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• OPEN FOR BRIEF IN-PERSON BROWSING, ½ HOUR COMPUTER USE SESSIONS, NOTARY PUBLIC SERVICE, EZPASSES, AND OUTDOOR TERRACE SEATING – One person or family group at a time will be scheduled in 30 minute increments beginning ½ hour after opening and ending 1 hour before closing times.  Call the Circulation Desk at (914) 693-6614 to schedule an appointment. Please arrive on time and ring the doorbell located on the right side of the main entrance to enter.  One first-floor Restroom will be open to the public and will be cleaned once every 24 hours. Children’s toys/manipulatives are unavailable at this time.
• CONTACTLESS PICKUP CONTINUES – You may still reserve your books, DVDs and takeaway kits either online via the catalog or over the phone with us at (914) 693-6614, during our regular business hours. 

• • • Staff will retrieve materials, check them out to you, and bundle your items together (please limit your holds to 10 items per pickup). Bundles will be labeled with your last name.
    • When you get the notification that your holds are in, use the app to schedule your pickup at this link:  Curbside Pickup.  You may also call us to schedule an appointment for pickup. Please pick up your items at your scheduled time, or you will have to reschedule if you miss your appointment. 
    • When you have received your pick-up time,  come to the Library and park in the designated 15 minute parking space in front of the building.  For your safety, the outer doors of the vestibule will be open (good airflow) and the inner doors will remain closed at all times.  Please leave returned materials in the Book Drop OUTSIDE for quarantining, NOT in the vestibule. 

• Staff wear gloves and masks at all times when working with library materials entering the building. Materials are still quarantined for 72 hours after return.  Masks are required for patrons and staff at all times.

• Printing – if you have items to be printed, they may be emailed to the Reference Desk account dobref@wlsmail.org and will be available for curbside pickup, by the same process as other materials. Regular printing prices apply – $0.15/page for black & white, $0.35/page for color. Please leave your payment, exact change only, in a sealed envelope when you pick up your print-outs.

• LIBRARIANS ADVISORY SERVICE:  Give us a topic, genre, or author you love and we will find  items similar to those, but new to you.  Call or email us at the numbers above and we will select five titles for you to try.

CURBSIDE PICKUP APP

Over the past year, there has been a wave of anti-Asian language, hate speech, and physical assaults on streets across the country. This has been fueled by media reports, statements by politicians, and posts on social media, often related to the origins of COVID-19. Our Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander communities have been deeply harmed by these attacks and, most recently, brought to grief by the horrific murders in Atlanta.

Such bias and bigotry are not new, but they have found fertile terrain in a country beset by disinformation, xenophobia, Sinophobia, and white supremacy. As a public library, we exist to expand knowledge and create deeper connections. It is, therefore, central to our mission to battle those forces of hate. We seek to combat cultural bias and bigotry by promoting diversity in our collections, programming, policies, and hiring practices, to ensure that our diverse communities see themselves represented on our library shelves, in our offerings, and among our ranks. The board and staff of the Dobbs Ferry Public Library is doing that work, and remains committed to expanding it further. 

We stand in solidarity with our Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander patrons, neighbors, and friends.

Below are some important organizations fighting for Asian American rights. We applaud their work and encourage everyone to engage with them as they begin planning next steps and actions in the wake of the attacks in Atlanta.

• Asian Americans Advancing Justice – AAJC www.advancingjustice-aajc.org
• Stop AAPI Hate https://stopaapihate.org/
• National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum https://www.napawf.org/
• 18 Million Rising  https://18millionrising.org/
• APIA Vote  https://www.apiavote.org/
• APIA Health Forum  https://www.apiahf.org/
• National Council of Asian Pacific Americans  https://www.ncapaonline.org/

Board of Trustees
Dobbs Ferry Public Library

Ali Moss, President
Linda Stutz, Vice President
Jeffrey Golde, Secretary
Liberty Barrett
Matthew Ghiorse
Tiffany Gordon
Alison Hendele
Kelly Koster
Chris Torino

Elizabeth Hobson, Library Director

Women’s History Month is a time to celebrate ordinary and extraordinary women, explore women’s achievements and struggles throughout history, and acknowledge all the amazing contributions of women to our society. The 2021 theme for Women’s History Month is “Valiant Women of the Vote: Refusing to Be Silenced.” However, it is important to acknowledge that not all women were granted the right to vote at the same time. We must consider the importance of intersectionality and how it further marginalized groups of women based on race, gender and sexual orientation. Native American, Asian American, Latinx and African American suffragists had to continue the fight for the right to vote long after the 19th Amendment was ratified. These women demonstrated resilience by refusing to be silent.

Springhurst Library Media Specialist Lauren Rodriguez, Middle/High School Library Media Specialist Ellen Elsen, and K-8 Literacy Coordinator Michelle Yang-Kaczmarek have teamed up with Dobbs Ferry Public Library Children’s Librarian Gina Elbert to create this resource list to help your classes dive deeper into the contribution of women to society. Our hope is that this history will not just stay in March but will be celebrated all year long highlighting the determination, courage and perseverance of women.

Please click here to view the booklist that we’ve put together.