New exhibit! Kodak: Rochester’s American Icon Creating Images for the World on view now through May at our Local History and Genealogy Division. Lights, cameras and more!  

The Science and History Division on the 3rd floor of the Central Library of Rochester and Monroe County would like to announce the Vietnam Learning Center. A generous gift from Local Chapter 20 of the Vietnam Veterans enabled the division to purchase display cabinets, in country maps, the magazine “Between the Lines”, and many circulating books.  Read more at the Library's website .

Exhibit of vintage sports uniforms and sports collectibles.  

Photographs by Frank Michaels of birds, robins, and fish.  Artist statement: These three series represent the progression of life that will begin again outside very soon. The robin series began May 6, 2006. The dove series began May 13, 2008.The clown fish series started back in 1983. All the birds fledged successfully. The clowns were raised to adulthood. 

Enjoy a look at some examples of inventions that were once labeled science fiction in books or movies but are now reality.        “From Science Fiction to Science Fact” is the theme of the current display this month at the Science and History Division, located on the 3^rd floor, of the Bausch and Lomb Library Building of the Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County.        Enjoy a look at some examples of inventions that were once labeled science fiction in books or movies but are now reality. Examples include space travel, photography, telephones, audio recordings, global positioning (GPS), computers and robots. Local artist/model maker Bruce Day’s model of a time machine based on the film version of the book The Time Machine by H. G. Wells stirs the imagination of whether mankind will find a way to travel through time.