Here's What's Happening at the Anna Reinstein Memorial Library...

Hours

For more details about our resources and weekly schedule, visit our Library Info page.

Book Sale

Ongoing Book Sale - $2 Bag Sale (BYOB - bring your own bag)

Arabic Calligraphy and Vegetal Arts Workshop

Arabic Calligraphy and Vegetal Arts Workshop - Saturday, May 30th from 1-4pm

Celebrate Arabic Heritage! In this workshop, you will experience the rich artistic traditions of Arabic calligraphy and Islamic arabesque patterns and motifs. This workshop will include a presentation and hands-on activities. Registration is required.

Call (716) 892-8089 or register at the Anna M. Reinstein Memorial Library, 2580 Harlem Rd. Cheektowaga, NY 14225.

Lego Club

YES Lego Club - Monday, June 1st at 6pm

Please join the Cheektowaga Youth and Recreation Y.E.S. group for Lego Club! Kids can create a Lego build using Legos provided by the library. Their creations will be displayed in the library until the next Lego Club. Please stop in or call (716) 892-8089 to sign up. Registration is required. The Anna Reinstein Memorial Library is located at 2580 Harlem Rd., Cheektowaga, NY 14225.

Creative Quacks

Creative Quacks Rubber Duck Pick Up - Tuesday, June 2nd

Creative Quacks Return Decorated Rubber Duck - Tuesday, June 23rd

Creative Quacks Voting - Monday, June 29th - Saturday, July 4th

Come to the library and pick up your own rubber duck to decorate. For all ages. Bring your decorated duck back and enter it into our creative quacks duck competition. Visitors to our library will vote for the best decorated duck and the winner will receive a prize! Ducks are available to pick up June 2nd to June 22nd. Bring back your duck by June 23rd to participate in the competition. All ducks will be returned to their creator after July 4th.

Night Owl Storytime

Night Owl Storytime with Miss Bofinger: Join us for stories, activities, and a craft. For children 0-8 years old, with their adults. Wednesdays at 6:00 pm from April 8th - June 25th. Please call (716) 892-8089 or register in person at 2580 Harlem Rd Cheektowaga, NY 14225. Walk-ins welcome if space available.

Night Owl Storytime - Wednesday, June 3rd at 6:00pm

Night Owl Storytime - Wednesday, June 10th at 6:00pm

Night Owl Storytime - Wednesday, June 17th at 6:00pm

Night Owl Storytime - Wednesday, June 24th at 6:00pm

Early Bird Storytme

Early Bird Storytime with Miss Bofinger: Join us for stories, activities, and a craft. For children 0-8 years old, with their adults. Thursdays at 10:30am from April 9th - June 26th. Please call (716) 892-8089 or register in person at 2580 Harlem Rd Cheektowaga, NY 14225. Walk-ins welcome if space available.

Early Bird Storytime - Thursday, May 28th at 10:30am

Early Bird Storytime - Thursday, June 4th at 10:30am

Early Bird Storytime - Thursday, June 11th at 10:30am

Early Bird Storytime - Thursday, June 18th at 10:30am

Early Bird Storytime - Thursday, June 25th at 10:30am

Summer Teen Book Club Info Meeting

Summer Teen Book Club Information Meeting - Saturday, June 6th at 12:00pm

This summer, during July and August, the library will be hosting a teen book club once a week! Teen participants will get a copy to keep of the two books we will be discussing: “Howl’s Moving Castle” and “The Witch of Blackbird Pond”. Parents and Guardians are encouraged to come to our informational meeting with their teen to learn more about what to expect and help decide the dates of our weekly meeting. Snacks and drinks will be provided! Please call 716-892-8089 or register in person at 2580 Harlem Rd. Cheektowaga, NY 14225 : Walk-ins welcome!

ember - May, not on holidays. Please call 716-892-8089 or register in person at 2580 Harlem Rd Cheektowaga, NY 14225.

Paws for Love: Read to a Dog

Paws for Love: Read to a Dog - Saturday, June 13th by appointment

Library guests will have the opportunity to experience the simple joy of spending time with a dog while enhancing literacy skills through reading out loud. For all ages and must be accompanied by an adult. Reading sessions are thirty-minutes long. Registration is required to attend a reading session. There is a maximum of four guests allowed at each reading session. Please call 716-892-8089 to register or register in person at 2580 Harlem Rd. Cheektowaga, NY 14225.

Bike Locks Available

Bike locks are now available for use at the library. Only intended to be used while visiting the library.

Can't make it in? Check out our eLibrary!

Check out eBooks and eAudiobooks from Libby!

Wondering how to check out books and audiobooks while our buildings are closed? We created a short tutorial series on getting started with Libby!

Signing Up for an eLibrary Card

Getting the Libby App

eReader Questions and Answers

Reading Digitally During and After Library Closures

History of Anna M. Reinstein

Anna Reinstein was born in 1866 to a family of minor Russian nobility near Kiev. Her interest in medicine was encouraged by her mother, who was an herbalist, and her family. Her parents sent her to a school in Berne, Switzerland and there she received her doctorate in medicine in 1891, and met her future husband, Boris Reinstein. By the time Anna emigrated to the United States in 1888, she spoke three dialects of Polish as well as French, Ukrainian, high Russian, German, Italian, Hebrew, Yiddish and English. She could also read and write Latin and Greek, which was required as a physician. She chose to settle in the Buffalo area because of its large Polish population, feeling a physician fluent in Slavic languages could establish a comfortable practice here.

Anna built her practice steadily. She worked as a midwife before passing her U.S. medical boards exams and is reported to have delivered over 2,000 babies. Many times, around the turn of the century, she could be spotted on her bicycle, black bag in hand, driving the roads of East Buffalo and Cheektowaga to tend to her patients' needs. In 1904, Anna moved to Cheektowaga and continued to practice medicine here until February 12, 1948. Her son Victor, born in 1894, joined her medical practice in 1916.

In the early 1900's, Anna Reinstein acquired much property in Cheektowaga and built homes in the area. One of the reasons she began in real estate was to provide rental housing for the railroad workers and other working-class people who need shelter.

The library was made possible by a donation given by Victor Reinstein, her son, to memorialize Anna. A woman who came to Cheektowaga back in 1904, who practiced medicine in the area for more than 40 years, and became a part of the township. The Reinstein family has always known the value of education and books which recorded the experiences of men and women who lived before them. This belief became possible in the community where the Reinstein family once lived, where youth can recognize the benefits which man can find in his search for knowledge at the Anna M. Reinstein Memorial Library.

The Reinstein Family Archives is housed at the Anna M. Reinstein Memorial Library. This special collection contains documents that encapsulate the history of the family with focus on the lives of Boris Isaevich Reinstein, Anna Mogilova Reinstein, Honorine Reinstein, Nadina Reinstein Kavinoky, Victor Reinstein, and Julia Boyer Reinstein. Onsite access to The Reinstein Family Archives is by appointment only. Presently there are 102.25 cubic feet of records in the Archives with dates spanning from 1805-1998. Online access to a selected set of items from the Archives is made available in partnership with New York Heritage Digital Collections.