How did we get here?
A public forum on the Oneida Public Library's new building project

On Wednesday, May 16, at 7:00 p.m., the Oneida Public Library will host a Community Forum in the library’s Meeting Room to discuss what led to the library board’s decision to build a new library facility on Main St.

Library trustees and community members who participated in committees that studied the future of the library will review the step-by-step process initiated in 2008: (1) the analysis of the library’s current facility and its ability to meet current and future needs; (2) the determination that the current facility could not be practically expanded to meet current, let alone future, needs; and (3) the exploration of alternative sites for a possible new building and the selection of the empty lot between Main and Elizabeth streets in Oneida as the best available location.

After the presentations, the speakers will be available to answer questions from the audience.

For more information, stop by the Oneida Library, 220 Broad St., or call 363-3050 and ask for Library Director Carolyn Gerakopoulos.

Matt Urtz uncovers
Madison County inventors

Madison County Historian Matt Urtz reveals the county’s trail-blazing inventors and their lasting influence in the program “Those Inventive Fellows of Madison County” at the Oneida Public Library on Wednesday, May 23, at 7 p.m.

“Madison County was home to some of the most innovative thinkers in American history,” Urtz said. “Our county’s residents have directly affected the movie industry, the development of computers, firearm production, the medical field, the development of the tractor and so much more.”

For example, Charles A. Spencer of Canastota, famous as “America’s first microscope maker,” designed, produced and sold “a special lens that combines both convex and concave lenses together to give a clearer view,” Urtz noted. Spencer made highly sophisticated lenses for microscopes and telescopes that were prized in Europe as well as in America.

Updated 11 May 2012

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OPL Trustees meet May 22
The Oneida Public Library Board of Trustees will next meet Tuesday, May 22, at 6:00 p.m. in the library's Local History Room. The public is invited to attend.

Web Catalog
The new Mid-York web catalog site with the advanced Discovery Search is now up and running! Click here to log in to your library account, do a catalog search or request or renew books, DVDs and periodicals in the Mid-York Library System. For the Classic Catalog search interface, which will continue to be available indefinitely, click here.

MYlibrary2go
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Database Resources
Check out the wide range of electronic databases available for free to Mid-York Library card holders: newspaper and magaine articles for general readers and for research in business, health and science as well as online encyclopedias for children and adults. Please note that the NOVELny databases will be changing effective July 1, 2010. The Gale General OneFile and Academic OneFile are replacing ProQuest Platinum. Gale Health Reference Center Academic is replacing the Health and Wellness Resource Center. See
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Madison County Law Library
The Sixth Judicial District of the New York State Unified Court System supports for the convenience of the public the Madison County Supreme Court Law Library at the OPL. Click on the blue heading.