Altamont Library Notes for Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Help out the Altamont Free Library (and the Earth) the next time you go grocery shopping! The library will receive a $1 donation for every $2.50 reusable Community Bag sold in January at the Hannaford store located at 5239 Western Turnpike in Guilderland.
You still have a few weeks to participate. Thanks, Hannaford!
Story time
Do you and your young friends have cabin fever? If so, bring them to story time!
Story time is a super fun program that combines some of our favorite things: awesome stories, silly songs, playful movement, and most importantly, bubbles!
We host two story times every week, on Tuesday and Wednesday mornings at 10:30 a.m. on the dot, so if you can’t make it one day, maybe you can make it the other day! (We used to say that Tuesdays were for preschoolers and Wednesdays were for toddlers, but really we’re good with all ages.)
Please join us, and bring a friend!
Vision boarding
Why not start your year off on a visionary note? Please join us on Thursday, Jan. 23, from 6 to 8 p.m. to create your very own vision board, with guidance from Altamont treasure Ginger Hannah.
A vision board is a visual representation of your goals and aspirations, and the process by which you create it — with drawings, cut-out magazine pictures, and words — is a deep-dive exploration of what truly matters to you and what you want your future to look like.
Please call the library at 518-861-7239 or email to register in advance. I hope we see you in our future!
Gala
The social event of the winter is only a few weeks away: The always-anticipated annual I Love My Library! Gala is coming up on Saturday, Feb. 8, at the Community Room at Altamont Village Hall. Invitations will be in the mail soon and tickets will be available at the library this week.
If you haven’t attended in the past and are interested in receiving an invitation, please get in touch with us. 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 Kristin Casey and Linda Cure, two longtime friends, board members, and volunteers whose dedicated service to our library and our village are a shining example for us all. Please join us!
Tech assistance
Now that the holidays are behind us, many of us are left trying to figure out how the heck to use the new techno-goodies we’ve received. For everyone who takes to new technologies like a fish to water, there are five of us who are utterly befuddled by new devices.
But fear not, that’s what the library is here for. Whether it’s a new phone, laptop, tablet, or eReader that won’t do what it’s supposed to do, we can (probably) help!
Call the library at 518-861-7239 to book an appointment to sit down with a librarian for up to a half-hour and sort out your gizmo issues. And hey, if we can’t help you, it just means that you’re not alone in your confusion.