No Insurance. No Problem. All are welcome! The Mobile Mammography Center will be at the Ontario Public library, Tuesday, November 10 from 10:30AM to 4:30PM . We’ve partnered with Rochester Regional Health to bring the screening to you.
[Read more…] about Schedule Your MammogramVoting 2020
Voting is one of the greatest privileges and responsibilities of citizenship in the United States. To make sure you are are registered and ready to vote we have compiled this information for Wayne County residents.
Continue reading for information on voter registration, early voting, and absentee voting in Wayne County.
[Read more…] about Voting 2020We’re Open
Browsing throughout our Ontario collections is back! Social distancing, masks, and adjusted occupancy are required. Your questions about visiting can be answered at the Welcome Table when you visit or by calling us before your visit: 315-524-8381.
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OPL Picks For Me
Let the OPL staff browse the library shelves for you.
Just fill out this form and we will pick out a selection of books for you. After we have made our picks, we will call and make an appointment for you to pick them up at OPL.
Make sure that the phone number is the best one for contacting you.
2020 Summer Reading Program Details
Now – August 14
Join our virtual Summer Reading Program. While Ontario Public Library continues to be physically closed until further notice, all our members and friends, children, teens, and adults can celebrate this year’s theme, Imagine Your Story, by logging their reading, earning prizes, and participating in special virtual programs and activities that will get everyone into our shared stories.
READSquared is the a web site we are using for our Summer Reading Program. The READSquared site allows users to engage in reading challenges, log reading hours and books, earn badges and prizes.
- Register online to track your reading using ReadSquared; http://ontariopubliclibraryny12.readsquared.com
- Create your username and password using your email
- Remember to write down your username and password
- And store the information in a safe place
- Sign up for one of our 4 groups
- PreReader: Birth to age 5
- Kids: Ages 5-12
- Teens: Ages 12-17
- Adults: Ages 17+
After signing up, you will start earning badges for reading and completing virtual events and missions. Remember to follow the instructions for the missions and events to complete your badges.
Summer Reading by Age Group
- PreReaders – Birth to age 5
- Record number of books read
- Receive a badge for every 10 books you read
- Two new games will be unlocked for every badge earned
- One prize winner will be chosen randomly from all group badge winners
- Winners selected weekly starting July 6
- Kids – Ages 5-12
- Record number of minutes read
- Receive a badge for every 100 minutes read
- Two new games will be unlocked for every badge earned
- One prize winner will be chosen randomly from all group badge winners
- Winners selected weekly starting July 6
- Teens – Ages 12-17
- Record number of minutes read
- Receive a badge for every 100 minutes read
- Two new games will be unlocked for every badge earned
- One prize winner will be chosen randomly from all group badge winners
- Winners selected weekly starting July 6
- Adults – Ages 17+
- Record number of books read
- Receive a badge for every book read
- Two new games will be unlocked for every badge earned
- 2020 being a special year, you will be rewarded
- with badges,
- virtual game,
- and the satisfaction and pleasure of knowing how much you’ve read.
Especially for Youth: Miss Anne will be hosting fun activities and events on our Facebook page and our YouTube channel. Storytimes and more can be viewed there.
Especially for Adults: Virtual programs scheduled for adult participation will be posted on our website and on our new events calendar (Coming soon – mid-July).
Gardening Program with Petra: August 14 @ 3PM.
Our next virtual gardening class on Sowing Autumn Abundance in August with Petra is coming up! Register to receive your personal invitation and meeting link.
These are Zoom meetings. All participants will be sent a program invitation to the email provided unless the program has filled to capacity. In this case, an email will be sent to notify you the class has been filled. No patron email addresses will be shared.
- One sessions remain this summer
- August 14, Tuesday 3:00 : Sowing Autumn Abundance in August
- Space is limited, so register early
- Click here to register
The classes are being offered cooperatively thanks to outreach by Wood Library, sharing of the Zoom platform by Macedon Public Library and program funding by Ontario Public Library for Ontario registrants.
