UFCU Community Library
Wolodymyr Pylyshenko-Library Director
Vasyl Zolotarchuk - Assistant Director

      In 2008 the Library personnel  enhanced to 4 people. Ihor Dzivulsky, student, is helping us for the second year in a row. He archives old historic pictures onto CDs and is recording  peoples` memories on video-tape. Mrs. Irena Terlecka is helping document files of Ukrainian Community archives. Mr. Vasyl Zolotarchuk catalogues library books and lends them to the borrowers. He is busy cleaning the  library, packing the books into  boxes and  mailing them to  Ukraine, opens and closes  the  library  and  make the readers comfortable in it. Purchasing  new   books belongs to  Volodymyr Pylyshenko He  also  collects  old archive  materials. Library  is  open  every  Saturday from 9:30 am to 12:30pm.

      Every week library is visited by12-16 people in average. Sometimes these people are very interesting and it is pleasure to talk to them - they are developing topics of the destiny of our community, of Ukraine and a world in a whole. Among the  readers one can see the teachers of our Ukrainian Schools, professors and students of the Universities as well as  pastors of the  local churches. At 55th anniversary celebration of our UFCU pastor G.Kasap  presented our library  with the Ukrainian Bibles.

      This year  there were 5 exhibitions of the  “Dumka” magazine and  they  were  very  successful together  with the archives publishing and pictures: at the  conference in  Cortland (in January) in the  main library  of Rochester (February-March), at the  Annual meeting in  Slavonic  Church (April),  conference in Ostroh Academy (Ukraine) – September, UFCU 55th Anniversary (October). This  year  such  people donated  their books Lesia Kolcio, Irena Terlecka, Nadia Tratch.  Such  people  made financial  donations: Ivan Lazar - $20 and Wasyl Kornylo - $20, as well as other  people, who  donated their books anonymously.  

Wolodymyr Pylyshenko-Library Director
Vasyl Zolotarchuk- Assistant Director