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SEARCH OUR CATALOGS
 Search the Mid-Hudson Catalog
Search our catalog or all the catalogs in the five-county Mid-Hudson Library System for books, videos and other materials. With a Library card you can log on to your personal account, renew a borrowed item, order items delivered to our library for pick up, and more. More
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HOME ACCESS DATABASES
Health information, business data, newspaper & magazine articles and more. Some are listed below. Have your Library card Barcode ready.
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Ulster County Info Portal
 Databases provided free to the residents of Ulster County through the gracious support of the Ulster County Legislature. Included is the Historical New York Times, from September 1851 - December 2001.
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The New York Times
The paper from 1980 to current, the Magazine and Book Review from 1997 to current.
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Consumer Reports
From January 1996 to current (delayed 3 months).
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Rosetta Stone
Offering English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek and Russian. Rosetta Stone has recreated a natural way of learning by developing a method that uses a computer to mimic the environment in which we learned our first language.
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Chilton
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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Heritage Quest
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.
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GALE Testing and Education Reference Center With Career Search
This offers practice tests to prepare for the GED, SAT, ACT, Civil Service, vocational & military tests. Also resources for making informed education decisions.
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Price It!
For identifying, researching and pricing art, antiques and collectibles. This online tool helps you ascertain an item's current realistic market value.
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Fiction Connection
Browse by subject or search for similar titles to a book you enjoy. You may browse thousands of topics, genres, settings, character traits, locations or timeframes.
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Non-Fiction Connection
Search for similar titles to a book you enjoy or browse by subject. It shares the same style interface as Fiction Connection.
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TumbleBooks
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. Have your Library card barcode ready.
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Quick Answers for Patrons on the Go
 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:
Smart Buying
Healthy Living
Personal finance, Business
& Legal
Find a Job & education
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LIBRARY FAIR
 Saturday, June 14 10am-3pm
The preparations are beginning. Volunteers make the Fair the success it has been for so many years. We need help sorting books, stop by on Saturdays and Monday mornings right up till Fair Day. Volunteer sign up sheets are available at the Library, or you can sign up below.
 We would love contributions of: books, tea accessories, small gift items, jewelry, candles, stationary, china, pottery, toys, garden accessories and plants (closer to the fair time). The items can be dropped off during regular Library hours. Please call if you have questions or need help: 687-8726.
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FAVORITE AUTHOR SERIES
Mark Twain
 A trip to Mark Twain's home in Hartford, Connecticut on Saturday, June 28 is co-sponsored by the Marbletown Youth Commission and The Stone Ridge Library. We will tour the museum and stop for a late lunch on the way home. The bus will leave the Community Center at 8:30am and return at about 5:30pm.
 The cost is $40 for transportation and museum admission, sign up and payment is due by May 21. As there is limited seating, please sign up early.
 Please join us for an informal lecture by Dr. Joseph Keefe on A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain, on June 25th at 4pm at the Library. Everyone is welcome, light refreshments will be served.
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 RECENT ARRIVALS
Each year the Library adds hundreds of new books, video and audio works, plus new magazine subscriptions.
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SERVICES
The Stone Ridge Library offers patrons access to a wide variety of materials, including local history materials, ready reference information, current best-sellers, audios, videos and DVDs. Through our computer databases and connections with the Mid-Hudson Library System, we can also offer up to date information on medical questions, current events, and academic research topics. Our catalog and databases can be accessed from home as well as from the library. More...
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Downloadable Audiobooks
Down- loadable audiobooks are available once again thanks to funding from Ulster County.
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 COMMUNITY
Our community is fortunate to have a number of strong organizations offering services to area residents. Links to these organizations can be found on our community page. More...
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STONE RIDGE LIBRARY Begins Restoring Historic Buildings
 The temporary stabilization of the building has been completed. The large timbers outside will be in place for the next few years, while we raise funds and make plans for the final restoration. Our sincere thanks go to all those who have helped with the building through donations to the Library and to the Stone Ridge Library Foundation. more
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BOOK CLUB IN A BAG
 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 80) 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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GOT WIRELESS?
 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 CARD
To borrow Library materials, you'll need a Library Card. More...
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HELP THE STONE RIDGE LIBRARY, Buy Books, Gifts and More...
 We have a partnership with the New York Public Library that can make your shopping fast, easy and beneficial to the Library. Purchase items at the Library Shop by clicking on the link below and the Stone Ridge Library will receive a 15% commission. More...
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DONATE NOW
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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HOURS
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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers Book Group
 NOTE DATE CHANGE, now: Thursday, May 22,
4pm in the Reference Room
The selections for this meeting include two books: Under Orders by Dick Francis and The Cat of Many Tails by Ellery Queen, and a short story: Silver Blaze - a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Tea Time Book Group
 Wednesday, May 14th,
4pm in the Reference
Room
The selection this month is The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession by Susan Orlean. Fascinating, funny, and bizarre, a memorable and original work of nonfiction.
Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.
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Medieval Book Group
 Wednesday, June 18th, 7pm in the Reference Room
We will shift our attention away from Europe and look at the Americas before Columbus by reading Charles Mann’s acclaimed book 1491. Also recommended are two other books on history that we talked about at our last meeting- Sam Wineburg’s Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts and Dan Smail’s On Deep History and the Brain. Each book offers a fresh insight into the nature of history.
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KNITTING GROUP
Every Saturday
10am-noon in the Reference Room
The 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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