Spotlight on John Beekman and his 2024 J. Owen Grundy History Award!

Read the Jersey City Free Public Library's recent press release and website announcement about the Priscilla Gardner Main Library's Chief Librarian John Beekman, one of two winners in our prestigious 2024 J. Owen Grundy History Award category. (Local historian Jerome Choice, another legend, also won!) In our eyes — and in the eyes of the library's diverse body of users and patrons — John Beekman has for two decades been invaluable to academic scholarship, property research, and preservation causes.