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   The George F. Johnson Memorial Library announces the following  positions.  These are temporary (18-month) professional and para-professional appointments in our Public Computing Center.  The PCC is scheduled to open this fall, with funding from a federal government American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Broadband Technology Opportunity Program (BTOP) award.  Public Computing Center Director (Librarian…

Join us tomorrow, Oct. 11 @ 1PM in the downstairs meeting room for a free screening of: Live from Lincoln Center: New York Philharmonic: Opening Night with Lang Lang. Doors open at 12:45. Bring a friend!

Library Board meetings are held the third Thursday of each month at 7 PM in one of the library’s meeting rooms.  There is no regularly scheduled August meeting.  The public is welcome to attend.  If you have business you would like to discuss we request that you ask the Library Director to place you on…

Stealing library books can lead to big trouble…

The proposed 2012 federal budget calls for elimination of the Statistical Abstract of the United States, in both its print and digital forms.   This single best source of statistical data on the United States has been published since 1878, and the staff at GFJ feels it’s lost would be tragic.  We urge you to sign…

Longtime GFJ employee Jim “Par” Panella passed away suddenly this week.  His buddy “Roxy”, a familiar face at the library,  came by for a visit today. Roxy is now living with Jim’s sister-in-law. Everyone at GFJ deeply misses them both.