Altamont Library Notes for Wednesday, October 23, 2019
On Friday, Oct. 11, we celebrated the first Altamont Founders Day by hosting a wonderful event we called the Altamont Remembers Story Swap. Our goal was to gather together folks with long memories and good stories to tell and to engage them in a discussion that would pull out as many yarns as possible, and to record those stories for posterity.
If I do say so myself, we succeeded beyond all expectations, but don’t take my word for it: Check out the recent Altamont Enterprise podcast episode, which is a lightly edited recording of the event. (If you’re not sure how to listen to a podcast, stop on in and we’ll show you!)
My sincere thanks to everyone who helped make the event a success, especially to the Enterprise’s Sean Mulkerrin for helping with the recording and Melissa Hale Spencer for moderating the conversation. Most of all, thanks to all of our friends who turned out and shared their incredible memories. (Just to whet your appetite for the podcast, one of the stories involves the Orsini Park gazebo, a manure spreader, and Halloween 1916.)
If you’re sorry to have missed the event, and have stories to share yourself, let us know and we’ll be sure to keep you in the loop for the next time we do it!
The Great Give Back
Libraries are all about supporting community. It’s kind of our thing. We strive to help people every day and in every way that we’re able to. To emphasize that point, in the coming weeks, many local libraries will be participating in an event known as the Great Give Back.
Different libraries will be participating in different ways, all in support of their local communities. Here at Altamont Free Library, we will be holding a food drive in support of the Altamont and Guilderland Food Pantries, which collectively serve the nutritional needs of hundreds of local families. If you are able to contribute, please drop your donations off at the library any time that the library is open between Friday, Oct. 18 and Friday, Oct. 25.
To learn more about what other libraries are doing to participate in the Great Give Back, please check out the Upper Hudson Library System’s website at UHLS.org. Thank you for your support!
Fall crafts
Join us on Thursday, Oct. 24 from 3 to 4 p.m. for an afternoon of crafts, laughs, and scares! We’ll be painting decorative gourds in all kinds of scary ways, so dress accordingly and make sure to sign up in advance by calling us at 518-861-7239 or emailing us at .
Juice and Jammies Story Time
On Friday, Oct. 25 at 7 p.m., put on your pj’s and join Ms. Erika for a pre-bedtime story, snack and craft! This low-key storytime will be just the thing to prepare your young folks to count some sheep. Make sure to sign up in advance by calling us at 518-861-7239 or emailing us at .
Hours change
Beginning on Nov. 1, Altamont Free Library will no longer be open from 2 to 5 p.m. on Sundays. BUT! At the same time, we will be extending out Saturday hours from a three-hour 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. day to a six-hour 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. day!
We hope that people will find the longer hours on our busiest day of the week to be a positive and helpful change. To our beloved Sunday users, we hope that you will be able to visit us another day, and that you understand that having a small staff keeping a small library open an incredible 58 hours per week (way more than any other library our size in the area) means having to make tough choices about which hours to be open.
If you have any concerns, complaints, or questions, please let me know by calling me at 518-861-7239, or emailing me at director@altamontfreelibrary.org.