Schuylerville Public Library News

On July 1st starting at 4pm

Celebrate the start of Summer with free delicious Ice Cream Sundaes provided by Stewarts Shops.

Sign up for our summer events when you stop in, or beforehand by visiting svl.libcal.com

Learn more about our Summer Reading Program and get your first bingo sheets!

No registration necessary --just stop in.

Back by popular demand!

Have you ever wondered how fast you and a few friends can put together a jigsaw puzzle? Wonder no more! Join us for a jigsaw puzzle competition. Teams will all be given the same puzzle and the first team to complete their puzzle will win a prize.

You may sign up as a team (4 people per team maximum) or you may sign up solo and we will place you on a team. Snacks will be provided for our puzzlers and any spectators.

Registration is required. Puzzlers must be age 8+, spectators of any age are welcome. We hope to see you there!

You are never too young to appreciate art! This program is designed to bring out the big artists in your little ones, ages 3-5!

On Thursdays at 10am starting on June 5th and ending July 3rd, we will start with a circle time story involving art on the rug, then off to the tables fora variety of art projects that could include painting, sculptures, mixed media, etc.

Each activity provides your child with a hands-on creative experience and some great

works of art to take home.

Drop in program, no registration required. Though we do have art smocks available, please dress for mess!

On alternating Mondays at 1pm, starting June 9th, join Miss Brandi for an animal-themed story time with some crafts, songs, dancing and games mixed in.

Geared towards the younger crowd but all are welcome!

Drop in event! No registration required.

*Sensitivity Warning*

There may be elements/talk about the food chain (meat eating/animals eating other animals) and the life cycle (death)

This program is Part II of a collaborative effort between the Schuylerville Garden Club and the Schuylerville Public Library to provide area Youth with the opportunity to create a plant based Fairy Garden which will be displayed at the annual SGC Flower Show to be held July 12th and 13th. Each participant will design a Fairy Garden based upon a Fairy Tale of their choosing. Think of the fun ideas one can create using a Fairy Tale theme such as: The Pied Piper, Goldilocks, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Rapunzel, The Prince and the Frog, The Princess and the Pea, Hansel and Gretel....the list is almost endless!! Materials (containers, plants, soil and some accessories) will be available to make the gardens, but it is highly encouraged for participants to bring accessories (and the plant container) they have collected after participation in Part I of the program.**

All of the gardens created on June 28th will be on display at the library until the Flower Show. Starting July 14th, the gardens can be collected at the library to take home.

** (While Part I of the program was held on May 17th, youth are still welcome participate in just Part II. Youth who already have started the project on May 17th will be putting their plants into their already designed garden, and have time to "tweak" the final result. Those who have not yet started the project will need at least one hour to put one together.

Interested parties can register here.

Come learn one of the dances going viral on TikTok with Miss Brandi on Friday June 27th at 4pm.

Open to ages 10-15.

Register here and fill out a social media release form to participate!

Registration is now open for our summer session! Classes are on Tuesdays and Thursdays, beginning on July 8th and ending on August 14th, from 9:30am-11am.

This program is designed for children ages 3.5 to 5. Siblings are also welcome to attend as long as caregivers are available to assist the child registered in the program.

Counting Down to Kindergarten features the academic and social skills your child will need prior to entering Kindergarten. The typical program has a set routine: First, there is a circle time where stories are read, songs are sung, and learning concepts are introduced. Then the children and their adults are free to explore the various stations. Each station focuses on developing various preschool level skills. Some of these skills are: early literacy, name recognition, letter recognition, counting, number recognition, name, letter, and number writing, playing cooperatively, taking turns, exploring through the senses, fine motor skills, and art exploration.

Parents/caregivers are required to remain with their children throughout the program. It is not a drop-off. We expect that adults will assist their child in learning stations and sit with them during circle time until the child is able to follow directions and participate appropriately on their own.

June 13th at 6pm: TBD

Popcorn and cups for water will be available. Outside food welcome but patrons are responsible for clean up. Children under 7 must be accompanied by an adult.

Book Club will meet on June 25th at 7pm. Our book for this month is The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. Check out the graphic below for the rest of the year's picks!

If you would like to participate, come by the library and pick up a copy of the book, we have them on hold about a month before the meeting. Registration is not required. We hope to see you there!

Cookbook Club will be on June 18th at 6:30pm and our theme is Barbeque favorites! We will have grilled hamburgers and hotdogs, and encourage you to bring a side or dessert to round out our barbeque get-together.

If you are not currently a part of cookbook club, but are interested in being on our mailing list, please fill out this form. Or, feel free to make a dish and come by!

Shorts and Stouts, our partnership short story book club with Bound by Fate Brewing will be meeting on June 12th at 5pm. Our story for June is "Wild Ale" by SJ Sindu and it can be found here. Come join us for lively conversation, excellent beer, and delicious food at the Bound by Fate taproom!

We will be closed on Thursday June 19th in observance of Juneteenth.

As many of you have already heard, the library is looking to expand our physical space to better serve our community. Financial and community support is needed in order to make our dream of a better-sized facility a reality. The photo below is a rendering of what the completed expansion would look like. The blueprint to the left details what features and spaces our library will include after finishing the renovation.

There will be a public vote on August 12th of this year for the community to decide if they are ready for the Library to move forward with this expansion. Additionally, the Advocates for the Schuylerville Public Library are fundraising for the project with an initial financial goal of $200,000 which was met in April 2025. We have been blown away by the generosity of our donors thus far and will continue to update the community on the fundraising efforts.

With 57 years since our last capital campaign and major expansion, we understand how significant this change is. When it was completed in 1968, our current building was built to serve just over 1,400 residents. After transitioning from a Village Library to a School District Library in 2013, we now provide service to just over 10,000 residents. Our goal has been and continues to be to serve our community to the best of our ability, and our greatest limitation to that at present is our physical space.

It's a new month, with a new opportunity to learn a little bit about our staff. Each month we ask the staff a question and post the response here in the newsletter. We'd love to hear your response to the question the next time you stop into the library! This month the staff answered the question: "If you could meet any author (living or deceased), who would it be and why?"

Caitlin: "I would like to meet John Keats since he wrote some of my favorite poems and had such a short tragic life with so many beautiful thoughts on what it means to be alive."

Julie: "I would like to meet with C.S. Lewis to discuss The Chronicles of Narnia, Mere Christianity, and A Grief Observed.

I'd love to know how his personal theology shaped his allegory and whether or not these insights returned to him when grief struck.

He was Irish, a rebel with a sense of humor and a personal friend of J.R.R. Tolkien."

Holly: "Maybe Tolkien? I haven't put a whole lot of thought into it, but I admire the man for what he did for the fantasy genre and he seems like he'd be an interesting man to meet."

Emilly: "Mo Willems! He's written so many awesome picture books."

Jessica: " I would like to meet LM Montgomery. I fell in love with the Anne of Green Gables series and would like to know what her inspirations were when creating these books."

Beth: "This is a difficult question for me. For both academic and philosophical reasons, I think I have to go with Rachel Carson. She was a once in a generation writer, scientist, and environmentalist and I'd love to absorb any wisdom I could from her."

Brandi: "If I had to choose someone it would have to be Agatha Christie and I would ask her what happened during those 11 days that she disappeared in 1926.

She was quite the woman altogether; she published 6 books. Her first novel was written as a dare. Her mother did not want her to read until she was 8 but taught herself in order to read earlier. She received no formal education until she was sent to finishing school in Paris at the age of 15. Miss Marple was based on real people. She swore the official oath of detective writing. She was a surfer."

Mary Lou: "This is way too hard to narrow down!!! I have many authors I wish I could meet!! But since I am a lover of history, I will share that the books written by Barbara Tuckman, in particular "The Guns of August", "A Distant Mirror", and "The First Salute" instilled in me a love of history that remains to this day. Her research is impeccable, and her presentation is informative and very interesting."

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