Children's Room closes at 7:00 PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Despite the damage our building suffered from Ida, we will proceed with our plans to add Sunday hours (noon to 5pm) starting Sunday, Sept. 19. The Lower Level of the library will remain closed to the public and the Tutor Rooms will not be available for use. We expect this situation will continue for some time. Please see below for further details. Read More Read More
This was originally going to be a post about the Oresman Gallery’s first exhibit since March 2020. The exhibitor, Roxanne Catherine Mapp, spent all day September 1 carefully hanging her paintings and they looked great. We all know what happened that night. Now our Lower Level is closed to the public and will be for some time. Roxanne’s work is currently displayed using easels and the mantel on the Main Floor. They still look great. The storm has forced some other changes here.
During the current situation we’ve not been assessing fines because, well, we all have enough to deal with. No more! Starting Monday, September 13, we are going to start imposing fines for overdue items again. If you have something that is overdue, it would be wise to return it before then. Read More Read More
We are proud to announce that Larchmont Library earned Best Library in Westchester County status in Westchester Magazine’s Best of Westchester 2021 issue. Thank you to our patrons for showing their appreciation by voting for our Library! This award is truly special as it comes at the end of a long year of adapting, changing and reinventing Library services nearly nonstop during the pandemic. Our Staff and Trustees worked tirelessly over the past year to continue to provide services in new and inventive ways including; answering reference calls from home, hosting hundreds of programs online and circulating nearly 100k books via curbside pickup on our front lawn.Read More Read More
Our Conference Room and the two Tutor Rooms are now open for quiet study and small meetings during business hours. You can reserve a time on our Reserve A Room page which can always be found under the “Things to do” menu above. Please note that masks are required while you are at the Library.Read More Read More
Our public internet computers have been updated and are now available for use during business hours. There are four terminals in the Technology Commons on the main floor and two in our teen space, a.k.a. The Loft. Remote and mobile printing is also restored. Patrons can sign up for two half hour sessions daily. However, if you need more time forRead More Read More
Starting on Monday, June 7th, the Library will allow extended, but socially distant, stays in the Main Library for those who wish to sit and work for longer periods of time. This means you can use the library as a quiet place to read, to get some work done, or to just enjoy our air conditioning.
Some considerations:
We have great news for book groups! Since the library is now open for browsing from 9-5, Monday through Saturday, we can start reserving books for book groups again. Prior to the pandemic, the library supplied books for 30+ local groups and we’re happy to report that new requests are already coming in. Kudos to the Men’s Night Out book club for being the first ones to reserve their books in 2021! If you want to start a group of your own or get your old one back up and running, please check out our Book Groups FAQ and then contact the Reference Desk by phone at (914) 834-2281 x.3 or by email at larchmontlibrary@wlsmail.org.Read More Read More
Today, for the first time in almost 14 months, we unlocked the book drop by the Front Door (see action-packed picture above). Since we aren’t charging fines at this time, it will stay unlocked all day, every day for the foreseeable future. Now you can now return things at 3am if your mood so strikes you. No more return bins.Read More Read More
Although the vast majority of the HVAC project in the Fiction Room is done, it doesn’t look like we’ll make May 17. We are waiting for the finishing touches on the HVAC work and, once that is done, the dropped ceiling will be reinstalled. We took advantage of a lull in construction to put back the shelves that were disassembled but much of the collection is still wrapped to protect it during the ceiling work. During this time patrons can browse the new books rooms and lower level nonfiction, but there will be no access to older Fiction, Mystery, Science Fiction, Fantasy and Short Story titles, even for staff.Read More Read More
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