Baby Lap Time

10:30am–11:30am
Children, Families
KBJ Slater Room
Closed
Registration Required
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Library Branch: Hon. Karen B. Johnson Main Library
Room: KBJ Slater Room
Age Group: Children, Families
Program Type: Storytime
Registration Required
Event Details:

Bring your baby and bounce along to songs, rhymes, and stories! Learn about early literacy resources and connect with other caregivers. 

Imagination Stations

10:30am–11:30am
Children
Quaker Street Meeting Area
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Library Branch: Quaker Street Branch Library
Room: Quaker Street Meeting Area
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Storytime
Event Details:

Come check out our early literacy stations in the programming room, including a story time! We will have books previously selected for check out and a craft station every week! Activities and play stations will be different each week.

Cancelled

Book A Librarian

11:00am–1:00pm
Adult
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Library Branch: Scotia Branch Library
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Technology Class
Event Details:

Book a Librarian is a one-on-one session for personalized reference assistance with a librarian that is uninterrupted.

REELS

12:00pm–2:00pm
Adult
KBJ McChesney Room
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Library Branch: Hon. Karen B. Johnson Main Library
Room: KBJ McChesney Room
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Movie
Event Details:

Date: 10/15/2025 

Title: Instant Family 

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Isabela Moner, Rose Byrne, Eve Harlow, Tig Notaro 

Studio: Paramount Pictures 

Director: Sean Anders 

Rating: PG-13 

Cozy Crafters

1:00pm–2:00pm
Adult
Quaker Street Meeting Area
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Library Branch: Quaker Street Branch Library
Room: Quaker Street Meeting Area
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Arts & Crafts/Maker
Event Details:
Bring your current craft project to this social group to work on, meet new people and learn new skills. From knitting to quilting, and everything in between, we can help each other begin and complete craft projects.
Cancelled

Craft Exchange at the Woodlawn Branch Library

1:00pm–4:00pm
All Ages
Woodlawn Children's Area
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Library Branch: Woodlawn Branch Library
Room: Woodlawn Children's Area
Age Group: All Ages
Program Type: Arts & Crafts/Maker
Event Details:

Winter is coming! Come to the Woodlawn branch library Craft Exchange! Donate your unfinished, unwanted, fiber arts materials and take home something for a new project.

Donations accepted from October 8, 2025.

Paper Making w/ Cornell Cooperative Extension

2:00pm–3:00pm
Adult
Scotia Meeting Room
Closed
Registration Required
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Library Branch: Scotia Branch Library
Room: Scotia Meeting Room
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Arts & Crafts/Maker
Registration Required
Event Details:

Learn about the importance of protecting our environment- especially our trees- while taking paper destined for the landfill and turning it into your own creation!

Dance, Read & Rhyme with Baker School of Dance

3:00pm–3:30pm
Children
Glenville Meeting Room
Closed
Registration Required
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Library Branch: Glenville Branch Library
Room: Glenville Meeting Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Health & Wellness, Storytime
Registration Required
Event Details:

An active storytime combining movement and dance with books and stories! Led by an instructor from Baker School of Dance in Glenville. 

For children ages 3-5.  Registration required.

Bright Minds Gaming

3:00pm–4:00pm
Children, Teen & Tween, Families
Quaker Street Meeting Area
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Library Branch: Quaker Street Branch Library
Room: Quaker Street Meeting Area
Age Group: Children, Teen & Tween, Families
Event Details:

A group where kids meet to play educational games, do crafts or projects that challenges the brain. Meet new families from different backgrounds and learn from each other! For families with kids & teens.

Build Zone

3:30pm–4:15pm
Children, Teen & Tween, Families
Mont Pleasant Meeting Room A (aka Program Room 1)
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Library Branch: Mont Pleasant Branch Library
Room: Mont Pleasant Meeting Room A (aka Program Room 1)
Age Group: Children, Teen & Tween, Families
Program Type: S.T.E.A.M.
Event Details:

Do you like to build and create? Join us weekly for build zone where we build with Legos, Duplos, and other materials suitable for small hands. For ages 6-12. Refreshments are provided.

Build Zone

3:45pm–4:45pm
Children
Niskayuna Meeting Room
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Library Branch: Niskayuna Branch Library
Room: Niskayuna Meeting Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Arts & Crafts/Maker, S.T.E.A.M.
Event Details:

Join us for a fun building challenge using a variety of materials, including Legos, Magnetiles, Strawbees, and more. We supply the building materials, but projects will stay at the library, so bring your camera.

Junior Writing Club

4:00pm–5:00pm
Children
Glenville Meeting Room
Closed
Registration Required
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Library Branch: Glenville Branch Library
Room: Glenville Meeting Room
Age Group: Children
Program Type: Writing
Registration Required
Event Details:

Practice your creative writing skills and use your imagination! Meet us for snacks, fun writing prompts, and sharing if you'd like. For kids in grades 3-5.

Registration required.

Book Club

5:30pm–6:30pm
Adult
Rotterdam James W. Wingate Meeting Room
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Library Branch: Rotterdam Branch Library
Room: Rotterdam James W. Wingate Meeting Room
Age Group: Adult
Program Type: Book Club
Event Details:

Please join us for a discussion of The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann.

 

Trivia!

5:30pm–6:45pm
Children, Teen & Tween, Families, Adult, All Ages
Bornt Meeting/Program Room 2
Closed
Registration Required
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Library Branch: Phyllis Bornt Branch Library & Literacy Center
Room: Bornt Meeting/Program Room 2
Age Group: Children, Teen & Tween, Families, Adult, All Ages
Program Type: Performance
Registration Required
Event Details:

Come test your knowledge about a bunch of topics with teams of 4 with some Great Prizes! 

Sleepy Time Story Time

6:00pm–6:30pm
Children, Families
KBJ Slater Room
Closed
Registration Required
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Library Branch: Hon. Karen B. Johnson Main Library
Room: KBJ Slater Room
Age Group: Children, Families
Program Type: Storytime
Registration Required
Event Details:

Read some stories before bed! Join us twice a month for an evening edition of Family Story Time, with songs and stories suitable for ages 0 months-6 years (older siblings welcome).