Week Calendar

Computer Essentials: Mondays and Tuesdays, July 7 and August 5, 9:30am - 11:00am

This 5-week/10 session course covers the essentials of how to use the basic functions of a personal computer, how to navigate the internet, a

Computer Essentials: Mondays and Tuesdays, July 7 and August 5, 9:30am - 11:00am

This 5-week/10 session course covers the essentials of how to use the basic functions of a personal computer, how to navigate the internet, a

Enjoy a fun and educational storytime, featuring crafts and games, every Monday with Ms. Kathy. 

Join us for Ms. Karen's Monday Storytime! Each week children will get a snack, do a craft or activity, and be read stories by our wonderful Ms. Karen. 

Crafting Circle: Mondays at 10:30
Join us at the Stephentown Library for a morning of crafting and socializing. 

Tuesday and Thursday at 10:30. Join us for books, movement, singing, and play! Geared towards ages 0-5, but all are welcome. 

Join Ms. Rebekkah for a fun and playful Story Time. We always are happy to welcome new friends to our Story Time.

Join us this summer for Miss Mikayla's Wednesday Storytime! Each week, we will have stories and crafts for the kiddos. This will be different from Ms. Karen's Monday Storytime so feel free to attend both. No registration required. 

Join us every Wednesday at 10:30AM for Songs & Stories! Each week's storytime has a different theme.

Stories, songs, & crafts geared for ages infant-5 years old. 

Craft & Coloring Circle - Adults

Tuesday and Thursday at 10:30. Join us for books, movement, singing, and play! Geared towards ages 0-5, but all are welcome. 

The special visitor we'll be learning about at this storytime is furry with a long tail and loves to crawl around! Can you guess what it is?

Join us for a fun and creative crafting session where kids can make their very own Disney paper bag puppets! Get ready to bring your favorite Disney characters to life with just a few supplies and your imagination.

This drop-in playtime is for children ages 0-5 and their grown-ups. Stop in to play and meet other families. All play supplies for the kids and coffee for the grown-ups will be provided.

Story Time w/ Tara
​Medusa Branch
Join us for the fun! Stories and activities to get the weekend started.

📚🌽 Find Us at the Farmers Market! 🌽📚
The Menands Public Library is at the market—come say hello!

By filling out a template with random nouns, adjectives, and verbs, you'll create a one-of-a-kind and hilarious story! This activity is especially fun to complete with friends!

Storytime at the Library
Join us for 30 minutes of stories, songs, and a fun craft—designed to spark creativity, build early literacy skills, and support social development.

Join us for making some mini canvas art!  Color your canvas with whatever makes your heart sing.  Smocks and supplies will be provided and you can keep your mini canvas to display at home or to gift to a loved one.

Join us on Wednesday mornings for Storytime with Mr. Dave.  Enjoy stories, songs and rhymes while practicing early literacy skills, followed by a simple crafts and playtime.

Toddlers and preschool aged children, accompanied by their parent or caregiver, are welcome to join us on Thursdays from 11 am-12pm for arts & crafts, stories, songs, nursery rhymes and snacks!   

Bring your family or some friends (or both!) to the library on Saturday for a day of games!

🎨 Summer Rock Decorating  

Come and join us to decorate your very own summer rock!  This fun and creative activity is open to kids and teens.

Enjoy a 50 minute video-led dance class, all are welcome!  If you've done a Zumba class, you'll fit right in.  First class is free,  we encourage a $5 donation to the library for subsequent classes.

Join the lively Beau-Knitters group, a community of knitting and crocheting enthusiasts where all experience levels are welcome. Enjoy the camaraderie, stay for the creative vibes! No experience, cost, or registration fee required.

Enjoy a 50 minute video-led dance class, all are welcome!  If you've done a Zumba class, you'll fit right in.  First class is free,  we encourage a $5 donation to the library for subsequent classes.

🎳 Bowling in the Library? You Bet!
Our special indoor bowling game is set up exclusively in the Children’s Room—but there’s a twist: it’s only available when Ms. Sherry is here!

Held outdoors, weather permitting. Take a walk around the neighborhood with us and complete a scavenger hunt along the way! Children under age 9 must be accompanied by an adult.

Bridge Club

Mondays @ 1:00 (except for holidays)

Must have knowledge of game to attend. 

🎳 Bowling in the Library? You Bet!
Our special indoor bowling game is set up exclusively in the Children’s Room—but there’s a twist: it’s only available when Ms. Sherry is here!

Lindsay Sprague of Winterberry Homestead will bring her “Traveling Farm” to our library! We’ll get to meet, pet, and learn about her farm animals.

🎳 Bowling in the Library? You Bet!
Our special indoor bowling game is set up exclusively in the Children’s Room—but there’s a twist: it’s only available when Ms. Sherry is here!

Join us the third Wednesday of each month for a book discussion! This month's selection is Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen. Books available at the front desk.

Weekly mah jongg meeting.  Players of all abilities welcome.

Dinosaurs and art meet at this fun STEAM event using a few simple ingredients and some dinosaur skeletons to create a prehistoric artifact: a fossil!

Showing: The Zoo Keeper's Wife

SG Groat with the Ag Stewardship Association with provide kids ages 6 - 12 with a Nature Sensory Experience.  Explore a variety of foods, natural objects, sounds, and smells. We'll experience, describe, and sort the items.

Thursdays at 1:00

Bring your fiber crafts!

🎳 Bowling in the Library? You Bet!
Our special indoor bowling game is set up exclusively in the Children’s Room—but there’s a twist: it’s only available when Ms. Sherry is here!

Storytime at the Library
Join us for 30 minutes of stories, songs, and a fun craft—designed to spark creativity, build early literacy skills, and support social development.

Young scientists are invited to learn about color by creating their own spectroscope with the Dudley observatory from Sienna college. Our world is filled with color, and that includes our sky!

Our guests, Watervliet Wind Warriors, will share their RC model airplane hobby with us including a model airplane flying simulator set up on the big screen for patrons to try (yes, even kids!). Join us for this fun day!

🎨 Summer Rock Decorating  

Come and join us to decorate your very own summer rock!  This fun and creative activity is open to kids and teens.

Color our World with different art projects every week throughout the summer. 

Have a fun, messy art hour at the library! Come and see what we’ll have for you to explore. Wear clothes you don’t mind getting messy!  

🎨 Summer Rock Decorating  

Come and join us to decorate your very own summer rock!  This fun and creative activity is open to kids and teens.

Weekly summer craft for elementary age children (5-12). Make art and have fun! Please sign up so that we can determine what supplies we need.

Messy Play includes fingerpainting, sidewalk chalk, sensory bags, paper mâché, slime.

Maker Space includes beading, foil crafts, paper mâché, paper bead making, paper crafts, watercolor painting, plastic lace crafts

Let’s learn how to spin Angora Rabbit fiber using recycled drop spindles. And yes, the rabbits will be here to brush and pet! RSVP

🎨 Summer Rock Decorating  

Come and join us to decorate your very own summer rock!  This fun and creative activity is open to kids and teens.

Join Brooke Bridges of Brooke's Botanicals in this aromatherapy workshop. Learn about essential oils that boost positive neurotransmitters, as well as somatic and cognitive routine and ritual.

Come by the library for our Collaborative Puzzle Mural to be displayed in the library!  Each participant is welcome to design their own piece of the puzzle.

Are you excited for a summer full of fun and creativity? As part of our Summer Reading Program, the library is sponsoring five performances for local children that celebrate the dynamic nature of the arts.

🎳 Bowling in the Library? You Bet!
Our special indoor bowling game is set up exclusively in the Children’s Room—but there’s a twist: it’s only available when Ms. Sherry is here!

🎨 Summer Rock Decorating  

Come and join us to decorate your very own summer rock!  This fun and creative activity is open to kids and teens.

Join us every Friday for LEGO building challenges and board games! Bring your friends, pick a game, and have some fun!

Come join us for a fun and creative craft time! We’ll be making funny face characters using paper plates, yarn for hair, and lots of decorations. You can create a doll, a silly monster, or any character you like!

💖 Friendship Bands & Bracelets – Make & Take!

Backyard Science summer series:  Fluffy Slime!  Who doesn't love slime?  And this time, we're making a fluffy version.  Pick a color and let's make some slime!

In conjunction with Messy Play/Maker Space. A chance for caregivers to relax and socialize, while the Littles create and play.

Rensselaerville musician and educator, Margaret Jean Bernstein, will help children explore the correlation between sound and color through playing musical instruments and reading stories in this engaging workshop.

Drop in between 3:30pm and 6pm to build.  We supply the legos, you supply the imagination!

Write original songs with a group of peers, and record them with a real band. Have your song played on the radio! Space is limited so please email Nick at director@diverlibrary.org to sign-up.

💖 Friendship Bands & Bracelets – Make & Take!

🎨 Summer Rock Decorating  

Come and join us to decorate your very own summer rock!  This fun and creative activity is open to kids and teens.

Crafternoon summer series:  Fairy Wands!  These little fairy wands are yours to decorate and enjoy.  Ribbons, gems, and paint will make each one unique and special.

Every Thursday afternoon NGPL hosts a drop in "Crafternoon" for kids. Drop into the children's room between 3:00 and 5:00 to participate. There will be a different craft activity each week.

Join us Friday afternoons at the library for knitting, crocheting, sewing, conversation and more!  

Need help learning to turn on your computer, send an email, or make a Word document? Not sure how to get your email on your phone? Drop in to ask questions about your device. First come, first served.

We're lucky enough to have our friend Chloe from the Waterford Library joining us once again to make adorable felt keychains! This year, she's teaching us how to make cute mushrooms.

FREE Summer Grab and Go Meals for Kids Under 18.

The Stephentown Library will be distributing FREE Summer Meals to kids 18 years old and under.

Visit the library's table at the Town of Schodack Community Market to apply for a library card, check out a book, sign up for summer reading...the possibilities are endless!

Meet the animals on the farm with Winterberry Homestead! Learn more about agriculture and organic management techniques while meeting and petting your favorite farm animals.

Join us for a monthly book club at SML. We meet on the third Thursday of every month. 

With severe weather events becoming more frequent and more extreme, it is more important than ever that New Yorkers are prepared for disasters.

Held outdoors, weather permitting. Meet at the library for a walk down Main Street and the chance to regroup and reflect mid-week on our wellness walk!

Join us for Mahjong! Players of all abilities are welcome.

Explore the intricate world of Legend with Marie Lu as she encourages readers to look beyond the surface and reveal hidden secrets. Explore the depths of deceit, battle for power, and the lengths characters will go to unmask the Truth.

FREE Summer Grab and Go Meals for Kids Under 18.

The Stephentown Library will be distributing FREE Summer Meals to kids 18 years old and under.

Join local actor and director Brian Sheldon for an afternoon of creative acting exercises and games! 

Join us for a monthly book club at SML. We meet on the third Thursday of every month. 

Drop-in Makerspace

Available projects include

Spin Art, beading, paper beads, watercolor, fingerpaint, fabric coloring, foil art, Tie-dyed paper, exploratory art kit

July 24th- Sewing Machine Basics

Calling all LEGO builders and enthusiasts! Join us on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month for some LEGO fun!

The 1st Thursday is for building and playing LEGO BINGO with the chance to win LEGO prizes and candy.

For ages 16 and up. Join us for our monthly Fiber Arts Workshop! Whether you're new to knitting and crochet or a seasoned fiber artist, this is the perfect place to share and create in a friendly environment. All skill levels welcome!

Join us Monday evenings for a friendly game of mah johgg.  All levels welcome.  Call 518-674-5050 to sign up.

Pastel Drawing Workshop: Seahorses!

Gregory Maichack, instructing at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) Boston, colleges, to 100's of libraries, will present his all-new, "The Seahorse: How to Pastel Paint.”  Everyone will draw a seahorse

Join us outside the library for a fun-filled Bluey Storytime event!
We'll read all your favorite Bluey books, enjoy a craft activity together, and have some tasty snacks!

Check out our Adult Coloring program! We have all kinds of markers and colored pencils and adult coloring books for you to use. Gather around the table and make new friends while enjoying some peaceful coloring.

Kelly Martin rescues wildlife that can't survive in nature. Learn about her career and her wildlife.

Let's enjoy the sun staying out longer with an outdoor storytime geared toward ages birth to age 8! We'll read stories, engage in music and movement, and have time for nature discovery on the library's front lawn!

This month we are "traveling" to Mexico!  Bring a dish to share inspired by Mexican cuisine with the recipe, and enjoy meeting new and old friends, all with scenic views of Mexico in the background, as well as traditional Mexican mu

Join us for an indoor yoga class geared toward adult beginners, with instructor Barbara Hacker. Please bring your own mat.

Join us for a lively foot tapping variety of jazz pop blues and American songbook hits from the Ralph Pezzulo Duo.

Bring the whole family, some snacks, a picnic blanket, or lawn chairs - we are having a party!

Hey, did you hear?  We're bringing back food nights at SLTL starting Wednesday, July 16, 6pm.  July's theme is cool and simple dishes for the summer heat, so bring  your favorite hot summer night dish to share.

In Stitches is our knitting and crochet group that meets every Wednesday at 6pm. Members include seasoned crafters and complete beginners. Our group is excited to teach new comers!

Come on out to the Cohoes Public Library on Wednesday, July 16th at 6:00 PM for a workshop introducing patrons to the wonders of genealogy research. This event is recommended for beginners on through to enthusiasts.

Movie Night at the Valley Falls Free Library!  Let the colors continue:  Tonight it's "The Hunt for Red October".  Popcorn and bottled water provided!

Join JUST A BUNCH OF GUYS AND GIRLS with a variety of classic rock, folk and a mix of everything.

Family puzzle competition! Pick your team of two teens & an adult and try your hard at our puzzle competition. Prizes! Snacks!

All concerts will be held at on Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at the gazebo in Orsini Park. In the event of rain, please check the Altamont Free Library Facebook page for rain venue details. 

The perfect book club for introverts and others seeking a social setting to read or listen to audiobooks on their own, with the opportunity to have quiet book discussions with others.

All are welcome to join us for the monthly meeting of the Stephentown Memorial Library Board of Trustees. Attendees can join in person at the library on the third Thursday of each month at 7:00.

Tuesday is Storytime Day at Altamont Free Library! Join Ms. Meg for a super fun morning of stories, songs, movement, and crafts every Tuesday morning in the Community Room at AFL (or on the library patio if the weather is nice)!