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NHPL Board of Trustees 2024 Meeting
The NHPL Board of Trustees will be meeting on Wednesday, May 15th at 4:30 in the Sammon Room.
Happy Memorial Day
New Hartford Public Library will be closed on Monday, May 27th for the Memorial Day holiday.
Book Locker Update
We are thrilled to announce that our outdoor book locker is back! You can now pick your reserved items up at a time that is convenient for you, regardless of our hours. When placing a hold online, please choose NHLOCKER as your pick up location. Picking up your items is easy! All you will need to do is scan your library card or manually enter your library card number.
Our outdoor book locker is made possible through the Mid York Library System and a grant through the Central New York Resources Library Council (CLRC).
Community Outreach
We are hitting the road and would love to come to your organization! Are you involved with a preschool, daycare, summer program or assisted living center? We would love to come to your organization and share more about our upcoming programs, issue library cards and provide programming to your facility. For more information, please contact our Library Director, Anne 315-733-1535.
Literacy CNY
Need some tech help? We have a volunteer at the Library each Tuesday from 11:00-2:00. Literacy CNY provides trained individuals to assist patrons on a one on one basis. They look forward to helping our community. We greatly appreciate this service they are offering our patrons.
Interested In Using Our Window Display?
The display case a/t the Library's main entrance is available without charge for community groups or individuals to display works of art, collections or educational displays. Exhibits must be in keeping with the Library's mission to meet the educational, cultural and recreational needs of the community. Exhibits may not be for entrepreneurial or commercial purposes, for the solicitation of business for profit or for fundraising. Religious proselytizing and partisan political recruitment are similarly prohibited. Applications for the case are on a first come, first served basis and are limited to one month, with displays also limited to one per year per individual, group or organization. Exhibits will be reviewed in advance before being displayed. Applications for use of the case are available at the Library's front desk. If you have any questions or are interested in using the display, please call the Library and ask to speak to our Display Case Coordinator, John. 315-733-1535
May Display: Heritage Doll Club
During the month of May the Heritage Doll Club of Central New York will have an exhibit on display at the New Hartford Public Library entitled "Dolls of Many Nations." Members will showcase dolls from their collections that are representative of different cultures and dressed in native costumes. Featured in the display will be a handmade doll from Algiers recently donated to the club by Judy Kinney. This doll was acquired by her mother, Doris Betikofer Swartz, during the years (1941-1945) she was in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) service. Interested guests and new members are always welcome at monthly meetings of the club, which are held on the third Saturday of the month (except May, July, August and December) at the library at 10:30 a.m. More information about memberships is available by contacting Barbara Bertone, vice president, at 315-336-1499.
MAY-BEE - No School Day Fun
If New Hartford Central School District has no school MAY 24...
Join us as we Build a Bee Barn. 11am – Noon. Call the library for more details.
“All schools within the district will be closed Friday, May 24. If the district uses its remaining emergency day before May 24, then May 24 will be a day of instruction and additional communication will be sent to staff, families and community members.
For questions regarding the plan for unused emergency days, please contact the District Clerk, Kim Schweitzer, at 315-624-1218.” -New Hartford Central School District
Grab & Go Projects Adults
Adult Grab & Go Projects continue on the first Monday of each month.
May 6th – Cherry Blossom Art
Call to reserve beginning at 10:00 on the day of that months’ project, or come into the library to pick up. (While supplies last)
Grab & Go Project Bags for Kids
Kids Grab & Go Projects continue on the first Thursday of each month.
May 2nd– Dancing Flower Craft
Call to reserve beginning at 10:00 on the day of that months’ project, or come into the library to pick up one. (While supplies last)
In Person Story Time
Mondays (group A), Tuesdays (group B) and Thursdays (group C) 10:30-11:00 for preschool aged children. Join us for stories and crafts. Aimed towards preschoolers – but all are welcome. An adult must accompany the child. All story times are held in the Children’s Area/Corasanti room.
May 6, 7, 9 : Flowers
May 13, 14, 16 : Bugs
May 20, 21, 23: Cookies
May 28, 30 : Birds
Lego Club : From Book to Block
Back by popular demand…Lego Club!
Each month a passage from a book is read aloud from a pre-selected book. Using their imagination, children are asked to build what they see when visualizing that scene. This club meets on the 1st Saturday of the month at 11:00am.
The next meeting is May 4th in the Corasanti Room.
(Geared for 7-12yrs)
Park Passes Are Back!
Once again, the Friends of the New Hartford Public Library are supporting our Park Pass
Program. Through their generosity, we will be allowing our patrons to check out the following
park passes which will allow our patrons a discounted entry rate:
The Wild Center
Fort Rickey Children's Discovery Zoo
Adirondack Experience
Munson
Utica Zoo
Empire
Passes must be placed on adult library cards and must be returned to the New Hartford Public
Library Circulation Desk. Please call 315-733-1535 for more information
Community Rooms
Community Rooms will be available for groups and organizations to use. You can find more information on our website (https://www.newhartfordpubliclibrary.org/reserve-a-room/), by calling 315-733-1535, or by visiting our Circulation Desk at the Library.
Book Clubs
Are you interested in joining a book club, currently in a book club, or looking to start one? If your club needs to order books or if you are interested in starting a book club, please call the Library and ask to speak to our Book Club Coordinator, Danielle. 315-733-1535
>Ruth Anne Mystery Book Club reads mystery novels. They meet on the second Saturday of the month at 11am. For more information please contact the library.
>Wanderlust Book Club reads novels, ranging from current to historical. They meet on the first Thursday of the month. For more information please contact the library.
>Women (and Men) of Mystery will be taking a break for a couple of months giving everyone time to catch up on reading. We will meet again July 27 to continue our look at mysteries through the years with a focus on books written during the 1960's.
After Breast Cancer Group
Join us for our May 4th meeting which will start at 11:00 am in the Sammon Room located downstairs. Mindy Robinson, who is affiliated with Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, will talk about Cancer research. Come and hear what she has to share with us. I am sure that she will have some good information for all of us.
Yoga for seniors
Join Bill Skinner every Monday at 3:00pm for a Yoga program geared towards seniors! Please call the Library at 315-733-1535 to register for this in person class.
Chair Yoga Class
Join us each Monday and Friday mornings for a Chair Yoga class taught by Donna Reale. Classes start at 11 and will last until noon.
Blood Drive 5/23 12:30-4:30
The New Hartford Public Library will host a community blood drive with the American Red Cross on May 23rd from 12:30-4:30.
For more information or to make an appointment to donate, call 315-733-1535 or sign up online at https://www.redcrossblood.org/give.html/drive-results?zipSponsor=NHPLibrary
The New Hartford Public Library is committed to strengthening our community and helping meet hospital and patient needs through blood donations. This blood drive is our way of giving staff, colleagues and neighbors an opportunity to help save lives.
Blood is a perishable product that can only come from volunteer blood donors. With someone in the U.S. needing blood every two seconds, blood products must be constantly replenished, according to the Red Cross.
According to the Red Cross, donors with all blood types are needed, especially those with types O negative, A negative and B negative.
From the Friends of the New Hartford Public Library
Bloomin'4 Good
The Friends of the New Hartford Public Library will receive $1 from every specially marked Bloomin'4 Good bouquet sold thru the month of May at the Hannaford Market - Kellogg Road. Please come and support us.
Bill Bonsted Indoor Miniature Golf Tournament
WINNERS! Hugh and Hazel Reale....Congratulations.
Climate change had no affect on the Bill Bonsted Indoor Miniature Golf Tournament April 6. The only threat was an occasional out of control plastic golf ball! Thank you to so many who made this event happen and successful. Our SPONSORS: Power Line Constructors, Inc.; Clifford Fuel Co., Inc.; Nexstar Media, Inc.; Kirk Evans and Nancy Shaheen; Gates Cole Insurance; McDonald's; Daniel T. Dreimiller, CPA P.C.; Richard and Virginia Emmert; Royal Landscape Company; Friedel, Williams & Edmunds Funeral Home; Gary Falchi's Carpet Cleaning; Michael and Mackenzie Matt, James and Anne Bonsted, Brett and Kelly Humphreys, Brady Bonsted, Mike and Carol Ann D'Accurzio; Joanne Donaruma Wade; Marino and Marie Selvarajah; Kathy Ventura; Annette Barber; Frank and Anne DuRoss; Marlene D'Accurzio. SPECIAL THANKS: Charlie's Pizza, Sweet Frog of New Hartford, CNY Awards and Apparel. "PGA" HOLE DESIGNERS: Joanne Robertson - Treehouse Reading and Arts Center; Dr. John Robertson - Anchor Family Medicine; Trevor Heitz; Greg Kielar; John and Debbie Dye; Cheryl Smith; Shawn and Aidan; A Friend; the Bill Bonsted Family and YOU, our very supportive community. Hope you all had fun.
Annette Barber Used Book Room
Our Used Book Room name has changed. It is now the Annette Barber Used Book Room. Whether you bought or donated books you have in some way met Annette Barber during her 30 years of dedication to the used book room sorting, rearranging or setting aside books for various out reach organizations in need of reading material including numerous other contacts. Annette has moved to be with her family. We miss her as so do many others, she has put a lot of miles on her cart moving books to and from the used book room!!! She deserves a rest! Enjoy, Annette.
- Thank you for thinking of us for your “gently” used books.
Please limit your donations to one box/bag at a time and drop off at the circulation desk and not in the hallway, at drop boxes or outside the door when the library is closed, Thank you.
Thank you for supporting this major fundraiser.
We are currently ACCEPTING newer fiction and nonfiction hardbound and paperback books and magazines as well as records, DVDs, children's books, puzzles and games.
WE DO NOT ACCEPT moldy/damaged books, textbooks, medical books, National Geographic Magazine, and multi-volume books sets. We are also no longer accepting audio cassettes, VHS tapes and computer games/books or CDs.
Support the New Hartford Public Library with a membership in the Friends.
Become a Friend of the NHPL. Benefit the library with your assistance as needed. There is always a need!! Your membership also helps to financially assist the library in providing materials, programs and a variety of opportunities for our community.
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