102 Buffalo Street
Hamburg, NY 14075 Map
Jack Edson, Director
716-649-4415 (phone)
716-649-4160 (fax)

Located on Buffalo Street (Route 62) in the Village of Hamburg between Pleasant Avenue and Union Street. Wheelchair accessible. Parking lot available.

Public Access Computers: 11 computers, networked (printing 10 cents per page) Microsoft Office Applications, Internet Access, Misc. "What can I do at a Public Access Computer?"

Meeting Room. Copy machine, copies 15 cents each. Microfiche reader /printer, copies 10 cents each. Radio receiver for the visually impaired. Tent book sale first weekend in June.       

Newspaper Holdings:
Blasdell Front Page 1950-present
Erie County Independent 1875-1895, 1920-1994
Hamburg Sun 1945-present

What's Special About the Hamburg Library
This lively library is nestled in the village of Hamburg and serves the "village people" as well as attracting readers from many miles away. If you are looking for unusual films, a weekly preschool story hour or for a comfortable place to catch up on the daily news, the Hamburg Public Library may be the place for you.

A History of the Hamburg Public Library
A program detailing the history of the Hamburg Public Library was researched, written and presented by Librarian John R. Edson in 2001. More details are available here.

Quilts on Display The Hamburg Public Library is celebrating the holiday season with a display of quilts by library director, Jack Edson. This show includes three picture quilts: John Lennon "Imagine" (view quilt); a portrait of French painter Georges Seurat (view quilt) Vermeer's "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (view quilt) ; and a quilt of the old Hamburg Free Library.

Macedonian Ambassador Visits Hamburg Library

His Excellency, Zoran Jolevski, Ambassador of the Republic of Macedonia, was on hand for a ceremony at the Hamburg Library on Friday, June 6, 2008 to present a donation of more than 200 books from the Skopje City Library in Macedonia to the Hamburg and Lackawanna Public Libraries. Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Director Bridget Quinn-Carey joined Hamburg Director Jack Edson and Lackawanna Director Jennifer Hoffman to accept the donation.

The donation is part of the American Corner Project, which is a worldwide cooperative initiative developed by the U.S. Department of State to join together countries around the world through books, music and the Internet. The B&ECPL coordinated the project locally with the help of Dr. Lorna Peterson from the University at Buffalo School of Library and Information Studies.

Ambassador Jolevski (left) presents donated books to Hamburg Library Director Jack Edson and Lackawanna Library Director Jennifer Hoffman.

Ambassador Jolevski speaks with B&ECPL Director Bridget Quinn-Carey, CIO Shirley Whelan and Network Specialist Toni Naumovski, as Library CFO Ken Stone looks on.

The next scheduled holiday for this location is Thursday, November 26, 2009 (Thanksgiving Day).

*Summer hours run from Memorial Day Weekend UNTIL Labor Day.