New York State Library

Division of Library Development

Public Library Districts: An Introduction

Public Library Service Area Maps

Updated February 2008

NOTE: Maps now include notes about overlapping areas.

By Library System | County | Statewide Map || By Legislative Districts: Senate | Assembly

Click on a Library System on the map below or on the name of the System in the list at the right of the page,
to see Service Area maps for that system and for each county in the system.

Public Library Systems

Buffalo-Erie
Chautauqua-Cattaraugus
Clinton-Essex-Franklin
Finger Lakes (Cayuga, Cortland, Seneca, Tioga, Tompkins counties)
Four County (Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego counties)
Mid-Hudson (Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Putnam, Ulster [part] counties)
Mid-York (Herkimer, Madison, Oneida counties)
Mohawk Valley (Fulton, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie counties)
Monroe
Nassau
Nioga (Genesee, Niagara, Orleans counties)
North Country (Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, St. Lawrence counties)
Onondaga
Pioneer (Livingston, Ontario, Wayne, Wyoming counties)
Ramapo Catskill (Orange, Rockland, Sullivan, Ulster [part] counties)
Southern Adirondack (Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren, Washington counties)
Southern Tier (Allegany, Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Yates counties)
Suffolk
Upper Hudson (Albany, Rensselaer counties)
Westchester


By County

Albany | Allegany | Broome | Cattaraugus | Cayuga | Chautauqua | Chemung | Chenango | Clinton | Columbia | Cortland | Delaware | Dutchess | Erie | Essex | Franklin | Fulton | Genesee | Greene | Hamilton | Herkimer | Jefferson | Lewis | Livingston | Madison | Monroe | Montgomery | Nassau | Niagara | Oneida | Onondaga | Ontario | Orange | Orleans | Oswego | Otsego | Putnam | Rensselaer | Rockland | Saratoga | Schenectady | Schoharie | Schuyler | Seneca | St. Lawrence | Steuben | Suffolk | Sullivan | Tioga | Tompkins | Ulster (Mid-Hudson) (Ramapo-Catskill)| Warren | Washington | Wayne | Westchester | Wyoming | Yates

Statewide

Map of New York State showing unserved areas at right; click on the map to see a larger version, or view/download a high-resolution version in .PDF

NOTE: Unserved is defined in §90.3 [Approval of public library systems] (10) of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Education as those individuals residing in geographic areas that are within the boundaries of a public library system but outside the boundaries of a chartered service area of a library which is a member of that system.
map showing areas unserved by public libraries in New York; click for a larger version

Senate District maps

Assembly District maps

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