2025 Year in Review

Thank you for visiting our 2025 Year in Review page!

Annual Report for the community:
2025 Income: $154,762

Town Tax: $114,630
County Funding Grant: $1,672
Grants: $25,666
Copier/Fax: $657
Donations: $9266
Fund-Raising: $588
NYS Library Services: $1,748
Interest: $250
Refunds on Payments: $285
2025 Expenditures: $112,814

Salary: $61,503
Insurance: $5,503
Collections: $9,929
MHLS Expense: $1,743
Building Maintenance: $10,022
Utilities: $8,004
Computers: $2,804
Programs: $8,748
Other Expenses: $4,558

Registered borrowers: 2,195
Library visits: 9,335
Weekly Hours: 35
Interlibrary Loans:
received: 3,060
Provided: 1,571
Ebook circulation:2,702
eaudiobook circulation: 3,575
emagazine circulation: 3,037
Wireless access:4,521
Website visits: 8,778
Physical items circulated:8,815
Total circulation: 15,590
Programs offered: 336
Program attendance:3,778
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What happened in 2025?:
Technology update! We have added two iPads, one for patron use and one for a patron catalog and did I mention our new Charging Station?
We extended our hours allowing for two more open hours a week! We are now open 35 a week instead of 33.
Our new sensory safe children’s area. We applied for and received the Ackerman Fund Grant which allowed us to update our children’s area and include sensory safe programming to be more inclusive of the Neurodivergent community members.
NYS Trail entrance Paving. 
Installation of a Little Free Library.
Expanded program offerings for adults, children, and all ages.
We also included a new Take-&-Make program that allows families to pick up assembled kits to take home to complete. In our first year of this program we provided 208 kits to families in our community!
Necessity Counter added to our restroom to provide personal care and home items to the community.
We updated the panel lighting main section of the library to dimmable LED lights!
Page three of the Annual Report:
Hours:
xMonday 12:00 – 6:00 PM
Tuesday 10:00 – 6:00 PM
Wednesday 12:00 – 6:00 PM
Thursday 12:00 – 6:00 PM
Friday 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Saturday 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Sunday CLOSED

Board of trustees:
Emilia Teasdale, President (term expires 12 / 2028)
Jill Leinung, Vice President (term expires 12 / 2027)
Shirley Kelly, Treasurer (term expires 12 / 2026)
Laura Rogers (term expires 12 / 2026)
Melissa Schieren (term expires 12 / 2028)
Kristi Berner (term expires 12 / 2029
Vivian Becker (term expires 12 / 2029
Julia Pickett (term expires 12 / 2028)

Staff:
Tiffany Buono, Library Director directorvalatiefreelibrary@gmail.com

Terri Brew, Library Clerk
Bob Korycinski, Library Clerk
Toni McDonald, Library Clerk
Lucille Ouimet, Library Clerk (sub)