Week Calendar

Early literacy class for children birth to age 5, with adult caregiver. Stories, songs, activities and social interaction for the whole family.

Ms. Lisa's Music program is back, with "Rhyme Time", an engaging music & movement theme focused on the rhythm and rhyme of Nursery Rhymes.  Appropriate for lap-sitters, toddlers, and preschoolers with their caregivers.

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:

We recognize that public spaces can sometimes be overwhelming for neurodivergent individuals.

Early literacy class for children birth to age 5, with adult caregiver. Stories, songs, activities and social interaction for the whole family.

Drop-in, no registration required. 

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.

Process art is art that focuses on the overall experience or process of creating something instead of focusing on making something specific, or the final product.

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

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.

Schenectady County Historian John Woodward will be available to answer questions and meet with any patrons looking for help with local history research from 10am-12:30pm. No registration required.

Join Ms. Rojas for a story time presented in Spanish & English for children ages 0 - 5. Ven y disfruta con Sra. Rojas cuentos bilingues en Español y Ingles. Para niños de 0 - 5 años.

Stories & learning for families with children ages birth to 5 years old. 

A Baby Café is a free drop-in service offering in-person breastfeeding/chestfeeding support for pregnant and/or new parents in the community. Siblings and partners welcome! Grab and go snacks provided.

Date: 10/08/2025 

Title: Martian Child 

Actors: John Cusack, Bobby Coleman, Amanda Peet, Sophie Okonedo, Anjelica Huston 

Studio: New Line Cinema 

Director: Menno Meyjes 

Rating: PG 

Bring your fiber arts projects to the Crafting Nest at the Woodlawn branch library. Enjoy working together, meeting new friends, and helping each other to begin and complete projects.

Join us for a discussion of a new book author and title TBA.

New book club members are always welcome. Request a copy of the books online or at any SCPL location.

Citizen Kane  
Actors: Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, Joseph Cotten, Everett Sloane, George Coulouris  
Studio: Warner Bros.  
Director: Orson Welles  

Come to the library to watch Dog Man and make your own beaded Supa Buddies backpack charm! Water and popcorn will be provided but feel free to bring your own snacks.

Registration required. 

An Autumnal Bluegrass Concert, with an opportunity for others to join in at the end

Welcome to the REELS at Glenville film series, Spotlight Cinema, where each series of films we highlight a particular actor, director, or theme. The current spotlight is a Star Wars Extravaganza with episodes 1-9 and Rogue One!

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.

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.

Come to the library to celebrate spooky season. Make a painted sugar skull, a Ghost magnet and a tissue paper pumpkin! For school aged kids, registration required. 

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.

Enjoy fiber arts projects with friends. A presentation and instruction on cabling knitted items will be held.

Patrons will learn how to paint properly in the gouache style of watercolor painting, through properly loading their brush, using correct hand control, and proper layering with the gouache medium. 

Bring your current fiber art project to this social group to work on, meet new people and learn new skills. From knitting/crochet to cross stitch, and everything in between, we can help each other begin and complete craft projects.

We meet the first Monday of each month. Bring your own project to work on in the company other teens. Share your techniques, patterns, and ideas. All skill levels, beginner to advanced welcome!

Create Your Own Ghostly Embroidery Hoop!  

Get inspired by slime! Join us to enjoy a storybook reading and create a different slimy masterpiece each week. For slimers ages 6 - 12. Refreshments are provided.

Please join us for an afternoon of fun and games and food at our fall festival!

Teens seeking service hours are invited to join the Main Library TAG Team! Teen Advisory Groups offer input on teen programs and collections, and participate in mini-service projects.

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!

A blend of asanas (postures), breathing techniques, sun salutations, and a blissful guided meditation (Yoga Nidra) to release stress and get deep rest.

Make your life a charmed life!

Library Bingo game with light refreshments.

Enjoy a game, winners awarded prizes.

"Stories are a communal currency of humanity." - Tahir Shah

Join local artist Tracy Loring as she guides you through the process of printmaking using the gel printing plate. You’ll learn to use acrylic paints and various tools to create unique textures and a fall themed work of art. 

Since publishing in 2015, Leigh Bardugo’s highly popular Six of Crows has taken the world of YA literature by storm–and it’s not hard to see why.