Annual Reports
Annual Newsletter Reports to the Community
Fiscal Budgets
Events
2022
Thank you to all who participated in October’s Great Community Give Back Project! Check out the beautiful quilts our community members made for Hospice veterans and people in nursing homes during Sewing Open House . We also participated in Cards for Veterans and Kids Read to Kitties at Saratoga County Animal Shelter .
2019
Our Grand Opening took place on September 21st. Hundreds of area residents came to celebrate and tour our new building.
Our Ceremonial Moving of Children’s Books on Sept. 8th was a fun community event. The line of kids and adults stretched through the Village as we carried books from the old library to the new library building at 2112 East St.
The Friends of the Galway Public Library presented the library with a check for $25,000 at the Friends’ Wine Tasting fundraiser at the Cock ’n’ Bull Restaurant on June 11. This donation will go toward landscaping and the purchase of AV equipment for the new building in time for the Grand Opening scheduled for September 21, 2019 from 1:00 – 3:00. The Friends have donated a total of $40,800 to the library’s New Building Fund, thanks to all in the community who have supported the various Friends’ fundraisers over the years: book sales, Paint & Sip, Taste of Chocolate, Wine Tasting, etc.
Our library board’s Vice President, Fred Baily, was honored as the SALS 2018 Trustee of the Year at the 2019 annual dinner.
The results of the Galway Public Library’s June 12th vote: the Annual Budget was successfully passed, and the following candidates were elected – Cate La Barre, Fred Baily, Jim Hodsoll, & Bridget Torres. Thank you, voters, for your support!
2018
Last year the Galway Public Library was awarded the opportunity to work with Leadership Saratoga. Their goal is to help with improving the library and the services we provide to the greater Galway community. The Leadership Saratoga team has been working diligently to learn useful information by meeting with various local organizations and receiving feedback on ways they think the library can improve what we do for the community. One of the ways the team has developed to obtain more information is this survey: 2018_Galway Public Library Survey.
2017
Thank you to all who attended our Community Ice Cream Social on August 25th. It was a wonderful chance to socialize with neighbors and hear about the next steps toward our new building! Thank you to Assemblywoman Mary Beth Walsh who presented the library with a bullet aid check toward the New Building Fund. Thanks also to Stewart’s Shops for the ice cream and toppings, and to the Friends of the Library for dipping it! Music was provided by Rob Przedwiecki of Happenstance, and his wife. Thank you!
2016
October 22, 2016, the Galway Public Library, the Galway Players and the Galway Preservation Society joined together for an evening of celebrating the Galway community with a performance of poems from our book Story Quilt: Poems of a Place.
Story Fest August 9, 2016
The Board of Trustees of the Galway Public Library is pleased to announce the appointment of Debra Flint to the position of Library Manager, effective July 1, 2016. Learn more about Deb and her goals for the library here: Deb Flint. Congratulations, Deb!
2015
The results of the referendum on the Galway Public Library’s new building project, held on September 23, were 449 no votes and 396 yes votes. The library Board of Trustees thanks all those who have worked so hard with them over the last several years to develop the project, and everyone who voted during the referendum. The library respects the views of those who did not support the referendum. As we move forward, the board will redouble its efforts to solicit input from all members of the community on what they will support. Contact the library at 882-6385 or email gal-director@sals.edu.
Thanks to Dan Berggren for performing at our August 23rd Sundae Social on the new library property, and to all who made it a success!
In compliance with a New York State construction aid grant awarded during the fall of 2014, it is necessary for the library to complete site improvements to the East Street property. Galway Public Library Board of Trustees.
We are pleased to announce that Galway Public Library is the recipient of a Southern Adirondack Library System 2015 Early Adapter Technology Grant. In collaboration with Galway Central School, we are offering a Tinker Tuesday after school Program, which features littleBits technology and promotes STEM and STEAM education.
June 22, 2010 Galway Public Library wins Target Arts & Culture Grant for 2010-2011. Galway Public Library has joined with Target in recognition of its efforts to provide unique arts and cultural programming. The library’s artist in residency series for 2010-2011 will invite a painter, sculptor and a musician to work on site with our K-12 student populations to develop art (paintings, sculpture, music) recognizing the rich heritage of the communities in our library patron’s service districts.
April 27, 2010 Story Sculpture wins SALS Library Program of the Year Award
August 2006
Recently we received a $9,400 grant from the William Gundry Broughton Charitable Private Foundation, Inc. for computers and technology. This wonderful gift will allow the library to improve our services to the community in many ways – soon we will be able to offer computer classes to the public as well as movie nights. Here is a list of some of the new items we will be getting:
- 4 new public access computers to replace the 3 outdated computers we currently have
- 2 laser printers, one to network the public computers and one to network the staff computers
- A staff laptop to use for training, classes, and presentations
- A one year public performance license to allow us to show feature films
- A new LCD projector
- A wireless internet network to be set up in the library
- and more!