Albany Public Library
@albanynylibrary.bsky.social
Albany Public Library educates, entertains, and empowers the Albany, NY community.
We invited the Dynasty Wrestling team to the library today and they understood the assignment 🫡
August 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
We invited the Dynasty Wrestling team to the library today and they understood the assignment 🫡
What a perfect, beautiful day ✨✨✨ Happy pride today and every day. Love yall 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
June 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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...
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...
June 5, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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...
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 ☺️☺️☺️
June 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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 🌈✨🌈✨
June 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Libraries are for drag queens 🌈✨🌈✨
A bunch of our staff met @mychal3ts.bsky.social today which means we're more powerful than ever
May 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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
May 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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!!
May 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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
May 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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
May 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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 🫡
May 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Sometimes you’re reading a good book and you just gotta plop down right where you are and get after it 🫡
It never hurts to ask for cupcakes
March 28, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It never hurts to ask for cupcakes
Dear Maeve, I couldn’t agree more. We will take this suggestion under serious consideration
March 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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
March 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Sometimes the librarians leave the library and if you see them you are required to say “hey I love the library!” Just fyi
I made this video to promote our spring reading program and am really proud of the sound effects so you should watch it
March 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I made this video to promote our spring reading program and am really proud of the sound effects so you should watch it
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...
Presenting... The Egg Presents Performance Pass!
www.albanypubliclibrary.org/blog/apl-add...
March 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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...
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.
March 18, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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.
Just me and the homies at the book club
March 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Just me and the homies at the book club
We'll have 2 information sessions for those interested. The first will be Saturday, March 22, 10-11:30am, at the Howe Branch. The second will be Wednesday, March 26, 6:30-8pm, at the Pine Hills Branch. We'd love to see you there!
March 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
We'll have 2 information sessions for those interested. The first will be Saturday, March 22, 10-11:30am, at the Howe Branch. The second will be Wednesday, March 26, 6:30-8pm, at the Pine Hills Branch. We'd love to see you there!
Interested in a leadership role in our community? Want to be a library advocate for the community? Become a Library Trustee! There are 2 open seats. Nominating petitions are due by April 30. All the info and petitions are here: www.albanypubliclibrary.org/about/budget/
March 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Interested in a leadership role in our community? Want to be a library advocate for the community? Become a Library Trustee! There are 2 open seats. Nominating petitions are due by April 30. All the info and petitions are here: www.albanypubliclibrary.org/about/budget/
So umm guys they kinda made a movie about me?? Well, not me specifically. But about public libraries! I am that! Cool!
Pine Hills Branch January 25 be there!
Pine Hills Branch January 25 be there!
January 15, 2025 at 7:34 PM
So umm guys they kinda made a movie about me?? Well, not me specifically. But about public libraries! I am that! Cool!
Pine Hills Branch January 25 be there!
Pine Hills Branch January 25 be there!
Love you Dad
January 2, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Love you Dad
So, um guys, I think I'm a millionaire?! Got word from Upper Hudson Library System that you all borrowed over ONE MILLION items through Libby this year. One million. I feel like Scrooge McDuck swimming through piles of ebook checkouts. Well done Albany people 🙌🙌🙌
December 31, 2024 at 5:25 PM
So, um guys, I think I'm a millionaire?! Got word from Upper Hudson Library System that you all borrowed over ONE MILLION items through Libby this year. One million. I feel like Scrooge McDuck swimming through piles of ebook checkouts. Well done Albany people 🙌🙌🙌
Got this picture from the Pine Hills Branch and was told these are reindeer horns. But they look like nanny nanny poo poos to me 🤔
December 19, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Got this picture from the Pine Hills Branch and was told these are reindeer horns. But they look like nanny nanny poo poos to me 🤔