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Access Free On-Demand Tutoring with HelpNow™

Use your Lackawanna County library card to receive on demand homework for all grade levels using Brainfuse’s HelpNow online resource. Students can communicate with live tutors using an interactive whiteboard to chat, write, draw, copy/paste text or images and graph...
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Meet the Staff: Jess [Tales from the Albright]

Do you ever wonder what it is like to work at the Scranton Public Library? The answer can be found in our current series of Tales from the Albright. Over the course of the next few weeks staff members from...
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Feed Our Neighbors

April Community Collection With the end of a snowy winter in sight, the current COVID-19 pandemic still leaves many of our neighbors in need of food for their children and loved ones. Because of high demand, local food banks are...
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1,000 Books Before Kindergarten

Research shows that reading aloud to children is the single most important thing you can do to help them prepare for reading and learning. That’s why the Lackawanna County Library System has launched an initiative for 2020 to help families...
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April is National Poetry Month

April is National Poetry Month! Celebrate with fun activities to do at home or at your local library. Activities for Families Borrow poetry picture books from your library and create your own themed story time at home. Write out words...
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Celebrate National Library Week (April 3 – 9, 2022)

It’s National Library Week! Celebrate all week long with fun events and giveaways at your local library. Monday April 4th, the American Library Association will be releasing their State of America’s Libraries report. Tuesday, April 5th is Library Workers Day....
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Meet the Staff: Alyssa [Tales from the Albright]

Do you ever wonder what it is like to work at the Scranton Public Library? The answer can be found in our current series of Tales from the Albright. Over the course of the next few weeks staff members from...
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Meet the Staff: Scott Thomas [Tales from the Albright]

Do you ever wonder what it is like to work at the Scranton Public Library? The answer can be found in the next series of Tales from the Albright. Over the course of the next few weeks staff members from...
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Honoring Joe Gibbons

Joe Gibbons to Be Honored by Library System Joe Gibbons, a longtime library patron and advocate, is being named, posthumously, the William W. Scranton Library Laureate by the Lackawanna County Library System. The award will be presented at the start...
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David Sedaris to Deliver American Masters Lecture

David Sedaris, whose personal essays and humorous social commentary have earned him recognition as one of America’s greatest living humor writers, will be the speaker for the Lackawanna County Library System’s 2022 American Masters Lecture, Thursday, March 31 at 7...
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