Holiday Lights Bus Trip

View pictures from our Holiday Lights Bus Trip, Saturday December 12.

Eastern State Penitentiary and Philadelphia Ghost Tour Bus Trip

View photos of our bus trip on Saturday, October 24, 2009.

Banned Books Week

Celebrate the Freedom to Read!

Remembering the Way it Was: An Oral History of the Hamlet of Islip

Please join us in the premier showing (Friday, October 9 at 2:45 p.m.) of our very own DVD describing how Islip has changed over the years. Last year several residents kindly volunteered to share their memories with us and now the DVD is completed and ready for public viewing. Share your own memories after the film, while refreshments are served. register now at the Reference Desk.

What are your favorite memories of Islip Hamlet? Favorite shops, stores, events, places, or even people? Click on the comment feature to share your thoughts or to read the thoughts of other community members.

Thimble Island Bus Trip

View pictures of Thimble Island from our bus trip on August 22, 2009

August Book Display

Discover Long Island: in fact and fiction.

Yankee Stadium Bus Trip

View pictures of Yankee Stadium from our bus trip on July 31, 2009.

Civil Service Test Resources

Many public libraries provide their patrons with access to circulating copies of books containing several practice exams and their answers. Most libraries have the more popular test books like Senior Clerk-Typist but fewer have the less common ones like Senior Sign Inspector. Since the demand for these books is greatest when the test date is approaching, most libraries usually limit these resources to their own card-holding patrons. However, a couple of libraries lend them out to “non-patrons”.

The publishers of these book vary. Arco and Barron’s have been publishing test books for years. Learning Express and Peterson’s have also been publishing some titles. However, the most popular books locally seem to be from the Syosset, NY publisher, National Learning Corporation.

We are currently exploring and evaluating some exciting and contemporary Career Databases that provide practice tests online and many other valuable resources for job seekers!

"Classic Treasures" Film Festival

Our Summer Film Festival began on Tuesday, July 14 with an opening night ice cream party. Our Film Festival continues throughout the summer on Tuesday nights at 7:00 p.m.

Beach Reads

Need a good book to take to the beach? Browse through our collection of great beach reads on display throughout the month of July!

June Book Display

Come into the library and browse through our selection of oversized books on display this month!

"Journey" by David C. Roy

Mr. Roy has been designing and handcrafting kinetic wall sculptures since 1975. Each is a wooden machine powered by a constant force spring that must be wound. This sculpture features more or less random horizontal, vertical and spiral motion (what the artist calls "bird motion"), which was created by adding mass to the middle wheel and two small springs for power. This design smoothed out the motion and had the added benefit of extending the running time.
Purchase was made possible through donations made to the Islip Public Library.
Click the "play" button below to see the sculpture in action!
This sculpture is hanging on the wall near the Circulation desk.

March is National Crafts Month

Check out our wide variety of Craft books! They will be on display for the month of March.

The Precisions, a six-piece Doo-wop group performed to a full house at the Islip Public Library as part of our annual Winter Concert Series on January 25, 2009.