Children's Services

Our Children's Corner

Cozy, comfortable and kid-friendly, our children’s area has kid-sized tables and chairs, a multitude of puppets and pop-up books for play/reading in the library, and even a fish tank for those future marine biologists!

Our children’s collection includes:

• Board Books for Tots
• Picture Books
• ABC/Easy Reader Books
• Junior Fiction
• Junior Non-Fiction
• Junior Biography
• Reference Books
• Cassette/Book Kits
• Holiday Book Collection
• Current Holiday Collection displayed after children’s videos
• Audio Books
• Paperbacks
• Videos/DVDs
• Children’s Magazines – Located in the periodical section in Adult Reference
• Computer CD-ROMs – Located in the Computer Area

Our Parents Corner

Our Parent’s Corner is located in our Children’s Area. Our parenting collection is divided into two sections. The first section includes books designed just for parents, covering common parenting issues as well as more complex issues. The second section includes books for parents and child to share, covering such topics from potty sharing to sharing. Parenting videos are at the end of the Children’s video collection.

Our Youth Study Center: Grades 5 & Up

Our Youth Study Center is where kids Grades 5 and up can come to do their homework or work on a school project. It houses our Young Adult collection, which includes:

• YA Fiction
• YA Non-Fiction
• YA Biography
• YA Reference
• YA Graphic Novels
• YA Magazines
• YA Audio Books
• YA Magazines
• 3 Computers with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint as well as educational/fun CD-ROMs

There are comfortable couches and chairs as well as a game table with comfortable cushions to sit on and a selection of board games to play when schoolwork is done. We’ve included a snack and soda machine to provide that extra boost of energy needed to complete assignments. The Youth Study Center also provides our youth an area in the library where they can gather and talk without constantly being shushed by adults.

Phone: (845) 477-8377 Ext. 16

Special Note on Computer Resources for Children and Young Adults

We have 7 public access computers in our Computer Area that have unfiltered access to the Internet as well as word processing, spreadsheet and desktop publishing programs and many educational/fun CD-ROM programs. There are another 2 public access computers in our Reference area. These computers do not have Internet access, but do have word processing, spreadsheet and desktop publishing programs. The computers in our Reference Area may only be used for schoolwork or personal work and are not meant for entertainment. Finally, we have 3 additional computers in our Youth Study Center, which can be used by children in Grades 5 and up. Like the Reference computers, they do not have Internet access, but do have word processing, spreadsheet and desktop publishing programs as well as many educational/fun CD ROM programs.

All children under the age of eighteen must have a parental permission slip on file at the library. Parents must come in person to fill this permission slip out. For full details on our computer policy, see our Policies page and Computer Area page.