Resident Colleen Foley has taken her oath of office as the Library Board of Trustees‘ newest member, replacing outgoing Trustee Peter D’Antonio.
Trustee Foley, a former Village Trustee and Liaison to the Library, as well as a longtime member of the Garden City Board of Education, was instrumental in helping get the Children’s Room renovation project off the ground.
We welcome Trustee Foley, pictured here with Board Chairperson J. Randolph Colahan, and thank Trustee D’Antonio for his years of service.
The legacy OverDrive app (not the OverDrive website, the Libby app, or the Nassau Digital Doorway website) was discontinued on Monday, May 1, 2023. OverDrive app users who have not yet made the switch need to change over to the Libby app to continue enjoying digital books through Nassau Digital Doorway.
Libby is now available to download from the Amazon Appstore. Going forward, users with Amazon Fire tablets should download Libby directly from the Amazon Appstore instead of sideloading the app directly from Overdrive. Alternatively, Kindle users can use the browser form of the Libby app, or use the “Read now with Kindle” option on the Nassau Digital Doorway site.
The OverDrive app will be removed from the Amazon Appstore on June 7, 2023. Fire tablet users who already have the OverDrive app installed can continue to use it for now, but it is no longer in active development. The OverDrive app will display messaging encouraging those with compatible devices to upgrade to Libby. The web page that hosted OverDrive’s Libby APK instructions will redirect users to the Amazon Appstore to download Libby. Users with OverDrive’s Libby APK on their Fire tablet can continue to use that version. To switch to the Amazon Appstore version of the app, follow these steps. Note: Users who switch from the APK version to the Amazon Appstore version of Libby may lose their Libby timeline activity, search history, and app customizations. They will not lose their loans, holds, or tags.
All your loans, holds, and wish-list items will be waiting for you in Libby when you add your library card. Libby has some new features, such as:
- Tags to categorize books however you’d like. You can even sync your OverDrive wish list into a tag!
- A central bookshelf for all loans and holds.
- Customizable notifications for ready holds, new magazine issues, and more.
- Compatibility with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and Sonos speakers.
- Extra learning and entertainment resources, like ArtistWorks, The Great Courses, LearnItLive, Qello Concerts, and Universal Class.
- Easy access to OverDrive support.
Overdrive is an online service used by the Nassau Digital Doorway to provide eBooks, audiobooks, and instructional videos to library patrons. In addition to the Libby app, the Nassau Digital Doorway will continue to be available via web browser (e.g., Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Safari) on desktop and mobile devices.
When registering online using Eventkeeper, we want to make you aware that the “Comment” section is used only for special assistance or food allergies in case of food programs. The “Comment” comment section should not include additional registrants. By putting additional registrants in the comment section, they will not be registered and could miss the program.
Author Lee Durfey-Lavoie
and artist/illustrator Veronica Agarwal stand with Children’s Librarian Barbara Grace and Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta at the “Tween Book Discussion and Author Chat” for their graphic novel Just Roll With It.
Durfey-Lavoie and Agarwal visited the Library to discuss their book on Thursday, July 28, during a joint program between the Children’s and Young Adult Departments.
This program was funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.
A book by Constantine E. Theodosiou and Emmanuel C. Theodosiou
Foreword by Garden City Resident & Village Historian William A. Bellmer
Father-son history team Constantine E. and Emmanuel C. Theodosiou are proud to offer this timely pictorial to honor Garden City’s sesquicentennial. William A. Bellmer currently serves as Garden City’s village historian and archivist. Mr. Bellmer, as the author’s note, “was their friendly guide through the recesses of Garden City’s past.”
Garden City was the brainchild of textile mogul Alexander Turney Stewart, who bought the last of the treeless Hempstead Plains to build his village. Garden City would emerge as the Eden of Long Island, a community for people with refined tastes but who believed in living a virtuous life. Thanks to his devoted wife, Cornelia Clinch Stewart, Stewart’s legacy was furthered with the creation of the iconic Cathedral of the Incarnation and the Cathedral Schools of St. Paul and St. Mary. The Garden City Company later ensured that Garden City would remain an ideal place to live and to raise a family. But there is more. Its genteel reputation aside, Garden City showed the entire country that it could also meet a higher purpose, playing a vital role in Long Island’s Golden Age of Aviation and during World War I with the formation of Camp Mills. With so much history to draw from, Garden City is a community nonpareil, a proud product of an extraordinary heritage.
The Garden City Public Library is pleased to say we have several copies of this book available for patrons to borrow. As you read Garden City: The First 150 Years you will find yourself drawn to all 238 pictures of The Village of Garden City in days gone by and the story that goes along with each picture. Published by Arcadia Publishing known for their Images of America series that celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the county.
Young Adult Librarian Wins
2022 Excellence in Programming Award
from the Young Adult Services Division of the
Nassau County Library Association
The Garden City Public Library Tweens and Teens Department is proud to announce that Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta is the winner of a 2022 Excellence in Programming Award from the Young Adult Services Division (YASD) of the Nassau County Library Association (NCLA), winning the Successful Community Service Program award for the “Pumpkin Scavenger Hunt” community-service project held in October 2022. Ms. Giunta previously won a YASD Excellence in Programming Award in 2018, winning the Most Innovative Program award for the Garden City Public Library’s third annual “Tweens and Teens Locked-in-the-Library Halloween Party.”
The Successful Community Service Program Award is given each year to a young-adult librarian for creating, organizing, and hosting a successful community service program at a library in Nassau County that not only gives teens the hours they needed, but taught them the importance of giving back to the community. This year was the first year the Garden City Public Library held a “Pumpkin Scavenger Hunt,” which was a community-service program that asked teens to volunteer to paint pumpkins to be used in a Library scavenger hunt.
In the past, teens painted large, real pumpkins at the Library, which the Tweens and Teens Department would display in the Library as a contest. However, this year the Tweens and Teens Department decided to transform the annual pumpkin-painting program into a community-service program in which teens painted small, artificial pumpkins that were used in a scavenger hunt at the Library for patrons of all ages. The program was well received by teens who volunteered to paint the pumpkins, by the patrons who participated in the scavenger hunt, and by the patrons and staff who admired the creative pumpkins on display, even if they didn’t participate in the scavenger hunt. (more…)
Resident Colleen Foley has taken her oath of office as the Library Board of Trustees‘ newest member, replacing outgoing Trustee Peter D’Antonio.