New York Health Benefit Exchange

If you do not have health insurance or your health insurance costs too much, you can enroll in health coverage through the New York Health Benefit Exchange starting October 1, 2013.
http://healthbenefitexchange.ny.gov/

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid

Portions of the Affordable Care Act are scheduled to go into effect on October 1, 2013. Please click here to get official resources. 

http://marketplace.cms.gov/getofficialresources/get-official-resources.html

Summer Hours

Monday - Thursday -- 10AM - 9PM
Friday & Saturday -- 10AM - 5PM
CLOSED SUNDAYS starting June 23rd
Reopen September 8

Summer Reading lists from the South Orangetown Central School District

Summer Reading lists
http://guides.rcls.org/content.php?pid=349135&sid=2856128

Sign Up for e-Newsletter

Would you like our new e-Newsletter emailed to you? Please click here for sign up form. It will contain live links to our registration calendar. We'll keep you up-to-date on library happenings on a monthly basis.

HOOKED on BOOKS Song!

Please click here to hear the song, HOOKED on BOOKS, which is the result of a collaboration between Alice Leon- Singer/Songwriter and a group of our wonderful children. The song was written and recorded during a workshop. This exciting interactive program combined creative song writing, poetry, music and performance. There are many amazing children’s programs at the Orangeburg Library. Please click here for schedules

Sunday, May 19

All access to the library will be blocked from Rt. 303.
Please use Highview Ave.
A police barrier will be up there also, but they are allowing access to the library.
The library will be open 1-5.

The Library is accessible 24/7 on the web:

The Library is accessible 24/7 on the web:

http://www.orangeburg-library.org/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Orangeburg-NY/Orangeburg-Library/87965926586

eBooks Update!

OverDrive, our library system’s eBooks provider, updated its eBooks service (at efiles.rcls.org) to improve access to electronic books.


This update includes:

-simple One-Step Checkout: log in and borrow books quickly.

-Ove...rDrive Read books instantly viewable in Web browsers (online or off)

-Synced reading across devices (e.g. start reading on a PC, continue on an iPad)

-A new and improved catalog for computer and mobile device users.

-Advanced searching, personalized suggestions, and more.

For more details, please click the link below.http://efiles.rcls.org/9C574732-662A-4EE5-9E0F-01C7B1599894/10/50/en/NextGen.htm

GOD OF CARNAGE

On Sunday, March 3, at 2:00 PMThe Orangeburg Library is proud to present M&M Productions “God of Carnage” by Yasmina Reza, who also wrote the hit “Art.”
Be forewarned: you will laugh uproariously, squirm uncomfortably and perhaps, see yourself cast in this Broadway-quality theatrical presentation. Enjoy this hilarious play where a playground altercation between 11-year-old boys brings together the two sets of semingly civilized parents to resolve the matter. Instead, the rum flows and the gloves come off. Please click here for registration

The library will delay opening until 1PM today (Saturday February 9).

The Library will be closed today due to the storm and hazardous travel conditions. There will be no fines charged on items due today.Depending on accumulations, the library may delay opening tomorrow.

Library Facebook

Due to the impending storm, the library may close early tomorrow (Friday February 8). Please watch this page for news and information. You may also visit us on Facebook.

Library Facebook

A fascinating lecture on "China in the 21st Century"

Sunday, February 24 @ 2:00 PM
CHINA IN THE 21st CENTURY with Editor, Teacher and Radio Commentator, ARTHUR R. ALDRICH who brings to his subject 45 years of journalism and more than 50 Road Scholar and Elderhostel courses. February is the Chinese New Year of the Snake. Mr. Aldrich will explore: What does the awakening of this 'sleeping giant' mean for the United States? Is China a Friend, an Ally, a Trading Partner or a Dangerous Rival? With a multi-media format, Mr. Aldrich addresses China's phenomenal growth and its serious challenges in a political structure that tries to combine Marxism with capitalism.  Please click  here to register.

BOOK & BAG LUNCH GROUP

The group which is open to all, meets on Wednesdays at 12 Noon.

January 23 at 12 Noon - The Confessor by Daniel Silva
February 27 at 12:00 Noon - Gilead by Marilynne Robinson

Books are available three weeks before at the circulation desk. Feel free to bring your lunch and the library provides coffee and dessert.
Answering the question, "What makes a book good literature?" these two books are at opposite ends of the literary spectrum.

Kim and Reggie Harris in Songs of Hope & Freedom

Saturday, January 26 @ 2:00 PM

CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH with "Songs of Hope and Freedom: A Musical Celebration of the Civil Rights Movement" starring KIM & REGGIE HARRIS, superbly talented and engaging performers whose captivating stage presence has inspired audiences for over 25 years. Children, adults, families and seniors will catch the Harris' infectious spirit, sparkling wit, and laughter as they celebrate history, civil rights and freedom. Please click here to register.

Caldecott and Newbery Awards

Every January the Caldecott and Newbery awards are announced.  These are the library equivalent of the Oscars.  Caldecott award is given to best illustrated picture book.  Librarians across the country get together and hold Mock Awards to select their own winner and as practice, in case we are ever elected to be on the Real Committee.  Sometimes, there is a clear winner.  Sometimes there are just several books and it's hard to select one.  In the case of the Caldecott, where you are judging different types of art  - perhaps it's photographs, oil paintings, watercolors, collage, Chinese ink, or a combination or all of the above, it's almost impossible to compare. 

This year, for the Newbery, we selected to read:
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass: The Story behind an American Friendship by Russell Freedman
Temple Grandin: How the Girl who loved Cows Embraced Autism and Changed the World by Sy Montgomery.
Three Times Lucky by Sheila Turnage
Wonder by R.J. Palacio
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

All wonderful books, but our winner The One and Only Ivan.

For the Caldecott, we reviewed way too many books to list here. If you really want to see the books that made it to the final round, let me know.  I have a list.  Our top four books were:

I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King Jr. - Illustrated by Kadir Nelson
This is Not My Hat - Written and Illustrated by  Jon Klassen
Minette's Feast: The Delicious Story of Julia Child and Her Cat by Susannah Reich - illustrated by Amy Bates.
Out on the Prairie by Donna Bateman and illustrated by Susan Swan


Our Winner was I Have a Dream. 


                         
I am delighted with our results because these were my favorites!


So now we wait. On January 28 11 AM, the awards will be announced at the ALA conference in Seattle.  In the meantime, I'll be on the look out for 2013 books that I can bring to our Mock committee for next year's winner. 

HOLIDAY HOURS

DECEMBER 24 - THE LIBRARY WILL CLOSE AT 1:00 PM


DECEMBER 25 - CHRISTMAS DAY ~ THE LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED


DECEMBER 31 - NEW YEAR'S EVE - THE LIBRARY WILL CLOSE AT 3:00PM

JANUARY 1 - NEW YEAR'S DAY ~ THE LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED


THE LIBRARY WILL BE OPEN AS USUAL JANUARY 2ND

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE ORANGEBURG LIBRARY STAFF

The Art and Music of Chris Brown

Opening Art Gallery Reception December 2 at 1:30 PM

Concert at 2:00 PM
A double treat is in store for audiences at the Orangeburg Library on Sunday, December 2. Renaissance artist, composer, vocalist and musician, Christopher Brown, is performing on the acoustic guitar at the year-end Holiday Concert at 2:00 PM. Folk songs, oldies and goodies and original music will fill the Greenbush Auditorium.


But if you come at 1:30 PM,, you can attend the Opening Reception for Chris Brown’s unique, humorous and colorful Hirshfeld-like caricatures of literary, sports, and entertainment figures at the Top-of-the-Stairs Gallery. Chris has coined the word “characterists” to describe the flowing lines, precise features and beautifully crafted interpretations of the portraits of yesterdays and todays icons of the stage and sports worlds.

New York, born and based, Chris Brown is both singer and songwriter. For the past eight years, Chris has worked for the Journal News as a graphic illustrator. As an artist/illustrator, he captures his subjects’
essence through a caricature. Using a few lines with his pen, his work suggests a persons’ nature or charm, mystery or temperment. And Chris does something similar with lyric and melody, revealing special moments and feelings in a human life.

Art or music? Which does he prefer? Chris would say that both are expressions of the unexpected turns in life that leave their marks on everyone.

Please register for this art and music event on line at www.orangeburg-library.org or call the Orangeburg Library at 845-359-2244, Ext. 10.

THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY HOURS

THE LIBRARY WILL BE CLOSED AT 5 P.M.

ON WEDNESDAY NOV. 21

AND WILL BE CLOSED ALL DAY ON THURSDAY NOV. 22.

THE LIBRARY WILL RESUME REGULAR HOURS ON FRIDAY NOV. 23.

REGULAR WEEKEND HOURS: SAT 10AM ~ 5PM / SUN 1PM ~ 5PM

HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM THE ORANGEBURG LIBRARY STAFF!