| The Hillsdale Public Library is located on State Route
23, just west of the major intersection with Route 22, in the enter of
town. Across Route 23 is a popular grocery store.
Although actually constructed in 1925, the library building appears as a
traditional nineteenth-century one-story brick building. The
library is chartered by the State of New York as the Hillsdale Library,
an association library to serve the town of Hillsdale. It also
serves the towns of Copake and Ancram. Trustees are
self-perpetuating and appointed by the Board from the Association
membership.
Tax support for the library from the governments of the three
townships totaled 22.8% of the FY2001 operating budget.
Fifty percent of the 2001 budget of $64,375 was funded by an annual
Fund Drive and a further $7,000, 0r 11% was derived from income on
investments and endowment.
A total budget of $64,375 for FY2001 would represent an overall
expenditure for library services of $9.85 per capita for the year.
The library has 1,844 registered borrowers. Circulation for the
year 2001 is reported as 20,296 items, an increase of 52% from 13,349 in
the eight years since 1993. (In 2004 the number of
registered borrowers increased
by 39% to 2,567.)
In spite of the fact that the library has no meeting room or story
hour room, it offers a series of seasonal preschool story hours and
craft programs, along with occasional adult programs. |
