Events in January 2024

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December 31, 2023
January 1, 2024(1 event)

Library CLOSED - New Year's Day

N/A
January 1, 2024

The Staatsburg Library will be CLOSED for
NEW YEAR'S DAY

Monday, January 1

January 2, 2024
January 3, 2024
January 4, 2024(1 event)

Story time - Penguins


January 4, 2024

Story time - Penguins

Join Miss Lisa for books, crafts, friends & FUN!

Thursday, January 4
10 AM

January 5, 2024
January 6, 2024
January 7, 2024
January 8, 2024(2 events)

Babies & Books - A LapSit Program for Birth to 24 Months


January 8, 2024

Babies & Books
A LapSit Program for Birth to 24 Months

Using songs, rhymes, fingerplay, puppets, toys and more this program is geared to promote the development of early literacy skills, motor coordination and provide opportunities for social interaction.

Monday, January 8, 22, & 29
Library Closed January 15
10:30 AM

 

Mah Jongg Monday


January 8, 2024

Mah Jongg Monday

For more information call 889-4683 or email staatslibrary@gmail.com

Monday, January 8, 22, & 29
Library Closed January 15
2 PM

January 9, 2024
January 10, 2024(1 event)

Women Authors Book Club - Meeting at St. Margaret's


January 10, 2024

Women Authors Book Club

An afternoon book club in collaboration with St. Margaret’s!

Join a dynamic group of adult readers that meet monthly for fun and lively discussions about a vast array of books, from contemporary to the classics all by women authors. All are welcome!
January Book Selection: Any Book By Author Barbara Pym

Call 889-4683 or email staatslibrary@gmail.com to order a copy of the book.

Wednesday, January 10
11 AM
St. Margaret's Meeting Room

 

January 11, 2024(2 events)

Preschool Motion Commotion


January 11, 2024

Motion Commotion For Preschoolers

Join Miss Lisa for a movement and music program including songs, instruments, rhyme and interactive play for children.

Active participation of an adult caregiver is required.

Thursday, January 11 & 25
10 AM

Staatsburg Library Board of Trustees Monthly Meeting


January 11, 2024

Staatsburg Library Board of Trustees
Monthly Meeting

For more information visit the Staatsburg Library website
staatsburglibrary.org or email staatslibrary@gmail.com .

The Staatsburg Library Board of Trustees meet on the second Thursday of each month at 7 pm

2024 Meeting Schedule
January 1, February 8, March 14, April 11, May 9, June 13, July 11,
August 8, September 12, October 10, November 14, December 12

Thursday, January 11
7 pm

January 12, 2024(1 event)

Magic Tree House Book Club – For Early Elementary Ages


January 12, 2024

Magic Tree House Book Club – For Early Elementary Ages

Discuss the adventures of Jack & Annie! Activities, crafts and games based on the Magic Treehouse Book Series.
January -  Book #4 Pirates Past Noon

Friday, January 12
6:30 PM

 

January 13, 2024
January 14, 2024
January 15, 2024(1 event)

Library CLOSED - Martin Luther King Jr. Day

N/A
January 15, 2024

The Staatsburg Library will be CLOSED in Observance Of MLK Day
Monday, January 15

January 16, 2024(1 event)

Book Club


January 16, 2024

Book Club

Join a dynamic group of adult readers that meet monthly for fun and lively discussions about a vast array of books, from contemporary to the classics.
January Book Selection - The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles

Call 889-4683 or email staatslibrary@gmail.com to order a copy of the book.

Tuesday, January 16
7 PM

January 17, 2024(2 events)

Girls Book Club – For Elementary Ages (3rd - 5th Grade)


January 17, 2024

Girls Book Club – For Upper Elementary Ages
(3rd - 5th Grades)

Talk about books, play games, make crafts, have a snack & lots of FUN!
January book(s) will be discussed.
The Strangers by Margaret Peterson Haddix
Sal & Gabi Break the Universe by Carlos Alberto Hernandez
Ginny Off the Map by Caroline Hickey

Wednesday, January 17
4:30 PM

 

Mystery Book Club


January 17, 2024

Mystery Book Club

Mystery loves company! Join a dynamic group of adult readers that meet monthly for fun and lively discussions about a vast array of mystery books, from contemporary to the classics.
January Book Selection: Jade Dragon Mountain by Elsa Hart

Call 889-4683 or email staatslibrary@gmail.com to order a copy of the book.

Wednesday, January 17
6:30 PM

January 18, 2024(2 events)

Story time - Let It Snow!


January 18, 2024

Story time - Let It Snow!

Join Miss Lisa for books, crafts, friends & FUN!

Thursday, January 18
10 AM

Author Shane Lehan - (At The Salmon Of Knowledge Bookstore in Hyde Park)


January 18, 2024

Book Talk & Signing
With Local Author SHane Lehan

At The Salmon Of Knowledge Bookstore in Hyde Park

Join the Staatsburg and Hyde Park Libraries with Salmon of Knowledge in welcoming Shane Lehan, local author, for a discussion and signing of his book Hollywood Heaters. Based in the 1920's Hollywood Heaters may be a gangster and mafia story, but at it's core it is a story about a group pf kids trying to navigate life and find who they are. A tale of action and noir - where nobody knows who is telling the truth.

Thursday, January 18
6:30 PM

Salmon Of Knowledge Books
4158 Albany Post Rd, Hyde Park, NY 12538

January 19, 2024(1 event)

Teen Night - 6th Grade and Up


January 19, 2024

Teen Night
6th Grade and Up

Games, snacks & tons of FUN!
Hang out with friends and have lots of laughs at the library!

Friday, January 19
7 PM

January 20, 2024
January 21, 2024
January 22, 2024(4 events)

Babies & Books - A LapSit Program for Birth to 24 Months


January 22, 2024

Babies & Books
A LapSit Program for Birth to 24 Months

Using songs, rhymes, fingerplay, puppets, toys and more this program is geared to promote the development of early literacy skills, motor coordination and provide opportunities for social interaction.

Monday, January 8, 22, & 29
Library Closed January 15
10:30 AM

 

Mah Jongg Monday


January 22, 2024

Mah Jongg Monday

For more information call 889-4683 or email staatslibrary@gmail.com

Monday, January 8, 22, & 29
Library Closed January 15
2 PM

Boys Book & STEM Club - Upper Elementary (3rd - 5th Grade)


January 22, 2024

Boys Book  & STEM Club - Upper Elementary
(3rd - 5th Grade)

Discuss books, tackle stem activities & challenges, play fun games and have a snack!
October book(s): Reader's Choice

Monday, January 22
4:30 PM

Food Lit & Cookbook Book Club


January 22, 2024

Food Lit & Cookbook Book Club

January Book Selection:
The Sound Of A Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey

In a work that beautifully demonstrates the rewards of closely observing nature, Elisabeth Tova Bailey shares an inspiring and intimate story of her encounter with a Neohelix albolabris—a common woodland snail.

While not exactly a food book per se, it does have eating in the title!

Monday, January 22
7 PM

January 23, 2024(1 event)

Stanzas: Poetry Circle


January 23, 2024

Stanzas: Poetry Circle
Virtual Meeting - Online Via Zoom

Bring a poem by a published poet inspired by the chosen theme.
January Theme: Solitude

This is not a poetry writing workshop, we read and share poetry by published authors.

Tuesday, January 23
6 PM
Call 845-889-4683 or email staatslibrary@gmail.com to receive the Zoom link 

 

January 24, 2024
January 25, 2024(1 event)

Preschool Motion Commotion


January 25, 2024

Motion Commotion For Preschoolers

Join Miss Lisa for a movement and music program including songs, instruments, rhyme and interactive play for children.

Active participation of an adult caregiver is required.

Thursday, January 11 & 25
10 AM

January 26, 2024(2 events)

Covered With Night: Pulitzer Prize Winning Author Nicole Eustace - Online Via Zoom (Registration Required)


January 26, 2024

Covered With Night: A Story Of Murder And Indigenous Justice In Early America
Author Nicole Eustace
Online Via Zoom - Registration Required

Professor Nicole Eustace of New York University will share work from her book Covered with Night, the tale of a murderous attack by settler colonists from Pennsylvania against a Seneca hunter in the winter of 1722; the resulting cross-cultural debates about the nature of true justice; and the eventual creation of a treaty agreement at Albany, NY in September of that year that still stands today, the oldest continuously recognized Indigenous treaty in Anglo-American law.

Dr. Nicole Eustace is the Julius Silver Professor of History at New York University where she also directs the Atlantic History Workshop.  The author of multiple books and articles on early American history, she received a Pulitzer Prize for Covered with Night in 2022.

Register Here: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/11203047

Friday, January 26
12 PM
Online Via Zoom

Build It!


January 26, 2024

Build It!

Love to design & build? Take our design challenge or be the architect of your own design! We supply all the materials you need. Lego, mega-blocks, kinex, magnatiles, blocks, cardboard & recycled materials, etc.
Fun for all ages!
January Challenge -

Friday, January 26
4:30 PM

January 27, 2024
January 28, 2024
January 29, 2024(2 events)

Babies & Books - A LapSit Program for Birth to 24 Months


January 29, 2024

Babies & Books
A LapSit Program for Birth to 24 Months

Using songs, rhymes, fingerplay, puppets, toys and more this program is geared to promote the development of early literacy skills, motor coordination and provide opportunities for social interaction.

Monday, January 8, 22, & 29
Library Closed January 15
10:30 AM

 

Mah Jongg Monday


January 29, 2024

Mah Jongg Monday

For more information call 889-4683 or email staatslibrary@gmail.com

Monday, January 8, 22, & 29
Library Closed January 15
2 PM

January 30, 2024
January 31, 2024(1 event)

A Program For All Abilities - Owls


January 31, 2024

A Program For All Abilities
Owls

This month we will have fun making owls with cans and cardboard.
For teens & adults with intellectual, cognitive and/or developmental disabilities.

Wednesday, January 31
11 AM

February 1, 2024(1 event)

Story time - Shapes


February 1, 2024

Story time - Shapes

Join Miss Lisa for books, crafts, friends & FUN!

Thursday, February 1
10 AM

February 2, 2024
February 3, 2024

We offer story times and other activities for children, teens, and adults, including a book discussion group. Check our program calendar or call the library at 845-889-4683.