Galway Public Library

Your New Library Director

I am Olga “Regina” Doi, and I wish to introduce myself as the new Director of the Galway Public Library. As a Galway resident I greatly look forward to an exciting summer of Library and Community
programming for children, teens and adults. Please feel free to stop at the library, say hello, share your thoughts or keep visiting our newly redesigned and growing online community resource website www.GalwayPublicLibrary.org.    

Please be sure to download and read our July 2009 Programming and Events Newsletter!

Have a beautiful summer! - r.d. 7/03/2009

Summer Programs at Your Library

The Summer Reading Program for Children- Be Creative @ Your Library and for Teens - Express Yourself @ Your Library is nearing its first week prize drawing.  The program ends August 22nd so be sure to sign up for a weekly chance to win!!

The summer is here and the programs have begun! Take a look at the program line up for July and August 2009.

Vacancy on the Board of Trustees for the Galway Public Library

Your library is looking for a Galway Central School District Resident, 18 years or older, to join our Board of Trustees for the term ending in June 30, 2010. Please join us for a rewarding volunteer position destined to be exciting and beneficial to the Galway Central School District communty.

Local History at Your Library

Arlene Rhodes will present a program, Galway Pottery Works, a Historical Perspective, at the Galway Public Library on Tuesday, July 21, at 7:30 p.m.  

At least two generations of the Hodgson/ Hudson family produced salt-glazed stoneware in the Town of Galway from the 1830’s to the 1860’s.  For more than twenty-five years, Rhodes and other members of the Galway Preservation Society have conducted an inventory of existing pieces of Galway stoneware, organized public exhibits and arranged for reproductions of four pieces of the local pottery.  Anyone having pieces of stoneware from the Galway factory is encouraged to bring them to the program.

The Galway Village Watering Trough, a cast iron structure erected in 1910 in the Village of Galway Park by the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and funded by Galway resident  Horace W. Carpentier, is the inspiration for this summer's arts program at the library- "Story Sculptures".

The Galway Preservation Society is offering for sale a beautfiul cast pewter commemorative medallion/ornament based on the original art by local artist and designer Herb Kopper.

Please visit the Galway Town Hall or Ballston Spa National Bank- Galway Branch to purchase this $10.00 keepsake.