July 4 Holiday Closing
The Library District will be closed on Saturday, July 4 in celebration of Independence Day. We will be open regular hours on Friday, July 3 and Sunday, July 5.
Read the Declaration of Independence here.
Library District Offers Fines and Bills Amnesty
It's a Fine (Free) Independence Week at the Poughkeepsie Public Library District
In honor of Independence Week, the Poughkeepsie Public Library District is having an amnesty period from July 1-July 8. Return your overdue materials to the Poughkeepsie Public Library District and have your fines waived! Well, sort of . . . .
Patrons who bring in a non-perishable, unexpired food item will have $10.00 in fines or bills waived. Once the amnesty period is over, items that are more then 2 months overdue will be sent to a collections agency. Books can be returned to the Adriance Memorial Library, 18 Bancroft Road or the Arlington Branch Library, 504 Haight Avenue. Both branches will be closed on Saturday, July 4th, but will conduct regular business hours on all the other days of the amnesty period.
Collected items will be donated to Dutchess Outreach for use in their food pantry programs.
Hurry and take advantage of this special Independence Week amnesty period and declare yourself independent of your library debts! For more information, call 485-3445.
It's Time for the Summer Reading Program!!
Children of all ages, from tot to teen, can join the Library’s summer reading club, which will run from June 26 to August 28! You can register at Adriance or Arlington. This year, we have returned to the paper reading records only (no more online recording) and you will keep the reading record over the summer. For a full calendar of Summer Reading Program events, click here.
Be part of the fun and retain that academic edge: READ!!
PPLD News Portal
Check out the latest, up-to-the-minute news from your favorite local and national news sources with our brand-new PPLD News Portal. It provides links (through RSS feeds) to the top 5 stories in several popular news papers and is a convenient way to start your search for the best area, national and international news. Whether you are a bonafide news junkie or just enjoy browsing the latest headlines, the PPLD news portal is your one stop solution!
New Databases
We're proud to announce the additions of ProQuest Platinum, Grolier Online and The Historical New York Times to our online database family.
In ProQuest Platinum you'll find many great periodicals in business, education, general reference, health, language arts, sciences, social sciences, and other curriculum-specific subject areas. Click here for a list of titles!
Grolier Online contains comprehensive reference works like the Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia as well as Roget's II: The New Thesaurus and the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.
The Historical New York Times online provides full text coverage of the New York Times from 1851 through 2005 and is searchable by keyword (“Titanic sinks”) or by date (April 16, 1912). Scroll through all related articles, or use the Page Map to view the entire page and navigate through the paper from first page to last.