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VolunTeen Sign Up & Orientation

As part of our Summer Reading program, students entering grades 6 –12  have the opportunity to be VolunTeens.  VolunTeens spend two hours each week at the library earning community service hours.  Each VolunTeen must be entering grades 6 – 12 and can sign up for one time slot.  Our program is six weeks long (June [...]

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2013 – 2016 Library Long Range Plan

The Town of Ballston Community Library Board of Trustees approved the 2013-2016 Library Long Range Plan:
2013-2016 Library Long Range Plan
Thank you to everyone who participated in our Focus Groups and survey! We couldn’t have done it without you!

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Spring Schedule

Here are our Spring programs!
Spring 2013 Program Schedule
 

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Thank you!

Many thanks to the Employees of the Ballston Spa National Bank for selecting the Town of Ballston Community Library for a donation.

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Part-Time Youth Services Clerk Opening

The Town of Ballston Community Library is seeking an energetic, flexible and punctual person to fill an hourly youth services clerk position 9 hours per week including at least one evening a week and one Saturday a month with the opportunity for more hours filling in for regular staff.  Salary is $8.75 per hour and [...]

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Program for writers

Attention, Writers!
Want to get published? Two local companies – Open Door Publishers, Inc., of Malta, and The Troy Book Makers, of Troy – provide printing and publishing services. Come learn what they have to offer on Wednesday, April 4, at 6:30 p.m., in the Community Room at The Town of Ballston Community Library, 2 [...]

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Memoir Writing Workshop

Join Mary Sanders Shartle in the library community room for this 8 week session on memoir writing to be held on April 5, 12, 19, & 26 and May 3,  10, 17, & 24.
Register by calling 399-8174 ext. 2.
Please plan on attending ALL eight sessions. Bring paper or a journal and a pencil or pen.
This is a [...]

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Library Mini Golf

Library Mini Golf
The Friends of the Library is hosting a Library Mini Golf event on February 24 & 25. Friday we will play from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM and on Saturday we’ll play from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM.   This will be a chance for families and friends to come out and [...]

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Kindle Winner!

Peyton won a Kindle in the Friends "Read Around the Holidays" Raffle!

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If you’re having trouble borrowing an e-book

Here’s a message from Overdrive.
Dear Library Partner,
This message is to inform you that we are experiencing extremely high traffic at some of our hosted library websites which may result in reduced performance. Our network engineers are actively working on this situation during this peak period.
We will keep you notified on any issues [...]

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