Event List

Library Board of Trustees Meeting

Spring is here! Time for some fresh air! Join us at the park for story time and a craft under the pavilion. Then stay and play with new and old friends on the playground. 

Sweet Smell of Success 
Actors: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison, Martin Milner, Sam Levene  
Studio: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.  
Director:  Alexander Mackendrick 

Kick off the Summer Reading Program at the library with VIA Aquarium! They will be here to show us some of their aquatic vertebrates that live at the aquarium. For kids, tweens and teens of all ages, with their caregiver or parent.

Join us for a special screening featuring WMHT PBS’s Field Trip Visits the American Revolution alongside selected clips from Ken Burns’ documentary series The American Revolution.

Join us for an active storytime that teaches early literacy concepts through stories, songs, movement and rhymes. We finish with free playtime and an optional craft! 

The Zoomobile is an interactive presentation program where Utica Zoo educators bring a variety of live animals to the library!

CrAFTERwork is an “after work” craft club intended to bring together patrons who enjoy trying new forms of art! Each month we will tackle a new craft. All materials will be provided.

Register with a librarian for personalized reference assistance that is uninterrupted.
Book a forty-five-minute one-on-one session to get assistance in one of the following areas:

Join us for an active storytime that teaches early literacy concepts through stories, songs, movement and rhymes. We finish with free playtime and an optional craft! 

Descend into the history of human art and help the Children's Room design its summer selfie station! Create an art piece using paint, chalk, charcoal, and pastels inspired by Lascaux, Burro Flats, and other sites of ancient cave painting.

The Zoomobile is an interactive presentation program where Utica Zoo educators bring a variety of live animals to the library!

If you were an archeologist, what would you find underground? Unearth a story and make a shadowbox that showcases your "findings". For children in grades K - 5.

Welcome to a new REELS Spotlight Cinema Series at Scotia, where each series of films highlights a particular actor, director, or theme. This series spotlight shines on movies that highlight the locations in which they are set.

Title: The Patriot

Actors: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper

Studio: Columbia Pictures Industries Inc.

Director: Roland Emmerich

Rating: R

Runtime: 165 Minutes

Year: 2000

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.

Register with a librarian for personalized reference assistance that is uninterrupted.
Book a forty-five-minute one-on-one session to get assistance in one of the following areas:

Learn about simple machines, cams, and cranks as you build a paper dinosaur automaton that moves when you turn the handle! In this workshop you will make a model Jurassic-era creature looking for a meal.

The American Revolution changed so much of colonial American society. However, for hundreds of enslaved people in Schenectady, it changed nothing at all.

Join us for an active storytime that teaches early literacy concepts through stories, songs, movement and rhymes. We finish with free playtime and an optional craft! 

Travel back in time and discover the secret symbols of ancient Egypt. Kids will learn basic hieroglyphs, write their names like a real scribe, and create their own scrolls to take home!