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In honor of Scranton Reads, the Lackawanna County Children's Library will be hosting the Tales to Chill your Bones Film Festival  on Sundays during the month of October. The films will be shown in the Children's Library community room at 2:30....

Donned in your best Halloween attire, encounter strange sightings, and spooky paranormal activity at..... the Lackawanna County Children's Library! For Ages: 6—12 Thursday, October 30, 2014 at 6:00 PM Lackawanna County Children’s Library 520 Vine Street, Scranton, PA 18509 Registration...

Experience the excitement and fun of science with the University of Scranton’s Scranton Neuroscience Society & Health Professions Organization Kids will create Oobleck, Squishy Circuits, Mystery Markers, and engage in mind games and optical illusions! For Grades K-6 Saturday, October...

Families Helping Families, here at the Library on Wednesday evenings from 7-8:30PM, provides support for families with a member in the early stages of recovery for drug or alcohol addition. Interested adults and teens are not required to register for...

Today at Storyime, children at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library read books that had something to do with the color orange! After reading some great stories about Squash, Bears, Cats, and the Pumpkin Patch, we made an orange cat just in...

News and information regarding the Ebola Virus. Helpful resources to learn more about the disease: Center for Disease Control: Learn about the disease, news and more. http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/ National Institute for Health: Basic information on symptoms, treatment and diagnosis. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ebola.html World Health Organization:  Learn about...

[caption id="attachment_6004" align="aligncenter" width="235"] Give me your best smile![/caption] Last week was Fire Prevention Week and children at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library celebrated with a story time dedicated to Fire Fighters! During this story time, we read many firefighter...

The Carbondale Public Library presents it's Home School Series starting this Friday, October 17th @ 1 PM. Programs are geared towards grades K-6, but siblings are welcome to join us. This program will be a little different than past programs....

Winners To Be Announced On November 19th   It’s an important time of year for serious readers as the National Book Foundation announces the finalists for the 2014 National Book Awards. The categories are Fiction, Non-Fiction, Poetry and Young People’s...

The Tween Team at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library meets every other week to do awesome projects and have a good time with friends. Last week we had the opportunity to have a Pokemon Party and we sure did have...