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The Albright Memorial Library, Lackawanna County Children's Library and Nancy Kay Holmes Branch Library will be closed on  Wednesday, November 11th for Veterans Day. Library Express will be open from 10 am to 8 pm.

Begin to learn about the princes and/or paupers in your family tree! Joe Briar of the Genealogical Research Society of Northeastern Pennsylvania will explain how to use Ancestry.com and offer information on the holdings of the Genealogical Research Society 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...

Have you always wondered what magazine advertisements from the 20's, 30's, 40's, and 50's looked like?  Well the Reference Department at the Scranton Public Library has a great collection of historic periodicals available for patron use.  These periodicals have wonderful...

The following vendors have been confirmed for our 7th Annual Dorothy Boccella HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE at the Abington Community Library, November 14 and 15. They include: The Post Home and Body, Barry's Art Room, Caring Hands, Knits by Nana, Bumblefunck, Cindy's...

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!

Registration for the contest is in the North Pocono Public Library is for 2 categories: Grades k-3 and 4-6. Completed houses must be delivered to the library by December 23rd at 4PM. Please fill out an information card when you...

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...