Patchogue-Medford Library ptchlib@suffolk.lib.ny.us Net Library

New York State Librarian and Assistant Commissioner for Libraries, Janet M. Welch, has announced that the New York State Library will award $27,814 to the Patchogue-Medford Library for its Adult Literacy Services Grant project, "Enriching Community through Computers, Conversation and Citizenship."

The Patchogue-Medford Library, in partnership with the Patchogue-Medford Union Free School District and Literacy Suffolk, Inc., will provide a number of library services to help the community's growing Hispanic immigrant population improve workforce skills. Computer instruction, conversation groups, and citizenship preparation classes are part of the library's Enriching Community program.

The New York State Library will award twelve grants to public libraries and public library systems totaling $400,000 to support Adult Literacy Library Services programs in 2007-08 and 2008-09.