This year Middletown Public Library is partnering with the United Way’s “Money in Your Pocket” program who are offering TOUCH-FREE TAXES.

This is free remote tax preparation for low to moderate-income individuals and families.

The program is working differently than previous years. Please see THIS FLIER for more details.

For more information contact United Way of the Capital Region at 717-724-4077 or email miyp@uwcr.org.

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This holiday season the library has a giving tree. You can be a big help to the children of Middletown by taking one (or more) of the ornaments, buying the children’s book pictured on it, and donating it to the library.

And this year we also have the list of books online. Just email us at info@middletownpubliclib.org to let us know which ones you plan us purchasing.

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Starting today (Nov. 2) we have returned to our regular Winter hours:

Mondays, Tuesdays. and Thursdays. 9:30am-8pm
Wednesdays. 9:30am-4pm
Saturdays. 9am-4pm
We are closed on Fridays. and Sundays.

Please wear your mask and maintain social distancing.

NEW Middletown History articles are being posted regularly. Some of the most recent ones are: Airplane Crashes, Elk’s Theatre, Middletown’s Presidential Visits, Middletown’s Movie Star.

The library continues to offer our programs remotely.

This will include STEM Club, Tales with T.A.I.L.S., Storytime, Lego Club, The Thursday Book Club, and the Mystery Book Club.

All information will be on the library’s facebook page. So be sure to “like” it so you see all the posts.

Also we have a new group on Facebook which is watching and discussing an episode of Star Trek DS9 every other day called Star Trek Rewatch.

Introducing a new electronic resource for our patrons. You can find browse thousands of e-audiobooks and a vast collection of digital magazines. And there is no waiting list!

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Don’t forget that while we are closed cardholders can still get e-books and e-audiobooks through our Overdrive system.

UPDATE: Just this week we added over 4,000 new e-book titles. They are called the Duke Classic series and they include things like all the classic Sherlock Holmes stories, the works of Charles Dickens, Frankenstein and the works of Jules Verne. And the best part is that they are multi-use licenses so no matter how many people take out the same e-book you’ll be able to get it instantly.

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The Middletown Public Library is now on Amazon Smile. Click the link and choose the library as your charity and every time you buy something from smile.amazon.com, Amazon will donate a percentage to the Library.

Consider joining one of our great monthly book clubs.  We have a general Book Club and a Mystery Book Club that meet in the evening. We also have an online Science Fiction Book Club on Facebook.

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