Altamont Library Notes for Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Here at the Altamont Free Library, and throughout the Upper Hudson Library System, we have something really exciting planned for the springtime. We’ll be making an announcement about it very soon, but in the meantime here’s a little hint: Throughout the spring and summer, we’re expecting to see a notable uptick in visitors here at the library.
Since we’re going to have so many new friends coming through the library, we’d love to fancy the place up a little bit and show off some of our local artistic talent!
If you’re an artist and you’d like to display your artwork here at the library, please get in touch with me through email at or by calling 518-861-7239 to discuss scheduling a showing.
We’ll take good care of your treasures, we promise. Our art display system allows us to professionally and securely display art and we’d love to display yours.
Likewise, if you’ve got a cool collection you’d like to show off, please consider letting us show it in our display case.
Meanwhile, stay tuned for the big announcement in the coming weeks!
Save the date!
Do you miss the annual I Love My Library gala that we used to have every February? Well so do we, so we’re bringing it back!
It won’t be in February though. This year, it will be Saturday, May 20. There will be lots more details available soon, including an awesome new location, but for now just keep that date open, find a babysitter, and pick out something fancy to wear!
Value Line Database
Libraries love sharing, and our friends at Guilderland Public Library are better at it than most.
You probably already know that you can use your Altamont Free Library card at Guilderland or any of the other libraries in Albany or Rensselaer counties, and that, if there’s something that you’re looking for that we don’t own, we can almost always find a copy of it at one of the other libraries in the Upper Hudson Library System.
What you maybe didn’t know is that Guilderland Public Library is always very considerate about sharing its considerable online resources with AFL users! (And why not? We’re in the same town and serve different parts of the same wonderful community!)
For instance, GPL has recently started subscribing to Value Line, a very powerful tool for researching financial information, and analyzing stocks and other investments. Normally online databases like that are shared only with a library’s own users, but GPL has been kind and conscientious enough to allow AFL card holders to have access too!
You can find links to Value Line and all kinds of other online tools and databases (Creativebug arts and craft video classes are a favorite of mine!) on GPL’s website at guilderlandlibrary.org/learning-tools and log on using your AFL or GPL library card. If you’d like to learn more about using Value Line, you should definitely register for the introductory class that GPL will be holding on March 28.
Many, many thanks to our GPL buddies for being so kind and considerate. We couldn’t ask for a better neighbor!