Our youth radio crew records their weekly Bound By Books radio show remotely on Tuesday afternoons. Tune in Friday evenings and Sunday mornings to hear tweens and teens, along with our library director Emily Chameides discuss books they love, books they’re currently reading, and other tween and teen media and literary topics. Bound By Books …
Explore our oral history online archives: the Hudson Area Library Oral History Project (HAL OHP), an open collection of interviews collected locally over the past decade, and the Black Legacy Association of Columbia County Oral History Project (BLACC) collection from the 1980s. The development of the online archives was made possible with support from the …
With your Hudson Area Library card, you can access e-books and e-audiobooks via the Libby app from three neighboring library systems’ collections: the Upper Hudson Library System, Mohawk Valley Library System, and Southern Adirondack Library System. Within the Libby app, select “Add a Library” and select each library system to connect your library card. Need …
We strive to ensure that everyone has access to library resources with as few barriers as possible and we recognize the very real financial burden that even the smallest of fines can be for individuals and families in our community. To that end, we are excited to announce that we are no longer charging late …
Our eMagazine collection is now available through OverDrive and the Libby app. Your library card will now give you access to over 3,200 magazine titles. No wait lists or holds and eMagazines do not count towards checkout limits. To get started grab your library card and download Libby or visit https://mhls.overdrive.com/.
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the entire globe in a historic way. The killing of George Floyd has sparked protests in our community, nation, and around the world as well as demands for police reform and restructuring to combat systemic racism in society. Both of these events serve as the inspiration to collect the history …
Thank you to the participating artists for sharing their work with us for our online art auction, with special thanks to Kenneth Cooke, Jeffrey Gibson, Ken Kraus, Charles LeDray, Kathy Osborn, and Arnold Zimmerman who contributed 100% of the proceeds from the sale of their submitted works to the library. Thank you as well to all …
Read books set in various places around the world and help the library chart our collective adventure on a world map. How many cities, states, countries, and continents will we visit and explore through stories? To submit your recent reads to the Read Around The World map, click here
