News Category: Teens

Whether you are taking a class during the winter session or have a school assignment to complete, Tutor.com provides online tutoring with real tutors every day from 4:00 PM to 10:00 PM. The live, one-on-one sessions can be used for...

Give the Young Adult in your life these amazing librarian recommended books this holiday season.  Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens agenda by Becky Albertalli Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But...

Books are a great gift for all ages!  Here are some great suggestions from library staff members for Kids and Babies: Snuggle up with Mother Goose edited by Iona Opie and illustrated by Rosemary Wells. Lap reading with babies means...

Celebrate the holiday season with Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Actor Bob Hughes will be reading and performing a play adaptation of this classic tale on Sunday, December 4 in the Reference Department at the Albright Memorial Library. Light refreshments...

The 3rd Annual Lackawanna County Library System’s Teen Character Ball was held on Friday, November 19, 2016 at the Albright Memorial Library in downtown Scranton. Area teens celebrated their love of Stars Wars with dancing, pizza, games, raffle prizes and a...

Our photo editing series continues on Monday, November 14 @ 5:30pm. Other classes coming up in November include Internet Safety, What's the Cloud?, Publisher, Beginner & Intermediate Excel 2013, and Introduction to Computers. A full schedule can be found on...

You may know that your Lackawanna County Library card gives you access to dozens of online databases including Mango Languages, but did you also know that Mango Languages has ESL courses? Not only can library users learn languages like French,...

Over the summer, our very own Young Adult Librarian, Anna Kilcullen, received a $1,000 grant from Baker and Taylor and the Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). The Collection Development grant helped expand the Young Adult collection that you can...

New classes including Photo Editing, Online Selling, and Young Adult Computer Club We have also increased the frequency that we offer classes in computer/internet basics, Microsoft Office 2013 applications, and open lab times for personalized assistance. Flyers for new classes...

  Throughout the month of September for Library Card Sign-Up Month, we have been giving special free gifts to everyone who registers for a library card at the Abington Community Library. We love to celebrate the most important card in...