Information about upcoming fall programs can be found below. The rest of the newsletter will be posted soon.

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The library hosted a book discussion and dinner party to celebrate the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. Careful, Breaking Dawn Spoilers! It was pretty awesome.

Signup for children’s fall programs will take place on Thursday, September 4th at 9:00 a.m. Look for program details in our next newsletter - coming soon!

The Marlboro Library Grasshoppers  bested the Millerton Madams and the Beacon Generals to win the Gold Medal in the first Senior Wii Olympic Bowling tourney. In addition to 7 strikes in a row by Patty, their 777 total for 3 games took the gold!

 Thanks to Alison at Beacon Library for putting the games together.

Rock Band - Friday -  August 8 -    5-7

Cullen Dinner Party  - Friday - August 15 -     5-7

The Marlboro Free Library has just learned that it is one of four organizations awarded $1000 by the Southeastern New York Library Resource Council to digitize materials related to the Hudson Fulton Celebration of 1909. The Library was the first public library to join the SENYLRC’s digitization program now known as Hudson River Valley Heritage (HRVH) in 2002 with funding from Assemblyman Tom Kirwan.  Photographic holdings from the library’s local history collection have been digitized and placed on the organization’s web site  for worldwide exposure. SENYLRC received 23 applications from libraries, historical societies and archives that proposed digitizing a wide variety of collections.

The purpose of the grant is “to facilitate the conversion of unique and significant non-digital materials to digital format thereby enhancing the quality of the resources available in Hudson River Valley Heritage.  Special consideration was given to applications that proposed the digitization of materials related to the colonial era, industrialization, and the 1909 Hudson Fulton Celebration.”  These funds will be used to offset the personnel and technical costs associated with a digitization project, including outsourcing the imaging and metadata to complete the project.  Local history researcher Joanne Pagnotta and library employee Emily Amodeo will be working on the project.

Although the Library is closed on Sunday throughout the summer, the Library community room will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. for customers wishing to apply for U.S. Passports. Two library employees who are passport agents, will be processing applications on a first-come, first-serve basis. The agents will have blank forms and pens.  Applicants are responsible for bringing 2 passport-size photos for each applicant, photo identification for adults, certified proof of citizenship, and two checks or money orders (one for the government and one for the Library). Credit cards or cash cannot be accepted. Please visit www.travel.state.gov to review the requirements for application or to fill out applications online and bring to the event.  If you cannot attend this event, please call the Library to make an appointment.

The Marlboro Library Book Club has selected a title to read over the summer for discussion in September. Members selected Elizabeth Gilbert’s popular book of travel and self-discovery Eat, Pray, Love - now available in paperback. If you want to get in on the discussion we have set up an online Marlboro Library Book Club (mlbc) forum. Join us at mlbc.freeforums.org or come to the Library community room on Wednesday evening at 7 p.m., Sept. 24.  Have a restful and enjoyable summer and keep reading

On Saturday, June 21, 2008, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will host its fifth annual Roosevelt Reading Festival. This year’s featured authors include Anthony J. Badger, Joseph E. Persico, Robert Schlesinger, and Nick Taylor — with a keynote address by California Living New Deal Project founder, Gray Brechin. A special dedication ceremony will take place at 12:45 p.m. in the Roosevelt Library’s newly refurbished Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Research Room. The Reading Festival will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. All Roosevelt Reading Festival activities are open to the public free of charge. Author book signings will be conducted throughout the day and books will be available for purchase in the New Deal Store. The full schedule for the day is posted online at www.HistoricHydePark.org. Regular admission will be charged for the Presidential Library and National Park Service sites.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was an avid collector of books. His love of reading was reflected in the enormity of his collection which numbered over 15,000 books at the time of his death in April 1945. He always enjoyed reading. However, it was during his years at Harvard that he became a serious book collector, during his service as the librarian for the Hasty Pudding and Fly Clubs. While Roosevelt valued his books greatly, in addition to his name, he often jotted small notes in them, either describing something about the nature of the book, or its relevance in his personal life. In the flyleaf of an 1869 edition of Sir Samuel White’s Cast Up by the Sea, Roosevelt wrote, “one of my favorite boyhood books — read it three times.”

Thanks to everyone who came out to vote on Tuesday, June 3.  The budget was approved by a vote of 84 to 5. Congratulations to Celie Cook who was elected to the Board of Trustees for a five-year term and thanks to outgoing Board member, Marian Baldwin, who served for two consecutive terms! The annual meeting was managed successfully by the stalwart Mike Heller, who was assisted by Marlboro School District clerk Irene Scaturro, and election teller Ashley Poulin. The Board and staff look forward to another year of customer-oriented library service and innovative programming.  Thanks for your support!