Children's Room closes at 7:00 PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays
Please note that while our physical building is closed, we have set up an ‘online library’ which you can access from home. Click on Read more… and you will find a number of frequently asked questions that have been flooding our inbox since the building’s closure. Our staff has organized this page in an effort to assuage your worries and get you through this!Read More Read More
Over the last few days we’ve seen an outpouring of eResource sharing and generosity as schools, libraries and workplaces have announced temporary closures. Many of the vendors of our extensive collection of downloadable books, audiobooks, magazines, movies and television have added additional resources for free. But wait, there’s more! Below are some staff suggestions of online activities you can enjoy while we wait for life to return to normal. Update! March 19. We’ve done the same thing for children. It’s on the Children’s Blog page.
We are short staffed right now. Consequently, the Children’s Room will close at 5pm today, Thursday, March 12. This is not because of any particular occurrence here at the Library.Read More Read More
The 8th Annual Spelling Bee hosted by the Friends of the Larchmont Public Library and scheduled for March 29 has been postponed until a later date. Details will be posted here as they come available.Read More Read More
Soon every household in America should get a card inviting them to participate in the decennial census. The results of the census are used to determine representation in Congress, the disposition of federal monies, and many other things. Therefore it is important that everyone be counted (see this handout from the Town of Mamaroneck for further details). By law, Read More Read More
The Coronavirus has been a hot topic at the Information Desk of late. We think, therefore, that this is a good time to share with you places where you can find reliable information. For a local perspective, the Westchester County Department of Health’s coronavirus page is a good place to start. The State’s Department of Health Coronavirus site has information regarding how many peopleRead More Read More
“It was a bunch of libraries in New York,” Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin said yesterday. This announcement ended two weeks of frenzied speculation in Washington as economists and pundits struggled to determine the reason why the National Debt was effectively doubled by a sudden jump of $22 trillion on March 14. Mnuchin explained that a consortium of libraries in suburban New York recently implemented a new software system. Glitches in the software governing overdue fines led to the sudden surge.Read More Read More
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