With a little help from the Fairy Godmothers, the Syracuse Public Library invites kids, teens and adults of all ages to join them on Halloween night from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for a fun adventure through favorite family classics. A dash of magic brings the pages of the stories to real life: Meet Peter …read more.

Children’s Storytime is back at Syracuse Public Library. Come at 10:30 a.m. either Mondays or Tuesdays for stories, songs, play and fun. Please call the children’s department with any questions. Halloween Program On Halloween night the books come to life at SPL! All ages are welcome to come to the library’s Halloween program, “A Night …read more.

Children’s Storytime at the Syracuse Public Library starts back up at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 1, and continues Mondays and Tuesdays for stories, songs, play and fun. Please call the children’s department with any questions. Young Adult New Book Club The Young Adult Book Club will be meeting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 16, …read more.

Banned Books Week is Sept. 30 to Oct. 6. Intellectual freedom – the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular – provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. This week stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who …read more.

A new resource for local history is now available through a joint effort of the Syracuse Public Library and the Syracuse-Wawasee Historical Museum. The Syracuse-Wawasee Digital Archives is a free, searchable online database of Syracuse-area history that includes thousands of historical photographs, maps, items from Syracuse’s history and more. New material from the historical collections …read more.

Adult Book Club The Adult Book Club will be meeting at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 12, at the Syracuse Public Library to discuss Nora Ephron’s non-fiction book, I Feel Bad About My Neck and Other Thoughts on Being a Woman. New members always welcome. Meeting takes place in the lower level of the library. Young Adult Book Club …read more.

The Syracuse Public Library is expanding its services with e-books and audiobooks to download from the library’s website. Library card holders can check out and download digital media anytime, anywhere by visiting http://cidc.lib.overdrive.com beginning Sept. 1. Users may browse the e-book collection, check out with a valid library card, and download to PC, Mac, various e-readers and …read more.

Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Fats Waller. These are just some of the musicians who recorded at a small Richmond, Indiana-based record company called Gennett Records in the early days of recorded blues and jazz, and will shortly be featured on the PBS television series History Detectives. In later years, many of the musicians …read more.