8998 Main St., Lisle, NY 13797, (607)692-3115
The Lisle Free Library is proud to announce Jane Nohle as the Volunteer of the Year for 2017! On Wednesday, December 27th at the Annual Volunteer Appreciation Party, everyone who had donated their time, energy, and talents to the library in the past year received …
Please join us on Friday, January 5th, 2018, at 1:00pm at the former Village Hall on Main Street in the Village of Lisle, New York, for a historical marker unveiling ceremony. (Bad weather location will be the Christian Fellowship Church located at 2085 River St …
One of the wonderful facts about libraries is that they cannot exist without the support of their communities. We, at the Lisle Free Library, want to celebrate all of our amazing community members and volunteers by throwing a party!! It doesn’t matter how often you helped or how small the task, we greatly appreciate everything you all have done for us! There is no way we could have managed such a vibrant Summer Reading Program, become an automated library, and survived a major renovation project with some pretty awesome volunteers.
So please help us count our blessings this holiday season by being our honored guests on Wednesday, December 27th from 5-7 pm at the Lisle Free Library. There will be food, fun, and friends. For more information, please call (607) 692-3115, email us at lislefreelibrary@gmail.com, or message us on our Facebook page.
The Lisle Free Library will be closed in observance of the following holidays in 2018: New Year’s Day – Monday, January 1st Memorial Day – Monday, May 28th Independence Day – Wednesday, July 4th Labor Day – Monday, September 3rd Thanksgiving Day – Thursday, November …
Just in time to ring in the New Year, the Lisle Free Library will be conducting its monthly Board of Trustee meeting on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018, at 7:00pm. Topics to be discussed: new flooring in the front area, approving a budget for 2018, and …
One hundred years ago, women in New York State won the right to vote. Five Ithaca College students recently saved the centennial celebration of that historic event in the town of Lisle, where the first women in the state voted.
Former Lisle Free Library historian Carol Gorham had planned to create informational materials for the commemoration, but unexpectedly passed away over the summer, leaving the event in jeopardy. Library board member Katharine Kittredge, an English professor at Ithaca College, wanted to help save the celebration.
“As a member of the women’s studies faculty at IC, I felt it was especially important that this anniversary was properly acknowledged,” Kittredge said. “We thought about this as an educational opportunity and not just a celebration, creating something that could stay in the library and help inform people about this particular historical place.”
She reached out to students interested in women’s history and graphic design, who then stepped in to bring the centennial celebration back to life. The team of students, led by Naomi Hanson ’19, included Alexandria Paul ’19, Clare Nowalk ’20, Julianne Grillo ’20 and Jackie Marusiak ’21. They had just one month to prepare.
The students took over many of the important roles for the event, including researching the history of women’s suffrage in New York and gathering images from the local archives to design educational posters and pamphlets.
“We tried to make history accessible for the whole audience so it was something people would be able to engage with,” Hanson said. “That was one of our biggest goals — to make history engaging and exciting.”
Historians who came to the Oct. 21 event praised the students for the professional quality and accuracy of their work. Kittredge commended the team for their hard work and dedication to the project, since it wasn’t done for course credit or recognition, but for their love of history.
“I liked being able to have a problem that wasn’t for a class and engaging with it on a different level,” Hanson said. “It was a good taste of the professional work you can do as a historian.”
For original article, please visit:
https://www.ithaca.edu/news/releases/students-save-womens-suffrage-celebration-48199/?utm_source=Ithaca+College+Current&utm_campaign=02690ab9c8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_11_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_725d28952a-02690ab9c8-111461401
All are welcome to attend the monthly board meeting this Monday, December 4th @ 6:30pm. Topics will include the annual budget, recruiting new trustees, further improvements and organization of lending media.
All are welcome to attend the monthly Board of Trustee meeting on Wednesday, November 1st at 5:00pm. If you are considering becoming a trustee, this is an excellent opportunity to come meet the current trustees and learn about the incredible work they do!
Did you know that the Village of Lisle was the site of the first vote by a woman in New York State? After women were granted the privilege of the ballot in November 1917 by the New York State Legislator, the “Ladies of Lisle” jumped at the chance to exercise their newly granted right at a option election held on January 5th, 1918, which would determine if alcohol could be sold legally in the Township of Lisle.
Please join us on Saturday, October 21st from 1-4pm as we celebrate the 100 year anniversary of this historical event!
There will family friendly games and activities all afternoon. Come meet “Elizabeth Cady Stanton”! Learn all about the events surrounding those first women who cast their votes with a presentation by Town Historian, Eleanor Ticknor, followed by a cake and punch reception.
For more information, contact the Lisle Free Library at (607) 692-3115. See you there!
All are welcome to attend the monthly Board of Trustee meeting on Monday, October 2nd at 7:00pm. If you are considering becoming a trustee, this is an excellent opportunity to come meet the current trustees and learn about the incredible work they do!