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WHAT WE DO AND MATERIALS WE HAVE:
The Corinth Free Library is chartered to serve the Town of Corinth, which has a population of 5,935. We receive the majority of our funding from the Town of Corinth, the Village of Corinth, and through a proposition on the budget of the Corinth Central School District. A small amount of funds is received from Saratoga County. We house a collection of approximately 20,000 volumes. Our library is located on the banks of the Hudson River in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains.
STORYTIMES
Storytime for 3- to 5-year-olds.
Fridays at 10:30 a.m. from February to May, and October to December.
Preschool children enjoy books, fingerplays, and activities with Michael Hadfield.
Summer Storytime.
Mondays at 7:30 p.m. in July and August.
Michael's evening version of storytime is a great way to wind down for bedtime.
Ask about our toddler storytime.
BOARD GAMES
A variety of board games are available for use in the library whenever we are open. Enjoy such favorites as Monopoly, Scrabble, chess, and checkers. If you're bored, try our games!
BULK COLLECTIONS
We borrow several collections from the Southern Adirondack Library System on a regular basis.
These items are here to give you easy access to a large variety of materials.
Every eight weeks we get collections of large type books, westerns, mysteries, and recent fiction and nonfiction.
Every six weeks we receive a collection of videos.
Every four weeks we receive a collection of audio books.
CHECK OUT OUR BULLETIN BOARD FOR RECOMMENDED TITLES
Normally, we have several titles that our staff and volunteers think are too good to miss posted as recommendations on our bulletin board.
However, the change from 1999 to 2000 has us list happy. Check out our lists of 10 favorite books.
Becky's list: These have stuck to my mind like peanut butter to the roof of my mouth
Michael's Top Ten
Children's Titles
Adult Titles
What's on your list? You can let us know at corlib@netheaven.com
The Corinth Free Library is a Free Association Library that was established in 1926 by a committee of local citizens. For many years the library was confined to a single room. By the 1940s, the small quarters were inadequate to meet the needs of the community. In 1945, the citizens of Corinth raised funds to build a library as a war memorial. This would serve the dual purpose of expanding the library and also would honor area veterans of the recent war. In 1951 on Memorial Day the new library was dedicated. In his dedication speech, Maxwell Parmenter spoke of the grandeur of a column, tomb, or memorial arch which could have been built, but argued that "a wiser choice has been made for us in the shape of something useful with the thought of paying tribute to the living and dead." A plaque on the front of the building reminds us of this added purpose "to honor all from Corinth who served their country in the World Wars and as a lasting memorial to those who made the supreme sacrifice."
In the years since then, many changes have taken place. In 1974 the new children's room was added and named in memory of Mabel Pitkin Shorey, who was a founding member of the library association and who served as librarian for 35 years. In 1989 the Corinth Rotary Club funded an addition which serves as a reference and reading room. This room was dedicated to all Corinth veterans of foreign wars and conflicts, thus extending the memorial aspect beyond the World Wars. Most recently, the library has put on a new roof and undergone renovations to provide greater access to handicapped individuals, including a lift to provide access to the children's room in the basement.
This page last modified: Friday September 15 2000