News Category: Lackawanna County Library System

Colson Whitehead Lecture To Be Rescheduled The American Masters Lecture featuring Colson Whitehead scheduled for this evening at 7 p.m. has been cancelled due to winter weather predicted for today and tonight. "The lecture will be rescheduled for a later date,"...

A night of dancing, food, fun, games, prizes and fandom for teens ages 12-18. Fandom Fest is a time to gather with other fans and talk about comics, movies, books, and shows you love! There will be pizza, manga &...

Drop Off Your Donation @ the Library While you’re out buying the fixings for your family’s Thanksgiving festivities, how about picking up something for people who have little. As the cold weather approaches, Friends of the Poor are asking for...

Library Express Bookstore will be open 10:00 AM - 7:00 PM on Election Day, Tuesday, November 6.

Popular Pre-School Program Cited The Pennsylvania Library Association has given a Best Practices Award to the Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library for “ABC Read With Me,” a program that encourages pre-school age children to be active participants in reading stories...

“In Praise of Libraries,” NYT Book Review, Oct. 18, 2018 “For most readers and writers — and book lovers in general — the library holds a special place of honor and respect,” said the New York Times Book Review in...

Once again the Friends of the Scranton Public Library are sponsoring this extremely popular family program. Bill Streeter from the Delaware Valley Raptor Center will be showing several of his beautiful birds of prey. Learn about adaptations, the food chain, habits and bird characteristics. A...

Tuesday, Oct. 23  /  7:30 P.M.  /  Abington Community Library Join WVIA’s Chris Norton at the Abington Community Library to view the final episode of The Great  American Read, the PBS series that has gotten people all over the country...

Colson Whitehead: Winner of the National Book Award & Pulitzer Prize Tickets are now available online and at Lackawanna County Libraries for Colson Whitehead, author of The Underground Railroad, who, will deliver the Lackawanna County Library System’s 2018 American Masters...

October Library Collection You can help make some kids in our community happy this Christmas by donating gently used children’s books to “Operation ‘Dear Santa’”, the October collection at all Lackawanna County libraries. On Christmas Day, the books will be...