Honoring Lyn Lifshin

The Friends & Foundation of Albany Public Library celebrates the life and memory of beloved poet, Lyn Lifshin. Photo by Dan Wilcox On Saturday, October 3rd at 11am, there will be a Celebration of Life for esteemed poet and venerable community member Lyn Lifshin....

Fall Book Sale

Don’t forget – our next book sale is on Saturday the 26th! The sale will be held at the Delaware Avenue Branch Library in their newly re-paved parking lot from 12pm to 5pm. There are plenty of 1$ items and 1$ grab-bags as well. DVDs will be just 25 cents...

Have you Checked Out our Newsletter?

Want to stay in the loop? The best way to keep up to date on all our events and announcements is to sign up for our newsletter! We just retired our two Facebook pages, @APLFoundation and @FriendsofAlbanyPublicLibrary, so all the important information involving the...

Congratulations to the 2020 Touhey Library Equity Fellows

The Friends and Foundation of Albany Public Library is proud to award our very first Touhey Library Equity Fellowships to two Information Science students at the University at Albany: Seyvion Scott and Johnathan Mata. Seyvion Scott, a Rochester native, has known all...

Thank You to our Literary Legends Sponsors

In this year of great uncertainty, we express deep and heartfelt gratitude to the rock solid local businesses and organizations who have committed their continuing support of the Friends & Foundation of APL and to our beloved Albany Public Library. And we are...