Taxpayer Assistant Program with the NYS Department of Taxation and Finance

On select Mondays in February, March and April, representatives from the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance will be at the Amsterdam Free Library. They will be able to guide qualified individuals through filing their tax returns using secure online tax so......More

On select Mondays in February, March and April, representatives from the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance will be at the Amsterdam Free Library. They will be able to guide qualified individuals through filing their tax returns using secure online tax software. To qualify, you must have earned $89,000 or less in 2025 (filing individually or as a family,) have basic computer skills and an active email account you can access.  Sessions will be held in the Teen Room of the Amsterdam Free Library from 10am-6pm on the following dates: February 9 and 23, March 9 and 23, and April 6. For more information or to schedule an appointment, visit https://www.tax.ny.gov/tap/ Please be aware that there is no elevator access to the second floor at this time. Accommodations will be made as needed.

28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

STEM Story Hour Grades K-2

STEM Story Hour: Grades K-2 No registration required. Ignite your child's curiosity with our weekly STEM Story Hour! Join us from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Children's Department at the Amsterdam Free Library to learn about maps! We will be reading Ruby Maps Her Worl......More

STEM Story Hour: Grades K-2 No registration required. Ignite your child's curiosity with our weekly STEM Story Hour! Join us from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Children's Department at the Amsterdam Free Library to learn about maps! We will be reading Ruby Maps Her World by Jane Yolen and learn about cartography and how maps are made. After the story, we will create our own maps! Please note, we do not have elevator access to the 2nd floor at this time

Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

STEM Story Hour Grades K-2

STEM Story Hour: Grades K-2 No registration required. Ignite your child's curiosity with our weekly STEM Story Hour! Join us every Monday from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Children's Department at the Amsterdam Free Library. Enjoy a fun picture book about exciting STEM......More

STEM Story Hour: Grades K-2 No registration required. Ignite your child's curiosity with our weekly STEM Story Hour! Join us every Monday from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Children's Department at the Amsterdam Free Library. Enjoy a fun picture book about exciting STEM topics. After the story, kids can try a hands-on activity that makes the subject come alive.   Please note, we do not have elevator access to the 2nd floor at this time

Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Tail Waggin' Tutors: Registration Required

Registration Required Join us every second Monday of the month for Tail Waggin' Tutors! Kids from K-5th grade can sign up for a slot to read to a dog. Spaces are limited each month so make sure to call early! To register your child for a slot, please call 518-842-1080......More

Registration Required Join us every second Monday of the month for Tail Waggin' Tutors! Kids from K-5th grade can sign up for a slot to read to a dog. Spaces are limited each month so make sure to call early! To register your child for a slot, please call 518-842-1080. The program is located on the second floor of the library and we do not have elevator access at this time.

28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Homeschool Hangout

Join us every Wednesday from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM for a Homeschool Hangout. Homeschool students of all ages are welcome on the second floor of the library in the Teen Room to study, work on homework, hang out with other homeschoolers, and enjoy snacks!

Knit & Crochet Group

This is not a teaching program, but a social group for knitters & crocheters to get together to swap ideas & have fun!Bring your latest project, exchange ideas and learn new stitches from your fellow knitters.Group meets each Wednesday at 1pm

Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Pre-K Story Hour Ages 0-4

Join us from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Children's Department  for Pre-K Story Hour (ages 0-4) where we will learn about Valentine's Day. We'll read Valentine Mice! by Bethany Roberts and Biscuit's Valentine's Day by Alyssa Satin Capucilli. After our books we will......More

Join us from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Children's Department  for Pre-K Story Hour (ages 0-4) where we will learn about Valentine's Day. We'll read Valentine Mice! by Bethany Roberts and Biscuit's Valentine's Day by Alyssa Satin Capucilli. After our books we will make hand bouquets! No registration required Please note, we do not have elevator access to the 2nd floor at this time.

Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Pre-K Story Hour Ages 0-4

Join us every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Children's Department  for Pre-K Story Hour (ages 0-4). We'll read a fun picture book and do a related activity. It's a great way for young children to enjoy stories and get creative!No registration requiredPl......More

Join us every Thursday from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. in the Children's Department  for Pre-K Story Hour (ages 0-4). We'll read a fun picture book and do a related activity. It's a great way for young children to enjoy stories and get creative!No registration requiredPlease note, we do not have elevator access to the 2nd floor at this time.

Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Friends of the Amsterdam Free Library Meeting

Open to all. The Friends of the Amsterdam Free Library's mission is to maintain a voluntarily non-profit association of persons in order to:âââ â Promote the widest use of library services for all ages and interest levels, alert the community to the library's needs, a......More

Open to all. The Friends of the Amsterdam Free Library's mission is to maintain a voluntarily non-profit association of persons in order to:âââ â Promote the widest use of library services for all ages and interest levels, alert the community to the library's needs, and raise funds for additional programs, improvements, and equipment not provided for in the library budget. Interested in joining? Please email or join us at one of our monthly meetings on the second Thursday of the month at 5:00pm. Membership Application

Website Development Workshop

Facilitated by John Tirelli Bring your own laptop (preferred) or reserve a library computer station. Web Development is a lucrative industry that hires candidates based on merit (what you prove you can do). It requires no formal education to break into, and many well......More

Facilitated by John Tirelli Bring your own laptop (preferred) or reserve a library computer station. Web Development is a lucrative industry that hires candidates based on merit (what you prove you can do). It requires no formal education to break into, and many well paid and respected Software Engineers are self taught, or attend short term educational "boot camps" to get their start. Take the first step with this free, self-paced course that teaches the basics of HTML, CSS, and Javascript (the foundations of modern web development). Register today by calling 518-842-1080

Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Guided Genealogy Research: Presented by Amsterdam DAR

Open to all No registration required Guided Genealogy Research:  Presented by the Amsterdam Chapter of The Daughters of the American Revolution *Second Thursday of each month 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Are you just starting out on your journey to discover your family ......More

Open to all No registration required Guided Genealogy Research:  Presented by the Amsterdam Chapter of The Daughters of the American Revolution *Second Thursday of each month 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Are you just starting out on your journey to discover your family roots? Or are you one document away from solving a mystery of one of your ancestors? Wherever you are in your genealogical process, DAR is here to help. Beginning in September, members of the Amsterdam Chapter of the DAR will be at the Amsterdam Free Library on the second Thursday of each month from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM to assist you with your genealogical research. Please bring along any information you have already gathered. 

Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Sunday Book Club: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Join our friends the Sunday Book Club in their discussion of ......More

Join our friends the Sunday Book Club in their discussion of The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. Print and audiobook copies can be requested through the library here and eBook copies can be requested on Libby. 

28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Spicy Book Club: Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

Place a hold for a copy of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros to join in on our first Spicy Book Club meeting! Copies are available in print through the library and on eboo......More

Place a hold for a copy of Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros to join in on our first Spicy Book Club meeting! Copies are available in print through the library and on ebook and audiobook through Libby  "Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away...because dragons don't bond to "fragile" humans. They incinerate them. With fewer dragons willing to bond than cadets, most would kill Violet to better their own chances of success. The rest would kill her just for being her mother's daughter--like Xaden Riorson, the most powerful and ruthless wingleader in the Riders Quadrant. She'll need every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise"

28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

HOLIDAY HOURS: Presidents Day

CANCELED: STEM Story Hour Grades K-2

STEM Story Hour: Grades K-2 No registration required. Ignite your child's curiosity with our weekly STEM Story Hour! Join us every Monday from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Children's Department at the Amsterdam Free Library. Enjoy a fun picture book about exciting STEM......More

STEM Story Hour: Grades K-2 No registration required. Ignite your child's curiosity with our weekly STEM Story Hour! Join us every Monday from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Children's Department at the Amsterdam Free Library. Enjoy a fun picture book about exciting STEM topics. After the story, kids can try a hands-on activity that makes the subject come alive.   Please note, we do not have elevator access to the 2nd floor at this time

Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

STEM Story Hour Grades K-2

STEM Story Hour: Grades K-2 No registration required. Ignite your child's curiosity with our weekly STEM Story Hour! Join us every Monday from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Children's Department at the Amsterdam Free Library. Enjoy a fun picture book about exciting STEM......More

STEM Story Hour: Grades K-2 No registration required. Ignite your child's curiosity with our weekly STEM Story Hour! Join us every Monday from 3:30 PM to 4:30 PM in the Children's Department at the Amsterdam Free Library. Enjoy a fun picture book about exciting STEM topics. After the story, kids can try a hands-on activity that makes the subject come alive.   Please note, we do not have elevator access to the 2nd floor at this time

Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

D&D Dungeon Crawl Classics: Ages 10+

"You're no hero. You're an adventurer!".  Join us on Monday nights to play Dungeon Crawl Classics, a face-paced RPG game based on Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons.  Games will run every first and third Monday of the month, starting October 6th, ......More

"You're no hero. You're an adventurer!".  Join us on Monday nights to play Dungeon Crawl Classics, a face-paced RPG game based on Appendix N: The Eldritch Roots of Dungeons and Dragons.  Games will run every first and third Monday of the month, starting October 6th, from 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM. Ages 10 and up are welcome! No registration required. Starter guide and game rules:  https://goodman-games.com/store/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/DCC_QSR_Free2.pdf

Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Library Olympics

Kids of all ages join us in our first ever Library Olympics to celebrate the Winter Games! We will be competing in different events such as library sorting, Olympic trivia, scavenger hunts, a "ski jump", curling, and more! We will be concluding the Games with a medal ce......More

Kids of all ages join us in our first ever Library Olympics to celebrate the Winter Games! We will be competing in different events such as library sorting, Olympic trivia, scavenger hunts, a "ski jump", curling, and more! We will be concluding the Games with a medal ceremony. This program will be located upstairs in the Children's Area. We currently do not have access to an elevator at this time.

28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA

Homeschool Hangout

Join us every Wednesday from 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM for a Homeschool Hangout. Homeschool students of all ages are welcome on the second floor of the library in the Teen Room to study, work on homework, hang out with other homeschoolers, and enjoy snacks!

Knit & Crochet Group

This is not a teaching program, but a social group for knitters & crocheters to get together to swap ideas & have fun!Bring your latest project, exchange ideas and learn new stitches from your fellow knitters.Group meets each Wednesday at 1pm

Amsterdam Free Library, 28 Church St, Amsterdam, NY 12010, USA