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Friends are seeking book donations for their book sale. Please, no magazines, VHS
tapes, encyclopedias or
Reader’s Digest Condense books. Call or drop off when we are open.
Accepting until May 19th.
Book Sale info
Sat. May 26th - Early
Bird Preview $10 - 8-9:30 am - FRIENDS FREE
Sat. May 26th - 9:30am -
2:30 pm
Mon. May 28th - 9:30 am
- 12:30 pm
For info about the MUSIC AT THE LAKE Concert Series, please
click here.
· May 1st, the Genealogy User’s Group will be
doing a program presented by the Dutchess County
Genealogy Society at 6pm. Get
help starting/continuing in the search for your family roots. It’s
free and everyone is invited to come!
 Food Fight
within the MidHudson Library System! We are collecting
food for our local food pantry during the months of May and June.
Participating with other libraries to see who collects the most items in
that time period. Pine Plains won the last time this was done. Let’s
see if we can do it again!
Are
you up for this challenge? Please bring your items into the library during
hours or within the lobby of the building when it is open. There will be a
box available for it.
· Come in on May 19th to do a drop in craft. In the
afternoon from 2 to 4pm, we will do a free simple craft. Come in any time
during those hours and enjoy making a special surprise project! What could
it be? Come in and see!
· CANCEL-The Local Railroads of Pine Plains presented
by Bernie Rudberg on May 20th at 2pm in the
Sweeney Community Room (above the Pine Plains Free Library) A free program cosponsored
with The Little Nine Partners Historical Society.
Save
the date June 2nd-Defensive
Driving being held in the Sweeney Room upstairs. You can save 10% on your Auto Insurance
and reduce points on your driving record. Cost is $45.00 person and you can
register by calling the library or dropping in or sending a check (payable
to Safety Education) to:
Bill Owens
1403 Jackson Corners Rd.
Red Hook NY 12571
Any questions, please call Bill Owens 845-756-2481
· Dutchess
County Job Resource Center: Online access to help with finding a
job & developing your career. Includes resumé
& interviewing tips, job & career resources for veterans, practical
answers to common questions about finding a job & more.
· Wondering
about e-readers. Come and see, the Simple Touch Nook at the library. We will show you how it works!
· We
have two new computers, one for children ages 2 to 8 and the other one for
ages 6 to 14. Thanks to the friends for providing these for the library!
· Have
some time on your hands? Want to give back to the community? How about
becoming a Library
Volunteer ? Just click here for the
form. Fill it out and then email, mail or drop it off to us.
· Storytime Adventures for
three to five year olds on Thursdays at 10am. Children will listen to read alouds, songs, rhymes, and fingerplays.
Flannel board stories and puppets may allow for audience participation to
reinforce that reading is fun! We ask for a fifty cent donation per child,
when possible.
· Toddler time for
birth to three on Mondays at 11am. Join us for stories, play and movement
· Senior Day at the library is
still for the young at heart of 60 and up. Come in every Tuesday from 11am
to 1pm to learn the computer, play a game or take out a book. We have
extended our hours that morning from 10am to 1pm. We welcome any age at
that time, so come on in and see us.
Computer Companion (on Tuesday mornings)-cosponsoring with Free
Families Forward, you can set up an appointment for that day. Please call
the library in advance.
· Are you looking to get together
with fellow knitters and crocheters? Knit One,
Crochet Too is on the first Tuesday of the month at 2pm. We would love to
have you join us, when you can. Come with hooks, needles and yarn to
stitch away by bringing a project of your own or learn one from us.
·The
Book Discussion Group will be meeting on May 10th at 7 pm. The book of the
moment will be Look Again by Lisa Scottoline.
Come and join us for a lively discussion
of this novel. Next month’s book will be War Horse by Michael Morpurgo.
·
Downloadable audio books are here! Go to OverDrive. How it
works click here. Don’t have a computer but
a device you can use to load it on? Come in and do it on our computer
station.
· Do you know how to search
for available eBook titles? It’s easy – go to:
-‘Advanced Search’ on
the left side of the Overdrive page.
-Under
the “Format” drop-down menu, choose “Adobe eBook
pub” or “Kindle Book”.
-Click the box that says,
“Only show titles with copies available” and then hit
“submit”.
You’ll get a list of the
eBooks that are available to be checked out. You’ll notice that
you can limit and sort using some other criteria as well. Have fun!
Another way to do this differently
is here.
For an overview on how this will
work for audio or eBook, take a few minutes to view this My
Help from Overdrive.
· Due to cuts in state and county funding, the Mid-Hudson Library
System has found it necessary to charge a delivery fee
to the library of twenty-five cents for each requested item. We are
absorbing this cost for now. At the present, only items not picked up
within seven days will be charged a fee of twenty-five cents per item.
*Updated May 2012
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