Press Releases

Update: June 25, 2020, 10:00AM QPL’s “To-Go” Service Starts July 13 at 7 Branches Dear Queens Public Library Customer, I am very pleased to announce that Queens Public Library will reopen seven branches across the borough with “to-go” service and returns six days a week,…
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Tuesday, June 23, 2020 is Primary 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, Lefrak City, North Forest Park,…
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QPL President and CEO Dennis M. Walcott visited the new NYC Health + Hospitals COVID-19 testing site at Windsor Park Library on June 18, 2020.   Mayor De Blasio Expands Testing Sites Citywide and Opens Mobile Units New NYC Health + Hospitals testing sites to launch today…
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New Collaboration Brings Public Opinion to the Public Through the Queens Public Library System Non-Profits, Media, Educators and Engaged Citizens Can Access Current and Historical Public Opinion Data Queens, NY (February 18, 2020)—Among other things, public libraries equip…
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Pictured above: Far Rockaway Library Manager Sharon Anderson; Shanon Morris, Senior Director of Community Impact for the American Heart Association in New York City; and QPL President and CEO Dennis M. Walcott at the loaner program kickoff.   Queens Public Library…
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