News Category: Lackawanna County Library System

Make the best out of the winter months by creating a cold storage room in your own home. Cold storage allows you to preserve your fruits and vegetables without using as much energy as a refrigerator or freezer. One of...

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...

Author of Orphan Train Will Appear in Scranton   Christina Baker Kline, author of the novel that laid bare the practice of sending children from East Coast orphanages to Midwestern farms where many then lived as virtual indentured labor, will...

Do you have high school yearbooks from schools in Lackawanna County in your attic or basement? Have you wondered what to do with them? Well we have the solution to your problem!  The Local History Department at the Scranton Public...

During the month of November, the Library will be collecting new pajamas for children ages 0 to 12 years of age to benefit Friends of the Poor. Thank you for your generosity!

Quilt Designs From the Civil War Era   Quilts made by contemporary local sewers in patterns that would have been familiar to Americans in the 1860s will be displayed in the Scranton Cultural Center lobby before and after the American Masters...

Support of the  Abington Community Library is vital to furthering our  mission of providing opportunities for patrons to read, learn, and connect with the information and people that make this Library special. Through your tax-deductible contribution, you make this possible....

Thank you to our friends and patrons who attended our Tasting By The Book fundraiser! The event was a huge success in support of the Abington Community Library.  Special thanks to: Dalida O’Malley & Carol Rubel, Co-Chairs; Angela Weinberg (Procurement Chair), Jim...

Highlights Magazine Surveys Children Lackawanna County Kids Featured in Video   Children think discipline helps them behave better and most of them also see their parents as easy going. That’s according to the 2015 State of the Kid survey conducted...

Your Source For Health Literacy   It’s a lot easier now for you to use our website to find the health information you need.   All health related links and databases are organized together under their own tab at Explore...