Hudson Area Public Library District
Inspiring Curiosity, Building Community, Preserving History, Enriching Lives
Request your copy of Kate Morton’s The Clockmaker’s Daughter at the desk and join us for a great discussion Thursday, March 18th at 7pm.
About our March selection: “Told by multiple voices across time, this is an intricately layered, richly atmospheric novel about art and passion, forgiveness and loss, that shows us that sometimes the way forward is through the past.”
Are you willing to take a chance on literary love? Go on a blind date with a book! All through February you can check out a blind date book when you come to the library (or have us bring one out to you using curbside service). Take your date home and unwrap it. Will it be true love, or will you dump your date after the first chapter? Make sure you rate your date when you’re through!
Voting season for Monarch, Bluestem, Caudill, and Lincoln Award books is swiftly approaching! February will be here before we know it!
The library has a Bluestem Board and a Caudill Board for children eligible to participate in the voting parties to post the books they have read. Make sure your child has been added to the appropriate board when they become eligible and when they’ve read an additional title.
Teens and homeschool families may vote for Lincoln and Monarch Awards by contacting the library.
This year’s must-reads according to your friends and neighbors (in no particular order):
Need a little pick-me-up? Pick up a Take-and-Make craft at the library! New projects are available for kids and adults regularly.
The library is dedicated to preserving all areas of Hudson History through the work that goes on in the Hudson History Room. We are living through unprecedented and historic times right now. The History Room wants to know about the experiences of Hudson residents so that we can record and pass on our shared story to future generations of Hudson residents. Take a few minutes to fill out this questionnaire and tell us about your experiences with COVID-19. Feel free to share the link with your friends, neighbors, and family so we can get as many responses as possible.
Eventually, we would like to create a collection of responses and artifacts from this time in the History Room so the more responses we get, the more complete the collection will be! Thank you for your help.
The library is continuing curbside service even though our doors are open. Check item availability through the online catalog and give us a call from the parking lot during regular library hours when you arrive to pick up your items. It’s that simple! Having difficulty with the online catalog? Please call and let us help. It’s what we do.
Now is the perfect time to explore our great selection of e-resources available through the online catalog, RSAcat Mobile app, Axis360, Libby, OverDrive, Tumblebooks, and BiblioBoard. If you do not know your PIN, please email us at hudsonarealibrary@yahoo.com so we can reset it for you. We have video tutorials to help you learn how to search the catalog to place a hold, install the RSAcat Mobile app to your phone, and install e-resource apps so you can check out e-books and e-audiobooks from home. Do you need a card? Start here!
The Library Board has voted to cease collection of fines for overdue materials. If you borrow it, bring it back. If you need it a little longer, go ahead and renew it. If you get an overdue notice, it’s a friendly reminder to renew or return. Returning library materials is just doing your neighbor a favor. Replacement costs for lost or damaged items still apply.
Hudson Area Public Library patrons can borrow mobile hot spots to take the internet wherever they go.
A hot spot is a portable device that provides Wi-Fi internet access to computers, phones, or tablets. They connect to 4G LTE speeds through a cellular network. Library hot spots come with unlimited data and can connect up to 10 devices at a time. So, if you want a reliable internet connection for your devices on vacation or don’t have internet at home and have a project to work on, hot spots are a great option. Our hot spots work anywhere in the U.S. where there is Sprint mobile coverage.
