Germantown Library

Heritage Book Club: Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal
2025-02-11 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | Germantown Library, 31 Palatine Park Rd, Germantown, NY, 12526, United States
Heritage Month Book Group: Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal — the author will Zoom in!
• Meet at the library or on Zoom: Tuesday Feb. 11: 6:00 pm doors open; 6:30 author zooms in
• Scroll down to RVSP
NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST
In Temple Folk, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race, religion, economics, politics, and sexuality in America. The ten stories in this collection contribute to the bounty of diverse narratives about Black life by intimately portraying the experiences of a community that resists the mainstream culture to which they are expected to accept and aspire to while functioning within the country in which they are born.
We are thrilled to have author Aaliyah Bilal join us over zoom. Aaliyah will join us at 6:30 pm. Please arrive as early as 6 pm if you’d like to chat with other readers before the author joins us.
Book Club Copies
For this and all Book Clubs: Stop by or call to find out if we have any reserved copies available. You can also request a hold via search.midhudsonlibraries.org.
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Programming Meeting
2025-02-10 17:30 - 19:00 | Germantown Library, 31 Palatine Park Rd, Germantown, NY, 12526, United States
Library Meetings
• The second Monday of the month: 5:30 – 7 p.m. Programming and Events – on zoom
• The third Wednesday of the month: 7 – 8:30 p.m. Board of Trustees General Meeting – in person

Library committee and board meetings are open to the public. Join us to learn more about our community, share ideas, and volunteer your time for upcoming events and goals.

Fundraising, Grant Writing, Grounds Keeping, Policy Reviewing, and other committees meet quartlerly-ish. Write or call us to learn more.

For more information, including whether we are meeting in person or over zoom (and the necessary link) email libraryboard@germantownlibrary.org or call (518) 537-5800.

Find Board Meeting Recordings and Board Meeting Minutes: germantownlibrary.org/about/board-of-trustees

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Tech Labs on Zoom: Google Drive
2025-02-05 18:00 - 19:00 | Columbia County Libraries Association (CCLA)
Tech Labs on Zoom: Google Drive
• Wednesday, February 5: 6:00 p.m. on Zoom
• Email columbiacountylibraries@gmail.com for the Zoom login.
• Watch the recording after: columbiacountylibraries.org/programs/past-programs/
Ready to tackle Google like a pro? Tune in for The Columbia County Libraries Association’s latest Tech Labs showing you how to organize, store and share files seamlessly with Google Drive.
Upcoming Tech Labs on Zoom:
• Google Search, Tips and Tricks, and Google Calendar: Wed, February 26: 6:00 p.m.
• Security and Scams: Wed, March 5: 6:00 p.m
Learn more: https://columbiacountylibraries.org/programs/upcoming-programs
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Book Swap — Kids' Books
2025-01-19 14:00 - 16:00 | Germantown Library, 31 Palatine Park Rd, Germantown, NY, 12526, United States
Book Swap—Kids’s Books
• Sunday 01/19/25: 2-4 pm
• Hover Room (lower parking lot)
• For readers ages 0 – 12
• Scroll down to RSVP with the adult name under the option for the age of the book you are looking for. This helps us plan but is not required.
Bring your gently used and like-new children’s books on Sunday, Jan 19 for a book swap. Stop in any time between 2-4 pm. Bring a bag to take home about 5-10 books, depending on how many we have available.

Please preview your books for any scribbles, torn pages, and items sticking pages together to ensure they are in very good condition.
• Please bring no more than around 20 books to help us manage the collection. We hope to make this a semi-regular event!
• Please ONLY bring books on Sunday, 01/19 between 1-4 pm.
• Please DO NOT leave books at the library, inside or out, at any other time. We do NOT have the staff or volunteers for an ongoing book donation system at this time.

Any items in excellent condition not collected during the swap will be added to our Free Library and shared with GCS for the spring book fair free table. Items in poor condition will be discarded. Contact us at communication@germantownlibrary.org with any questions and if you’d like to help us organize this event or future ones.

Fiber Arts Group - January 2025
2025-01-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Germantown Library Hover Room, 31 Palatine Park Rd, Germantown, NY, 12526, United States
Need some tips on a fiber art project? Want to learn more about fiber arts? Or just want to hang out with other fiber arts fans? Join us on Sunday, January 5th from 2-4 PM! We’ll have artists experienced with knit, crochet, weaving, spinning (yarn), and felting on hand!

Makerspace: 1st Sunday
2025-01-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Germantown Library Makerspace, 31 Palatine Park Rd, Germantown, NY, 12526, United States
Makerspace Open House — come make with us!
We meet the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month from 2 – 4 pm.
Follow our theme or explore our materials to make something on your own! Using our tools and your imagination, create or reuse anything you can think of into something new!
Here’s what you’ll find at the Makerspace:

Tech: Our computers, Raspberry Pi, and Arduino selection enable anyone to pursue their passion for building circuits and writing code. You can even bring in old electronics, take them apart and build something new!
Media: Want to try your hand at photo or video editing? How about writing your own script and making costumes and props to perform with? The sky is the limit with your creativity!
Art: Explore, discover & create with a variety of materials from the basics like paper, duck tape and scissors to experimenting with tools like our Ellison die-cut machine, Crayola Air Marker Sprayers, light box tracing, and sewing machines.
Skill Development: Become part of our maker community, sharing ideas and skills with other “makers”. Whether attending one of our programs or coming in during unstructured open hours to tinker, you never know when an idea will spark or when you might provide the inspiration for other makers!

New Year's Day Library Closure
2025-01-01 | Germantown Library, 31 Palatine Park Rd, Germantown, NY, 12526, United States
We are closed on Wednesday, January 1 for New Year’s Day.
Our Little Free Library and online resources are open even when the library is closed. Find our e-Library resources, like Hoopla, Kanopy, Universal Class, Libby, Transparent Language, Newspapers, at germantownlibrary.org/elibrary
Germantown Library Typical Hours
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: 9 am – 7 pm
Wednesday: 9 am – 4pm
Thursday: 12 pm – 7 pm
Friday: 9 am – 4 pm
Saturday: 10 am – 2 pm
Sunday: Closed*
* Our Makerspace is open on the 1st and 3rd Sunday of the month from 2-4 pm. Enter the Makerspace through the lower level parking lot.
www.germantownlibrary.org
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Coding with Finch Robots
2024-12-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Germantown Library, 31 Palatine Park Rd, Germantown, NY, 12526, United States
Explore the Finch Robot with Dana
Want to learn to code a robot to make its way through a maze, avoiding obstacles along the way? Or would you like to teach it to draw colorful designs?
Come to the Germantown Library Makerspace to explore, programming, problem solving and robotics with the Finch Robot.
Limited to 10 participants and their grownups. If you have an iPad, please install the free app FinchBlox and bring the iPad with you to the workshop. We will have a few iPads to spare so having an iPad is not a prerequisite for participation. Open to 10 children ages 6 to 11.
Please RSVP with the name and age of your child aged 6-11. This info helps us plan and will not be visible to the public. Grown-ups should plan to stay with their child but do not need to RSVP for themselves.
