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Food Truck Night with “The Grocery List Show”
Thursday, May 28 from 5-7:30 p.m.
Celebrate spring in Clinton with fresh air, delicious food, and community! Get your dinner from a variety of local food trucks, then eat while you watch “The Grocery List Show,” an Indie Lens Pop-Up film. Guests can bring home something from our Spice Smorgasboard, featuring some of the flavors featured in the film along with recipes to try. The food trucks include Grapevine, Filipino Food Zone, Sarita’s, Taco Cat and Cremeria.
From now through Thursday, you can stop in to the Library to check out an item and earn a $5 token to use towards your dinner at our Food Truck Night while supplies last.
Made possible by the generous support of ITVS through the Indie Lens Pop-Up grant.
Volunteers Needed
We’re looking for help at our Food Truck Night on Thursday, May 28. Volunteers are needed at 4 p.m. to set up tables and chairs in the parking lot and at 7:30 p.m. to take them down and move them back into the library. Service hours are available for students. Please let us know if you’re able to help by emailing clinton@midyork.org. If you can’t RSVP, just show up at either time. Thank you!
6th Annual Clinton Challenge
Readers ages 18 and up are invited to join us as we compete against other Clinton libraries in a summer reading challenge! We’ll take on readers from the North County Branch Library in Clinton, New Jersey, the Clinton County Libraries in Pennsylvania, the Bigelow Free Library in Clinton, Massachusetts, the Clinton Public Library in Clinton, Iowa, the Clinton Public Library in Clinton, Indiana, and the Quisenberry Library in Clinton, Mississippi to see who can read the most this summer.
All you have to do is keep track of your reading. You can read books, magazines, or newspapers, listen to an audiobook, or anything you can borrow from the library. It counts! Download a Clinton Challenge Reading Log below, grab a paper copy from inside the library, or use your own method.
Six times this summer, you’ll report on the number of hours or pages you’ve read. (One page is equal to one minute.) You can snip the round from your reading log and drop it off, email your total to clinton@midyork.org, or fill out this Online Form . We’ll tally the hours and see how we stack up against the competition. For every round that you submit your time, you’ll be entered in a raffle to win a fun prize.
Book Donations
Guidelines
We are now accepting donations for the 2026 Friends Annual Book Sale on the Village Green.
Due to limited storage space, we can only accept books in pristine condition. Please make sure all items are in like-new condition and are items you would purchase again.
Like-new means:
Covers are intact no odors not chewed on
haven’t been wet not stained didn’t need to be dusted off first
not stored in your basement
We do not accept:
encyclopedias textbooks videotapes (VHS)
magazines Readers Digest Books cassette tapes
vinyl records toys/games
Please understand that while you may think your books are priceless, we know from experience what will sell. (That’s why the sale is so popular and a fantastic fundraiser for the KTL!) Any items not accepted are yours to take home.
Other places to donate books
- Better World Books drop box located outside the Mid York Library System headquarters, 1600 Lincoln Ave, Utica. (Donations here help ALL the libraries.)
- Thrifty Shopper, New Hartford Shopping Center – accepts donations but prefers newer titles
- Little Free Libraries (several around the area)
- Stores with book exchanges (like Kinney)
How to Recycle or Dispose of Books
Remember – books have a shelf life. If it’s been on your shelves longer than you can remember, if you didn’t feel a pang when letting it go, or if you wouldn’t buy it, then it’s okay to let them go to the big bookshelf in the sky.
Paperback books can be recycled.
If you rip out the pages from hardcovers, the pages can be recycled, and the covers tossed in the trash.
Thank you!
