News Releases

2025 Media Releases & Profoundly Public Newsletters

Lifesaving AEDs Available from Downtown Buffalo Central Library - posted 7/13/2025

Coming Soon, Give 716 Day message sent 7/11/2025

July 2025 Profoundly Public Community Update, 7/8/2025

June 2025 Profoundly Public Community Update

Isaias Gonzalez-Soto Branch temporary closure beginning 6/16/25 for HVAC installation

May 2025 Community Update

Library System Unveils Bold Rebrand - Profoundly Public

Congressman Tim Kennedy Standing With Library Officials & Patrons, Demanding Restoration of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Which Provides Funding For Libraries and Museums Across New York - April 24, 2025

VIP - Very Important Pass - discounts as of 4/17/2025

In Conversation Fundraiser - highlights the value of libraries

Message Update - National Library Week - April 7, 2025

Message from Library Director John Spears regarding federal elimination of IMLS - April 4, 2025

Reopening and Mural Unveiling Celebration @ the Isaias Gonzalez-Soto Branch Library - March 29, 2025
Speakers for the Reopening and Mural Unveiling Celebration - March 29, 2025

Celebrating Black History Month -Black Doll Exhibits & Events Presented by Senator April N.M. Baskin

Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Announces Strategic Leadership Appointments and 2025 Board of Trustees

Together As One Media Alert - Event @ Central Library on 1/30/25

Amherst AKA Chapter Donates Children's Books

Image of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Honoring the dream program on Jan 16, 2025 at the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Library

Upcoming Job Fair, Central Library. Wed., Jan.29 from 10 am - 1pm. over 60 employers. Questions - 716-858-8900

2024 Media Releases

Battle of the Books 2024 Winning Team from Grand Island Public Library

Battle of the Books 2024 Winning Team from Grand Island Memorial Library

Battle of the Books 2024 Winner - Grand Island Memorial Library (pdf)

Central Job Fair on August 28, 2024 (pdf)

Adventure Begins @ Your Library This Summer - Media Release (pdf)

Summer Reading Details - 2024 (pdf)

5/14 Buffalo Massacre - Community Memory Coalition/Confronting white supremacy. Community update meeting details (pdf)

Central Library's New Teen Space Ribbon Cutting with Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz - June 4, 2024 (pdf)
Family History Day - May 18 @ Central Library (pdf)

Mary Wilson and the Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Foundation to Receive IMAGINE Greater Buffalo Recognition Award on May 7 (pdf)
Love Your Library Month April 2024 (pdf)
Huge Used Book Sale @ Central Library - April 11 - 13, 2024 (pdf)
Isaias Gonzalez-Soto Branch Library to Temporarily Close Beginning April 1, 2024 for Construction (pdf)
Solar Eclipse Programming @ the Central Library on April 8, 2024 (pdf)
Huge Book Sale @ Central Library - April 11 - 13, 2024 (pdf)
Project Flight & the Library Leaders are Readers Award to Buffalo's Tapestry School (pdf)
New York State Governor & Department of Environmental Conservation Announce Major Grants - Feb 15, 2024 (pdf)
2024 Trustees Announced
Black Doll Exhibit Coming to Downtown Central Library (pdf) - Feb 1 - April 9, 2024
Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration - January 11, 2024 (pdf)
Winter Reading Challenge Keeping You Warm - Jan '24 (pdf)
Winter Reading Fun@ the Library - Jan '24 (pdf)

2023 Media Releases

Take our latest Community Survey (pdf)

New Outdoor Music Garden at the Lake Shore Public Library in Hamburg, 10-30-2023 (pdf)

Indie Author Day Updated Schedule (pdf)

Update: May 14th Community Collecting Initiative as of 10/16/2023 (pdf)

Erie County Providing 300,000 Eclipse Viewing Glasses to Residents. Libraries to assist with distribution (pdf)

Library System Announces Indie Author Day, free & open to the public, Nov 4, 2023 (pdf)

Erie County Department of Health Partners with Libraries and Literacy New York to Promote Health Literacy Month (pdf)

Banned Books - Books Unite Us, Censorship Divides Us (pdf)

Library System Updates - September 29, 2023 - new library cards, fundraising event, programs and more (pdf)

Books, Bites & Banter, over 21 Fundraiser for Libraries (pdf)

Crane Branch Library Reopening Celebration (pdf)

Digitized Collection of African-American Funeral Programs Unveiled at the Merriweather Branch Library in Buffalo (pdf)

Kenmore Branch Library Wins 2023 Battle of the Books! (pdf)

All Together Now - Summer Fun @ Your Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries (pdf)

Job Fair @ the downtown Central Library on Wed., June 14, 2023 (pdf)

Family History Day - Genealogy Research Program June 10 @ Central Library (pdf)

Community Pantries Available in City of Buffalo Public Libraries (pdf)

Flash Mob for Mental Health Awareness @ Central Library (pdf)

Citizen Preparedness in Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraries in May & June 2023 (pdf)

National Library Week 2023 (pdf)

Books for Kids 2023 Media Announcement- Campaign to run April 29 - May 19, 2023 (pdf)

Gilding the Guilt - the Gilded Age, Craft Production and the Construction of Cultural Capital free programs (pdf)

VIP Program with discounts for library cardholders as of 4-2023 (pdf)

Central Library Resumes Regular Hours (pdf)

Polish Arts Club of Buffalo Donates Mural to the Library (pdf)

Central Library Temporarily Reduces Open Hours (pdf)

CPR Kits for Public Borrowing Beginning in mid-March (pdf)

2023 Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Board of Trustees Announced (pdf)

Black History Month 2023 Library Programs and Events (pdf)

Legislature Chairwoman April Baskin Presents 2023 Black Doll Exhibit at Buffalo’s Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Library (pdf)

Overdrive Announces Libraries that had 1 Million + eBook Downloads in 2022 (pdf)

Annual Community Celebration Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (pdf)

Library System Statistics from 2022 (pdf)

Previous Years

Photo of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Director John Spears (April 2022)

John Spears, Library Director

Interim Library Director Dorinda Darden, as of May 2025

Interim Director Dorinda Darden

John Spears, Library Director, in front of the downtown Central Library