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Welcome to the Freeport Memorial Library blog. We hope to use this blog to offer in-depth information about library services that we do not have room to explore in our bi-monthly newsletter. We look forward to hearing from you.

Friday, October 26, 2012

Construction Update

FML's New Young Adult Room Under Construction










Thursday, October 18, 2012

Readers' Advisory

Happy Anniversary Moby-Dick!

 

October 18th marks the 161st anniversary of the original publication date of Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick.

Click here for books about or inspired by Moby-Dick.

Friday, October 12, 2012

Fall Festival

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Come celebrate Fall at our family festival, where we will have something for everyone. Enjoy a petting zoo, carnival games, inflatable bouncy house obstacle course, cotton candy, Italian ices, hot pretzels, and one of the Freeport Fire Department trucks for children to sit in. Then sing and dance to the music of a D.J.!

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Digitization Statistics

Long Island Memories Digitization Statistics
September 2012


Since 2004, the Freeport Memorial Library and the Freeport Historical Society have been scanning and making historical materials pertaining to Freeport available online through the Long Island Memories Digitization Project: www. longislandmemories.org

Items available as of August 2012 for Freeport

4,402 Pictures/Pamphlets
7 Newspapers
50 Years - Village of Freeport Newsletters
8 Years - American Legion Post Minutes

Hits for September 2012

30,147 - Freeport Leader
16,578 - Nassau County Review
11,610 - Nassau Post
9,645 - Photographs/Pamphlets
4,241 - South Side Messenger
3,732 - Daily Review of Nassau County
2,597 - Village of Freeport Newsletters
2,218 - Queens County Review
405 - Freeport News
208 - American Legion Post 342 Minutes

81,381 Hits for September 2012

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Nooks!

New Titles for Adult Nooks
 
Gone Girl - Gillian Flynn

Fallen Angel - Daniel Silva

Murder in the River City - Allison Brennan

The Shoemaker's Wife - Adriana Trigiani
 
The Nooks circulate for 14 days, and may be borrowed by Freeport Memorial Library cardholders, 18 years of age or older. Please see a librarian to reserve a nook.