South Central Regional Library Council

South Central Regional Library Council South Central Regional Library Council empowers our members through advocacy, networking, resources, and professional development.

The South Central Regional Library Council (SCRLC) is one of nine Reference and Research Library Resources Councils comprising the Empire State Library Network (esln.org). SCRLC covers 10,000 square miles in a fourteen county region (Allegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins, and Yates). As a multi-type library consortium, S

CRLC serves over 75 member libraries & organizations--20 academic, 18 hospital, and 23 corporate and non-profit libraries, 3 public library systems, and 6 school library systems and their members, reaching over 500 libraries.

04/13/2026
03/06/2026

This year is America 250, but it’s also JEMIMA 250, or Publick Friend 250. In 1776, after a severe illness, Jemima Wilkinson announced that she had died, and that her body was reanimated, neither male nor female, as the Publick Universal Friend. She was an offbeat person, but also one of the founding figures of initial European occupation in the Keuka-Seneca area, where she fostered agriculture and developed water-powered factories. Tonight at 4 PM, Tricia Noel of Yates County History Center will join us at Bath fire hall for a free presentation on the Friend. All are welcome! (Portrait of The Friend courtesy Yates County History Center)

💜🤍💛 If you've never yet made it out to visit the Seneca Falls Historical Society, here's a great reason to do it this we...
02/27/2026

💜🤍💛 If you've never yet made it out to visit the Seneca Falls Historical Society, here's a great reason to do it this weekend!

A really interesting article by Sophie of Cortland County Historical Society about AI results and the importance of real...
02/17/2026

A really interesting article by Sophie of Cortland County Historical Society about AI results and the importance of real research~

We hope to see you on February 18!
02/13/2026

We hope to see you on February 18!

02/11/2026
02/11/2026
02/10/2026

Did you know that most people who helped on the Underground Railroad were formerly enslaved people? John Thomas, pictured here around 1899, was born into slavery in Virginia. He escaped, settled in Penn Yan, married and raised ten children, and helped dozens of freedom seekers through Yates County to points north. He lived to be over 90 years old.

11/25/2025

We've had a blast watching W**d Week videos!

We love to see those exhibits out and about!
10/08/2025

We love to see those exhibits out and about!

During the month of October, the Becker Mansion is hosting a traveling exhibit titled "Two Hundred Years on the Erie Canal," to celebrate the bicentennial of the waterway's opening. Along with the exhibit panels, we have a display of photographs of our local Cayuga & Seneca Canal - from the Flats neighborhood that existed alongside it, the factories located along the canal route, the canal's locks and its path, and the canal's transformation during the 1910s.

Stop by the Becker Mansion during our open hours - Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. - to see the exhibit and display. The exhibit comes to us courtesy of the Western New York Library Resources Council - WNYLRC, Humanities New York, and the South Central Regional Library Council.

A fun collection from Delaware County!
10/07/2025

A fun collection from Delaware County!

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1300 Dryden Road
Ithaca, NY
14850

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday 8:30am - 4:30pm
Friday 8:30am - 4:30pm

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+6072739106

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