Book Donations

We regret that we can’t accept any more book donations until after July 22. Our storage area is filling up Fast! Please remember that we can’t accept books that are torn or dirty and if they smell “funky,” we will put them in the garbage. The Friend’s book sale (and Slate Valley Garden Club plant … Read more

June eBook challenge

Help Help us to improve our eBook circulation. The Southern Adirondack Library System has entered its libraries in a contest to see if we can improve our circulation by 25% in June. If we can, we get $1500 credit to buy new eBooks. If we can increase by 50%, we get $2500 credit! Bring your … Read more

Pember Presents

Pember Presents: “Rescued from Slavery: The Story of Solomon Northup,” on Sunday, June 8, 2014 at 2 PM at the Pember Library in Granville. The one hour program by David Fiske will include a lecture and slide presentation about Solomon Northup, a free black man who lived in New York State. In 1841 he was … Read more

February Books!

Other new books not pictured: Command Authority; Lady Catherine, the Earl, and the real Downton Abbey; Out of the woods : a memoir of wayfinding; In the Blood

Big Library Read

http://blogs.overdrive.com/featured-post-library-blog/2014/02/10/big-library-read-cooks-up-something-new/ Big Library Read, OverDrive’s “global book club,” is back once again for libraries to lend millions of users around the world the same eBook simultaneously for free! The program that in 2013 brought us Michael Malone’s Four Corners of the Sky and Jane O’Connor’s Nancy Clancy, Super Sleuth is now bringing the secrets of … Read more

Book Club

The next selection for the Pember Book Club is Emily Dickinson, her letter to the world by Polly Longsworth KIRKUS REVIEW says: Emily Dickinson is a personality with a special attraction for adolescents. Her poems require little experience to scan, and once read retain their fascination by the elusive inscrutability of the message coupled with … Read more

Book Club

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood by Janisse Ray will be up for discussion at December’s book club meeting. Goodreads says: Janisse Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound vacationers by the hedge at the edge of the road and by hulks of old cars and stacks of blown-out tires. … Read more

New DVDs added in August and September

Abraham Lincoln [DVD] : vampire hunter. The call [DVD] Dark shadows. Fan favorites [DVD] Diary of a wimpy kid [DVD] : dog days Downton Abbey. Season 3 [DVD]. The Flock [DVD] The great Gatsby [DVD] The hobbit [DVD] : an unexpected journey I love Lucy. Season one. Volume one [DVD]. Life of Pi [DVD]. The … Read more