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Library Value Calculator
BBQ Tickets
Friend Elect New Officers
Computer Class Offered
Hillsdale Preservation Committee
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| Are You Helping to Build Our New Library? |
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Library Value Calculator
Click on the link above and use the online calculator to estimate what the Roe-Jan Library saves you per month in Dollars and Cents!
Priceless!
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| Library Hours |
| Mon 10am - 5pm
Tue 10am - 5pm
Wed 10am - 2pm
Thur 10am - 8pm
Fri 12noon - 7pm
Sat 10am - 4pm |
| Construction Photos |
Click here to see latest construction photos of the new library.
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| Library Programs & Events |
August
3, 5, 7, 10, 12 & 14
Be Creative
@ Your Library
August 9
Barbecue and Silent Auction
August 15
Hillsdale Community Day
September 8, 15, 22, 29
Mouse Training
on the computer
September 19
Barn Dance
October 6, 13, 20, 27
Mouse Training
on the computer
Go to the web calendar for more details
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| Socrates Café in Hillsdale |
A Philosophical Discussion Group
Third Tuesday of the month
5-6:30 pm
August 18, 2009
Topic:
The components of American culture
Everybody invited.
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Please give us your comments and discussion topics per e-mail at
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| Friends of the Library |
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Homebound Delivery
(go to archive and select April 2009 newsletter)
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For Sale
to benefit
The Friends
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Community Cookbook $20
Tote Bags $ 10
Maps 1873 Ancram, Copake an d Hillsdale
1851 and 1959 Hillsdale
$5 each
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| Museum Passes |
Berkshire Museum
Clark (June-October) Norman Rockwell
Shaker Museum
offered by the Friends |
Quotable Reading Quotes
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"Reading aloud with children is known to be the single most important activity for building the knowledge and skills they will eventually require for learning to read." - Marilyn Jager Adams
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Production Staff
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| Carol Briggs
Shirley Coward
Inge Etzbach |
| Back copies of Newsletters |
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| Roeliff Jansen Community Library Newsletter |
Quotable Facts About America's Libraries
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Americans spend more than twice as much on salty snacks as they do on public libraries.
Source:
ALA Office for Research and Statistics
1/8/2007
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Do You Have Your BBQ Tickets Yet?
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BBQ, Boogie & Bid at the Park is Sunday August 9, from 12 to 4 at Roeliff Jansen Park. Come and enjoy a delicious meal, listen ... and maybe dance ... to some great music, bid on some unique and interesting items, and enjoy the views in the park. And you'll be benefiting the library building fund. Don't worry if it's raining ...there will be plenty of seating in the barn shed!
We'll be serving barbecue chicken, pulled pork, local corn on the cob, potato salad, coleslaw, and grilled veggies, with ice cream and brownies for dessert.
Tickets -- Adults $20 each, Children $10 each, under 6 free -- are available at the Library, Copake Pharmacy, Dad's Diner, Herrington's, B&G Wine & Gourmet and Farmer's Wife. Buy your tickets now and tell your friends, your family and your neighbors to get theirs!
Meg Wormley
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Friends Elect New Officers
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The Friends elected new officers at their annual meeting on July 9. From left to right, Ruth Lebo, Corresponding Secretary, Charlotte Shutts, Treasurer, Sally Laing, President and John Melby, Vice-President.
Missing from photo Laura Manchester, Recording Secretary
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Summer Reading Celebration
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Be Creative @ Your Library
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Grades K-3
Monday, Wednesday & Friday
August 3-14
10:00 - 11:00
Listen to stories, create a craft,
enjoy games and musical activities
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Listen to the Wise Greek in a Bedsheet - Socrates |
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What is the Socratic method, in case you are interested? The Socratic method is a way to seek truths by your own lights.
It is a system, a spirit, a method, a type of philosophical inquiry, an intellectual technique, all rolled into one.
Socrates himself never spelled out a "method." However, the Socratic method is named after him because Socrates, more than any other before or since, models for us philosophy practiced - philosophy as deed, as way of living, as something that any of us can do. It is an open system of philosophical inquiry that allows one to interrogate from many vantage points.
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Computers and How We Connect
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Pictured from left to right Michael Salvatore,
Inge Etzbach, Carol Briggs and Teri Traver
On Tuesday, July 21 the Program Development Committee for the Roeliff Jansen Community Library, Carol Briggs, Inge Etzbach and Teri Traver presented Computers and How We Connect to the local senior group, The Young at Hearters. The program came about after the group's president, Michael Salvatore, approached the library staff with concerns that the seniors were feeling out of the loop. Some were unable to operate a computer and needed assistance to learn some of the basics in order to stay in touch with today's world.
The Young at Hearters were very receptive to this program and expressed appreciation that basic computer classes will begin prior to the 'big move' to the new building.
The staff members appreciated all the input and thanked the seniors for the opportunity to speak.
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Computer Class Offered in September and October
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A very
basic computer class will begin in September with hands-on training of
mouse operation and exercises. To click or double click not only takes
a steady hand, but some accuracy as well. To learn dragging and moving
skills, the student will play solitaire. Students will also learn how
a to minimize and maximize. Mastering mouse skills will eventually
lead to other more advanced classes to be offered in our new library.
Three
public access pc's will be blocked off on Tuesday mornings from 11-12
for a one hour class beginning September 8. Register for a class by
visiting or calling the library at 325-4101.
Teri Traver
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A Week of Summer Reading
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| Volunteers Needed! |
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Our on-line survey was filled out by a number of people who were delighted about the things we would like to propose for the library next year. Art exhibits, art classes, historical lectures, tax preparation, computer courses - all were greeted with appreciation. However, all these wonderful things need not only participants, but also volunteers who are willing to help and facilitate these events. Here are opportunities for you: what are your talents and experiences? Let us know what event you can help with.
If you have not yet filled out the survey, here is your LAST chance. The survey goes off line August 31. Thank you very much! Inge Etzbach
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Cullin Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument
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I'm sure many of you have looked at the impressive monument on the small green island in front of the Hillsdale House. And you have wondered what it celebrates but have never walked over and read the inscription.
Well, neither have I. But thanks to the Roe-Jan library I now know all - and I'll share it with you.
On July 4, 1916, the Cullin Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument was dedicated as a gift to the people of Columbia County to honor its men who served in the Civil War. An estimated crowd of 2,500 people attended the dedication. A parade to the site was led by the Philmont band, and included a troop of boy scouts, and veterans who rode in decorated cars.
T. R. Evans, a famous poet at the time, wrote and recited his poem, "Columbia's Brave Volunteers" which he had composed for the occasion. Then the Hon. Lemuel Quigg delivered an address.
To learn more details of this great event visit our library which has full descriptions of the day and its events. Just tell them "Pat sent you".
Pat Stroh
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Hillsdale Preservation Committee
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Drawing by Marjorie R. HerringtonThe members of the Hillsdale Preservation Committee are pleased to tell you that the Roeliff Jansen Community Library is being considered for an appropriate adaptive re-use project. The library is one of the most important historic buildings in the Hillsdale hamlet, of which a portion has been nominated to the National and State Registers of Historic Places. Funds from the J. M. Kaplan Fund enabled the Committee to complete the forms for the two registers. The designation would enable the library, and other commercial or town buildings, to apply for funds and be eligible for some tax abetments for preservation work. The designation does not prevent buildings from being altered or changed but it does give the town distinction and hopefully will motivate people to improve their buildings. On August 22 the Preservation Committee is sponsoring a picnic and house tour of three historic houses and other buildings. The event will start with a picnic and music at one of the historic houses. For more information about this event call 518-325-1498. For information on what the nomination means and why it will benefit the entire town, contact Robina Ward robina@fairpoint.net Lex Lalli |
| Aerial Photos |
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 Check out the construction photos for July. We have some new and wonderful aerial photos taken by local photographer, Doug Goodhue. Doug can be reached at silvercloudstudio@yahoo.com or 518-329-5758. |
Learn a Language at Your Own Pace
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The Library has added Mango Languages, an online language-learning system to its HomeAccess databases.
Mango is free of charge to all library patrons, and is a fun, fast and convenient solution for learning to speak a foreign language.
Mango's online language learning system focuses on teaching actual conversation skills for a wide variety of languages. Each lesson combines real-life situations and audio from native speakers with an easy-to-follow interface and simple, clear instructions.
Because it's completely web based, library patrons can learn anywhere they have an internet connection - at the library, a coffee shop, or even at home in bed. It's so effective and easy to use, you'll be speaking a new language after just one lesson.
Mango Languages currently offers 12 language courses - Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, Italian, Greek, Russian, Mandarin Chinese, ESL for Polish speakers, ESL for Spanish speakers, and ESL for Brazilian Portuguese speakers.
Kerstin Cruger
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| Flat Henry Vists Vermont |
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This is Flat Henry hunting for newts with Sara, Andrea and Cailin Briggs at Adam's Resevoir in Woodford, Vemont.
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