Altamont Library Notes for Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Story time is back at ARC! With the recent decline in COVID rates, we think it’s safe to gather together once more for our weekly Tuesday morning story times for children.
Since spreading out is still important, and since it’s too cold to do it out in the park, we’ll be back at Altamont Reformed Church! Please join us in the community room at Altamont Reformed Church at 129 Lincoln Ave. in Altamont on Tuesdays at 10:30 a.m. for a super fun morning of songs, stories, and activities!
Since this is an indoor program, all participants over the age of 2 must wear masks for the duration of the program. Many thanks to ARC for hosting us. We hope to see you there!
Read for RMHC
Since the beginning of March, our young friends at Altamont Elementary School have been raising money for the Ronald McDonald House Charities of the Capital Region. How have they been raising money? By reading of course!
The more minutes the kids read, the more money they raise! Each day in March has a different reading challenge and we’ll have a new display each day to help them find books to meet the challenges. Stop on in and pick one up. Keep reading, friends!
Fine free!
As of the beginning of March, the Altamont Free Library will no longer charge overdue fines for materials that are returned late. In addition, all existing overdue fines for Altamont Free Library patrons will be waived.
We’ve been working towards this new policy for some time, first by making just our children’s materials fine free, and then by extending that policy to include young-adult materials. Now it’s everything in the library, so that’s one less thing to worry about in life.
Of course, you can’t keep things forever. If you have an item that’s 30 or more days overdue, a charge for the replacement cost of the item will be added to your account, and having that charge will mean that you won’t be able to check more items out or renew the items you already have. But, if you then return your overdue item, the fine disappears!
If you haven’t been in to the library for a while because of old overdue fines, we’d love it if you’d come on back. If you still have books that you borrowed a few months ago, or even a few years ago, we’d love it if you’d bring those back too.