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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

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


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.


Links

Belleayre Mtn. Ski Center
Belleayre Music Festival
Catskill Center
Catskill Watershed Corp
Delaware County
Delhi Chamber of Comm
Fleischmanns, NY
Fleischmanns First
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


Winter Hours

Monday — Closed
Tues – 10am-2pm
Wed – 12pm-4pm
Thurs – 12pm-4pm
Fri – 12pm-4pm
Sat – 10am-2pm
Sunday — Closed


Skene Book Group

Monthly meetings of Skene Book Group meet on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 11 AM at the Library.

♦ January 19th 2023 The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict
♦ February 16 2023 True Biz Sara Novic
♦ March 16, 2023 Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
♦ April 20, 2023 Music of the Bees by Eileen Garvin
♦ May 18, 2023 The Buddha in the Attic by Julie Otsuka

For further information, please contact the Library Director, Linda Rodgers at 845-254-4581 or emailing: librarian@skenelib.org


New Book Acquisitions

Desert Star by Michael Connelly
No Plan B by Lee Child
Livid by Patricia Cornwall
True Biz by Sarah Novic
Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Mad Honey by Jody Picoult
Suspect by Scott Turow
Shrines of Gaiety by Kate Atkinson
Treasure State by C.J. Box
Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Boys From Biloxi by John Grisham
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Touch by Olaf Olafsson
Long Shadows by David Baldacci
The Maze by Nelson DeMille
Uncultured by Daniella Mestyanek
Solito by Javier Zamora
Ted Kennedy: A Life by John A. Farrell
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono
American Shtetl by Nomi M. Stolzenberg


Board of Trustees Meeting

The Board of Trustees of Skene Memorial Library
will meet on Thursday, March 16 at 3 pm.
The public is welcome to attend. Face masks are encouraged.


Digital Patchwork Quilt

Digital Patchwork Quilt

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