Albany Public Library

We invited the Dynasty Wrestling team to the library today and they understood the assignment 🫡

Amazon prime days start today which means it’s a perfect time to visit the library and borrow some books

What a perfect, beautiful day ✨✨✨ Happy pride today and every day. Love yall 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Join us for our first ever Gender-Affirming Clothing Event, where you can “shop” for clothes that feel like you!

We’re also looking for volunteer Safe Shopping Buddies and Clothing Sorters. Visit our United to Volunteer page to learn more and sign up: www.unitedtovolunteer.org/agency/detai...

Thanks to our friend Noelle Diamond for reading and singing and dancing with us the other night. And to all of you who joined us!! That was fun ☺️☺️☺️

Libraries are for drag queens 🌈✨🌈✨

The mood

Seriously though, hard to express the big big library joy we all felt getting to meet and hear from him. So grateful for you sharing your story, Mychal, and for spreading the goodness of libraries.
Library joy is for everyone ✨✨✨

A bunch of our staff met @mychal3ts.bsky.social today which means we're more powerful than ever

Just visited a restaurant that had this framed photo of the National Library of Thailand hanging in the restroom. All other restaurants in the area need to step their game up

Details here. Thanks to the city’s Love Your Block program for their support!!

Hi, we have a seed library now 🌱 We’re really excited for this and think you should come get some seeds because flowers and vegetables and fruits yall

I hope you like applesauce

Sometimes you’re reading a good book and you just gotta plop down right where you are and get after it 🫡

We have never felt more inspired.

It never hurts to ask for cupcakes

3/28 update: I have been told Maeve got her cupcake ✅

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Dear Maeve, I couldn’t agree more. We will take this suggestion under serious consideration

Sometimes the librarians leave the library and if you see them you are required to say “hey I love the library!” Just fyi

Exceptional haul 10/10

I made this video to promote our spring reading program and am really proud of the sound effects so you should watch it

Ran into a library patron I hadn't seen in 6 years and she immediately started reminiscing about a program "back then" that she found meaningful and when I tell you that made my day 🥹🥹🥹 I love being a library

The Washington Ave Branch will have the passes and will have one pass good for two admissions for every day of the week. That means any day there is an “Egg Presents” event, we’ve got two free admissions waiting for you! Here they are:
www.theegg.org/events/?seri...

Our mascot is a bird. The Egg is, well, in the shape of an egg. If you thought we’d never team up I don’t know what to tell you 🦉💞🥚
Presenting... The Egg Presents Performance Pass!
www.albanypubliclibrary.org/blog/apl-add...

We have a "Can AI write poetry?" workshop coming up, and I was thinking about breaking my no-AI rule to create a lead image for the promotion. So I prompted Adobe's image generator: "Can AI write poetry?" Guys, are we sure AI is computers and not cats? Maybe AI is cats.

indeed. books are the best!

We have green books, just fyi 📗

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