560 Ridge Road
Lackawanna, NY 14218 Map
716-823-0630 (phone)
716-827-1997 (fax)
Jennifer Hoffman, Director

Located on Ridge Road between Route 5 and South Park Avenue. Wheelchair accessible. Parking lot available.

Public Access Computers: 16 computers, networked (printing 10 cents B&W per page, 20 cents color per page) Microsoft Office Applications, Internet Access, Misc. "What can I do at a Public Access Computer?"

Meeting Room. Study Room. Copy machine, copies 15 cents each. Microfilm reader/printer, copies 10 cents each. Radio receiver for the visually impaired.

Microfilms: The Daily Journal 1/3/1916-6/30/1923, Front Page 1/1/1970-12/31/2004, The Journal 5/8/1913-6/28/1917, The Lackawanna Herald 4/27/1933-12/24/1941, The Lackawanna News 6/9/1927-3/9/1933, The Lackawanna Republic 1/1/1932-4/14/1933, Lackawanna    Leader 5/14/1936-12/11/1982, The Steel City Press 1/29/1947-11/10/1950,  & The Victorian 1/1927-8/1965

What's Special About the Lackawanna Library
Open Hearth Cafe in the lower level of the library located in the Local History and Steel Plant Museum. The cafe is open during library hours serving coffee, tea and biscotti.

The Lackawanna Public Library is a beautiful colonial style building with magnificent oak woodwork throughout the interior. The Library is one of the last Carnegie Libraries ever constructed (1922). It houses a local history and steel plant museum in tribute to the once mighty steel industry in the region. The museum also contains old city directories, microfilm of Lackawanna’s local newspapers and the Victorian, a publication devoted to the memory of Father Nelson H. Baker. The children’s room has a bright and colorful carousel motif.

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 July 1st UNTIL Labor Day Weekend.