News Category: Albright Memorial Library

In celebration of National Library, April 10th—16th , the Children's' Library is holding a coloring contest. Pick up your coloring sheet at the Children's Library, color it, and return it to the Library by April 16th. Entries will be displayed...

Nana's Night Out Dessert Pot-Luck Social Join Mrs. Maloney for a special “thank you” evening for all those wonderful Nanas, Mimis, Gammies, Pop-pops, and Grandmas who bring their children to library programs . Sit, talk and relax! Bring your favorite dessert!...

Take part in Pennsylvania’s One Book, Every Young Child Early literacy initiative —An important statewide effort that encourages adults to share and talk about books and stories with children. This year's book is Kite Day, a Bear and Mole Story...

The Murder Mystery Night scheduled for Friday, April 8th at the Albright Memorial Library has been postponed.  A new date will be announced shortly.

Did you know the Friends of the Scranton Public Library host book sales four times a year? And a fun bus trip every spring? The Friends also sponsor children's programs like "One Book, Every Young Child" and our popular mini...

The Reference Department at the Scranton Public Library is expecting a new delivery! On Monday April 4th we will be receiving our new printers.  The staff of the Reference Department are very excited to introduce these new machines.  You will...

How do we find out what’s what and who’s who in the area? Come to the library of course! We carry The Weekender, Electric City, and The Happenings magazine. These are two of the local papers and one of the...

It may still be March, but now is a great time to think Spring! As winter (hopefully) winds down, there are a few spring cleaning ideas you can do early to get a head start on cleaning your home. Treehugger.com...

DID YOU KNOW…..March 21st is the l0th Anniversary of the day TWITTER was created. On March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey sent the first “tweet”—“just setting up my twttr” – in the now immensely popular microblogging and social networking platform.  Twitter...

“Beware the Ides of March,” so said the Soothsayer in Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar. But what does the phrase really mean, and what are contemporary scholars saying about one of Shakespeare’s famous plays? Our reference department found the answers. The Ides...