2025 Year in Review

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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
Page 2 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)