Patterson Library

Collections and circulation: the library's collection is comprised of both physical material and downloadable and electronic content. Our physical materials include books, audiobooks, periodicals, dvds, and cds. The downloadable content includes ebooks, audiobooks, films, and various databases. We also have a "library of things", which consists of museum passes, cakepans, tools, gaming systems, seeds, and hotspots. We also are able to access items from the 66 -member library mid-hudson library system, of which we are a part, as well as interlibrary loan items from across the state and country. We had over 39,000 visitors in 2024 who checked out approximately 56,000 items from these physical and digital collections.

Outreach: the library staff partners with community members to introduce the public to what the library has to offer as well as to bring educational and entertaining programming to them. We partner with local organizations like the patterson rotary to host the community-wide touch-a-truck event in june. We host aarp volunteers to provide free tax help to seniors and low- income individuals from february to april each year. We feature local artists' displays in our community room. We collect items for the patterson food pantry, putnam humane society, vet 2 vet veteran's organization, and the putnam community action partnership. The patterson historical society hosts their annual meeting and quarterly programs at our library, and the cornell cooperative extension and friends of the great swamp partner with our programmers to host adult and children's environmental programs. Youth services staff conduct visits with preschool, homeschool, and k-12 school classes to introduce literacy concepts and to instruct students on the use of the library.

Library services as well as various educational and social programs to enhance the quality of life within the surrounding community.