General Information

We’d like to thank you for your continued support and patience during our Reading Room renovation project. We invite you to stop by and visit our newly renovated space which includes an innovation space, a podcast recording studio, a quiet study room, and group study rooms. The café is scheduled to open at a later […]

Congratulations to the 2022 Middle Country Public Library Battle of the Books Team – “Yacht Adventurers” – for participating in this year’s Battle of the Books trivia competition in August! Over the summer, the team read six books and studied trivia facts from each book. At the end of the summer they came together with […]

New York Community Bank Foundation has provided $4,000 in support of the Family Center social worker and the “Chat & Craft” programs, which are designed to help tweens and teens with emotional well-being. While enjoying creative activities, teens engage in peer-to-peer conversations under the guidance of the social worker. For more information, please contact Kristen […]

Thanks to a NatGen grant of $750, MCPL’s Green Teens will launch a campaign to help their peers get Back 2 Nature. The Back 2 Nature initiative aims to address two important issues facing today’s teens: climate anxiety and the negative impacts of pervasive social media use, offering teens ways to re-connect with nature through […]

TD Charitable Foundation continues its support of the Nature Explorium and the fall Apple Festival with a generous award of $5,000. The Nature Explorium, an outdoor learning space for children and their families, connects literacy, learning, and an appreciation of nature as a regular part of the library visit. For details, contact Tracy LaStella at […]

On June 14th the library was pleased to welcome 21 new citizens at the Literacy Celebration, recognizing the accomplishments of the students of the Adult Learning Center, who work diligently to learn language, computer and job skills and, for many, to attain their dream of United States citizenship. At this special event, the offices of […]

Become part of Middle Country Reads and pledge to read Leah Weiss’ riveting novel, If the Creek Don’t Rise. With equal parts Southern Gothic menace and heartbreaking optimism, If the Creek Don’t Rise explores the limits that people can endure before they are willing and able to move beyond them. Visit www.middlecountryreads.org to pledge to […]

The library is continually developing and offering new programs, collections and services for our community members including those with disabilities. Please remember that children and teens with special needs are encouraged to participate in all teen and children’s library programs. In the Youth Services department, staff has imagined a wide spectrum of programs. Children’s play […]

  Members of the community, working with library staff and artist Libby Hintz, created an impressive fourteen-foot wide mosaic mural. This striking piece of artwork is on permanent display in the community room at the Centereach building.  

BankUnited awarded Middle Country Library Foundation a generous grant of $2,500 as this year’s Women’s EXPO Education Sponsor. As part of its effort to build the business skills and capacities of participating women entrepreneurs, the EXPO provides educational programming throughout the year. MCL Foundation is grateful to BankUnited for its support of this valuable program.