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New Hours
Tuesday
10-1pm & 3-8pm
Wednesday
10-1pm & 3-6pm
Thursday
10-1pm & 3-8pm
Friday
3-7pm
Saturday
10-2pm
Closed Sunday & Monday

Rensselaerville Library is Fine Free!
Come start a new chapter with us!
The Rensselaerville Library adopted a fine free policy for late items. Fees for lost and damaged items will continue to apply. This applies to Library cards used at Rensselaerville Library. If you use your Library card at other libraries in the System you will be responsible for that Library’s lending rules.
Fine Free ensures that libraries are for everyone resulting in a strong community.

Collection Update:

We have changed the loan period for DVDs. New DVDs will now loan for ONE week and old DVDs will loan for TWO weeks.
New Books and DVDs are now Requestable.

Author Reading - Bill Logan's Sprout Lands
Saturday, June 22⋅12:00 – 1:00pm

Sprout Lands is Logan’s elegant answer to this timeless mystery, and a buoyant journey to discover the ways in which these lost ancient arts created and supported human cultures all over the world, from the English fens to Spain, California, Africa, and Japan. Amidst Logan’s quest to understand how we lost our way is a compelling and revelatory celebration of nature’s relationship with people, and how we once lived closely as partners with trees, and may one day do so again. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Bill will also provide a hike at the Huyck Preserve looking at tree architecture and how the woodland we are walking has been influenced by human presence.

William Bryant Logan is a practicing arborist and the author of three acclaimed books on nature, Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, Oak: The Frame of Civilization, and Air: The Restless Shaper of the World.

Thank you to everyone who Rambled.

RESULTS

Rensselaerville Ramble Trail Run and Walk
Saturday, June 15th
9am
Register Now!
Registration is $25 until June 1, and $30 until race day. All persons registering by June 7th will be guaranteed a race t-shirt.
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Don't want to walk or run? Become a Ramble volunteer! We are looking for race sponsors, donors of food and supplies, and race-day volunteers - please contact ramble@huyckpreserve.org if you're interested in helping with the trail run!

June 15th – During the Ramble meet Bruce the Bear. Bruce the Bear is a children’s book character from the bestselling Mother Bruce series by Ryan T. Higgins. Bruce will be available for photos as well as encourage kids to read his stories. Bruce will start the kids 600 meter "Wood Duck Dash".

June 15th is the kick-off for the Summer Reading Program. Go online register for the summer.

Summer Reading 2019
A Universe of Stories
June 15th through August 31

Go online register for the summer. This program is for the entire family.

July 9 – 6pm – Cyber Safety: Protect Your Data, Protect Your Privacy – John Borst from NYS Information Security Office will present how to safely navigate the world wide web and protect your privacy and data.

July 28 – 4pm – American Creed - a FREE Screening of American Creed A documentary examining the values and beliefs that hold Americans together, followed by a Community Conversation, facilitated by Paul Grondahl, Director of the NYS Writers Institute.
The idea for this film grew out of conversations between two Stanford University professors, political scientist and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Pulitzer Prize- winning historian David M. Kennedy. Kennedy was drawn to history in large part to determine whether the United State has a “national character”, and if so, what defines it and how it changes over time. The film is an outgrowth of these enduring questions.

The screening will be followed by community conversations and refreshments.
A FREE event at the Carey Institute for Global Good Guggenheim Pavilion.

Youth Programs

We welcome Judy Crilley to our staff. Judy will be coordinating our youth programs. Be sure to check out calendar for upcoming programs

Currently we don't have Storytime scheduled.

A variety of Art projects will be available each week for kids to complete on their own.

Health Literacy

Looking for Health Related Information? Schedule an appointment with Kim and she will walk you through how to find trusted information online.

MOVIES

For more information on each movie visit our movie page.

Did you know..

The Library has a new copier, printer, scanner, fax machine. This machine prints in color and accommodates paper up to 11x17.

You can now print from your own device including your phone. Staff can help you connect.

Scans are free.

Faxes are $1.00

Printing and Copy fees vary by paper size and color options.

Our 2018 Appeal reached $13,131.

We welcome your donations throughout the year. Click Here to Donate Online.

You can find more information on our planned giving HERE

Thank you to everyone who donated.

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