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ULSTER COUNTY INFO PORTAL
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.
Mango Language Learning
Learn a language with Mango. Choose from Spanish, French, Italian, German, Greek, Russian Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese, ESL for Polish, Spanish and Portuguese is included.
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.
GALE Testing and Education Reference Center With Career Search
Search for information on careers and schools (vocational, nursing, private, graduate and others). Study guides and sample tests included.
Downloadable
Audiobooks
Download audiobooks to your computer. Play them back on your MP3 player. Choose among popular business books, novels, classics - all original and unabridged. Some titles available for iPod.
Historical
New York Times
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
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
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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HOME ACCESS DATABASES
Health information, business data, newspaper & magazine articles and more. Some are listed below. Have your Library card Barcode ready. more
The New York Times
The paper from 1980 to current, the Magazine and Book Review from 1997 to current.
Consumer Reports
From January 1996 to current (delayed 3 months).
Chilton
Do-It Yourself Auto Repair Information. When it comes to auto repair, professionals and do-it-yourselfers have trusted Chilton manuals for years.
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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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:
These individuals and businesses make an effort to support the Library. Please make an effort to support them. We've provided links to their websites below, or phone numbers if a website is not available.
Bonnie Leu Banyard Dan Green Sarah Hansen Robin McLaughlin Lester Richter B T Sullivan Michael Teipner Geoff Watson
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Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck
Local History
Lecture Series
To celebrate our Centennial Year, we are inaugurating a local history lecture series and fittingly naming it after Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck whose family donated their family residence to be used as [our] library and whose Julia’s diaries and family portraits are treasured in our historic collection and archives.
This free lecture series will take place on the following Friday evenings at 7:00 pm at the Marbletown Community Center. The public is cordially invited to attend.
Friday, July 10
7pm at the Community Center
Slide presentation featuring archaeological findings in the eighteenth century Hasbrouck House in New Paltz, drawing connections to the Hasbrouck family who were benefactors of the library.. with Prof. Joseph Diamond, Assistant Professor of Archaeology, SUNY, New Paltz
Friday, July 24
7pm at the Community Center
Bill Rhoads, Professor Emeritus of Art History at SUNY New Paltz, will present a slide lecture on the buildings in Marbletown and Rochester designed by Kingston architect Myron Teller and his partner Harry Halverson in the 1910s, 20s, and 30s. Teller had a national reputation as a reviver of the early Dutch Colonial style of architecture and Colonial hand-wrought hardware. The Stone Ridge Library preserves an important archive of Teller’s architectural notes and photos.
Friday, August 7 7pm at the Community Center
Professor Laurence Hauptman, Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY New Paltz who will present a power point discussion on American Indians in the Time of Henry Hudson: The Munsee and Mahican Indians, describing the history and culture of these two significant Native American peoples at the time of Henry Hudson’s exploration and the European settlement in 1609.
Friday, August 21 7pm at the Community Center
Have You Heard? The Sounds and Stories of the Hudson Valley is the final program in the series, taking place on Friday, August 21. Eileen McAdam and Jim Metzner, Directors of the Sound and Story Project of the Hudson Valley will share stories collected at the library this summer and will discuss the importance of oral history as a record of community and our sense of place.
Eileen McAdam of the Sound and Story Project will record stories at the Library. For information, please contact us on the Library’s program line: 845 687-8726.
Listen to a sampling of Rondout Valley stories on soundandstory
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Community
Flag Making Event!
Walkway Across the Hudson - Walking on Air
Led by Barbara Bash
Saturday, July 25
10am - 12noon
at the Library
Come make a flag for Marbletown and be a part of this historic event, to be held October 2/3, 2009.
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Tea Time Book Group
Wednesday, July 8,
4pm, Biography Room
The selection this month is The Map of Love by Adaf Soueif. At either end of the twentieth century, two women fall in love with men outside their familiar worlds which makes for an unconventional love story.
Join us in the Biography Room for lively Discussion and light refreshments.
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NEW YORKER
DISCUSSION GROUP
Friday, July 10, at 3:30pm in the Reference Room
The following articles were chosen for discussion
June 1st Issue P 36 Annals of Medicine by Atul Gawande The Cost Conundrum Expensive health care can be harmful
May 25th Issue P 52 A Reporter at Large by Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction The earth’s species in peril
May 11th Issue P 66 Department of Education by Douglas McGray The Instigator L.A.’s charter-school crusader
If time permits the following articles will be considered
June 8th Issue P 106 a Critic at Large by Louis Menand Can You Teach Creative Writing
May 18th Issue P 66 FICTION by Salman Rushdie In the South
Please bring any discussion questions or thoughts about the above articles.
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HOLMES & CO.
Mystery Lovers
Book Group
Thursday, July 16,
4pm in the Biography Room
The selections for this meeting include: The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovsey and The Adventure of the Empty House- a Sherlock Holmes mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Medieval Book Group
Wed. July 22, 7pm
in the Biography Room
The topic for our July meeting is the Norman Conquest and the Bayeux Tapestry in the 11th - 12th centuries. The Bayeux Tapestry explains the events leading up to the 1066 Norman invasion of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. Following is a list of suggested titles, please choose two books to read for our next meeting.
Bayeux Tapestry interpretive texts
R. Howard Bloch, A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry (2006)
Andrew Bridgeford, 1066: The Hidden History of the Bayeux Tapestry (2005)
Biographies
David Bates, William the Conqueror (2001)
Peter Rex, Harold II: The Doomed Saxon King (2005)
Annie Fettu, Queen Matilda (2007)
Pictorial books
Wolfgang Grape, The Bayeux Tapestry: Monument to a Norman Triumph (no date)
David M Wilson, The Bayeux Tapestry (1985)
Novel
Julian Rathbone, The Last English King (1997)
Enjoy the 11th century these next few months.
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WRITERS GROUP
August 1
(the July meeting has been cancelled)
1pm in the
Reference Room
The Library has a writers group that meets monthly on Saturday in the Reference Room. They read from their writing and share thoughts. If you are interested in writing you are welcome to join us.
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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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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
Have You Heard?
The Rondout Valley Sound and Story Project
Ice Fishing on the Esopus River “That was the Sunday afternoon sport instead of watching TV.” Ken Cole Brought to you by the Sound and Story Project.
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PARKING AT THE LIBRARY
Please do not park in the parking area directly behind Fleming Realty. That portion of the property does not belong to the Library and the spaces are reserved for Fleming Realty staff and customers.
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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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CENTENNIAL PREPARATIONS
2009 will mark the library’s centennial year. As a part of our celebration, we will be preparing a series of exhibits looking at the decades between 1909 and 2009. We would like to feature tools, kitchen items, photgraphs and clothing from each decade. If you have an item that you would be willing to lend for the exhibit please contact Jody Ford at 687-0094 or email Jody.
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VOLUNTEER
WISH LIST
We are hoping one or two people will have time to volunteer to help us repair books and audiotapes. If you have experience repairing books or if you are willing to learn, please contact Jody Ford at 687-0094 or email Jody.
We also need dedicated volunteers to help us keep our shelves in order. We shelve a lot of books in a day so if you have an hour to spare on a regular basis, please let us know!
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HOURS
Day
Open
Close
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1:30 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
Tues.
10:00 a.m.
5:30 p.m.
Wed.
10:00 a.m.
8:00 p.m.
Thur.
10:00 a.m.
5:30 p.m.
Fri.
10:00 a.m.
5:30 p.m.
Sat.
10:00 a.m.
5:30 p.m.
Sun.
Closed
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RECENT ARRIVALS
Each year the Library adds hundreds of new books, video and audio works, plus new magazine subscriptions. 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 100) 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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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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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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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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Each year the Library adds hundreds of new books, video and audio works, plus new magazine subscriptions. 
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.
To celebrate our Centennial Year, we are inaugurating a local history lecture series and fittingly naming it after Julia Lawrence Hasbrouck whose family donated their family residence to be used as [our] library and whose Julia’s diaries and family portraits are treasured in our historic collection and archives.
Slide presentation featuring archaeological findings in the eighteenth century Hasbrouck House in New Paltz, drawing connections to the Hasbrouck family who were benefactors of the library.. with Prof. Joseph Diamond, Assistant Professor of Archaeology, SUNY, New Paltz
Professor Laurence Hauptman, Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY New Paltz who will present a power point discussion on American Indians in the Time of Henry Hudson: The Munsee and Mahican Indians, describing the history and culture of these two significant Native American peoples at the time of Henry Hudson’s exploration and the European settlement in 1609.
Friday, July 10, at 3:30pm in the Reference Room
August 1
Every Saturday
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.