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Dunkirk Public Library is accepting applications for the following opening: Senior Library Clerk (Children’s Room Coordinator) Anticipated Start Date: May 11, 2026 Civil Service Position 7.5 hours a day, 5 days a week Compensation depending on experience Applicants must meet minimum Civil Service job description qualifications Deadline for Applying: April 14, 2026 Send a letter of interest, resume and completed civil service application to: Jason Hammond 536 Central Ave Dunkirk, NY 14048 director@dunkirklibrary.org Dunkirk Public Library is an equal opportunity employer. For more information, please stop in the library, go to our website www.dunkirklibrary.org or visit our social media pages
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Image of DPL's Christmas Cactus.
In bloom once again! The Dunkirk Public Library’s beautiful Christmas Cactus has been with us for nearly thirty years or more. Determining its exact date of arrival has been a challenge, as it has been doing its part to make the Library an inviting place to be for more years than our longest-serving current staff member. Even now-retired employees can only recall that it had always been present for as long as they worked at the library. Its younger looking cousin sits on the opposite side of the stairwell, and together they welcome all visitors to the upper floor of the DPL.

Our library is receiving a special gift! 🎉 We’re one of about 1,280 Carnegie Libraries across the United States that will receive a $10,000 gift from Carnegie Corporation of New York in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.

More than a century after philanthropist Andrew Carnegie helped fund the construction of 1,681 libraries nationwide, we are still serving our community.

Learn more about this initiative and discover the history of our library on the Carnegie Libraries Across America map.

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