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Machine Sublending Agencies

Throughout upstate New York, twenty-one Sublending Agencies (mostly public library systems, along with some associations for the blind) help TBBL provide service. These agencies work with TBBL at the local level, promoting the program, forwarding completed applications, and helping library borrowers use the service.

They have a small stock of recorded books for emergency loan, and a supply of digital talking book players so that borrowers can exchange non-working machines locally. Library users obtain their basic service from TBBL in Albany, but these local contact points serve a number of valuable needs.

Allegany County Association for the Blind
18 Jefferson Street
Wellsville NY 14895
(585) 593-2023
Counties Served: Allegany

Buffalo & Erie County Public Libraryexternal link icon
1 Lafayette Square
Buffalo NY 14203-1887
(716) 858-8900
Counties Served: Erie

Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Library Systemexternal link icon
106 West 5th Street
Jamestown NY 14701
(716) 484-7135
Counties Served: Cattaraugus, Chautauqua

Clinton-Essex-Franklin Library Systemexternal link icon
33 Oak Street
Plattsburgh NY 12901-2810
518-563-5190
Counties Served: Clinton, Essex, Franklin

Finger Lakes Library Systemexternal link icon
119 East Green Street
Ithaca NY 14850
(607) 273-4074
Counties Served: Cayuga, Cortland, Seneca, Tioga, Tompkins

Four County Library Systemexternal link icon
304 Clubhouse Road
Vestal NY 13850-3713
(607) 723-8236
Counties Served: Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego

Lighthouse Inc. Poughkeepsie
110 Main Street
Poughkeepsie NY 12601-3083
(845) 473-2660
Counties Served: Dutchess

Lighthouse International
Hudson Valley Region
170 Hamilton Avenue
White Plains NY 10601
(845) 473-2660
Counties Served: Westchester

Mid-Hudson Library Systemexternal link icon
103 Market Street
Poughkeepsie NY 12601
(845) 471-6060
Counties Served: Columbia, Greene, Dutchess, Putnam, Eastern Ulster

Mid-York Library Systemexternal link icon
1600 Lincoln Avenue
Utica NY 13502
(315) 735-8328
Counties Served: Herkimer, Madison, Oneida

Mohawk Valley Library Systemexternal link icon
858 Duanesburg Road
Schenectady NY 12306-1095
518-355-2010
Counties Served: Fulton, Montgomery, Schenectady, Schoharie

Nioga Library Systemexternal link icon
6575 Wheeler Road
Lockport NY 14094
(716) 434-6167
Counties Served: Genesee, Niagara, Orleans

North Country Library Systemexternal link icon
22072 County Route 190
PO Box 99
Watertown NY 13601
(315) 782-5540
Counties Served: Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, St. Lawrence

Olmsted Center for the Visually Handicapped
1170 Main Street
Buffalo NY 14209
(716) 882-1025
Counties Served: Erie, Niagara

Onondaga County Public Libraryexternal link icon
The Galleries of Syracuse
447 South Salina Street
Syracuse NY 13202-2494
(315) 435-1876
Counties Served: Onondaga

Pioneer Library Systemexternal link icon
2557 Route 21
Canandaigua NY 14424
(716) 394-8260
Counties Served: Livingston, Ontario, Wayne, Wyoming

Ramapo Catskill Library Systemexternal link icon
619 Route 17M
Middletown NY 10940-4395
(845) 343-1131
Counties Served: Orange, Rockland, Sullivan, Western Ulster

Rochester Public Libraryexternal link icon
Extension/Outreach Department
115 South Avenue 
Rochester, NY 14604
(585) 428-8311
Counties Served: Monroe

Southern Adirondack Library Systemexternal link icon
22 Whitney Place
Saratoga Springs NY 12866
518-584-7300
Counties Served: Hamilton, Saratoga, Warren, Washington

Southern Tier Association for the Visually Impaired
719 Lake Street
Elmira NY 14901
(607) 734-1554
Counties Served: Chemung

Southern Tier Library Systemexternal link icon
9424 Scott Road
Painted Post NY 14870-9515
(607) 962-3141
Counties Served: Allegany, Schuyler, Steuben, Yates

Last Updated: October 12, 2021