off our book sale; second bingo earns a bookmark; and a third bingo earns an item purchased for the library, by the library, in your honor. If you’re feeling really ambitious, a blackout bingo is an option and earns you a special prize! Every time you complete a square, fill in the blank with what you read or did.
Adult Bingo runs the months of January, February, and March. Bring the card into the library on or before April 4. You can pick up your prize after each bingo or all at the end.
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