Pew Research study on how parents feel about libraries

Your GFJ library card gives you access to Atomic Training, a suite of more than 40,000 free, online, software and device training videos. Improve your computer skills from the comfort of your home!  Office, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, GarageBand, iTunes, WordPress, Google Docs, Picasa, HTML and about 39, 991 more!  Just click on the “Atomic Training” logo on…

The library is accepting applications for a part-time Library Clerk position.  Some weekend and evening hours, pay is $8.45 an hour, 15-19 hours per week.  The position is temporary with the possibility of becoming permanent.  Applications are available at the library and will be accepted through Saturday, January 28.

There are still a few openings in our fall story time session which begins next week. We have just the right program for your child, birth through age 5! Register online on our Kidzone page or give us a call. We hope to see you soon!

Our recent software upgrade is apparently blocking patrons from using our Overdrive (Download Zone) e-book/audiobook service.  We have been informed that the problem should be resolved by tomorrow (Saturday, June 27) and regret the inconvenience.

We’re excited to announce an expansion of GFJ’s Digital Archives.  We’ve added eight years of additional searchable, digitized local newspapers, extending coverage into 1923.  The project will eventually carry coverage to 1960.  We will soon add The E-J Worker’s Review.  The Review was an in-house publication of the Endicott Johnson Corporation published from 1919 till…

The Tompkins County Public Library is seeking a full-time Librarian I for the Youth Services Department.   Duties will include working with Youth Services staff on all aspects of collection development including the selection and management of children’s fiction, nonfiction, and young adult fiction, providing friendly and exceptional references services to children and parents, assisting patrons…