Our book drop opens June 22. As we get ready to safely begin a curbside library service on July 6, you may start returning your books on June 22. If you have holds that you placed on material that you no longer want, please go into your account and cancel them. It will help us out a lot.
Virtual meditation
Our popular Insight Meditation group is meeting virtually!
What do you want most deeply? Seeing your life calmly and clearly helps answer this. Insight Meditation is a simple way to steady your mind, stop wandering in day-dreams, and end the suffering of troubling thoughts. Our group is a place to sit quietly in safety, supported by others; to allow understanding and compassion to arise; to encourage loving-kindness and patience.
We welcome those with no experience to advanced mediators', teens to seniors. We will be using the Zoom platform for our meetings for the time being. Registration is required to receive the join link. You can use a computer/laptop, tablet or phone to access the meeting.
On May 26, J.K. Rowling announced on Twitter that she will be releasing an unpublished manuscript online, chapter by chapter, every weekday from today through July 10. “The Ickabog” is a standalone fairy tale and has nothing to do with the Harry Potter universe, according to the bestselling author, Not only that, “The Ickabog” will be traditionally published in November, and Rowling is conducting an international competition for children to illustrate it “The best pictures in each publishing territory will be included in the books we intend to publish in November 2020,” she tweeted.
Royalties from the sold copies will go to organizations helping those impacted by the pandemic, she said. The website is www.theickabog.com.
Virtual Insight Meditation
Our popular Insight Meditation group is meeting virtually. What do you want most deeply? Seeing your life calmly and clearly helps answer this. Insight Meditation is a simple way to steady your mind, stop wandering in day-dreams, and end the suffering of troubling thoughts. Our group is a place to sit quietly in safety, supported by others; to allow understanding and compassion to arise; to encourage loving-kindness and patience. We welcome those with no experience to advanced mediators', teens to seniors. We will be using the Zoom platform for our meetings for the time being. Registration is required to receive the join link. You can use a computer/laptop, tablet or phone to access the meeting. Register here: HYPERLINK "https://tinyurl.com/ybuf2xcq?fbclid=IwAR3xtDApoGng3gBOFA0V48Nrp4eaaHGihR..." \t "_blank" https://tinyurl.com/ybuf2xcq,
Stay at Home Storytime with Miss Terry.
This storytime is great for toddlers and preschoolers and their caregivers. Join us on Facebook, Tuesday's at 10:45 a.m.
Middleburgh Library Lego Club
Each week you will be given a challenge to complete. Some of these challenges may be crazy, watch out! Post a picture or two and a description of your creation. Go to Middleburgh Library Facebook page and join the group. Each challenge will be posted on Monday mornings. Good luck!
Memoirs From Quarantine
The library is collecting contributions in the form of memoirs, creative works and insights from our community, that articulate the challenges faced by our community, and how we are overcoming them, in this unprecedented time.
All ages are welcome and encouraged to submit work; content should be appropriate for a wide audience. Feel free to share thoughts, poetry, stories, recipes, pictures or any other printable contribution. Your stories will be compiled into a journal that will be kept in our local history room for everyone to view. Please send your submissions to or mail to The Middleburgh Library, 323 Main Street, PO Box 670, Middleburgh, NY 12122.
By Memoirs From Quarantine: The Middleburgh Library is collecting contributions in the form of memoirs, creative works, and insights from our community, that articulate the challenges faced by our community, and how we are overcoming them, in this unprecedented time.
Residents of all ages are welcome and encouraged to submit work; content should be appropriate for a wide audience. Feel free to share thoughts, poetry, stories, recipes, pictures, or any other printable contribution.
Your stories will be compiled into a journal that will be kept in our local history room for everyone to view. Please send your submissions to or mail to The Middleburgh Library, 323 Main Street, Post Office Box 670, Middleburgh, NY 12122.
Ikea shares
Ikea is sharing ways to make six different furniture forts during quarantine.
Instructions for building a house, a fortress, a castle, and a wigwam are all explained through illustrations without the need to read words, much as instructions are given for assembling Ikea furniture.
Meditation
Our popular Insight Meditation group is meeting virtually!
What do you want most deeply? Seeing your life calmly and clearly helps answer this.
Insight Meditation is a simple way to steady your mind, stop wandering in daydreams, and end the suffering of troubling thoughts. Our group is a place to sit quietly in safety, supported by others; to allow understanding and compassion to arise; to encourage loving-kindness and patience.
We welcome those with no experience to advanced mediators, teens to seniors. We will be using the Zoom platform for our meetings for the time being. Registration is required to receive the join link. You can use a computer/laptop, tablet or phone to access the meeting.
Story time
Stay at Home Story Time with Miss Terry is great for toddlers and preschoolers and their caregivers! Join us on Facebook, Tuesdays at 10:45 a.m.
Lego Club
Each week at the Middleburgh Library Lego Club you will be given a challenge to complete. Some of these challenges may be crazy; watch out! Post a picture or two and a description of your creation.
Go to the Middleburgh Library Facebook page and join the group. Each challenge will be posted on Monday mornings. Good luck!
Pixar has a cooking channel so you can make dishes from your favorite movies. The YouTube channel has a series called “Cooking With Pixar,” where they have recipe tutorials inspired by all their latest films. And all your favorite characters will be there to help you along the way — but really just distracting you with cuteness more than anything!
Lego
Learn how to make Lego necklaces, a fun LEGO craft for kids of all ages! Use your Lego bricks to design and construct Lego necklaces. These fun necklace charms can be built and then rebuilt over and over. At any point, you can remove the necklace string and put the pieces back in your Lego collection.
In the Middleburgh Library Lego Club, you will be given a challenge to complete each week. Some of these challenges may be crazy; watch out! Post a picture or two and a description of your creation. Go to Middleburgh Library Facebook page and join the group. Each challenge will be posted on Monday mornings. Good luck!
Meditation
Our popular Insight Meditation group is meeting virtually!
What do you want most deeply? Seeing your life calmly and clearly helps answer this.
Insight Meditation is a simple way to steady your mind, stop wandering in daydreams, and end the suffering of troubling thoughts. Our group is a place to sit quietly in safety, supported by others; to allow understanding and compassion to arise; to encourage loving-kindness and patience.
We welcome those with no experience to advanced mediators, teens to seniors. We will be using the Zoom platform for our meetings for the time being. Registration is required to receive the join link. You can use a computer/laptop, tablet or phone to access the meeting.
Story time
Stay at Home Story Time with Miss Terry is great for toddlers and preschoolers and their caregivers! Join us on Facebook, Tuesdays at 10:45 a.m.
Our popular Insight Meditation group is meeting virtually!
What do you want most deeply? Seeing your life calmly and clearly helps answer this.
Insight Meditation is a simple way to steady your mind, stop wandering in daydreams, and end the suffering of troubling thoughts. Our group is a place to sit quietly in safety, supported by others; to allow understanding and compassion to arise; to encourage loving-kindness and patience.
We welcome those with no experience to advanced mediators, teens to seniors. We will be using the Zoom platform for our meetings for the time being. Registration is required to receive the join link. You can use a computer/laptop, tablet or phone to access the meeting.
Story time
Stay at Home Story Time with Miss Terry is great for toddlers and preschoolers and their caregivers! Join us on Facebook, Tuesdays at 10:45 a.m.until May 26.
Lego Club
Each week you will be given a challenge to complete. Some of these challenges may be crazy; watch out! Post a picture or two and a description of your creation. Go to the Middleburgh Library Facebook page and join the group. Each challenge will be posted on Monday mornings. Good luck!
Online tech help
The Middleburgh and Schoharie libraries present: Online Tech Help Sessions on Wednesdays, May 13, 20, and 27 from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
Do you have questions about using a program, taking out e-books, creating a document or spreadsheet, or anything else related to basic computer use? Check in with us and we’ll do our best to help!
Email for an appointment. This project is supported by funds from the New York State Library's Adult Literacy Library Services Program.
Concert
The Not So Quiet Concert Series, which is usually held at the Middleburgh Library, is continuing on in a new and exciting form! On Sunday, May 17, at 7 p.m., Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen will be the featured performers from their home in Connecticut. The show will be shown using Zoom. If you are not familiar with Zoom, you will find it is very easy to access from your computer, tablet, or phone.
“When Howie Met Sally,” an early album, features the two musicians, Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen, who met in 1981 in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse and are still performing together today. They will give a Schoharie Library performance, through teleconference on May 17.
The Not So Quiet Concert Series, which is presented at the Middleburgh Library, is going to continue but in a new form.
On Sunday, May 17, at 7 p.m., Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen will be the featured performers from their home in Connecticut. The show will be shown on Zoom on your computer. If you are not familiar with Zoom, you’ll find it is very easy to access.
The link to sign up to watch the concert is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82104875259_
The time is May 17 at 7 p.m. The meeting ID is 821 0487 5259. There are only 100 tickets available so don’t procrastinate.
Those of you who have attended the library concerts know that we put out a donation box so that you can show your appreciation of the concert by giving a contribution. In these difficult times, when all of our folk musicians have lost their touring income, it is important for all of us to be generous.
Sally Rogers and Howie Bursen have been a performing duo since they met in 1981 in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse. They play both traditional American and original songs and tunes to delight audiences from their home in Connecticut to far-reaching places like Hungary and Israel!
Bursen is recognized as one of the top melodic clawhammer banjo players in the nation. Sally Rogers’s voice has been described as “as clear as the queen’s diamonds” and her songs, like “Lovely Agnes” and “Love Will Guide Us’ have become classics in the folk idiom. Together, these two sing in spine-tingling harmonies with just the right amount of instrumental spice.
This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and administered in Schoharie County by the Greene County Council on the Arts.
For further information, call 518-827-4953.
From your couch
Here’s a list of virtual train rides you can take from around the world that have been shared online. These cool videos are a fun way to discover beauty from around the world, even while we’re stuck at home and sitting on a couch. My train-loving preschooler is absolutely loving these virtual train rides, too: https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/139013/virtual-train-rides/
Stuck on the couch and want to get moving? SPAC Virtual Learning Library has dance videos that will get you shaking! Great for kids and teens @ https://spac.org/education/learninglibrary/#spac-breaks
The Middleburgh Library Lego Club each week gives you a challenge to complete. Some of these challenges may be crazy so watch out! Post a picture or two and a description of your creation. Go to the Middleburgh Library Facebook page and join the group. Each challenge will be posted on Monday mornings. Good luck!
“Library Lion,” written by Michelle Knudsen and illustrated by Kevin Hawkes and read by Mindy Sterling, features Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, who is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is sure what to do.
Stay safe.
By To help teachers and students learning from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Netflix is making a handful of documentaries free on its Netflix US YouTube channel. At the moment, there are 10 documentary films and series available, including 13th, Babies, Chasing Coral, Knock Down the House, and Our Planet.
Each comes with educational resources, like discussion questions, ways to take action and more info. Netflix says it plans to add Q&As with some of the project creators soon.
Free Printables!
Choose from tons of @Crayola coloring pages and more, all available to print from HP.
Kids’ Activities
Fifty Earth Day Activities for kids will encourage children to create objects from natural and recycled materials and spend more time outdoors.
Learn how to build Balloon-Powered Lego Cars.
Out of games to play at home? Make your own! Follow our pinterest board DIY games for ideas.
Chair Yoga
To everyone who misses Vicki’s chair-yoga class, follow our “Stay at Home Yoga” Pinterest board for ideas on keeping up your practice at home.
No library card, No problem
Don’t have a library card but would like to borrow an e-book or audio book from our collection? Sign up automatically for an instant digital card to access these resources.
Stay safe. We miss our patrons.
In-home classroom ideas
Peanuts has educational materials and coloring sheets to keep your kids engaged at home. Free resources can be found at www.peanuts.com.
Memoirs From Quarantine
The Middleburgh Library is collecting contributions in the form of memoirs, creative works, and insights from our community that articulate the challenges faced by our community, and how we are overcoming them, in this unprecedented time.
Residents of all ages are welcome and encouraged to submit work; content should be appropriate for a wide audience. Feel free to share thoughts, poetry, stories, recipes, pictures, or any other printable contribution.
Your stories will be compiled into a journal that will be kept in our local history room for everyone to view. Please send your submissions to or mail to The Middleburgh Library, 323 Main Street, Post Office Box 670, Middleburgh, NY 12122.
Dave Pilkey At Home
Do you love Dog Man and Captain Underpants? Author and illustrator Dave Pilkey is partnering with the Library of Congress to host fun activities that you can do at home! Go online to https://tinyurl.com/sh8vagg.
Learning at home
Stay at Home Story Time with Miss Terry is great for toddlers and preschoolers and their caregivers. Join us on Facebook, Tuesdays at 10:45 a.m.
If you’ve got young ones at home while schools are closed, listen up! We're happy to announce a new resource available to all users:Tumblebooks is providing free access to its collections of talking picture books, read-alongs, lesson plans, and more. No library card is required. Check it out!
Science in a Jar is a super fun way to get those kiddos engaged in easy-to-understand science concepts using a simple mason jar. One of the most fascinating things about science activities for kids has to be the ease in which you can set so many up, even at home!
The one thing that all of these science experiments have in common is that they can be easily set up in a mason jar. How fun is that?
April is National Poetry Month. Join us here on Facebook to celebrate National Poetry Month! We'll be reading our favorite poems here on Facebook a couple of times a week until the end of the month.
Want to participate? Let us know your favorite poem or better yet, record yourself on your phone reading a poem and we’ll share it here. G-rated poetry only!
Stay at Home Story Time with Miss Terry. This story time is great for toddlers and preschoolers and their caregivers! Join us on Facebook, Tuesdays at 10:45 a.m.
“The Empty Pot” by Rami Malek, written and illustrated by Demi. The Chinese Emperor announces an unusual test to choose an heir. The child who raises the best flowers.
Lets Paint! You can watch all 403 episodes of Bob Ross’s “The Joy of Painting” for free on Bob Ross’s YouTube page.
No library card? No problem. Don't have a library card but would like to borrow an e-book or audio book from our collection? Sign-up automatically for an instant digital card to access these resources.
To easily access these programs, go to Middleburgh Library Facebook page and click on the item you want.
Stay safe, everyone. We’re looking forward to seeing you all soon. Hopefully.
On March 28, the Middleburgh Library Board of Trustees voted to keep our building closed until further notice. Our book drop is closed, so please hang onto your library material until we reopen. No fines will be charged.
Please go to our website, https//www.middleburghlibrary.info, to borrow e-books, audio-books, and magazines. No library card? No problem. Get a free instant digital card to use.
Also, remember that our wifi is always on; it’s free and is not password-protected. Use it in the parking lot to your heart’s content. Stay well!
Check out our list of online resources that can help you and your family get through this period of social isolation. The list is updated frequently.
Follow our Pinterest board, “Staying At Home Crafts,” for great ideas on how to keep the kids engaged at home.
Visit harrypotterathome.com for more wizarding fun! JK Rowling has launched an online Harry Potter hub to keep children entertained during the coronavirus pandemic.
Have you filled out the census for your household yet? Census data is used to extend billions of dollars in funding for hospitals, school lunch programs, Medicaid, and resources that are needed every year, especially in uncertain times like now. Make sure everyone in your home is counted!
Out of games to play at home? Make your own! Follow our pinterest board DIY games here for ideas:
To everyone who misses Vicki’s chair yoga class, follow our Stay at Home Yoga” Pinterest board for ideas on keeping up your practice at home.