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April 17th, 2024

2024 Library Grant Cycle Celebrates Youth with $160,500 to 22 Libraries Throughout Our Region

Our Library Grant Cycle, made grants from the Bernard Carl and Shirley Rosen Fund. This cycle seeks to promote genuine intellectual curiosity and a lifelong love of reading and learning by encouraging youth to develop habits of regular library use. Eligible applicants are the 33 public libraries in Cayuga, Cortland, Seneca, Tioga and Tompkins counties, the 5 counties of the Finger Lakes Library System.

CAYUGA COUNTY LIBRARIES

Aurora Free Library for Library Storytime Train 2024-25

Aurora Free Library for Storytime Train: Take it on the Road and Beyond

Hazard Library for We Love Literacy in Southern Cayuga

Seymour Public Library District for Discover Summer

Springport Free Library for Library Gateway to Museums

Weedsport Free Library for Adventure Begins at Your Library: Summer Reading 2024

CORTLAND COUNTY LIBRARIES

Cortland Free Library for Ready, Set, Read and Homeschool Get Ready To Read

Cortland Free Library for Adventure Begins at Your Library Summer Reading Program

Phillips Free Library for Cortland County Libraries’ Book Clubs

SENECA COUNTY LIBRARIES

Edith B. Ford Memorial Library for All Together Now: Summer Reading Program

Interlaken Public Library

Lodi Whittier Library

Seneca Falls Library for Adventures at Your Library

Seneca Falls Library for Inspiring the Forever Reader

Waterloo Library & Historical Society for Little Explorers & Student Employment

TIOGA COUNTY LIBRARIES

Berkshire Free Library for Story Time/Summer Learning

Candor Free Library for 2024 Summer Reading Program

Coburn Free Library for 2024 Summer Reading Youth Programing

George P. & Susan Platt Cady Library

Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library for Summer Reading Program

Tappan-Spaulding Memorial Library for StoryTime and Beyond

Waverly Free Library for Adventure Awaits

TOMPKINS COUNTY LIBRARIES

Groton Public Library for Tompkins County Rural Libraries Building Literacy (TCRL BuLit)

Lansing Community Library for Adventure Begins at the Lansing Community Library Family Programming

Newfield Public Library for NPL 2024 Summer Reading Program

Newfield Public Library for NPL 2024 Afterschool Special

Newfield Public Library for collaborative request at six Tompkins County libraries

Southworth Library Association for Family programs

Tompkins County Public Library Foundation for Summer Adventure 2024

Ulysses Philomathic Library for Summer Reading Program 2024

Ulysses Philomathic Library for Books to Movies Teen Book Club