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Vote on Storybook Pumpkins
Our young patrons have worked hard decorating pumpkins like their favorite book characters! Help us choose the best by voting on them. You can stop by the children’s area to see them all on display and vote, or click here to vote online:
Vote For Your Favorite
Hamilbrary: Sense and Sensibility
Mondays, October 27 and November 3
at 6:30 p.m.
Join John O’Neill, Hamilton College Professor of English Emeritus (retired), to discuss Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility. For each session, try to read one volume of the book and bring a passage that you would like to discuss with the group. Hamilbrary was created to help you crack the cover on classic books. Pick up a copy of the book at the Kirkland Town Library, read a little each week, and join us to talk about it.
Empathy and Expression: The Work of Melissa Hardiman
On view in the Bristol Room through October 31; Artists’ reception on Friday, October 24 from 6-8 p.m.
Book Donations
Guidelines
We are now accepting donations for the 2026 Friends Annual Book Sale on the Village Green.
Due to limited storage space, we can only accept books in pristine condition. Please make sure all items are in like-new condition and are items you would purchase again.
Like-new means:
Covers are intact no odors not chewed on
haven’t been wet not stained didn’t need to be dusted off first
not stored in your basement
We do not accept:
encyclopedias textbooks videotapes (VHS)
magazines Readers Digest Books cassette tapes
vinyl records toys/games
Please understand that while you may think your books are priceless, we know from experience what will sell. (That’s why the sale is so popular and a fantastic fundraiser for the KTL!) Any items not accepted are yours to take home.
Other places to donate books
- Better World Books drop box located outside the Mid York Library System headquarters, 1600 Lincoln Ave, Utica. (Donations here help ALL the libraries.)
- Thrifty Shopper, New Hartford Shopping Center – accepts donations but prefers newer titles
- Little Free Libraries (several around the area)
- Stores with book exchanges (like Kinney)
How to Recycle or Dispose of Books
Remember – books have a shelf life. If it’s been on your shelves longer than you can remember, if you didn’t feel a pang when letting it go, or if you wouldn’t buy it, then it’s okay to let them go to the big bookshelf in the sky.
Paperback books can be recycled.
If you rip out the pages from hardcovers, the pages can be recycled, and the covers tossed in the trash.
Thank you!
