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We Need Your Input

As we develop our 2026-28 strategic plan, we welcome you to share your thoughts about the Kirkland Town Library. Please think about our collection, hours, services, programs, and facility, and give us your ideas. You can stop in to handwrite a form or click here to complete it online.


 

Clinton Challenge

Do you like to read? Are you over 18? If you answered yes to both of those questions, we need you for the Clinton Challenge!

The Kirkland Town Library was the winner of the first Clinton Challenge in summer 2021! We won again in 2023, but we are lagging behind this year. We need to bring the trophy home! All you have to do is keep track of how much time you spend reading.

If it seems intimidating, here’s a helpful tip. This year, all six libraries have agreed that one page is equal to one minute of reading. Once you finish a book, make a note of how many pages it is (or Google it!). Divide the number of pages by 60, and you have your reading time.

Every Friday, let us know how long you’ve read during the week.  Snip this week from your reading log and drop it off, email your time to clinton@midyork.org, or fill out the online form.

For every instance that you submit your time, you’ll be entered in a raffle to win a fun prize at the end of the summer.

Book Recommendations

Need some summer reading inspiration? Click here for some picks from the libraries participating in the Clinton Challenge. Each of the team captains chose a book they enjoy reading during the summer. Stop by the library to pick up a copy for yourself…and be sure to count your reading time!

Week Nine Results

The Empire State strikes back with their second week in first place of the 2025 Clinton Challenge! That’s right, the Kirkland Town Library is in a New York state of reading with 14,388 hours/pages.

Iowa (12,920 hours/page) and Indiana (12,566 hours/pages) keep a tight race for second. Massachusetts is almost at the 10k mark with 9,402 hours/pages and New Jersey is catching up with 7,642 hours/pages.

READING LOG

REPORT YOUR TIME

 


 

Teen Lit Bags Now Available

Teens aged 13-18 can sign up to receive a bag full of goodies from the library! You’ll receive two library books selected just for you, a craft, snacks, and more! Click here to request one:

Teen Lit Bag


 

Summer Reading For Kids & Teens

Kids

Visit the Library to sign up. You’ll receive a log and your Read & Bead necklace. Then, start reading! Keep track of the time you have read and mark it on the log. Throughout the summer, visit the library and show us your log. You’ll earn beads for each box you fill in and you can add them to your necklace. We’ll have a new special collector’s bead every Friday! When you’ve filled in all the boxes, you’ve read 10 hours and completed our reading challenge. Bring your completed log back to the library to get all of the beads you’ve earned plus a ticket for a prize raffle. Then, keep reading! You can complete more logs to win more raffle tickets and beads.

Teens

Stop in to get a reading log. Cross off one box for every 30 minutes you read. When you’ve filled all the boxes, you’ve read for ten hours and completed our reading challenge! Bring your log back to the KTL to choose a gift card and enter a prize raffle. There is a limit of one gift card per teen, but you can fill the reading log to earn as many raffle tickets as you like.

In addition to reading, we have a lot of fun events and activities planned all summer long. Make sure you’re signed up for our e-newsletter to get all the details (link is above).

Prizes

All teens who complete their reading log can earn a gift card to the Clinton Cider Mill, Cremeria, or Lorenzo’s (one per person). Plus, enter a raffle to win a black belt bag, a gently used Fjallraven bag, a throw blanket, Popin Cookin’ Candy kits, an Owala water bottle, or a gift card to Bookshop.org.

In addition to earning beads, kids can enter to win a Barnes & Noble gift card, reusable water balloons, a Minecraft activity kit, a gnome door craft, SnapCircuits, or a LEGO Creator 3-in-1 set.

Be sure to bring in your logs and let us know what you’ve been reading this summer!


Community Calendar of Events

We created a calendar of events happening at the KTL, Kirkland Art Center, Chamber of Commerce, Village of Clinton, and others! Click here to see the most up-to-date version or stop in to get a paper copy. (It’s not just for kids!)