Make a card for a nursing home resident, and we’ll deliver it!
Help brighten someone’s day by writing a note, drawing a picture, or making them a colorful bookmark.
Materials available at our Clark House branch Saturday, October 9th through Saturday October 16th.
This program is part of our Great Giveback community programming.
Miss Diane D. is starting Storytime
in the Malta Branch Mondays at 3:00PM
in Round Lake
Fridays at 10:30am starting the week of October 18th
Ages 2-5
At this time we are requiring that ALL individuals over the age of 2 wear a mask when entering the library.
Effective August 2, 2021 masks are once again required of all people in all public and shared areas inside the library building, regardless of vaccination status, as recommended by the CDC.
This change is due to the increased transmission throughout our community of COVID-19, and to protect the safety of all who use our library buildings. On July 27, 2021, the CDC issued new recommendations everyone, even those fully vaccinated, wear a mask in public indoor settings in areas of substantial or high transmission. Saratoga county reached the threshold of substantial transmission on July 29, 2021.
We thank you for respecting our safety procedures and your continued support of our library.
Return of the ROBOTS!
The library’s four LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Robotics kits can now be taken out on a 14 day loan from the Malta Branch for home use.
With a kit, you can build one of many different kinds of robots, following plans from LEGO or other sources, and then program your robot from a PC or tablet.
You can download the free programming software from LEGO onto your own device or borrow a Library PC with the software already installed.
LEGO’s software is drag-and-drop graphic programming suitable for the recommended 10+ age group. Other more advanced programming languages such as Python and RobotC can also be used.
EV3 extension kits are also available for building even more elaborate robots.
Pickups and returns must be scheduled in advance, and are only available at the Malta Branch.
For questions or to schedule a pickup, email Paul at plavin@sals.edu.
Dolly Parton will read bedtime stories- premiering at 6pm on Thursday, April 2
Jeff Goldblum reads Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!
Grover reads The Monster At The End Of This Book
Local teens reading picture books on Facebook
Story Time From Space with Astronauts on the International Space Station
#OPERATIONSTORYTIME | Your Favorite Authors Host Story Time Online!
Olaf the Snowman (Josh Gad) is reading bedtime stories on Twitter
Neil Gaiman’s Mouse Circus website for Young Readers– includes full readings of Coraline and The Graveyard Book
Betty White reads Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion
Author Mo Willem hosts a live virtual online Lunch Doodle every weekday at 1pm ET
Storynory: A vast collection of audio stories where children can read along to the text. The website’s library includes original stories, fairy tales, and classics.
We will be adding to this list, so check back!
Check out Google Street View and Google Art & Culture for tours of famous sites and museums
*These links are not affiliated with the library.*
9/8/20- Thanks to Sarah for some great new links!
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden livestreams via Facebook
Monterey Bay Aquarium live cams
National Aquarium in Baltimore
FarmFood 360 11 Virtual Tours
American Dairy Virtual Farm Tours (by age group)
Star Atlas Virtual Planetarium
Stellarium Virtual Planetarium
Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas
VOMA Virtual Online Museum of Art
New York State Museum’s exhibit Represent: Contemporary Native American Art
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Petra (aka that stone temple from Indiana Jones)
The Acropolis (Athens, Greece)
Trip to Jerusalem (also available for older grades)
The Giant’s Causeway in Ireland
Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico
Galapagos Islands National Geographic Expeditions
Explore a coral reef in the Bahamas
African safari to the Etosha National Park in Namibia, Africa
360 Virtual East African Safaris
We are certain you’ve noticed the lack of eBook options in our system. You may have also heard about the publishing industry’s reluctance to sell libraries eBooks.
What is Freading™?Freading™ allows the Round Lake Library to increase our eBook Collection by offering access to tens of thousands of books- without waiting.
Use your Library Card to download a book each week for free.
Freading™has apps for most mobile devices including the Kindle Fire, Nook & Kobo. WOW!
Check it out now. What are you waiting for? Harness the power of your Library Card.
30 minutes = $1.
It’s as simple as that.
Ask a librarian at the desk for a timer, grab a book/manga/graphic novel and read. When the timer is done, take your library card (or ID) back to the librarian and have a dollar taken off your account.
The catch? You have to read while being in the library. Well… you can probably sit out on the porch if you want.
Sponsored by the Malta Sunrise Rotary
The Malta Sunrise Rotary is sponsoring a 1000 Book Program at both branches of the Round Lake Library. This free and easy reading program encourages preschoolers and their parents to borrow, share, and read together.
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