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THE LATEST NEWS AND INFORMATION FROM
WALLKILL PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Help us win the fight against hunger | |
This is the last week for food fight donations! Help us finish strong!
The Third Annual Ulster Country Food Fight food collection contest wraps up this coming Saturday, Oct. 15, with a goal of re-stocking food pantries across the county. Fourteen Ulster County libraries are participating, including Wallkill.
You can donate unexpired, non-perishable items like canned goods, pasta, breakfast cereal, and peanut butter to the library, and we'll deliver them to our local food pantry, The Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry, here in the hamlet. The library that collects the most items for donation wins the Food Fight and receives a certificate. Last year, libraries were able to collect 4,678 items. This year our collective goal is 6,000 items, but we need your help! Search your shelves, toss the expired stuff, and donate what you can to this excellent cause!
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Comics Plus powered by Library Pass | |
Free for you with your library card!
Get unlimited access to thousands of digital comics, graphic novels, and manga from more than one hundred publishers through your home library! Every title is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on your computer or device - no holds or wait lists required.
Get started with your computer
- Click the link for the Full Library (contains adult content) or
- Click the link for the Children's Library
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Provide your Library Card # and your PIN (Don't know your PIN? Contact your home library for help)
- Login
Get started with your smart device
- Download the Library Pass app from your app store
- Search for your Library: Ramapo Catskill Library System NY
- Choose either Children's Library or Full Library (contains adult content)
- Provide your Library Card # and your PIN (Don't know your PIN? Contact your home library for help)
- Login
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Name our new seasonal employee! | |
The Wallkill Public Library has a new seasonal employee! They haven't got a name, so stop by the library and place your suggestion in the ballot box before Oct. 31. | |
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Get your Adult Book BINGO card today! | | |
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Fall into our Autumn 2022
Adult Book Bingo!
Bingo cards are available at the library circulation desk, now through November 15. For each challenge square you complete, you will receive one raffle ticket to be entered into a drawing for a $50 gift certificate to Pasquale's. You may earn extra tickets by completing a BINGO (across, down or diagonal rows) or by completing a "blackout" (all squares). All cards must be turned in by November 15, 2022. The drawing will be held, and the winner will be notified on Wednesday, November 16, 2022. Good luck to all!
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Great Give Back focuses on recycling | |
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Each year, The Great Give Back gives library users opportunities to participate in service-oriented and meaningful programs, workshops, and events. This year, Wallkill’s event will center around recycling.
The library is partnering with the Ulster County Resource Recovery Agency to present a primer on all things involving recycling, with a goal of improving the recycling process to better help the environment. Putting unaccepted items in a recycling bin can damage equipment, harm workers, and create inefficiencies in the recycling process. The workshop will answer such questions as:
- Why can’t all plastics be recycled?
- What does the chasing arrows symbol mean?
- Are pizza boxes and coffee cups recyclable?
- How does recycling work in Ulster County?
- What is “wishcycling” and how does contamination affect recycling?
Come into the library and pick up some informative materials from the UCRRA about recycling best practices. When you visit, drop off those old, dead batteries cluttering up your junk drawer. The library has a collection box to recycle old batteries.
Register soon for Recycle Right, which takes place at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12.
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Fiction Club’s October selection is a classic | |
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The Fiction Club will meet to discuss As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 27. Newcomers are always welcome!
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members -- including Addie herself -- as well as others; the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic.
Join us to discuss this slim but weighty volume!
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Play mahjong on Wednesdays and Thursdays
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The library’s Wednesday mahjong group continues to meet at 1 p.m. each week, but for those of you who would like to play and are only free during the evenings, Thursdays evenings from 6-8 p.m. might be a better fit for you!
You don’t have to be an expert – all skill levels are always welcome in both groups. The library has its own game sets and cards, so no need to come with your own supplies, either! Registration is not required to play.
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Working on distressing, stamping and creating one of a kind end of summer greeting cards. | |
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Finished cards from the MYO Card Workshop. | | |
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Adults and teens alike enjoyed our Paint Your Jeans program. The end result was awesome wearable art! | |
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Fall Craft Fair happening Oct. 15 | |
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The Shawangunk Valley Fire House will be hosting a Fall Craft Fair from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15. The event will feature more than 40 vendors selling candles, jewelry, wines, wreaths, ornaments, and more.
Sponsored by the Shawangunk Valley Volunteer Fire Company Auxiliary, the fair will take place at the fire house’s 2150 Bruynswick Road location. For more information or to be a vendor, contact svfcauxiliary@gmail.com.
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Halloween Party set for Oct. 28 | | |
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The Shawangunk PBA and Wallkill Lions Club will be hosting a Halloween Pavilion Party from 6-9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 28, at Popp’s Park on Route 208.
Children of all ages are invited to enjoy snacks and refreshments and play ghoulish games!
For information, contact Sal Patella at 914-213-3063 or Officer Brooks at OFC.Brooks@shawangunk.org.
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We have been keeping busy during these crisp fall days here in the Children’s Room! | | |
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We learned about the seasonal migration of butterflies, and made cool tees to commemorate the event, with our special guest, Mr. Jerry “The Butterfly Guy.” | | |
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We also combined kindness with sensory science at STEM - we stacked non-perishables into different shapes and then donated the canned goods to the Ulster County Food Fight! | |
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And we made dolls… out of cattails… with Mr. Alex from SUNY New Paltz!
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For those who participated in the Lego contest at the Weekend of Wallkill, you all did an amazing job! Completed projects are on display in the Children’s Room at the library (in the yellow dot section). Please feel free to pick up your project during library hours.
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Speaking of kindness, don’t forget to enter our “Kindness is my Superpower” raffle! Through 10/15/22, share how we can be kind and helpful to others by filling out a card in the Children’s Room, or by emailing Miss Michelle at mgreco@rcls.org, for a chance to win some delicious Stewart’s ice cream! | |
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Weekly children's programming | |
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Our regular fall programming is in full swing with Storytime on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:30 AM and Little Explorers STEM & Sensory on Wednesdays at 11:00 AM.
Don’t miss our special Storytime guest, Zoe the Therapy Dog, on Oct. 25 at 10:30 AM. Zoe loves being read to, being pet, and doing some tricks! Halloween costumes are encouraged!
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And a little reminder for our young craft-loving friends that we now have Crafting Caboodles in-person on Tuesdays at 11:00 AM, or you can sign-up for Miss Michelle's Take-and-Make Craft instead (sign-up by Tuesday to pick-up your craft by Thursday of the same week). | |
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October is National Health Literacy Month and National Cookbook Month. Check out our special display featuring books from both themes, including one of our new releases, The Usborne Children’s World Cookbook.
Our fall and Halloween books are also on display, including our newest Halloween book, Scaredy Squirrel Prepares for Halloween.
And here are some new books heading our way from series that we love!
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Click the underlined titles to link to our catalog to place a hold or to read a plot summary. | |
Library services at a glance | |
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Masks are optional for the most part, during both visits and programming, however, there may be some programs that require masking. If masks are required for a particular program, it will be indicated at the bottom of the program summary when you register for that event via the online activities calendar. If you’re ever in doubt, feel free to call the circulation desk and ask! And if YOU feel more comfortable wearing a mask to the library, don’t hesitate to do so. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.
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Our doors are open for library services including browsing for library materials, making copies, sending faxes, and using the public access computers.
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Our bookdrop is open for contact-free and after-hours returns of library materials. Be sure to secure DVD and BCD cases with rubber bands.
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Curbside delivery of pre-ordered items is available by request. Call the circulation desk at 845-895-3707 to make a pick-up appointment.
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Fine-free returns on everything, except museum/park passes.
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Inter-library loans are available between all RCLS libraries.
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Online programming, with materials necessary for crafts available for pickup at the library.
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In-person programming, with appropriate social distancing.
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Museum passes are available to Wallkill Public Library patrons for Boscobel House and Gardens, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum, Empire Pass, Hudson Highlands Nature Museum, Hudson River Maritime Museum, Mohonk Preserve, Motorcyclepedia, Museum Village, and Storm King Art Center.
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We are not accepting any donations of books or DVDs at this time.
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