They’re Coming!
Are You Brave Enough to Teach a Dragon to Read?
The 2026 Winter Read Challenge is where young people, grades K through 12th, may adopt a young dragon as a reading partner and take on the reading challenge of 840 minutes (14 hours) over four weeks. Complete Challenge rules click here. For every two hours of reading, participants will earn a raffle ticket for a chance at a raffle prize. Check out our raffle prize page click here. Participants will also earn books to keep. When a young person signs up for the Challenge they will get to pick a book to start their journey on. Then for every 300 minutes (five hours) of reading they will get to pick another book up to the total of 840 minutes (14 hours). Upon completing the challenge participants will get one more book.
The Winter Read Challenge starts February 14 to March 14. Last day to record reading times and get raffle tickets will be March 13 ending at 7:00 pm. Sign up for the Challenge and to adopt a dragon starts February 12. There will be programs for all ages during the Winter Read Challenge, so keep your eye on our events pages. The program will end with a pizza party on March 14. We will draw the winners of the raffles at the Pizza Party.
Kids Art Class! Draw a playful dragon.
Our own director Candy will lead a class for all ages (including adults) to draw a young dragon. All supplies will be available, but if you have special supplies you like to use when drawing feel free to bring and use them. The class will be March 5, at 4:00 pm. It will be a drop in class, but try to be there as close to 4:00 pm as possible to have the most time to let your imagination soar, and have time to finish the project.
Mobile Family Resource Center Coordinator–
Working with children and families is inspiring and something I love doing! Being there for support, a friend, helping hand when needed, and most of all providing a space for families to enjoy, connect, be silly, learn, laugh, play and grow is the joy that fills my heart!
WHAT IS A Family resource center (FRC)
Family Resource Centers (FRC) offer early and comprehensive support for parents and caregivers of young children.
Family Resource Center programs are based on the needs of families, and services are provided in collaboration with community members.
FRC programs emphasize building strengths and abilities in order to maximize the capacity of
families to raise healthy children and contribute to their communities.
We are Fine Free!
The Benedek Memorial Library has gone fine free! Do you hate when you thought you brought an item back to the library, and you find it is still in your home? You know it is late, but you are afraid of the late fines that may have incurred. Relax; all of us have made mistakes. Bring the item back and do not worry about late fines. We no longer have late fines. If you feel that you should make amends for keeping the items too long, you can make a donation (small or large) to the library. Any donations made helps us to be able to add programming and new items to our collection. Enjoy our collection; take items out without worry of late fines. Just do not keep the items too long. After an item goes four weeks beyond the due date, your account will be billed for the item. If you get billed, your account will be blocked from use by all the libraries in the Southern Tier Library System. To get unblocked bring the items back to the library or you can arrange to take care of the funds due. If you pay the bills, the library will be able to replace the items. Don’t stress out, come to the Benedek Memorial Library and enjoy the collections.
Welcome to the Benedek Memorial Library!
Welcome to the Savona Free Library website. If you are coming to our website you are looking for information on the library. You can find our hours, events, what is new to our collection, access your account, order items to pick up at the library and many other things about the library. But when you think about a library what is the first thing that comes to mind? If you are like many other Americans it would be physical books. While we do have a collection of books there is so much more to libraries these days than just physical books. We have computers and public WI-FI hot spots available for public use. We also lend out audio books on CD, music CDs, movies and television shows on DVD. Coming soon, there will be Kindle Fire tablets to borrow. All of these items are available at the library, but right now you are in cyber space. Guess what, you can still borrow from the library. Just put your pointer on “E-Library” and click to find out. Remember the library is much more than just a place to find books. We offer many other items for borrowing and many different services to the public, through your Savona Free Library card or any library card in the Southern Tier Library System. Also you can access the library not only during the days the library is open, but even when the library is physically closed. Need a book to help you to fall asleep at 2:00 am? Down load a digital book and start reading. Need to get authoritative information for a research project due real soon, check out our databases for articles from many different sources. Look around, try something new, the Savona Free Library is available for your entertainment and informational needs.
Benedek Memorial Library Dogs: Austin, Ruby and Slim
