News Category: Lackawanna County Library System

On January 11th, OverDrive will be updating our eBook and Audiobook collection page. What's changing? The new OverDrive comes with enhancements like: More options for signing in. You can sign into new OverDrive library websites with your library card, your...

The Children's Library is closed due to a construction project until further notice. There will be no fines during this time. Holds can be picked up at the Albright Memorial Library next door.  All programs have been canceled. You can...

Staff Selections for Readers of Every Age Books make great Christmas gifts and who better to recommend books to buy than Lackawanna County librarians. We asked staff members from all ten libraries in the System to tell us what books...

Season’s Greetings From everyone at the Lackawanna County Library System.   May the spirit of Christmas be with you this holiday season in throughout the year ahead.   Thank you for being part of the Lackawanna County Library System community....

Article Will Appear in Sunday’s Book Review   It’s book list time, that end of the year period when critics, literary journals and websites publish what they believe to be the best or most significant books of the year. The...

December Library Collection   Cold weather is coming and Lackawanna County Libraries want to make sure that very special neighbors of ours are cozy and warm. We are collecting hats, gloves, mittens and socks for the children of St. Joseph’s...

3,600 Titles Added to Digital Collection   Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized book publishing by inventing moveable type in 1439. Over 500 years later the next revolution in publishing was the creation of the eBook. Project Gutenberg, the first digital library, is...

2015’s Outstanding Books!   Fortune Smiles, a collection of short stories by Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Adam Johnson, is the winner of the 2015 National Book Award for Fiction.   Johnson is joined in the awards by Ta-Nehisi Coates, non-fiction...

The new Scranton Trivia Quest game was launched at Library Express on Friday, November 6th.  Local community members, politicians and celebrities played an inaugural round to launch the game which will be on sale at Library Express after Thanksgiving.  Stop in...

From the Lackawanna County Library System   This year, as every year, we are thankful for the 60,000+ residents of Lackawanna County who have library cards and make Lackawanna County Libraries among the busiest places in our communities.   Here’s...