The mission of the Garden City Public Library isto connect people with information.
| Mon: | 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM |
| Tues: | 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM |
| Weds: | 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM |
| Thurs: | 9:30 AM to 9:00 PM |
| Fri: | 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM |
| Sat: | 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM |
| Sun: | 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM |
Monday Movie Matinées
Stop by the Garden City Public Library on Mondays at 1:30 PM to see a movie.
No registration is required, but seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
The movies for April are:
| Apr. 29 | The Intern | 2015 | 121 min. |
“Monday Movie Matinées” are sponsored by The Friends of the Garden City Public Library.
Friendship Bracelets – Community Service
Teen volunteers use beads and strings to design friendship bracelets for Library patrons, 1/29/24.
Make friendship bracelets for friends and Library patrons during “Friendship Bracelets for Community Service, which will be held at the Library on Monday, April 29, from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
In this program inspired by the Taylor Swift Eras Tour, create friendship bracelets to trade and give to friends and for the Library to give to patrons.
At least one bracelet you make must be used for the Library to give out to patrons in order to earn community service.
This program is for tweens and teens in Grades 6-12. Registration is required and begins Tuesday, April 23, at 10:00 AM online via Eventkeeper.
Space is limited, so check Eventkeeper for availability.
This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.
Smarter Social Security
Thinking of retiring? Join us on Tuesday, May 7, for “Smarter Social Security: Strategies to Optimize Spousal & Survivor Benefits” with Daniel G. Mazzola, CFA, CPA.
This program will provide a broad overview of the Social Security retirement program while examining in detail spousal benefits and ways to optimize them.
Registration begins online on Monday, April 29, 2024 on Eventkeeper.
Long Island Reads Pick for 2024
The 2024 Long Island Reads pick is Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World, by Christian Cooper.
The Garden City Public Library will be holding a “Book Discussion” on Thursday, May 9, 2024 at 10:00 AM in the Small Meeting Room. Registration is required on Eventkeeper and begins April 29 at 10:00 AM. Books are available to check out in the Adult Reference area.
Cooper tells the story of his extraordinary life, leading up to the now infamous incident in Central Park, and shows how a life spent looking up at the birds prepared him, in the most uncanny ways, to be a gay, Black man in America today. From sharpened senses that work just as well at a protest as in a park to what a bird like the Common Grackle can teach about self-acceptance, Better Living Through Birding exults in the pleasure of a life in pursuit of the natural world and invites you to discover them yourself.
Problem Registering for a Program?
If Eventkeeper is down, please call the Library at 516-742-8405 and speak to a staff member in the department hosting the event that you want to attend.
Volunteers Needed: LEGO Club
A teen volunteer helps children build with LEGO, 2/27/24.
Volunteer to help children in Grades K-5 during the monthly Children’s Department’s LEGO Club! The April session will be held on Tuesday, April 30.
While the LEGO Club program runs from 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM, volunteers are asked to arrive at 3:30 PM to help set-up before the start of the program and to stay after to help clean up until 5:15 PM.
Volunteers must be in Grades 6-12 only.
Registration to volunteer is required and begins Tuesday, April 23, at 10:00 AM online via Eventkeeper. Space is limited, so check Eventkeeper for availability.
This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.
Monthly LEGO Club (Apr.)
Teen volunteers help children make their Lego creations come to life, 1/23/24.
Come with your old friends and make new friends at our monthly LEGO Club and have fun while building whatever your imagination dreams up! The club will meet on Tuesday, April 30, from 4:00 PM to 4:45 PM. This fun STEAM program is for children in Grades K-5 only.
No registration is required, but space is limited. Children will be accommodated on a first-come, first-served basis. The Library will provide LEGO bricks for children to build with during the program.
It is Library policy that parents of children under 10 attending a program remain at the Library throughout and meet the child upon completion of the program.
The LEGO Club was made possible through the generosity of the Friends of the Garden City Public Library as well as through LEGO donations from library patrons.
Vote for YA Reading Club Prizes
This year’s Tweens and Teens Summer Reading Club prizes will be decided by the tweens and teens! Submit your vote either in person by visiting the Library or online.
To vote, you must be entering Grades 6-12 in Fall 2024 and are asked to fill out only one ballot.
The nominees, as chosen by the Library’s Teen Advisory Board, are as follows:
- $50 Sephora Gift Card
- $50 Amazon Gift Card
- $50 Target Gift Card
- Seventh Street Gift-Card Lunch Package worth $75 (three $25 gift cards to Guac Shop, Burger Spot, and Garden City Pizza)
- Seventh Street Gift-Card Dessert Package worth $75 (three $25 gift cards to Dunkin, Starbucks, and TCBY)
- $50 AMC Gift Card
- Portable Bluetooth Speaker
- $50 Dick’s Sporting Goods Gift Card
- Airpods
- $50 Barnes & Noble Gift Card
- Soft-Serve Ice-Cream Machine
- $60 Spotify Gift Card
Voting will be held from April 1 to April 30. Each teen can select up to 5 of the 12 nominees on his/her/their online ballot. The nominees with the most votes will be this year’s Summer Reading Club Prizes, so make sure to get your vote in. One hour of community service will be rewarded to each patron who participates; a volunteer letter will be emailed to participants after the vote concludes. Contact Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta if you have any questions.
Egg Scavenger Hunt
This year, patrons can participate in an “Egg Scavenger Hunt” in the Library!
Search the Library for painted eggs, painted by teen volunteers! Patrons can participate in the scavenger hunt anytime they visit the Library between April 1 and April 30. When you successfully complete the Scavenger Hunt, you can submit your completed entry to be entered into a raffle to win a $50 Amazon gift card.
Only one entry per person. There will be only one winner. Patrons of all ages can participate! The scavenger-hunt sheets to participate will be available at the Library beginning April 1.
This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.
Poetry for Community Service
Tweens and teens in Grades 6-12 can earn community service by writing poetry for the Tweens & Teens Department “National Poetry Month” display in April! Beginning Monday, March 4, volunteers can write and submit poems. Each volunteer can submit up to five poems, and volunteers must use a different shape for each poem they submit. Volunteers’ poems will be displayed as they are submitted outside the Tweens & Teens Room throughout the months of March, April, and May.
Volunteers must come to the Library to pick up a volunteer form and shapes to write their poem on. Shapes to write poems on and the volunteer form can be found outside the Tweens & Teens Room at the Library. If supplies are low, please check back another day for more supplies.
Volunteers must write their poem on the shapes provided by the Library and must cut out their shape before submitting their poem. Poems should be legible and written in large enough print and with a dark pen, sharpie, marker, etc., so they can be read from a distance. Volunteers can also decorate their shape. All poems should be original work.
Volunteers must return a volunteer form with their poems; volunteers do not have to submit all five poems at once and should do an additional form for poems they submit at a later date. Poems will be accepted until April 30. Please return poems and volunteer forms to the Community Service Drop-Off Box on the metal cabinet in the Tweens & Teens Room.
Volunteers will receive one hour for every poem they submit, at the discretion of the Tweens & Teens Department.
If you have questions, please contact the Tweens & Teens Department.
Teen Advisory Board Meeting
Young Adult Librarian Laura Giunta meets with teen volunteers, 12/5/23.
The next meeting of the Teen Advisory Board will be held on Tuesday, May 7, at 4:00 PM.
Registration begins Tuesday, April 30, at 10:00 AM online via Eventkeeper.
This meeting is for tweens and teens in Grades 6-12.
If you are interested in helping to come up with programming ideas, volunteer ideas, or social-media outreach ideas for tweens and teens in Grades 6-12, consider joining the Teen Advisory Board.
Online applications are available and applicants should be in Grades 6-12.
Teen Perler-Bead Art
Teens design keychains & magnets using perler beads, 2/5/24.
Join us on Saturday, May 11, at 3:00 PM for “Teen Crafternoon: Perler-Bead Art“! Make keychains, magnets, pins, ornaments, and more.
This program is for tweens and teens in Grades 6-12. Registration is required and begins Tuesday, April 30, at 10:00 AM online via Eventkeeper.
Space is limited, so check Eventkeeper for availability.
This program has been funded by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library.
Mark Your Calendars: Library Book Sale, May 4-5
“Silent Auction” baskets such as this Dinosaur Basket (left) and Cooking Basket (right) will be at the “Book Sale.”
What will you find at the Garden City Public Library “Spring Book Sale“? Bestselling novels, non-fiction, art books, cookbooks, and children’s books to name a few – but that’s not all! Enticing baskets will be auctioned off in a “Silent Auction.” Proceeds will support programs at the Library sponsored by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library. View basket photographs and details and place early bids beginning Saturday, April 27, at the Friends’ book-sale area behind the Circulation desk.
The sale will be held two days:
- Saturday, May 4:
- From 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM you will be able to buy wonderful, gently used and some new books.
- “Silent Auction” bids on baskets can be made.
- Sunday, May 5:
- From 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM, book bargains continue.
- “Silent Auction” basket bids close 3:00 PM Sunday, winners announced shortly afterwards.
Please note: Book donations will pause beginning April 26. Resumption date TBA.
All proceeds will be used by the Friends of the Garden City Public Library to support programs at the Garden City Public Library for children, young adults, and adults, as well as the very popular Museum Passes and “Monday Movie Matinées.” The Friends of the Garden City Public Library is a volunteer organization that welcomes volunteers. Please see the Friends tab, Membership, on the Library website. The Library is located at 60 Seventh St., Garden City, NY.
