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Items Needed for the Community Intervention Center Since 1972, the Community Intervention Center of Lackawanna County has been helping homeless and marginalized people with services that encourage personal empowerment, self-sustaining recovery and stabile housing. You can help, too! During the...

Lackawanna County Library System Bookmobile cordially invites you to our 1st Annual Open House in celebration of National Bookmobile Day There will be raffles, giveaways and activities for the kids! Receive a free tote bag when you check out items...

The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in an Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon The Enchanted Hour is a new book available at the Abington Community Library that tackles the importance of reading aloud. In a...

April 7-13 National Library Week starts on Sunday and once again this year all around the country, libraries will be celebrated as vibrant centers of their communities, schools and college campuses. The theme for National Library Week 2019 is Libraries...

With your library card, you have free access to the Mango Languages, our online database with dozens of languages available to learn. Advance through the levels to learn a new language like Spanish, Mandarin, Danish, and even Latin! And now,...

Verse Describes Old Men Picking Through Ashes for Unburned Cigars Former poet laureate W.S. Merwin, who died last week, lived in Scranton as a boy, and while many of his early poems describe incidents from his youth, few detail incidents...

The Moscow Borough Police Department and the Lackawanna/Susquehanna Office of Drug & Alcohol Programs is hosting a Medication Take-Back Event at the North Pocono Public Library on Saturday, April 20th, from 10 AM until 2 PM. Bring in your UNUSED...

On Thursday, March 28 from 6-7 PM, meet Dorothy O’Connor at our artist reception and chat with her about her work  “Farmland Friends and Playpen Posse.” Dorothy O’Connor is an aspiring artist who has been an active member of the Abington community...

The Albright Memorial Library and Lackawanna County Children's library will be experiencing an internet and telephone service interruption on Thursday, March 21st in the morning.   Other Lackawanna County Library System libraries will not be impacted. We apologize for this inconvenience.

The library's website will be down for a period of time on the morning of Thursday, March 21st for maintenance.  Thank you for your patience and we apologize for any inconvenience.