Jan. 1, 2020
- New Year’s Day: Wednesday. Oneida Public Library is closed Wednesday, Jan. 1, to celebrate the new year. The library will be open as usual Thursday, Jan. 2, from 9 a.m. till 8 p.m.
Jan. 2
- Ready to Read: Thursday at 10 a.m. OPL’s Youth Services Coordinator Megan Gillander invites older preschoolers and their parents or guardians to a program of stories, songs and activities designed to prepare preschoolers for kindergarten.
Jan. 6 and 7
- AARP Drivers’ Class: Monday and Tuesday, 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. AARP-trained instructors offer a two-day classroom defensive driver course for potential discounts in car insurance. To register, call Bob Fish at 315.363.0455.
Jan. 7
- Tech Connect: Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. To get free personal help on any problem you’re having with your computer, tablet, cell phone or device or to learn how to download, upload or research online, stop by the OPL Tuesdays to consult with Tech Connect’s Amanda McCallops.
- Ready to Read: Tuesday at 10 a.m. OPL’s Youth Services Coordinator Megan Gillander will help preschoolers learn and practice language and social skills in a friendly and educational setting through stories, songs, crafts and play.
- Yoga for Seniors: Tuesday at 2 p.m. Certified Hathi Yoga instructor Bill Skinner offers weekly classes in Yoga for Seniors, using safe, healthful and relaxing exercises. The program is free, but pre-registration is required.
Jan. 8
- Tech Help; Wednesday, 9 to 11 a.m. The OPL’s talented tech volunteers are booting up for another season of Tech Help and ready to help anyone get the most out of devices or laptops. It’s free, and no appointment is required.
Jan. 9
- Ready to Read: Thursday at 10 a.m. OPL’s Youth Services Coordinator Megan Gillander invites older preschoolers and their parents or guardians to a program of stories, songs and activities designed to prepare preschoolers for kindergarten.
Jan. 11
- Family Super Saturday, “Paper Planes Fly Away”: Saturday at 11 a.m. Oneida Library invites families with young children to come in and compete in the making of paper airplanes. Paper and design ideas are provided.
Jan. 14
- Tech Connect: Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
- To get free personal help on any problem you’re having with your computer, tablet, cell phone or device or to learn how to download, upload or research online, stop by the OPL Tuesdays to consult with Tech Connect’s Amanda McCallops.
Jan. 14
- Ready to Read: Tuesday at 10 a.m. OPL’s Youth Services Coordinator Megan Gillander will help preschoolers learn and practice language and social skills in a friendly and educational setting through stories, songs, crafts and play.
- Yoga for Seniors: Tuesday at 2 p.m. Certified Hathi Yoga instructor Bill Skinner offers weekly classes in Yoga for Seniors, using safe, healthful and relaxing exercises. The program is free, but pre-registration is required.
Jan. 15
- Tech Help: Wednesday, 9 to 11 a.m. The OPL’s talented tech volunteers are available to help anyone get the most out of devices or laptops. It’s free, and no appointment is required.
- Family Sign Language Night: Wednesday at 6 p.m. All family members can learn the basics, helpful words and phrases of American Sign Language. Megan Gillander, a sign-language adept, will lead the class.
- Four Fabulous Female Novelists Part 1. Wednesday at 7 p.m. Dr. Roxanna Pisiak from Morrisville State College will guide discussion on the recent novels of four contemporary, up-and-coming young women writers who set their fiction in unusual settings around the world. For the first session, she will be discussing Ingrid Rojas Contreras’ “Fruits of the Drunken Tree,” a coming-of-age story set in 1990s’ Columbia in the midst of a drug war between Pablo Escobar and the government. Interested readers can sign up at the OPL’s circulation desk and request a copy of the book.
Jan. 16
- Ready to Read: Thursday at 10 a.m. OPL’s Youth Services Coordinator Megan Gillander invites older preschoolers and their parents or guardians to a program of stories, songs and activities designed to prepare preschoolers for kindergarten.
Jan. 20
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Day: Monday. Oneida Public Library is closed Monday, Jan. 20, to honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The library will be open as usual on Tuesday, Jan. 21, from 9 a.m. till 8 p.m.
Jan. 21
- Tech Connect: Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. To get free personal help on any problem you’re having with your computer, tablet, cell phone or device or to learn how to download, upload or research online, stop by the OPL Tuesdays to consult with Tech Connect’s Amanda McCallops.
- Ready to Read: Tuesday at 10 a.m. OPL’s Youth Services Coordinator Megan Gillander will help preschoolers learn and practice language and social skills in a friendly and educational setting through stories, songs, crafts and play.
- Yoga for Seniors: Tuesday at 2 p.m. Certified Hathi Yoga instructor Bill Skinner offers weekly classes in Yoga for Seniors, using safe, healthful and relaxing exercises. The program is free, but pre-registration is required.
Jan. 22
- Tech Help: Wednesday, 9-11 a.m. The OPL’s talented tech volunteers are available to help anyone get the most out of devices or laptops. It’s free, and no appointment is required.
- Family Night – Anime/Manga Drawing: Wednesday at 6 p.m. For any family members interested in drawing anime and manga figures, Oneida Library offers a shared experience in drawing. Materials are provided.
Jan. 23
- Ready to Read: Thursday at 10 a.m. OPL’s Youth Services Coordinator Megan Gillander invites older preschoolers and their parents or guardians to a program of stories, songs and activities designed to prepare preschoolers for kindergarten.
Jan. 28
- Tech Connect: Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. To get free personal help on any problem you’re having with your computer, tablet, cell phone or device or to learn how to download, upload or research online, stop by the OPL Tuesdays to consult with Tech Connect’s Amanda McCallops.
- Ready to Read: Tuesday at 10 a.m. OPL’s Youth Services Coordinator Megan Gillander will help preschoolers learn and practice language and social skills in a friendly and educational setting through stories, songs, crafts and play.
- Yoga for Seniors: Tuesday at 2 p.m. Certified Hathi Yoga instructor Bill Skinner offers weekly classes in Yoga for Seniors, using safe, healthful and relaxing exercises. The program is free, but pre-registration is required.
- Pushing the Limits – “Stiff”: Tuesday at 6 p.m. Prof. Jen Herzog introduces the oddly compelling and frequently amusing history of cadavers in medical scientific research in a lively discussion of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. Sign up and request a copy of the book at the OPL Circulation Desk.
Jan. 29
- Tech Help: Wednesday, 9-11 a.m. The OPL’s talented tech volunteers are available to help anyone get the most out of devices or laptops. It’s free, and no appointment is required.
- After-school Book Club: Wednesday at 4 p.m. Oneida Public Library’s Youth Services Coordinator, Megan Gillander, calls on all third to fifth graders to come to the library and join the first session of OPL’s new monthly Book Club for Kids. The will help select the right book to discuss next month and plan a book-themed activity.
- Book Talk with Dr. Norman Dann: Wednesday at 7 p.m. Dr. Norman Dann, the historian who has taken Peterboro and the Gerrit Smith family as his special subject, will introduce his latest biography, “God, Gerrit and Guidance: The Life of Ann Carroll Fitzhugh Smith.” It is the story of Gerrit Smith’s dutiful wife Ann, who in her own right was a proto-feminist and her husband’s partner in reform. Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing by the author.
Jan. 30
- Ready to Read: Thursday at 10 a.m. OPL’s Youth Services Coordinator Megan Gillander invites older preschoolers and their parents or guardians to a program of stories, songs and activities designed to prepare preschoolers for kindergarten.