{"id":2,"date":"2018-08-20T08:08:06","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T12:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uhls.org\/berne\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T12:45:37","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/?page_id=2","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Mission Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mission of the Berne Public Library is to meet the needs of the community by providing resources for lifelong learning and entertainment.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/?page_id=7567\">Berne Public Library Board of Trustees bylaws and meeting minutes.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.5em;\">Staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/doc20190202135931.pdf\">\u00a0<\/a>Manager\/Director &#8211;\u00a0Kathy Stempel<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Library Clerk &#8211;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Sandra Kisselback,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Carrie Needham,<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Christine Freer<\/li>\n<li>Lauren Smith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>************************************************************************<\/p>\n<p><strong>My Card: \u00a0<\/strong>The Hilltown Libraries My Card is for kids ages birth &#8211; 17. \u00a0It allows them to take out three books at a time with no late fees. \u00a0The card may be used at the Berne, Westerlo, and Rensselaerville Libraries. \u00a0It also gives the children access to online resources from the Upper Hudson Library System.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/?page_id=7571\">Berne Public Library Policies and Guidelines<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>******************************************************<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/strategic-plan-BPL-2.pdf\">Strategic plan BPL<\/a>2024-2027<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1VY-4IxWAhvtHMqFFk3UG5GSj2lqiMiw2oVZADp-80Bs\/viewanalytics#start=publishanalytics\">2015 Community Survey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*********************************************************<\/p>\n<p>Library Budget 2022<\/p>\n<p>Library Budget 2021<\/p>\n<p>Library Budget 2020<\/p>\n<p>Library Budget 2019;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Budget2019a.jpg\"> page 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Budget2019b.jpg\">page 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-Library-Budget.pdf\">Li<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/2018-Library-Budget.pdf\">brary Budget 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>*******************************************************<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Annual Narrative<\/strong> &#8211; What happened at the library in 2017? \u00a0The annual narrative is a one-page summary of the year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/2024Annual.pptx\">2024 Annual<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/2023Annual.pdf\">2023 Annual<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/2020Annual-Public-Report.pdf\">2020 Annual-Public-Report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/2019-Annual-Report-Narrative-Berne.pdf\">2019 Annual Report Narrative<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/2017-Annual-Narrative.pdf\">2017 Annual Narrative<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2016-Annual-Narrative.pdf\">2016 Annual Narrative<\/a><\/p>\n<p>***********************************************************<\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Town of Berne Free Library was charted in 1962. Its first location was up the hill from the bridge in town. After a vehicular collision in 1968 made the building unusable, the library moved to the Old Berne Hotel.\u00a0 This building also housed the town offices and the museum.\u00a0\u00a0 In 1996, the library changed its name to the Berne Public Library. \u00a0The library moved to 1763 Helderberg Trail on October 19, 2013. \u00a0The building was formerly St. Bernadette\u2019s Catholic Church built in 1961. \u00a0It was renovated to\u00a0accommodate\u00a0the library.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/13rMOsN7C655tnuMEE-j6HtWQjh32lRme-ZWtHQ2uQIo\/edit\">History of the Berne Library.\u00a0 Click on this sentence to link to a powerpoint presentation<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mission Statement The mission of the Berne Public Library is to meet the needs of the community by providing resources for lifelong learning and entertainment.\u00a0 Berne Public Library Board of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bernepubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}