Olive Free Library Association

Hours & Location:

The Olive Free Library Association is located on Route 28A, in West Shokan about 1/4 mile from the Post Office. Parking is available.

About the Library:
The library was founded in 1952 and is celebrating 50 years of library service in the Town of Olive this year. The library has the special features of a local history museum, a large community room and a continuous book sale.

Library Mission Statement:
The mission of the Olive Free Library is to provide our community and its surrounding neighbors with materials and services that meet educational, informational, cultural and recreational needs. It also provides a site for community activities that meet the same needs.

The general goals of the library are:

1. maintain a core collection of materials that are:
   1. useful and current whether for general educational, basic skill development or recreational needs
   2. culturally important to the community, e.g. local history and culture, classic core literature, etc
2. maintain services that widen the resources available in the larger worlds of materials available regionally and state-wide
3. investigate new developments in providing services and adopt them if appropriate
4. maintain, and advance, the role of the library and its building and lands as a center for our community so long as these community activities relate to the same needs as the library’s collections and services and are appropriate to our legal condition and physical environment.

Board of Trustees:
Paula Bojarsky, Freya DeNitto, Mary Giuliano, Anne-Marie Johansson, Pamela Morgan (Vice-President), Hester Mundis, Sally Smith Raymond (Treasurer), Sandra Scheuer (Secretary), Mary Ann Shepard (President), Patty Wolff

Calendar of Board of Trustee Meetings 2009-10:
September 16, 2009
October 21, 2009
November 18, 2009
December - no meeting
January 20, 2010
February - no meeting
March 10, 2010
April 21, 2010
May 19, 2010
June 16, 2010

Library Director:
Ruth Anne Muller

Donations and Volunteer Opportunities:
We appreciate that you are thinking of our library. Contact us to donate books and other materials, or to volunteer time or services. Have anything else to donate? Storage space? A birthday or wedding gift that would make a great raffle item for the library? Contact the Library Director at olivefreelibrary@hvc.rr.com to let us know. Thank you!