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GFJ is pleased to announce that Mango Languages is now available to its patrons. Mango is a robust, interactive online foreign language-learning suite covering more than sixty languages (including Pirate!). A mobile app is available, and all you need to get started is a valid GFJ library card. Start, pause and return to your lessons at your own rate. Rocket Languages, our former language-learning product, will be available through September 2015. |
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GFJ will host a formal opening of its Public Computing Center (PCC) on Thursday, April 28 at 1 PM. Congressman Maurice Hinchey, Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo and Mary Ann Stiefvater of the New York State Library will offer remarks, and staff will demonstrate PCC services. Light refreshments will be provided. Please join us for this special…
Have you been a victim of a crime? The Center for Human Services Research at SUNY Albany has asked libraries to help publicize a survey it is conducting for crime victims. Respondents will be entered in a lottery with a chance to win a $150 gift card. The online survey is available at: http://bit.ly/cvsurveynys A…
Join the fun this summer and enter to win a gift basket filled with “Literary Elements”. For every five books read, fill out a reading log and drop in the box in the adult area of the library. Winners will be drawn the week of August 4. Pick up your summer reading packets at the…
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…
The Public Computing Center will be closed again Tuesday January 22 due to staff illness.