Library Events

Established in 1968, Wildlife Lectures offers the highest quality wildlife programs that are both educational and entertaining. Bill and Brian Robinson are permanently certified teachers in the state of New York. With the use of live wildlife, they discuss the animals' adaptations for survival a...read more

Come by and enjoy Andrew Baffi playing classical guitar. Browse, read a magazine, and newspaper or just chill listening to Andrew. 

Join Nancy Sorgen, an educator and former kindergarten teacher at Margaretville Central School and Delhi in Delaware County for STORYTIME!!! Nancy will read 2-3 books to young children. We will start the program outside, and it will come inside when it rains and/or starts to get cold. This program w...read more

Led by spoken word and voiceover artist Grace Angela Henry, the program will begin with a tour of the Beatrix Farrand Garden, located on the Roosevelt-Vanderbilt Historic Site in Hyde Park. Beatrix Farrand was the first professional woman landscape gardener in America, and in 1899, one of the foundi...read more

Join the monthly Mysteries Around the World Book Club! 

June 1st through August 3rd (August 3rd was postponed- last class AUGUST 10th) (10 sessions total) Join Pediatric Occupational Therapist Abbey Kennedy for a multisensory handwriting club for 5-8 year olds. Designed to help prevent the "summer slide", this group wil...read more

Join Terry Watson, a licenced music therapist and accomplished chamber musician, for a session of musical expression with your young children! This workshop meets every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month and is great for children 2-6 years old. Feel free to send me an email if you child doesnt fit in...read more

The Friends of Starr Library host several book sales each year, generally during library hours on a consecutive Friday and Saturday. To learn more about book sale donations and items the Friends do and do not accept, please visit the Friends Book Sales page on our website.

Join us for an amazing opportunity to see a nationally recognized, award-winning family and kids magician who specializes in comedy magic, illusion, and mind reading. This event is fun for the whole family! Not to be missed. This event will be the culminating event to finish up all of our&...read more

Come and see the Rhinebeck Legion Band perform a free concert at Starr Library as part of their summer 2022 series! Learn more about the concert schedule here.

Literacy and Art with Theresa CorriganJoin us for a three part workshop series, Wednesday's on August 17th, 24th and 31st, which will culminate with an art show at Starr Library on September 10th! Theresa Corrigan, a local collage artist, will lead young children in reading a book focused on hea...read more

We will read the children’s book about the wonderful lives of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel by Jackie Kramer and Julia Breckenreid followed by making our own mini art collection and museum.About the book:  "In the heart of Manhattan lived a librarian and a postal clerk who loved art so m...read more

In this interactive “playshop,” we’ll explore techniques that lead to highly effective storytelling. Through the fusion of imagination and structure, you’ll discover ways to shape your story, commit it to memory, and deliver it with confidence. Overcome any fear of public spe...read more

Join this wonderful woodwind quintet who will be performing classical pieces that were composed for their ensemble. You will hear works of several different genres and styles of music from classical to contemproary. This event is for all ages to enjoy. It will be held outsdie on our Summer stage, bu...read more

Learn more about Medicare eligibility and benefits. 

Please note that the Thursday, 8/25 session of this program has been canceled. We'll see you at a new time, 10:15am, beginning on September 8th! 

Library Board meetings are (usually) held on the fourth Thursday of every month in the Mary Frazer room on the lower level of the building.  All community members are invited to attend.

Calling all plant lovers! Do you have a cutting of a rex begonia or a rubber tree, a snake plant or a pothos, a jade plant, a diffenbachia, or anything in between you'd like to share with fellow plant enthusiasts? Come to Starr Library anytime between 11am-2pm with a cutting or two, and leave wi...read more

Private

Join us for this month's discussion of Our Country Friends, the bestselling novel by Gary Shteyngart. In the rolling hills of upstate New York, a group of friends and friends-of-friends gather in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next six months, new friendships a...read more