Altamont Library Notes for Thursday, January 31, 2019
The always-anticipated annual I Love My Library! Gala is just over a week away, on Saturday, Feb. 9, at the Community Room at Altamont Village Hall. There are still a very few seats available, and, if you’d like to join us, please get in touch with us.
If you’re planning on attending and want to help out further, please consider donating an appetizer or a dessert for us all to enjoy, or sign up to help us set up or clean up afterwards. This is our biggest fundraiser of the year, and we need your support.
You’ll enjoy a fantastic dinner and homemade desserts, exciting live and silent auctions, and the delightful company of your fellow library supporters. This year, we will be honoring the many contributions made to our community by Ellen and Dick Howie and Lois and Ron Ginsburg, two couples whose dedicated service to our library and our village are a shining example for us all. Please join us!
Story time
One of the best ways of getting our youngest friends to become strong readers is by exposing them to a wide variety of readers and reading environments? For that reason, and also just because it’s just fun, we have two story times each week on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 10:30 a.m.
Tuesday Story times with Miss Ann are targeted at preschoolers, while our Wednesday story times with Miss Erika are for toddlers (but we don’t mind older or younger friends on either day). Please join us for mornings of stories, songs, and bubbles.
Hannaford Bags 4 My Cause
Here’s a great way to support your library, while at the same time doing a good turn for the environment: Throughout the month of February, for every “Bags 4 My Cause” reusable shopping bag sold at the Guilderland Hannaford, at 5239 Western Turnpike, theAltamont Free Library will receive a portion of the proceeds. Thanks, Hannaford !
Joan Johnson Exhibit
One of the wonderful things we get to do here from time to time is to show off the homegrown talent we have here in Altamont. For the next few weeks, we’ll have the pleasure of hosting a special exhibit of one of our many talented friends, Altamont-based artist Joan Johnson.
Watercolors from Maine, a collection of six paintings by Joan, will be on display in our community room until the end of March. Come take a look! Thanks for brightening up the library, Joan!
Fine freedom
Have you heard? For all of 2019, we’ll be trying something new: No overdue fines on any children’s books! No matter whether you’re a kid, a parent, a teacher, or anyone else, children’s books checked out here (even if we have to get them from another library) will not accrue overdue fines.
In addition, if you have existing overdue fines on an AFL youth card, we’ll clear them. Patrons with overdue children’s books will still be notified through their normal channels, and after 28 days, the book will be considered lost and the borrower responsible for the cost of the item, but if it comes back after that, the fine will be cleared.
We hope that many of our friends take advantage of this experiment, so spread the word!