Introducing…

The library will be closed on Monday, May 31 in honor of Memorial Day. We will reopen Tuesday, June 1 @ 9:00 AM. Stop in to get info on our many summer programs!

Our library is looking to fill a vacancy on its Board of Trustees.   The term of office runs through December 2018.  Meetings are usually held on the third Thursday of each month (excluding August) at 7 PM.  This is a volunteer position.  Applicants must be residents of the Town of Union, which includes the villages…

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…

The Tompkins County Public Library is seeking a full-time Librarian I for the Youth Services Department.   Duties will include working with Youth Services staff on all aspects of collection development including the selection and management of children’s fiction, nonfiction, and young adult fiction, providing friendly and exceptional references services to children and parents, assisting patrons…

Would you like to have someone tell you what you can’t read?  You’ be surprised at the list of books that have been challenged at our nation’s public and school libraries.  It’s not too early to oppose censorship by planning on reading a banned book during 2011’s Banned Books Week (Sept. 25 – Oct 2). …

View the new Pew Research Center’s report on the importance parents place on libraries (Hint: A lot!):