Gates Foundation, IMLS Research Proves Value of Online Access at Libraries

Our summer program listing has arrived! Check out our special summer programs and events page or the youth services and teen pages for more information about all of our great programs! It all starts on Monday, June 28 with the Splish Splash Reading Bash! Join us from 5-8pm on the library lawn for games, crafts,…

Due to the holiday the July 5 book sale has been cancelled.  The library will be open that day.  The next book sale is Friday, July 19.  Please note we are not open Saturdays for the summer until September 7.

Library Board meetings are held the third Thursday of each month at 7 PM in one of the library’s meeting rooms.  There is no regularly scheduled August meeting.  The public is welcome to attend.  If you have business you would like to discuss we request that you ask the Library Director to place you on…

Meet Author & Illustrator David Wiesner! Thursday, May 3 at 7:00pm at the George F. Johnson Elementary School Join us as the local libraries present an evening with David Wiesner. Click here to view the flyer or contact the library for more information.

This year’s raffle quilt is on display: “French Romance” by quilt artists Carol Bunnell and Sandy Minehan. Tickets are a dollar apiece or six for five dollars and proceeds go to support children’s programs here at GFJ. The drawing will be held September 11. Other quilts, some for sale, will be on display soon.

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,…