Galway Public Library

I am Olga “Regina” Doi, Director of the Galway Public Library and I am pleased to present to you our new website, logo and community resource. Please feel free to stop at the library, say hello, share your thoughts or keep visiting our growing online community www.GalwayPublicLibrary.org.

Have a non-profit, community or business listing you wish share with the world? Please visit our directories page to add your listing today!

Want to know what is happening at your library…

Please be sure to download and read our March Newsletter 2010 and visit the new “Director’s Note’s” recent Posts.

Galway Public Library enhances Hours of Operations

This New Year 2010, Galway Public Library adopted a winter (35 hours/week) and summer (37 hours/ week) operation schedule to better serve the after-school and after-work community.

ROI: The Value of Your Library

Return on Information and Return on Investment. Feel good about how far your library dollar goes- please visit our Library Value Calculator to learn how much you save!

In Your Neighborhood

2.11.2010

Ballston Spa National Bank generously donates $1,000 to Galway Public Library for the purchase of teens and children’s educational software.

Did You Know!

On Thursday, February 11th your library participated in  state wide advocacy for Libraries- “SNAPSHOT NY”  A Day in the Life of a Library

To see photos from that day and show your support for your Library please visit the Protect NY Libraries website. www.ProtectNYLibraries.org

Twice Weekly for the Month of March

Acrylic and Watercolor Painting and Techniques for Adults and Teens with Benno

Tuesday Afternoons- 2:30pm-3:30pm (Mar. 2, 9, 16, 23)
Thursday Evenings 6:30pm-7:30pm (Mar. 4, 11, 18, 25)

Pre-Registration and art supplies required. Please contact Regina at 518-882-6385 to register.

NY Council for the Humanities‘ “Reading Between the Lines” and Galway Public Library present

“Tragedy and Loss in Four American Novels”

A free book discussion group at Galway Public Library. Each 90-minute conversation will be facilitated by local author and poet, Mary Sanders Shartle.

Participants are asked to attend and contribute to all four sessions.

Monday, March 8, 7-9pm Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner
Monday, March 29,7-9pm The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
Monday, May 24, 7-9pm An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
Monday, June 28, 7-9pm O Lost, by Thomas Wolfe

Please email the director, call or stop in to register and pickup your book. Pre-registration is required space is limited

Youth Art Studio and Electronic Youth Library

Draw, learn Web Design, Computer Graphics and participate in Creative Community Awareness. Get a Teen Second Life!!! Create your own 3d Virtual Avatar. Meet and talk with teens from around the world in a Three-D virtual reality space online. Contact Regina at rdoi@sals.edu for more information.

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, was the inspiration for this past summer2009 arts program sponsored by the Story Quilt Fund 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.

Wire-less Internet at your Library! See the World from Your Community in Galway, NY.