It’s National Volunteer Week! Service Takes Many Forms here at the Library, and this year we want to highlight the winners of the Friends of QPL Shining Star Award. The Shining Star Award is given to individual Friends members that demonstrate exceptional leadership qualities…
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We hope you will join us for our special virtual events that pay tribute to the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. We also have suggestions below for great books and movies about Dr. King, and a special surprise from our Queens Memory team! All Queens Public Library…
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UPDATE (12/28): All QPL locations will be closing at 5PM on Thursday, December 30. Here is the Library's holiday schedule for the end of December 2021. All Queens Public Library locations will be closed on Friday, December 24; on Christmas Day, Saturday, December 25; and on…
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Tuesday, November 2, 2021 is Election Day, and several of our branches will serve as polling sites. Queens residents will cast their votes at the Briarwood, Central, East Elmhurst, Elmhurst, Forest Hills, Kew Gardens Hills, Lefferts, North Forest Park, Peninsula, Ridgewood,…
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Happy National Friends of Libraries Week! It’s the annual celebration of library Friends groups and everything they do for their neighborhood libraries. In honor of Friends of Libraries Week, we asked the staff at our branches to talk about the special relationship they have…
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