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Help Wanted:
Administrative Services Coordinator
The Kirkland Town Library is seeking to fill a part-time (15 hours/week) Administrative Services Coordinator position.
The Administrative Services Coordinator assists with financial and human resource activities; performs clerical functions; handles social and printed media; oversees facility maintenance; and creates relationships with vendors and businesses. Wage range is $19 – $24/hour, dependent upon skill level and experience.
- Flexible schedule but some daytime hours are required
- Experience coordinating social and printed media
- Previous office management experience or equivalent
- Competence in oral and written English and arithmetic
- Keyboarding and computer skills necessary; familiarity with QuickBooks preferred
A complete job description can be found here.
Please submit a cover letter and resume to Anne Debraggio, Director, Kirkland Town Library, 55 ½ College Street, Clinton, NY 13323 or email clinton@midyork.org by August 22, 2025. References required upon request.
The Kirkland Town Library is an equal opportunity employer.
A.I. for the Layperson
Wednesday, August 13 at 7 p.m.
What is artificial intelligence, and how does it work?
ChatGPT and other large language models have quickly become common tools used around the world. They are able to generate many different types of text, including prose, computer code, and language that imitates a style.
Tom Helmuth, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Hamilton College, will explain how large language models like Chat GPT work, how they are trained, and what they can do, as well as giving an overview of other subfields of artificial intelligence.
We Want to See Your School Photos
For our September art exhibit, we’re going to display a variety of school pictures from community members.
Look through your school portraits and pick out one of your best – it can be awkward or adorable!
You can either snap a photo of it with your phone and email it to clinton@midyork.org or stop in with the hard copy, and we’ll make a quick scan of it. We’ll only identify you by your first name and grade level.
More details on the show are coming soon!
Clinton Challenge
Do you like to read? Are you over 18? If you answered yes to both of those questions, we need you for the Clinton Challenge!
The Kirkland Town Library was the winner of the first Clinton Challenge in summer 2021! We won again in 2023, but we are lagging behind this year. We need to bring the trophy home! All you have to do is keep track of how much time you spend reading.
If it seems intimidating, here’s a helpful tip. This year, all six libraries have agreed that one page is equal to one minute of reading. Once you finish a book, make a note of how many pages it is (or Google it!). Divide the number of pages by 60, and you have your reading time.
Every Friday, let us know how long you’ve read during the week. Snip this week from your reading log and drop it off, email your time to clinton@midyork.org, or fill out the online form.
For every instance that you submit your time, you’ll be entered in a raffle to win a fun prize at the end of the summer.
Book Recommendations
Need some summer reading inspiration? Click here for some picks from the libraries participating in the Clinton Challenge. Each of the team captains chose a book they enjoy reading during the summer. Stop by the library to pick up a copy for yourself…and be sure to count your reading time!
Week Nine Results
The dog days of August are here and the six libraries are heating up the competition in the Clinton Challenge!
Pennsylvania is on a bye; they came in second last week so there’s no telling what next week will bring!
With the remaining five libraries, New York has a three-peat and is in first place with 15,953 hours read.
Iowa follows with 14,516 and Indiana with 13,524.
Massachusetts broke the 10,000 hour mark and is at 10,980, a huge achievement for the Bigelow Free Public Library. Their team captain is reporting that their reading time is up 67% from last year!
New Jersey has already broken their record from previous challenges. Last year, they finished the challenge with 8,623 hours and with three weeks to go, they are at 8,819!
Teen Lit Bags Now Available
Teens aged 13-18 can sign up to receive a bag full of goodies from the library! You’ll receive two library books selected just for you, a craft, snacks, and more! Click here to request one:
Summer Reading For Kids & Teens
Kids
Visit the Library to sign up. You’ll receive a log and your Read & Bead necklace. Then, start reading! Keep track of the time you have read and mark it on the log. Throughout the summer, visit the library and show us your log. You’ll earn beads for each box you fill in and you can add them to your necklace. We’ll have a new special collector’s bead every Friday! When you’ve filled in all the boxes, you’ve read 10 hours and completed our reading challenge. Bring your completed log back to the library to get all of the beads you’ve earned plus a ticket for a prize raffle. Then, keep reading! You can complete more logs to win more raffle tickets and beads.
Teens
Stop in to get a reading log. Cross off one box for every 30 minutes you read. When you’ve filled all the boxes, you’ve read for ten hours and completed our reading challenge! Bring your log back to the KTL to choose a gift card and enter a prize raffle. There is a limit of one gift card per teen, but you can fill the reading log to earn as many raffle tickets as you like.
In addition to reading, we have a lot of fun events and activities planned all summer long. Make sure you’re signed up for our e-newsletter to get all the details (link is above).
Prizes
All teens who complete their reading log can earn a gift card to the Clinton Cider Mill, Cremeria, or Lorenzo’s (one per person). Plus, enter a raffle to win a black belt bag, a gently used Fjallraven bag, a throw blanket, Popin Cookin’ Candy kits, an Owala water bottle, or a gift card to Bookshop.org.
In addition to earning beads, kids can enter to win a Barnes & Noble gift card, reusable water balloons, a Minecraft activity kit, a gnome door craft, SnapCircuits, or a LEGO Creator 3-in-1 set.
Be sure to bring in your logs and let us know what you’ve been reading this summer!
Community Calendar of Events
We created a calendar of events happening at the KTL, Kirkland Art Center, Chamber of Commerce, Village of Clinton, and others! Click here to see the most up-to-date version or stop in to get a paper copy. (It’s not just for kids!)
