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Cambridge Public Library

21 West Main St.
518-677-2443

Our library is chartered to serve the village of Cambridge, but serves residents of the surrounding area as well as vacationers and other visitors to our community.

In addition to our book collection, we offer:

  • * E-readers, Laptops & Tablets available for borrowing
  • * Computer and associated applications assistance provided by our award winning Geek Squad
  • * A weekly Story Hour for preschool children during the school year
  • * Other special programs for children
  • * Educational programs for adults
  • * Museum passes to area museums available for borrowing
  • * Free tickets to performances at Hubbard Hall
  • * A local history collection featuring the Washington County Post online at: http://www.fultonhistory.com/fulton.html
  • * Outreach services to the elderly and homebound by request
  • * A community room available for public meetings during regular library hours
  • * A scanner and a photocopier capable of letter or legal-sized copies
  • * Large Print Books
  • * WiFi
  • * Friends of the Library booksale and jigsaw puzzle exchange in the community room

The Library has a special collection of local and New York history materials. The newspaper The Washington County Post is on microfilm beginning with the date 1849.  A collection of books, periodicals, cemetery records and maps are available for use within the library.

A small workroom is available for patrons, equipped with laptop computer and wireless computer access (WiFi).  Many visitors find this a helpful resource when researching family histories and genealogies.

You can now access Ancestry.com for free at the Cambridge Public Library. Just come into the library and look for one of the three computers with the orange tag on the monitor. Ancestry is located on the desktop.

Heritage Quest another genealogy database is now available online to Cambridge Public Library patrons. 


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