GFJ Celebrates 100 Years

The library will close at 2 P.M. on Saturday, Dec. 29 due to snow.  

This is the Johnson Rose. George F. had roses growing on his property (which is where the library stands now). One day he told his gardner to get rid of them. The gardner took them home and replanted them. Or so the story goes… This one was donated back to the library a few years…

Possible Job Opening: Library Page part-time.  Variable hours up to 19 per week, shelving returned items and other tasks as assigned.  $7.85 per hour.  Deadline for application is Sept. 21, 2013.  Application is available for download at: http://gobroomecounty.com/files/personnel/pdfs/EmployApp.pdf

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. …

A national survery  funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation reports that one-third of Americans (77 million) used public library computers to access the Internet in the last year.   40% received help with employment needs,  37% with health issues, and 42% with educational needs .  The stats…

A local navigator from Mothers & Babies Perinatal Network will be on site to help people sign-up for health insurance under the New York State of Health program (https://nystateofhealth.ny.gov/) on Wednesdays from 9 AM till 4 PM, November 5, 2014 – February 25, 2015. Please call them at 772-0517 to make an appointment.