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[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...

                  Family Place at the Nancy Kay Holmes Library is the place to be! During our last session, we did many fun activities such as free play stations, stories, songs, and crafts....

DODOcase Build Night Monday, October 20, 2014 @ 7:00 pm Want to experience Virtual Reality? Join us as we build one of DODOcase’s recently developed a Smartphone Virtual Reality Viewer inspired by Google’s Cardboard Project. We’ll be adding modification to...

This week at school, our Lil' Library Learners used a parachute after our lesson! We learned that using a parachute is lots of fun. As part of this activity, we had to try and keep a stuffed animal from falling off the...

  If you visit the Children's Room at the Abington Community Library, and hear the sounds of "If You're Happy and You Know It" or "The Wheels on the Bus", you can be sure that Storytime is in session. We...

Breast Cancer Literacy Begins @ the Library   One in eight women in America will be diagnosed with breast cancer at some point in their lives. Every year, 220,000 women are told that they have the disease and 40,000 die...

We had a great time last night at the Scranton Reads Kick Off! The Dearly Departed Players visited with their collection of funeral pieces from local funeral homes. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="375"] Funeral Exhibit on behalf of the Dearly Departed...