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New Year, New Catalog!

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New year, new catalog! Our *brand new* online catalog is live!

The new library catalog incorporates a really extraordinary array of helpful tools to guide patrons to library resources, including:

⭐ Links to similar titles
⭐ Age recommendations and reading levels for children’s books
⭐ Professional and reader reviews
⭐ Author biographies
⭐ Links to the same item in multiple different formats

…and tons more to help you find your next favorite book, movie, board game, museum pass, fishing pole or whatever else you might happen to be looking for.

Check it all out at https://altm-uhls.na5.iiivega.com !

(If you’ve got the old version of the catalog bookmarked, you might want to save that new address on your computer or phone.)

Questions or assistance required? We’ve got you! Call 518-861-7239 or email director@altamontfreelibrary.org.

Take it out for a spin while it’s still got that brand new library catalog smell! We think you’ll love it!

 

Let’s Beat Joe!

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If you know Altamont Free Library, you know Joe. And if you know Joe, you know that’s he’s a huge nerd whose favorite hobby is work. But his *second* favorite hobby is doing the weekly Sunday New York Times crossword.

Every year, Joe looks forward to the week that the Times publishes its annual SuperMega Crossword. It came out a few weeks early this year, but he’s been busy and hasn’t gotten to starting it just yet. This year’s puzzle has 606 across clues and 590 down clues. He’s expecting a very pleasant weekend getting started on it.

So, Altamont, here’s the challenge: Can our patrons work together to finish the SuperMega before Joe does?

Starting today, you can drop into the library’s community room and solve one clue or a fifty. It would be unsporting to have one person solve the whole thing, so let’s let others share in the satisfaction of besting the librarian. We’ll keep the challenge going until we have a winner!

Happy solving!

 

Now on display: Laura Shore’s “Images of Altamont”

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One of our favorite things we get to do is to show off the incredible artistic talent we have all around us and one of our favorite artists to highlight is Laura Shore.

We’re very pleased to invite you to check out Images of Altamont, a new exhibit of Laura’s recent paintings that beautifully capture familiar local landscapes. Laura’s work will be enlivening our Community Room through January 2026.

You can find more of Laura’s incredible work at @farmsharestudio

Thank you, Laura, for sharing your incredible talent with us!