Adult Services

Service Statistics

Offered Programs

• Total Programs: 66
• Total Attendance: 723

Interesting Additions

• The SaratogaREADS! 2026 adult season kicked off in February with great programs that were very well attended.
• In keeping with a heartwarming gesture introduced by the Saratoga County Chamber of Kindness Leap of Kindness Day (2024) and Random Acts of Kindness Day (2026), care kits were assembled and made available to patrons in need of personal care items. Donations were accepted by Franklin Community Center, Mary Ratzer and Kali Nagler.
• Katie’s weekly Escape Room: Downtime For Adults program has beenpulling in a great number of patrons! It is wonderful watching this program grow. Adults of all abilities are welcome in the Teen Room only during our specially scheduled time. Enjoy gaming, board games, puzzles, coloring, the sensory cart, and relax socially with other adults. No minors will be in the space during the adults-only hours.
• Because of discrepancies with our current adult audiobook vendor, Katie has been working with the AOS department on getting a new vendor set up for ordering, called Blackstone.
• The Adult Services department members represented SSPL (Saratoga Springs Public Library) at NYLA (New York Library Association) Advocacy Day in Albany on 2/3/202.
• Tax Season: This tax season has been full of surprises! The State forms came to us in mid-January instead of mid-February, which was greatly appreciated. The New York State Tax Department has been awesome this year in terms of getting us refills anywhere from one to two days after we call for them. Federal shipping was a little different this year. Usually, the 1040 and 1040-SR forms come in mid-January with the instructions. This year, the 1040-SR forms came in with the instruction booklets in mid-January, but it took about two to three weeks for the 1040 forms to arrive. Staff printed out 1040s for patrons while Katie worked to get an answer from the IRS. They also surprised us with 1040 Schedule 1-A forms, which were not on the originally ordering form. It was good that they sent them though since this is a new form offering for this tax year. Spanish forms were sent in a timely manner. While these forms usually come in protected boxes, some were sent in a paper mailer which got wet somewhere along the way, causing some of the form’s edges to receive crinkling and water stains. These forms were still usable.

What We’re Reading

• Caitlin:
  • Resistance of Witches
    Set in England and France in the 1940s, it imagines what the dangers could have been if witches were real during World War II, and how Hitler would have tried to use that to his advantage.
• Jamie:
  • Frozen River
    I am putting this book in because I need to read it for my book club but honestly, I am still reading Game Changers books. Don’t judge me.
• Katie:
  • The Secret Keeper
    50 years after witnessing a crime, Laurel Nicolson works to uncover secrets that will help her better understand her mother and why a mysterious man appeared at their door all those years ago.
• Kali:
  • This is Happiness
    A historical fiction mirror of small-town life in Ireland on the brink of modernization through electricity. A young man navigates this backdrop while also falling in and out of love.
• Emily:
  • Forest Euphoria: The Abounding Queerness of Nature
    A thrilling book about the abounding queerness of the natural world that challenges our expectations of what is normal, beautiful, and possible.
• Rebecca:
  • A Song of Wraiths and Ruin
    A young adult fantasy duology based in West African folklore that has been on my TBR (To Be Read) list forever.

Respectfully submitted by Jamie Chabot, Adult Services Department Head