2011 Friends' Membership Drive:
Please see/print the 2011 Friends' membership letter (PDF).

Individual membership starts at $25.

Simply visit or contact the library to obtain a membership form, complete the form and leave it at the library, or mail it to:

Friends of the Dennis P. McHugh Piermont Public Library
P.O. Box 345
Piermont, NY 10968

Please include a check for your dues. Contribution levels are listed on the membership form.

Benefits of Membership

This is a great opportunity to show your love of libraries and appreciation of the many rewards it offers you, your family and our community. Your generosity is put to good use every day by keeping library doors open and accessible. Individual membership starts at $25. The more you give, the greater the impact the Friends can have to help our Library, supporting and supplementing the services it offers.

Since opening our doors in 2007, the Library has served as an

• art gallery
• concert venue
• community center
• internet cafe
• movie theater
• homework hub

...all this in addition to providing access to books, audiobooks, music and DVDs with our own collection, as well as our access to the entire Ramapo Catskill Library System.

Many of these resources are supplemented by the Friends - as a result of our Membership Drive and ongoing fundraising activities.

Please help us continue to fund these activities by joining the Friends today.

Your contribution will support our Library and our Community!

In April of 1990, the Friends of the Piermont Public Library was formed by a group of residents interested in building community support for the library. The Friends raise funds for the library through their programs and activities, and provide a liaison between the library board and the community at large. New members are always welcome.

The Friends, an all volunteer organization, is committed to sponsoring a variety of programs and events designed to meet the interests of our entire community as well as to provide support for our library.

Contact: Helene Winson at (845)398-3238.

The Friends Board generally meet the last Wednesday every other month, more frequently when managing special programs. Meetings are held at 7 p.m. in the Library and all are welcome to attend.

Come and see how our fundraising ideas become a reality. Perhaps you have ideas for a new project? Friends Board meetings offer an opportunity to get more involved, to identify creative new fundraising events and assist in making the events become a reality.

Thanks to your membership dollars, FRIENDS provides assistance to the library both through sponsoring events and through purchases.

Upcoming Friends Events are usually posted under Special Events on this web site.

Some annual and fundraising events:

• Crab Fest in September (sometimes with live music)
• General Annual Meeting in November (includes some form of entertainment)
• Scarecrow Design Contest in October
• Tag Sale in June (during Village Sock Hop)
• International Wine and Food Tasting in February
• Book Sale in September

Non-annual occasional/fundraising events:

• Raffles
• Silent Auctions
• Membership teas
• Discussions with authors
• Russian Ballet film and food tasting
• Scarecrow Design workshop in the fall
• Cooking demonstrations at “who’s cooking”
• Publication and sale: Piermont booklet, Three Centuries
• Children’s workshop: valentine cards for soldiers
• Sale: Piermont library book bags
• Two concerts partially funded
• Fakoli African dance and drum
• Rudresh Mahanthappa duo
• Series of Art Lectures
• Silent Auctions
• Book Sales

Museum Memberships

• Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
• American Museum of Natural History
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Purchases for the library

(Responding to Library’s wish list):

• Museum Memberships
• Stacking chairs
• Book deposit box
• Book donation bin
• Disc repair machine
• Dollhouse furniture
• Scroll-down movie screen
• Study carrels and chairs
• Security/protection system
• Flip chairs for children’s room
• Book-and-puppet set for story time
• Gold-lettering signage for teen stacks
• Skid proof coating for Front Porch
• Electronic people counter (at library entrance)
• Funding music and theatre programs
• Sundry items for public facilities
• Freegal – downloadable music
• Bookshelf (partially funded)
• Glass door Display cabinet
• Stack Acrylic sign holders
• Holiday decorations
• Color Laser Printer
• Carpentry work
• Magazine rack
• Landscaping
• Snow Blower
• Tables
• Alarm system
• Media return bin
• Universal Class online continuing education
• Transparent Language Online

Piermont: Three Centuries is a history of the Village of Piermont that was published by the Friends of the Piermont Library in 1996, in honor of the Library's Centennial.

The book is available for purchase at the Library for $15.00.

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