The DPQ is Back in Town!

The Digital Patchwork Quilt (DPQ) has returned after a long hiatus. An extensive database of stories, photographs, newspaper clippings, the DPQ was first published online in the early 2000s by the Skene Memorial Library but was forced off-line due to extensive, unwanted hacking.

Thanks to a generous grant from The O’Connor Foundation, the DPQ has been upgraded and is now available at www.skeneLib.org/DPQ. The DPQ is a broad history of Fleischmanns, covering the many early events that made Fleischmanns a vibrant and active Catskills community. You’ll find accounts of boarding houses, cemetery ramblings, vintage postcards, unique photographs, personal stories of our many residents and more [WikiPedia once used the DPQ as a resource.]. Once again, read all about Fleischmanns and its many ‘avenues’!

Skene Memorial Library
Catalog is Now Online

In response to the mandate by the State of New York that all public libraries be automated, Skene Memorial Library volunteers spent many hours over the past two and a half years entering Skene’s 8357 books, DVD’s and audio books into the data base of the Four County Library System.

All Skene’s Library’s collections have been digitally catalogued and bar coded, and are now included in the Four County Library On-Line Catalog (4CLS). Skene patrons can now borrow books, DVD’s and digital media from any of the 42 Four County Library facilities that are included in the on-line catalog. Downloadable e-books and audio books are accessed directly through the 4CLS website and books and CD’s reserved from other libraries are delivered to Skene for pickup on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Here is the web link for the on-line catalog or click on the icon:
https://fcls.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/fcls

Click to go to catalog

To use the on-line system and to borrow books from Skene Library shelves, you will now need a 4CLS bar-coded library card with its new number. If you don’t already have one, stop by the library to get one.

New 4CLS Library Card


In order to expand our services we continue to need help from our patrons with DONATIONS – to pay for the barcoding materials and printers, as well as the ongoing cost of participating in the 4CLS online system.

Please contact Linda Rodgers our Librarian at 845-254-4581 or come by.

Skene Memorial Library
1017 Main Street
Fleischmanns, NY 12430

Skene Library is Open

Skene Memorial Library
Is Open to the Public.
BUT we are following
the safety rules:

  • FACE MASKS ARE ENCOURAGED.  COVID IS STILL WITH US.
  • ALL PATRONS MUST FOLLOW SOCIAL DISTANCING RULES IN THE LIBRARY AND ON THE PORCH
  • WIFI IS AVAILABLE INSIDE THE LIBRARY
  • PUBLIC COMPUTERS ARE AVAILABLE FOR USE