News Category: Lackawanna County Library System

List of Needed Items Available @ Your Library or Online Memorial Day, which will be observed on May 27, is often thought of as the beginning of the summer season, but the real meaning of the holiday is to remember...

Email Newsletter Highlights Events Watch your inbox on Friday mornings for “Next Week @ the Library,” a new email newsletter about some of the things happening in coming days at Lackawanna County libraries. “Some of the things,” but by no...

SCRANTON, PA – What was the Vin-Fizz? When was the Keystone Academy founded? You can learn the answers to these local history questions and more on Saturday, May 4 at the 10th annual “You Live Here, You Should Know This”...

Send Your Print Jobs from Anywhere If you find yourself with a document to print, but no working printer is available, the Library can help. With our MobilePrint Service™, you can send a print job from your personal computer or...

Show your love for books and libraries during National Library Week by entering the Children's Library Coloring Contest! Contest runs April 7th through April 13th! You can stop by the library to pick up your coloring sheet entry or you...

Items Needed for the Community Intervention Center Since 1972, the Community Intervention Center of Lackawanna County has been helping homeless and marginalized people with services that encourage personal empowerment, self-sustaining recovery and stabile housing. You can help, too! During the...

April 7-13 National Library Week starts on Sunday and once again this year all around the country, libraries will be celebrated as vibrant centers of their communities, schools and college campuses. The theme for National Library Week 2019 is Libraries...

Verse Describes Old Men Picking Through Ashes for Unburned Cigars Former poet laureate W.S. Merwin, who died last week, lived in Scranton as a boy, and while many of his early poems describe incidents from his youth, few detail incidents...

The library's website will be down for a period of time on the morning of Thursday, March 21st for maintenance.  Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience.

Tuesday, March 19  /  Everywhere Here’s a day you can celebrate easily: All you need is a child and a book. It’s good for the child and good for you, too. International Read to Me Day is observed in recognition...