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The 2023 Nassau Library Road Trip Has Begun

Nassau’s public libraries have a groovy challenge for you: How many libraries can you visit this summer? Find out by cruisin’ on the Nassau Library Tour. Each one is a gateway into a new community. Visit the library, then explore the attractions, restaurants, and parks nearby. Take a self-guided tour as a family, a team of friends, or go solo. Plus, tour participants can collect prizes and invaluable memories along the way.

Open to all ages, this self-paced journey takes place from June 12 to August 12. Prizes are earned for visiting 5, 15, 30, and 50 of the participating public libraries in Nassau County. Anyone who visits all 58 participating locations will also be entered to win a fabulous grand prize raffle. Start the journey by picking up a Nassau Library Tour map at any participating public library in Nassau County. Participants can begin at any of the 58 libraries and go in any order. Taking photos of the library adventure and sharing them on social media with the hashtag #NassauLibraryTour is encouraged. The tour is an opportunity to explore Nassau’s public libraries and discover all they have to offer, such as books, technology, and events. Be sure to bring the map and have it updated with a sticker to get credit for that library. Visit the tour website at https://tour.nassaulibrary.org to plan which library to hit next, and learn about nearby places. “(Having the tour)coming out of COVID is the perfect time to get people. Most people, if they do visit their library at all, they only see their own libraries. They probably don’t know anything about all of the other libraries in the county. So this is a really great way for people to spend the summer visiting different libraries. It’s a bit of a launchpad into all of the different communities in the county and it’s open to everybody,” said Lisa Zuena, Communications & Marketing Specialist for the Nassau Library System. Taking photos of the library adventure and sharing them on social media with the hashtag #NassauLibraryTour is encouraged. The tour is an opportunity to explore Nassau’s public libraries and discover all they have to offer, such as books, technology, and events. “A lot of people may have a little bit of an outdated view of what a library is. They don’t realize that we have things like museum passes. Many libraries have “libraries of things” where you can come in and and check out power tools, and lawn games and things like that. You can download ebooks and audio books from home. (The staff) was hoping people would see all see the physical buildings, of course, but then also see what all of these libraries have in common that people may not even realize,” Zuena said. “More and more, Nassau’s libraries deliver rich experiences – in addition to books and media. What better way to enjoy the uniqueness of every Nassau public library and every Nassau community than to set out on a fun challenge this summer? We’re proud to sponsor the Nassau Library Tour, highlighting the best of what Nassau has to offer,” said Caroline Ashby, Director of the Nassau Library System. The Nassau Library Tour debuted in 2019 with the idea of exploring the libraries in Nassau County. Back then there were 53 participating libraries to visit, so for those who were among the 22,000 people who participated in the inaugural tour, there are even more new libraries to see this time around. “The library tour gave us the opportunity to explore all the other Nassau County Libraries as a family,” said Jessica Katz, who was the first to finish the original Nassau Library Tour with her family in 2019. “We loved showing up at some of the libraries and having staff already know who we were!” While this event happens every three to four years, there are plans in the works for a separate puzzle-game mystery event. “During the summer we would give out clues, and people would have to do some some traveling. But they could do some things maybe in a digital format. They could solve a puzzle or a mystery and also learn about the libraries that way. We don’t have anything official yet, But we really are looking forward to doing something like that in future summers,” said Zuena. For the list of participating libraries and more information, see https://tour.nassaulibrary.org. Grab your map and get ready to hit the road. Be sure to bring the map and have it updated with a sticker to get credit for that library. Visit the tour website at https://tour.nassaulibrary.org to plan which library to hit next, and learn about nearby places. — Submitted by Nassau Library System with additional reporting by Amanda Olsen

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Why Long Islanders are going on a library 'pub crawl' this summer

Long Islanders are visiting various county libraries during a summer library tour challenge in Nassau and Suffolk.  Credit: Marcie Litjens

Need a break from the summer sun? CAR-pe diem — as in, jump in the car with the family and take the Nassau or Suffolk county Library Tour.

“It’s like an adventure; how many can we get to in each day?” says Jessica Verni, 34, an audiologist from Manorville who has been doing the tour with her two children, ages 5 and 1, and her mother, who is 60. “We went to the Montauk Lighthouse with library passes and stopped at every library along Montauk Highway — Montauk, East Hampton, Bridgehampton, Southampton. We made a whole trip out of it.”

The children played in the libraries’ outdoor areas, in their playrooms and on the computers, Verni says. “Our next trip will be Commack, Smithtown and Hauppauge,” she says.

The Nassau tour ends Aug. 12 and the Suffolk tour ends Aug. 31. Participants have the entire time period to visit participating libraries.

HOW THE LIBRARY TOUR WORKS

Participants in the Nassau Library Tour were given a map that led them to all the different library buildings. Credit: Nassau Library System

Participants pick up a free map of the Nassau libraries at any of the 58 participating buildings. The Nassau Library System offers token prizes as participants finish visits to 5, 15, 30, 50 and 58 buildings; they include tattoos, tumblers, buttons, baseball caps and their most popular item — a plush stuffed cat wearing a library tour T-shirt. The library system offered such a tour in 2019; this is the second time they are doing it.

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“Most people only see their home libraries,” says Lisa Zuena, communications and marketing specialist for the Nassau Library System, which has 54 member libraries and a total of 60 buildings, 58 of which are participating in the event. “Some people may have an outdated idea of what a library offers, and they don’t even realize it.” Close to 53,000 people have participated in the tour so far this summer, and more than 180 have finished all 58 buildings, Zuena says. 

In Suffolk, participants can pick up a free passport-style booklet at any of the Suffolk sites and collect stamps as they visit each library building. Suffolk offers raffle tickets to tourgoers who finish 5, 15 and 25 visits for the chance to win Barnes & Noble gift cards and a Nook, says Derek Ivie, youth services coordinator for the Suffolk Cooperative Library System.

Michael Litjens, 12, and his brother, Joe, 19, visited various county libraries on the inaugural Suffolk County library tour. Credit: Marcie Litjens

This is the Suffolk system’s first year offering a tour. While Suffolk has 56 member libraries, finishing 25 is considered completing the tour, Ivie says. “We’re a much longer county and we didn’t want people to have to drive end to end if they didn’t want to,” Ivie says.

FISH TANKS, ROOFTOP GARDENS, LATTES

“It’s something we can all do together that nobody gives us a timetable for. We can do it at our own pace,” says Marcie Litjens, library director at Center Moriches Library who is also doing the tour herself with her three children, ages 12, 17 and 19. “This has been a good opportunity to go to other libraries and check them out.”

For example, in Suffolk, Litjens’ Center Moriches library has a cafe that serves lattes, muffins and other items. Islip Library has a 350-gallon fish tank. The Cold Spring Harbor Library is located on the Cold Spring Harbor State Park Greenbelt trail and a visit could be combined with a hike.

"We thought it was nice to go see a lot of the libraries we had never seen before," says Joe Litjens, 19. "Personally, I liked the Quogue Library a lot. It was very quiet and it was very pretty."

In Nassau, Mineola Library has a book-cover staircase, Port Washington has rooftop seating. Some Nassau libraries have cutouts people can pose with along the tour for photos.

Jessica Katz, 46, a teacher from North Bellmore, her husband, Evan, 46, a paralegal, and their children, Elias, 14, and Ash, 12, were the first to finish the Nassau tour in 2019 and also completed the tour this year, visiting all 58 buildings over two marathon Saturdays. Katz said she had MapQuest set out a route for the family.

Linda Baker, 60, a stay-at-home mother from Bellport, is doing the Suffolk tour with her son, Anthony, 25, and their dog, Oreo, a Chihuahua. “Mostly I did it in the evenings because they were open late,” she says.

NOT JUST FOR FAMILIES

York Roberson, 82, of Uniondale finished visiting all 58 library buildings participating in the Nassau Library Tour.  Credit: Nassau Library System

It’s not just families with children who are doing the tour. In fact, the Nassau tour began as an effort to draw millennials into the buildings, Zuena says. “We lose them when they graduate and they turn back up again once they have kids,” she says.

The library system wanted to appeal to that in-between stage, and they modeled the tour after the idea of a pub crawl, she says.

While it has morphed into more of a family undertaking, the first to finish the Nassau tour this year was a group of college students calling themselves The Illiterate Iguanas, Zuena says. And older adults are undertaking the challenge as well.

Krishnan Shankar, who works in telecommunications, and his wife, Mangala, a homemaker, of East Patchogue, finished 25 Suffolk libraries together. They are in their 50s and 40s respectively. Krishnan says he was surprised by how big some of the libraries are — naming Half Hollow Hills in Dix Hills, Sachem and Sayville in particular. Before the tour, he’d only been to the three Suffolk libraries closest to his house, he says.

Their record, the Shankars say, was visiting 13 libraries in one day of the tour; it took them a week to do 25. “It was fun to get our passport stamped,” Mangala says. Krishnan recommended taking the newsletter from each library; he did that and plans to look them over at home and pick out activities that may interest him in the future. “We’ll mark out calendar to go back for those,” he says.

York Roberson, 82, of Uniondale, who retired after working for U.S. Customs, completed all 58 Nassau Library buildings during July. “It became like a mission to me,” he says. “I looked at every library’s 332 [financial economics section] to see if they had something on personal finance. I think we have the most exciting libraries in the world here in Nassau County. Everyone should be knocking their doors down.”

Beth Whitehouse writes about families, parenting and great things to do with the kids on Long Island. She’s been a Newsday editor and shared a 1997 Newsday staff Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800.

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There's so much to do at your library!

While each Suffolk County library has a wide range of programs to offer specifically to their patrons, some events are celebrated county-wide: 

• Suffolk Summer Tour (new for 2023!) - With your free Suffolk Summer Tour booklet, you’ll visit public libraries all around Suffolk County any time from July 1st through August 31st. While you visit, you can get your booklet stamped, see new sights, learn fun facts, and be entered into some fun raffles! Raffle prizes include Barnes & Noble Gift Cards and a grand prize of a Nook eReader.
• The Great Give Back - a day of opportunities for the patrons of the Public Libraries of New York State to participate in meaningful, service-oriented experiences.
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• LI Reads - an Island-wide reading initiative intended to bring together readers from across Nassau and Suffolk Counties to discuss a book and participate in library-sponsored activities and events associated with it. 

Many Suffolk County Libraries also participate in nation-wide library events:

• Summer Reading Program - with programs for all ages, your library is here to help you read all summer long. 
• Library Card Sign-Up Month - a time when the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries nationwide join together to remind parents, caregivers and students that signing up for a library card is the first step towards academic achievement and lifelong learning.
• Banned Books Week   - Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read.
• Take Your Child to the Library Day - a celebration promoting how your local library is an ideal place for children to play, discover, make friends, and have fun.

To learn more about these and other great events, visit your local library today!

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The Suffolk County Public Libraries Summer Tour is underway.

The tour, which includes the Center Moriches Free Public Library, allows library-goers to visit libraries across Suffolk County.

How does the program work?

Those who participate are given a free Suffolk Summer Tour booklet allowing them to take a trip and visit various public libraries. After making a destination visit, any time between July 1 and Aug. 31, library-goers get their booklet stamped.

During their visits, they get to see new sights, learn fun facts, and even be entered into a raffle. Raffle prizes include Barnes & Noble gift cards and a grand prize of a Nook eReader.

Receive a stamp from five libraries: one entry into a raffle for $50 Barnes & Noble gift card

Receive a stamp from 15 libraries: one entry into a raffle for $100 Barnes & Noble gift card

Receive a stamp from 25 libraries: one entry into a raffle for a Nook and $25 Barnes & Noble gift card

Once you hit each of the above milestones, show it to a library staff member and they will give you a raffle ticket to fill out. To be included in the raffles, you must show your stamps at any library by Aug. 31. All raffles will be drawn on Friday, Sept. 8. Booklets can be picked up in the Children’s Department.

“It’s a fun and exciting activity to do with friends or with your family,” said CMFPL library director Marcie Litjens. “Suffolk County libraries have so many resources available and each library is unique, offering a variety of services for the community they serve. It’s also a great opportunity to explore a new town.”

The Suffolk County Public Library Tour was funded through New York State’s Love Your Library fund. This fund is supported by the taxpayers of New York who checked a box when filing their annual taxes. These donations helped to create the fund, which is dedicated to running summer programming at New York libraries.

According to Derek Ivie, Suffolk County Library System’s youth services coordinator, this is the first year of this program.

“Inspired by other systems in the state that have run similar tours in the past, the Youth Services Department (my colleague Darla Salva Cruz and myself) at the Suffolk Cooperative Library System came up with this booklet and stamp version of the tour for the county,” he explained. “With this year’s Summer Reading theme being “All Together Now,” we knew this was the perfect time for all of the libraries to offer something altogether… now! Everything was designed in-house by SCLS’s marketing coordinator, Noah Reed.”

The booklets were then printed by a local printer on recycled paper.

“The idea was fully supported by the member libraries in the county, which was truly exciting!” he added.

Three weeks into the program, he said, they have already received hundreds of raffle tickets from Suffolk County library patrons. Also, they received their first completed 25-stamp raffle ticket the first week.

“It’s been wonderful hearing stories from the library staff members in the county about how many people are visiting to receive their stamps,” he continued. “Recently, my colleague and I were visiting the Floyd Memorial Library in Greenport and a family was stopping in from western Suffolk. They were spending their day traveling the North Fork collecting library stamps! Nothing beats seeing patrons of all ages visit libraries they may have never seen before!”

For more information visit: https://www.livebrary.com/SummerTour .

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Coffee With a Cop & Operation Medicine Cabinet

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Join Suffolk County Police COPE officers from the 7th Precinct for an informal meet and greet to express concerns. They will also be able to accept any expired or unwanted prescription drugs. All are welcome.

Blood Drive

The Center Moriches Free Public Library will be hosting a blood drive on Thursday, Aug. 31, between the hours of 12:30 - 6:30 p.m. Your donation will help to save up to three lives.

• Bring NY Blood Center or alternate ID with name and photo.

• Minimum weight 110 lbs.

• Age 16 – 75 (16-year-olds must have parental permission). Age 76 and over (need doctor’s note).

• Eat well (low fat) and drink fluids.

• No tattoos for the past three months. For additional guidelines or questions concerning medical eligibility/ information, or to make an appointment, call 1-800-933-2566 or call the library at 631-878- 0940 ext 5. 

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The  Library Café  now offers a wine tour package. The tour includes visits to three North Fork vineyards, an individual boxed lunch with champagne on Saturday and a choice of individual boxed lunch with champagne or three-course dinner at the restaurant on Sunday, as well as and round-trip transportation. Pickup is at 11 a.m. at the Library Café. Guests will tour three North Fork vineyards including Baiting Hollow Vineyard, Lenz Winery and Pugliese Vineyard. Vineyard goers will return to the Library Café at approximately 6 p.m. The package is available every Saturday and Sunday. Cost is $100 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations are required and are now being accepted. To make reservations, call the restaurant at (516) 752-7678. 

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Umbraphiles feeling the post-eclipse blues should start checking the expiration date on their passports.

The next total solar eclipse is set to happen on Aug. 12, 2026, over Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Russia and a small part of Portugal, according to NASA . 

In North America, only a partial eclipse will be visible, so if April’s event made you an eclipse chaser and you want to see totality, you’ll need to head overseas.

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Do you need a passport or visa for the best destination?

The path of totality for the 2026 eclipse mostly goes through places Americans can travel visa-free with their passport, so long as they’re planning to stay for less than 90 days.

Spain, Portugal, Iceland and Greenland all allow visa-free tourist travel for U.S. passport holders.

Spain, Portugal and Iceland are also members of the Schengen Area, which allows for visa-free travel in much of Europe, meaning if you decide to make a multi-country trip out of your eclipse adventure, you won’t need to clear customs if you’re coming from much of the rest of Europe, either.

One major change for travelers to Europe from the U.S., however, is that electronic preauthorization will become a requirement beginning in mid-2025. The European Travel Information and Authorization System (ETIAS) requirement will apply to all four open countries in the path of totality. 

Depending on the state of the Ukraine war, travel to Russia may or may not be an option for most Americans by 2026, so it’s unclear what the paperwork requirements will be by then.

Is it better to see it from the beach?

Beaches can be a great place to see the eclipse because there are few natural obstacles blocking observers’ views of the sky. The 2026 path of totality passes over beaches on Spain’s northern and southeastern coasts, as well as over islands in the Mediterranean Sea including Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza. The eclipse will also pass over coastal areas in Greenland and Iceland, according to the National Solar Observatory . 

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