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Tax Forms

We have basic NYS tax forms available at the library free of charge. We also have a binder with additional NYS forms that you can photocopy at $.15 per scan. (Forms and binder are located on the bottom shelf near the new and 7-day books.) Or you can go to http://www.tax.ny.gov/forms/ to get all NYS forms ($.25 per page if you use our printers and ink). We do not have Federal tax forms but you can download them from the …

Blue and Gold Yearbooks

We recently got a contribution of Blue & Gold Yearbooks. There were several that covered years we were missing. There are still a couple of gaps. If anyone has 1954, 2001 and/or 2004 they would complete our collection. It can be fun to look back and see the fashions from days gone by…

Book Club

The book club’s choice for February is Gorgeous East by Robert Girardi. Kirkus Reviews says: “n entertaining 21st-century variant on the classic adventure tale. Characterizations are brisk and vivid, as the story whips along toward a violent climax with a nice surprise twist…. Girardi pits the French Foreign Legion against Muslim fanatics. Since Louis Philippe founded the Legion in 1831, its lost-soul volunteers fight in the most desolate corners of the globe mostly because they have nothing better to do …

Chocolate, Chocolate, and More Chocolate

Love Chocolate and have a recipe that you consider a winner? Do you serve a dessert that makes all your friends rave as they ask for seconds and thirds? Then this is your opportunity to enter your special creation in The Friends of the Pember Library’s Second Annual Chocolate Lovers’ Contest. The contest will be held at the Pember Library, 33 West Main Street, in Granville on Friday, February 10 at 7:00 PM. Prizes will be awarded in the following …

January Story Time

Fireside Stories January 7 ~ Glasses January 14 ~ Popcorn January 21 ~ Snow January 28 ~ Soup *Themes subject to change

Quilling Class

Pat O will teach us more quilling or feel free to join us if you have a project you are working on and just like to chat while you are crafting. Quilling is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. Pre-registration is not required, materials provided. Beginners welcome. For information, call 518-642-2525.

Pember Board Meeting

A meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Pember Library and Museum will be held on the third Wednesday of each month at the Pember. This is a regular meeting and open to the public.

Book Club

Join us as the Pember book club discusses Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup. A 2014 movie is planned based on this book. Amazon book description: Twelve Years a Slave (Originally published in 1853 with the sub-title: “Narrative of Solomon Northup, a citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana”) is the written work of Solomon Northup; a man who was born free, but …

Lucy’s Christmas Vacation

Lucy visited with a friend over the Christmas holiday. She was spoiled as always and enjoyed her friend’s new fish tank.

SALON Overdrive Upgrade at 2 PM Wednesday Dec 28

This message is to inform you that OverDrive network engineers will perform an equipment upgrade to improve performance today (12/28/2011) at 2:00 PM EST. This will cause an interruption of service that could last up to two hours. We will notify you when the upgrade is complete and include the amount of time of the interruption. We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

our OverDrive service

Please be patient if you are trying to use our OverDrive service to download eBooks to your eReader. So many people are trying out their new eReaders!! We got this message from OverDrive: Dear Library Partner, This message is to inform you that we are experiencing extremely high traffic at some of our hosted library websites which may result in reduced performance. Our network engineers are actively working on this situation during this peak period. We will keep you notified …