Pew Research study on how parents feel about libraries

The George F. Johnson Memorial Library (Endicott NY) is one of 30 libraries in New York State to receive $244,517 in funding to create a Public Computing Center in the library.  This award is provided as part of a grant awarded to the New York State Library through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)…

Today is the library’s hundredth birthday! Help us celebrate! Visit the library to enjoy a piece of cake while you watch a slideshow from our first hundred years. Visit the library on Tuesdays, March 24 & 31 at 7:00 PM for Tim Main’s two-part history of the library. We’ll have more cake! Click here to…

NPR ran a story last week on the future of libraries in the e-book age

GFJ needs your help!  Along with the Your Home Public Library (Johnson City) we have not received an increase in funding since 2008.  We hope to place a proposition on this November’s ballot seeking an increase designed to fund the libraries for another four years.  But first we need to collect some 2,000 petition signatures. …

Join millions of eBook and audiobook readers around the world enjoying one book. Get a free copy of Nancy Clancy Super Sleuth on the Download Zone from September 16-30.

For our non-resident patrons: At its June 2014 meeting the Library Trustees decided to increase the non-resident fee from $25.00 to $50.00 annually, per household, effective January 1, 2015.  This is the first increase in the fee in the 20 or so year existence of the fee, and brings the cost into line with what…