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These are held at 6:30pm on the fourth Tuesday of the month in the Library Reference Room and are open to the public. Upcoming dates:
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We are offering a new assortment of downloadable audiobooks through OverDrive Media - over 1,000 titles for audiobooks, over 800 titles for 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:
Mango also offers the following 14 ESL courses:
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:
The Ulster County Chamber Music Series has donated two subscriptions to their 2012 season to benefit the Library. 
This year the Series features The American String Quartet on Sunday, February 19; the Chiara String Quartet on Sunday, March 25; the The Four Nations on Sunday, April 22. The concerts will take place at the Church of the Holy Cross, 30 Pine Grove Avenue in Kingston and begin at 3:00 PM. The Church is noted for exceptional acoustics, and a reception with the artists will follow the performances. For more information, please visit Ulster Chamber Music Series.
Raffle tickets are on sale at the Library Circulation Desk at $5 each and 5 for $20. Winners will be selected on Tuesday, February 14. The face value of each subscription is $100, which can be used in various combinations, for example 2 admissions for each performance, 6 admissions for one concert, or in any combination desired.
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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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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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2012 Rochester We are happy to announce that the Town of Rochester has made 238 free family memberships available to Rochester residents. These will be given out on a first come, first served basis. If you h ad a free membership last year, you must come in again to claim another free membership. Please bring your card with you and come in as soon as possible, as they go quickly. Last year the free memberships were all taken by March. After the 238 free memberships have been used, family memberships will be available for purchase.
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Wednesday, February 1, 2012, 7pm in the Biography RoomThe 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 first book to be discussed is The Great Cat Massacre and Other Episodes in French Cultural History by Robert Darnton. It is a series of essays on the life of the common people in Enlightenment France, each chapter focuses on a different subject, including the folk tales we are all familiar with and cats.
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Wednesday, February 8The selection this month is Nobody's Fool by by Richard Russo. An affectionate story of small town life in upstate New York, Sully, a fitfully employed 60-year-old construction worker, is a cheerful curmudgeon who has made a lifetime of bad decisions.
Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.
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Wednesday, February 15,The selections for this meeting include: To The Manor Dead by Sebastian Stuart. After a disastrous marriage and a crippling case of career burnout, Janet Petrocell closes her New York City psychotherapy practice and moves to the Hudson Valley. The Sherlock Holmes mystery is The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger - by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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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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Saturday, Feb. 4,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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Thurs, Jan. 19, Join us for another afternoon of poetry with Rosemary Deen. We will be reading Petrach.
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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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Non-subsidized family memberships are available at $52.45. per year. The rate schedule below shows the cost of a family membership for the balance of 2012 depending on which month it begins.
Rochester residents should also be aware that they can obtain library cards at no charge from the Ellenville Library for use in the Ramapo Catskill Library System. If you have questions please feel free to email Stone Ridge Library Director Jody Ford.
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The Library gardens are designed and maintained by the wonderful Garden Makers of Accord. more
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LibrarySolutions@yahoo.com is open for your ideas, insights, suggestions or other constructive feedback 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.
Your input will be collected by Library Trustee David Cagan who has volunteered to serve as community liaison for the Board. Please send your comments about the future of the library to: LibrarySolutions@yahoo.com
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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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Update on 209 We've made great progress since our initial announcement last Spring. We've determined our membership fee ($25 per person per year), and elected officers... more
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The Library has posted the 2010 Stone Ridge Library fact sheet. more
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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
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