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Are you a people person? We need help hosting artist receptions. Maybe you’d rather just help by cleaning up afterwards. Can you drive? We might need someone to pick up the artist at the airport. Do you like history? There is now a need to help research genealogies.

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To submit your membership contribution via PayPal, click the link below.

Select “Add special instructions to the seller” on the payment page to tell us how to use your donation.

To send a contribution via mail, include your name, address and phone number along with your check payable to Friends of the Library of Olean, Inc. to:

  Friends of the Library
  c/o Olean Public Library
  134 N 2nd St
  Olean NY 14760-2583

Absentee Ballots

Applications to receive an absentee ballot for the May 18, 2021 Olean Public Library trustee election and budget vote are available at the Olean School District Clerk’s office, 410 West Sullivan Street, during normal school hours. The Olean City School District Office of the Clerk can be reached at 716-375-8018. Completed applications must be received by the District Clerk at least seven (7) days before the election if the ballot is to be mailed to the voter, or the day before the election, if the ballot is to be delivered personally to the voter.

Olean Public Library Trustee Election & Budget Vote

May 18, 2021

The library will be on the Olean City School District ballot and voting will take place at the Olean Intermediate Middle School, 401 Wayne St.

Nominating Petitions for Olean Public Library Trustees are available at the Information Desk of the Olean Public Library

Due by 5pm April 19, 2021

For more information contact the library at 372-0200 or reference@oleanlibrary.org

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