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We are offering a new assortment of downloadable audiobooks through OverDrive Media - over 1200 titles for audiobooks, over 1700 titles for eBooks, plus over 34,000 always available eBooks:
Popular titlesDownloads for Kindle eBooks from OverDrive are now available. Click here for a video about how to do it.
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The following databases are provided free to the residents of Ulster County through the gracious support of the Ulster County Legislature. Your Library Card barcode is necessary to access these databases.
Learn a language at your home computer with Mango. Mango languages offers 28 languages: Arabic (Leventine), Brazilian Portuguese, Cantonese Chinese, Croatian, Danish, Dari, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Pashto, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Urdu, Vietnamese
Mango also offers the following 14 ESL courses: ESL Arabic, ESL Cantonese Chinese, ESL French, ESL German, ESL Greek, ESL Italian, ESL Japanese, ESL Korean, ESL Mandarin Chinese, ESL Polish, ESL Portuguese, ESL Russian
A collection of unique material for both genealogical and historical researchers, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. Find your ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled.
Study guides and sample tests.
Read first hand descriptions of historical events in the back issues of the New York Times from 1851 to 2003! Available in Facsimile or text format.
BrainPOP features Science, Math, English, Health and Technology subjects for grades K-8. Topics contain an Animated Movie, a Comic Strip, an Interactive Quiz, an Experiment, a How-to hands on application, a Timeline and a printable Activity Page. Your user name is: Ulster, and your password is: Hudson.
TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books (from children's book publishers such as Scholastic, Chronicle Books, Candlewick Press, Little Brown, Walker and Company and others) adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.
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Health information, business data, newspaper & magazine articles and more. Some are listed below. Have your Library card Barcode ready.
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The paper from 1980 to current, the Magazine and Book Review from 1997 to current.
From January 1996 to current (delayed 3 months).
Do-It Yourself Auto Repair Information. When it comes to auto repair, professionals and do-it-yourselfers have trusted Chilton manuals for years.
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A list of frequently asked questions and answers from the Mid-Hudson library staff. This link brings you to over 100 links on information in the following 4 categories:
On the Side of the AngelsIn celebration of the Statewide observance of New York Heritage Weekend, the Library will host a performance of On the Side of the Angels, in the Library. Set in June 1863, this two-person performance will depict a conversation between two residents of the former Verplank Homestead (now Mount Gulian Historic Site), revealing their personal convictions in the dark times of the Civil War.
In the play that explores universal themes of friendship, personal integrity and sacrifice, Robert Newlin Verplanck, a young man of privilege and great expectations, discusses with his family's elderly employee, James F. Brown, his plan to enlist in the newly formed United States Colored Troops to fight for the Union. Brown has been Mount Gulian's master gardener, who years before had escaped slavery in Maryland.
The program is made possible with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Audience members will be invited to participate in role playing and participate in a question and answer session in this free program.
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Again this year, a Book Bag Sale, Sunday, 10-2The 2012 Fair will feature all the tried and true favorites, starting with the Book Tent overflowing with titles from A to Z, fiction and non-fiction, hard and soft cover. Local Authors will be on hand to sign their books.
Our festive Plant Tent will brim with flowering annuals, perennials and herbs. Donations from our local growers and from the gardens of our patrons and friends will supply us with many unusual and interesting varieties, including daylilies to plant in your home gardens.
Fanciful and useful tableware items, from candles to champagne glasses, dishes to teapots will provide the perfect gift for a friend or to keep. Fiber artists will join our Saturday knitters once again to demonstrate and sell their wares.
Shuttle bus service will be handled once again by Arthur J. Mulligan Company. The New York State Troopers have agreed to help with traffic control.
FoodThe Fair is famous for great food, and this year is no exception! Picnic fare from hotdogs and hamburgers, sausage and peppers on the grill plus vegetarian selections and assorted beverages will be available to enjoy with your favorite beverage. Coffee, tea and baked goods made by our talented Baking Brigade, along with lemonade, and the show-stopping Strawberry Shortcake, will convince you that you are in the right place at the right time!
For the Kids, games and fun activities will be in store, and a large selection of children's books, games and toys will be on sale at real bargain prices.
EntertainmentEntertainment will be provided all day, thanks to the generosity of our talented musical friends, kicking off with the Kurt Henry Band, followed by Cleoma's Ghost—with a dance lesson by Miss Buffy Lewis—Wet Paint, the Shoe String Band and the Rondout Valley High School's Jazz Combo under the Direction of Randy Loder. Our Master of Ceremonies this year is our new Board of Trustees President Rob Miraldi.
VolunteerVolunteers are the heart of the Fair! If you can help, please drop in to sign up, email us, or call us at 687-8726.
We welcome books in salable condition and gently-used tableware.
Bag Sale onSunday's Bag Sale will be held from 10am to 2pm in the Yard; take away bags of books for $5 each! Coffee and baked goods will be available on Sunday.
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Wednesday, May 16The selection for this meeting include: Winter and Night by S.J. Rozan, an explosive novel about the corrosive power of secrets and corruption in a small town. In the Lydia Chin and Bill Smith Series.
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Will not be meeting in June. We've cancelled June's meeting due to the Library Fair, but you can get started on next month's book. The selection for July is the Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant. Considered the finest literary achievement by any American president, the frankest, least pretentious, most nearly tragic account we have of the failings and triumphs of leadership.
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Wednesday, June 20,The selection for this meeting is Finding Nouf by Zoe Ferraris. A fast-paced and electrifying debut of taut psychological suspense offers an unprecedented window into Saudi Arabia and the lives of men and women there.
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Wednesday, July 18,The Medieval Book Group members have decided to broaden their focus to encompass all of history. The new name derives from Greek mythology, Clio, daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne and mother of Hyacinth, is the muse of history.
The book for July is Cleopatra by Stacy Schiff. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. This book won the 2011 PEN/Jacqueline Weld Bogrand Award for distinguished biography.
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Tuesday, May 1, This new program will be offered on the First Tuesday of each month. Cliff Rockmuller, former language teacher at the Rondout Valley School District, will facilitate. Basic conversational ability is a pre-requisite for this session that will provide participants with an opportunity to practice and hone their Spanish language skills in a comfortable and enjoyable setting.
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April 19, May 3, 17
Donna will lead the class thorough different movement patterns—done either sitting in chairs or standing—that will help us discover how to use our bodies in simple and safer ways, while we also notice and connect body, mind, emotions and spirit through mindful breathing. We will be meeting the first & third Thursdays of each month.
Donna Nisha Cohen, MS, Wellness Educator, has taught yoga and meditation for 33 years. Donna is a nationally certified yoga teacher. She is the director of Yoga On Duck Pond in Stone Ridge, NY.
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Every Thursday,A new dance and rhythm group plans to meet on Thursday mornings from 10:45 to 11:45 at the Marbletown Community Center. Sponsored by the Stone Ridge Library, the program is free and open to the public. Participants can bring their favorite dance CD, water and comfortable clothes. For information, please call the Library Program Office at 687- 8726.
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The First Saturday Our Memoir Writing Workshop is starting up again. It usually meets the first Saturday of the month. Bring in something you've recently written or are working on to share. Anyone interested should contact Brian Drabkin by email, or at 687-4711 or Diane in the Program Office at 687-8726.
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Artist, and Library employee, Lora Shelley is currently exhibiting a mixed media show that includes painting, lithographs, jewelry and sculpture. The show focuses mainly on her paintings, reflecting her chosen way to communicate, since she was a child.
"Things that I find impossible to convey with words are expressed through my paintings." Described as having "an uneasy psychological presence," Lora's figures and environments are primarily from her head. Through the use of texture color and pattern, Lora sculpts the surface of her paintings as if she were working with clay instead of color on a two dimensional surface. This approach allows Lora the freedom to complicate and simplify an image repeatedly until the desired balance is achieved. more
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Every SaturdayThe Stone Ridge Library Knitters meet every Saturday morning from 10am - 12noon. All ages and experience levels can join us and drop-in knitters are also welcome. We each bring our own supplies and do our own work, but one of the best things about us is that whatever obstacle or confusion you might encounter, you're likely to receive as much comment and advice as you need to get where you're going with a project. Some of us can help toward the repair of knitted or crocheted items too.
The group is sociable and lively, and our conversation and sharing is just as wide-ranging as our projects. We are especially interested in the UFOs (Un-Finished Objects) that members bring in and love the show and tell of projects under way and being finished, new or old, simple or complex. Though knitting is our love and mainstay, we graciously adapt ourselves to stray crocheters and those of us who simply must take to the hook when the spirit moves. We share articles, magazines and books on knitting. Donations of yarn to the Library get made up into items for sale at the Library Fair and during the winter holidays for the benefit of the Library. Some of us also knit things for local hospitals or for the U.S. troops.
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See back issues of the eNewsletters
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Thank You Asia RestaurantThank you Christine & Michelle, it was a wonderful event! Welcome to Stone Ridge.
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LibrarySolutions@yahoo.com is open for your ideas, insights, suggestions or other constructivefeedback about the future of the Stone Ridge Library. Help the Library create a forward-looking plan by contributing your best thinking to the conversation. With our historic building needing repair, a limited amount of space as well as limited resources, we greatly value all constructive comments about how the Library can continue to serve our community. Please email us: LibrarySolutions@yahoo.com
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Check out our new interactive calendar where you can click for time, location and description of events and register online. You can even download our programs to your own calendar and get notices to reminded you of our events. The button is right under our logo at the top of the page. more
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The Stone Ridge Public Library statistics for 2011. more
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The year is 1840. Follow Julia Hasbrouck's diary as she wrote it, entries will be posted on the same date, just 172 years later. To read the blog click: frommypenandpower.
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Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck was one of the original residents to live in the building that houses the Stone Ridge Library today. Julia and her husband Garrett had a home in New York City as well as in Stone Ridge. Her diary entries reflect life in both locations. To join the blog, follow directions on the right hand side of the page. more
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Curious how much the services the library provides you would cost if you had to pay for them directly? To find out, just enter the number of times you or your family use each service. The estimated retail value of each service will be calculated on the right, and the total value of your library use is shown at the bottom of the worksheet, with a yearly total on top. more
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The Stone Ridge Library has a Facebook page. Check it out and become a fan.
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Credit card donations to the Library are managed by the Ulster/Dutchess County Community Foundation, click here to make your donation. Please put "Stone Ridge Library Foundation" on the Fund line when you make your donation. For further information on the Stone Ridge Library Foundation click the FOUNDATION button above.
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Each year the Library adds hundreds of new books, video and audio works, plus new magazine subscriptions.
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Start your own Book Club with our Book Club in a Bag. The Kit consists of a tote bag which has ten copies of a book title, as well as a list of discussion questions to get your book club started. Each bag can be borrowed for six weeks. This service is available to all patrons in the Mid-Hudson Library System.
For a full listing of available titles, (we now have over 130) click here. If you find a title you would like, ask for help at the circulation desk and a staff member will book the kit for you.
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The Stone Ridge Library offers free high speed wireless internet access. Bring your laptop to the Library or work out in our yard. All you need is your computer with a wireless card installed.
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HOW TO GET YOUR LIBRARY CARDTo borrow Library materials, you'll need a Library Card. more
This year the Town of Rochester contracted with the Stone Ridge Library to provide 238 paid Family memberships to Town of Rochester residents. At this time all the paid Family memberships have been used. more
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The Library gardens are designed and maintained by the wonderful Garden Makers of Accord. more
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