Franklin Park Borough is
assisting the Northland Public Library (NPL) as it plans
for the future. The following is a link to a brief
web-survey that will take approximately 3 minutes to
complete. Please click on the link and take the survey so
that your ideas and opinions will be considered as NPL
looks into the future.
www.libraryconsultant.com/NorthlandWebSurveyMuni.htm
Northland Public Library directly serves five municipalities
in the North Hills, including Bradford Woods, the Borough of
Franklin Park, Marshall Township, Town of McCandless and
Ross Township. Nearly 40,000 people currently hold a
library card. Our collection includes more than 200,000
items, including books, videos, DVDs, and audio books. Over
1,100,000 items were circulated by the library in 2008. The
library also features more than 70 computers with free
Internet access available to the public, and is equipped for
wireless Internet use.
Northland Library offers programs and services for people of
all ages. Our adult programs include free income tax
preparation service for senior citizens and low-income
families, helpful medical seminars, book discussion groups,
travel video and foreign film presentations, and more than
30 different free computer classes each month. Children’s
programs include storytimes for youngsters and teenagers,
Guitar Hero featuring our Wii computers,eroH
teen movie nights, puppet workshops, arts and crafts
exhibits, and chess classes and tournaments. Our Summer
Reading Clubs for children, teens and adults feature
programs and activities for more than 2,000 people each
year, capped off by everyone’s favorite event, Hot Dog Day.
The library offers the Northland Library Tutor
program, a free, online service that provides tutoring
assistance to students from kindergarten through college,
plus help for adults with resume writing and other
job-related areas.
We also sponsor the Three Rivers Storytelling Festival each
August, where some of the nation’s top storytellers gather
at the library to entertain those attending with their
spellbinding tales. For more information on the Festival
please visit
www.3rstf.org.
Our meeting rooms host more than one thousand library and
community programs each year. The rooms are equipped with
state of the art equipment, including plasma televisions,
DVD and video players, desktop projectors and computers.
For more information on Northland Library and our programs,
call 412-366-8100, or visit our website at
www.northlandlibrary.org.
NORTHLAND PUBLIC LIBRARY INFORMATION
Address/Phones: Northland
Public Library
300 Cumberland Road
Pittsburgh, PA 15237
Phone: 412-366-8100
Toll Free: 1-888-292-2798
Fax:
412-366-2064
Website:
www.northlandlibrary.org
Library Executive Director: Sandra Collins
Hours of Operation:
Winter Hours (Labor Day to Memorial Day)
Monday through Friday 9:00am to 9:00pm
Saturday 9:00am to 5:00pm
Sunday 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Summer Hours
(Memorial Day to Labor Day)
Monday through Thursday 9:00am to 9:00pm
Friday and Saturday 9:00am to 5:00pm
Sunday Closed
Bookmobile Service:
North Hills Village Shopping Center
Saturdays 1:30pm to 3:30pm
Marshall Elementary School
Fridays 3:30pm to 4:30pm
NORTHLAND LIBRARY TUTOR -
Northland Public Library offers free, live tutoring
assistance for students of all ages, from kindergarten
through adult, from 3pm to 10pm daily. Simply go to the
library website listed above and click on Northland Library
Tutor. Students will be connected directly with an expert
tutor for one-on-one help in math, science, social studies
and English. Adults can receive assistance with continuing
education projects, as well as resume and work related
writing. Northland Library Tutor can also be accessed on any
Internet-equipped computer in the library, or on the library
website at home or work by anyone with a Northland Library
card who is a resident of our five supporting
municipalities, including Franklin Park. For more
information on Northland Library Tutor, or any library
program or event, please visit our website or call the
library at 412-366-8100.
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