Beekman Library

I was blown away by my wonderful experience at the Beekman Library. I went there to sign up for a library card and every staff member was so helpful and pleasant. I was welcomed to town and received a helpful Welcome Bag. I was able to quickly sign up for my card and then I was easily able to use the e-​catalog (after a brief tutorial from the staff).
The library is clean, well maintained and felt very «community minded». Though the range of books is small anything you are looking for can easily be requested from their library system. Coming from a very large library system where no one ever looked me in the eye much less greeted me by name — this library rocks!
As a bonus, they were having a book sale in their basement and it was a great place to pick up a few books I had been looking for while supporting this great community resource.
Bravo Beekman Library!

I really like this library. It’s not that big, but since you can get books and other materials sent from every library in the Mid-​Hudson system it doesn’t matter that much. The building is brand new and beautiful, there is space to sit and read or use your laptop and there’s free wifi as well. The staff have always been very friendly and helpful. I only wish it had longer hours, but I understand that’s probably a function of limited funding. Support your public libraries!