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Renovation work has begun on the library restrooms and upstairs meeting room.  The front entrance will be periodically unavailable.  Please use the rear entrance as necessary.

Our Good Sports (children entering grades 1-3) have had a great time learning about Winter, Hope, and other animals at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium this summer! Check out the link below to view our custom broadcast, and a reminder to all registered Good Sports participants that the Skype session with the aquarium will be at…

We are delighted to announce that Amazon’s “Kindle” e-reader can now be used to read books downloaded from GFJ’s “Overdrive” service.  Click on the “Download Overdrive” icon at www.gfjlibrary.org and start reading.  The collection is growing at a rate of about 40 titles per month.

Historian Tim Main will present his “Shadows on the Playground” talk at GFJ on Tuesday, December 1st at 7 PM in our Scott (basement) Meeting Room.  Tim bills this as “an informative presentation defining the ancestry and historical background of Endicott’s Mersereau Park.”  His talks always come with lots of photos, insight and humor.  Don’t…

Fall program registration began this week and there are only a few spots left! Call the library today to register for our story times and book clubs!

From GFJ’s Digital Archives: “The Great Wilno” aka “The Human Cannonball” is fired from a cannon 250 feet into the air (and thankfully into his net) during the annual E-J Workers Labor Day celebrations. The event took place in front of an estimated 50,000 spectators at En-Joie Park (behind U-E High School) on Sept,. 2,…