Day Calendar

[For ages 0-18 months] Bring your baby and bounce along to fun stories, songs, and rhymes. Baby Storytime is a 15-minute program, followed by a relaxed playtime where you and baby will meet new friends.

Healing circles offer Black women a supportive space to explore their economic narratives through storytelling and body mapping, visualizing how financial stress and resilience manifest physically.

Please join us for a tour of this historical house in Albany.  There is a ramp to enter the building, but the second floor is not ADA accessible.  Light snacks will be provided.

[For adults] The City of Albany's Department of Neighborhood Services wants to hear from you! Please stop by the Pine Hills Branch to meet with Ken Louzier, the Neighborhood Specialist for Pine Hills. 

[Ages 18+] Would you like to update or create a résumé? Have formatting nightmares? Need help tweaking or writing a cover letter? The Delaware Branch offers one-on-one sessions every Thursday between 1-2pm. 

[Ages 4-8] Join us with Barbara Lukas from WMHT to enjoy the story of Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown and make some crafts to take home! Plus, you can take the book!

Registration is required as supplies and space are limited.

[Adults 18+]  Looking for help so you can confidently use a computer?  Sign up for a 30-minute session for help with:

[Ages 5 - 17] Learn how to make a sensory bottle with a few easy to get ingredients, and take it home with you once you've made it!

[For Teens] Not a Number is an interactive child trafficking and exploitation prevention curriculum designed to provide youth with information and skills in a manner that inspires them to make safe choices.

[Adults 18+] The City of Albany's new Department of Neighborhood Services wants to hear from you!

[Ages 5-17] Join us at the Delaware Branch as we build dinosaurs out of blocks borrowed from the Upper Hudson Library System! No registration necessary.  Attendees will take home their very own dinosaur egg to hatch in water!

[Adults 18+]  Looking for help so you can confidently use a computer?  Sign up for a 30-minute session for help with:

[Ages 4-11]  Come build with our Legos!  You can either use a challenge card or free build.  

[Ages 9-17] Hang out at the library and play Switch games with your friends!

Explore the intricate world of Legend with Marie Lu as she encourages readers to look beyond the surface and reveal hidden secrets.

[For All Ages] Calling all Artists, Musicians, Crafters, Makers and Menders! Stop by the self-directed open Makerspace and start (or finish) something!

[Ages 5-11] Kids, come choose your favorite frozen fruits and make your own dairy-free ice cream in seconds! Or learn about new fruits you've never tried!

Swallowtail Vagabounds features leader Blue Carreker and her acoustic trio, with guitars, mandolin, stand up bass, will perform songs influenced by folk, bluegrass and Americana with some original songs.

[For ages 6-14] Minecraft beginners and experts: come build your world and characters in a weekly Minecraft competition with your friends at the APL Washington Ave. Branch.

[For youth, ages 9-14.] Read this month's book before our meeting and join us (virtually) for a fun discussion!

July's book selection is Wildful by Kengo Kurimoto.