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Automation comes to Skene Memorial Library!

Skene Library is part of the Four County Library system (4CLS). That allows Skene patrons to request books from the online 4CLS catalog which lists books from all branches of the 4CLS that have their collection online. The requested books are then delivered to Skene once a week and the patron can pick them up locally. Right now Skene’s books are not listed in the on-line catalog.

But the inter-library loan system is about to really expand. NY State has mandated that all libraries must be automated by 2021, so our library must start the automation process that will allow other 4CLS patrons to request our books. The inter-library loan expansion will greatly increase the books available to Skene patrons and will also give us more frequent delivery of requested books – from one to two days a week.

In order to expand our services we need two kinds of help from our patrons:

VOLUNTEERS – to help us barcode the 8000 books in our collection so they can be added to the 4CLS online catalog.
DONATIONS – to pay for the barcoding materials and printers, as well as the ongoing access cost to participate in the 4CLS online system.

Please contact Linda Rodgers our Librarian at 845-254-4581 or come by and sign up to Volunteer or make a Donation

Skene Memorial Library
1017 Main Street
Fleischmanns, NY 12430

Donations Welcome

Budgets are tight everywhere these days, and the cost of heating the library remains high. The funding from state and local governments covers only a portion of our budget so we supplement it with our fund-raising book and tag sale each May.

We encourage donations from individuals, no matter what amount. With your help, we can continue to obtain the best in books and audio and DVD materials. We thank all those who have donated books and other items for our collections and sales, and eagerly encourage such donations.

Please drop by and make a donation or mail your donation to Skene Memorial Library PO Box 189 Fleischmanns NY 12430

Four County Library System

Skene Memorial Library is a member of The Four County Library System, a cooperative network among Delaware, Broome, Otsego and Chenango counties, which extends considerably our “book borrowing” capacity. Ask our Librarian about it or Click here to visit their site….

Internet Access

Skene Memorial Library has 4 public access computers for internet surfing, research or Microsoft Office applications. In addition there is free wifi access for your own laptop.

Board of Trustees

Board of Trustees

Roy Todd – President
John Duda – Treasurer
Susanna Margolis – Secretary
Glenna Herz
Douglas Green

Winter Hours

Monday — Closed
Tuesday – 10am-2pm
Wednesday-1pm-5pm
Thursday – 1pm-5pm
Friday – 1pm-5pm
Saturday – 10am-2pm
Sunday — Closed

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Board of Trustees Meeting

The Board of Trustees of Skene Memorial Library
will meet on Wed., Feb. 19 at 4pm.

The meeting is open to the public. Minutes of the Board meetings are available at the Library.

Digital Patchwork Quilt

Skene Book Group

The Skene Book Group meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 11AM in the Library. Schedule:

Dec 19 Inheritance by Dani Shapiro
Jan 16 2020 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
Feb 20 The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See
Mar 19 Jefferson’s Daughters by Catherine Kerrisen
Apr 16 Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
May 21 A Three Dog Life by Abigail Thomas
Jun 18 A Changed Man by Francine Prose

For further information, please contact the Library Director, Linda Rodgers at 845-254-4581

New Book Acquisitions

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
Akin by Emma Donoghue
The Night Fire by Michael Connelly
Bloody Genius by John Sanford
Blue Moon by Lee Child
The Guardians by John Grisham
Dominicana by Angie Cruz
Secret Wife of Aaron Burr by Susan Holloway Scott
Year of the Monkey by Patti Smith
Catskill Ghosts, History & Hauntings in the Catskill Mountain Region by Lynda Lee Macken
Resistance Women by Jennifer Chiaverini
Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Red At the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
Cilka’s Journey by Heather Morris
The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
The Institute by Stephen King
This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
The Girl Who Lived Twice
A Single Thread by Tracy Chevalier
The Pioneers by David McCullough

Links

Belleayre Mtn. Ski Center
Belleayre Music Festival
Catskill Center
Catskill Watershed Corp
Delaware County
Delhi Chamber of Comm
Fleischmanns, NY
Fleischmanns Museum
Hist Society of Middletown
HistoryNet
NYS County Historians
Roxbury Arts Group
The Times of Halcott
Upstate88
Wiki on Fleischmanns
WIOX Radio
Writers in the Mountains

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