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A standing room only crowd filled in the Carnegie’s Children’s Library Saturday, June 6th as the Albany Youth Orchestra held a celebratory keyboard recital featuring ten young student performers. Beethoven was there with his Ode to Joy and Star Wars came through loud and clear with its Imperial March.  These two favorites were among the ten pieces…
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The Albany Public Library Foundation joined forces with Friends of Historic Albany on Saturday, May 30, to present a display at the Carnegie Library of historic items and to offer a downtown walking tour of the remaining cast iron store front elements along 1st and 2nd Avenues. The tour was led by Bernadette Niederer whose Master’s Thesis…
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Lots and lots and lots of books found new homes during the course of the May 2nd book swap meet for kids’ books and tween books at the Carnegie. Harry Potter was there and Star Wars were there (on paper anyway) along with a wide variety of new and old, true and fantasy characters and stories…
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Art rocked the Carnegie Library on the morning of March 14 as over sixty people of all ages met – and painted – about one hundred and fifty rocks. The event was a combined Albany Public Library Foundation and Library Super-Saturday event with the Foundation providing the (prepared) rocks, paints, markers, brushes and other applicators…
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Join the Albany Public Library Foundation as we host Art Rocks at the CARNEGIE LIBRARY, 302 Ferry St. SW. on Saturday, March 14, drop in from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Design, paint, display, share and take home a beautifully painted rock or two or three. We have over 150 smooth rocks painted in background…
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On Saturday, January 24, about 100 people invaded downtown starting from the Carnegie Library to search for twenty architectural details and free-standing items along 1st and 2nd Avenues and the connecting streets between Lyons and Calapooia. The searchers were taking part in the Downtown Discovery event sponsored jointly by the Albany Public Library Foundation and the Albany…
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On December 17 and again on December 18, groups of Albany Youth Orchestra strings students filled the Carnegie with cheerful music of the season. The Albany Public Library Foundation coordinated the concerts on the stage of the children’s area of the library.  Parents and supporters of the students filed the room to capacity both times…
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As part of the Albany Parlor Tour December 14, the Albany Public Library Foundation supplemented the seasonal decorations at the Carnegie with a fire in the south fireplace, hot spiced cider for all, and “A Visit From Saint Nicholas”, better known as “The Night Before Christmas.” The famous poem, written by Clement Moore in 1823,…
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The Carnegie Library now sports seasonal decorations, including a Santa hat for Shakespeare and two giant wreaths out front. There are many, many poinsettias on tables and desks and there are fresh garlands above both fireplaces and on top of the bookshelves behind and to the right of the check-out desk.  There are beads along…
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Many people are going to receive very special – and very beautiful – cards in the coming weeks, thanks to the talent and hard work of more than 35 people participating in the Foundation’s Autumn Arts, Card Making session at the Carnegie Library on a grey Saturday, November 22. The Albany Public Library Foundation presented…
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