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Digital Audio books are here! Hate to leave home with all this snow but dying for a good book to listen to? Anyone with an Internet connection and a Library card can access this service. Go to altamontfreelibrary.org, click on the link for downloadable ebooks and audiobooks, browse the selection for a book that tickles your fancy, download the appropriate software and snuggle up for a good listen. Questions? Call the Library at 861-7239 or stop by during the day.

Scrap Booking Display. Stop by the Library and check out our display case to see examples of Mary Heidinger’s scrapbooks. These colorful, artsy collections are a great way to preserve memories. If you think you’d like to try a hand at this hot hobby, sign up for Mary’s four-part class held February evenings at the Library.

Display Case availability – Do you have a collection of sorts that you’d like to share with your neighbors? There are openings for the display case in March and the following months. We like all sorts of things. More information is available at the Library.

Annual Meeting- The annual meeting of the Altamont Free Library Board of Trustees will be held Seven P.M. January 9th. The meeting is open to the public and will be held in the Library, in the basement of 105 Park St.

Pre-School Story hour - This coming week, story hour will focus on crafty cats, cat crafts and cat tales. Come Monday and Wednesday at 10 A.M.

Library Quiz

After many months of diligent service, the Library Joke is taking a week (or two) off and standing in its place is the Library Quiz (question courtesy of Joe Hein).

Which one of the following writers did not live in New York's Capital District?

1. Bret Harte 2. Kurt Vonnegut 3. Henry James 4. Sherwood Anderson 5. Herman Melville

Email your submission to:

HYPERLINK "mailto:winesj@uhls.lib.ny.us"

winesj@uhls.lib.ny.us

Ice cream cone to the first correct answer!

Answer to last week’s Joke

What do the library computers like to eat for snacks?

Chips. And for dessert, they like cookies.