Hudson Mohawk Library Association Honors Karen Bradley, Schenectady County Public Library Director @ Century House in Latham, New York

Capital District librarians met
at Century House in Latham
for the Hudson Mohawk
Library Association Spring
Dinner on April 27, 2018.

Eric Trahan, Director of

Mohawk Valley Library

System introduces our

special guest....

Karen Bradley, Director of the
Schenectady County Public
Library, is receiving the
Hudson Mohawk Library
Association Lifetime
Achievement Award.








Karen is very busy building new libraries in the City of Schenectady.

The Phyllis Bornt Branch

Library & Literacy Center

opened in February 2016 in

Hamilton Hill after over
two years without a library
in their neighborhood.

Karen & the Board are about

to break ground for a new 

library branch in the Mont

Pleasant neighborhood

of Schenectady.

The current Mont Pleasant Library Branch is in a cramped storefront location that lacks space for tutoring and meetings.  The proposed library, which addresses the needs for more space for library books and movies, space for Youth and Adult programs and the luxury of meeting rooms will meet the demands of 21st century.  

Ann-Marie Heldorfer, President

of Hudson Mohawk Library 

Association, with Karen &

her award.

Librarians are always interested in seeing what other libraries are doing to serve their communities.

I brought a slide show of
libraries I toured while my
husband, Eric & I travel
across our country.

Starting at Central Arkansas Library System's Main Library in Little Rock, Arkansas in October 2013, Eric and I traveled Southwest and visited the Roy and Helen Hall Memorial Library in McKinney, Texas later that month.

In December 2013 our travels took us to Southwest to the Marfa Public Library in Marfa, Texas before turning West to the  Columbus Village Library in Columbus, New Mexico and the Quartzsite Public Library in Quartzsite, Arizona in January 2014.

Our trip to Alaska in 2014 included stops at the Haines Borough Library in Haines, Alaska and the Homer Public Library in Homer, Alaska.

In the fall of 2015 Eric and I visited the Farmington Public Library in Farmington, New Mexico and the Durango Public Library in Durango, Colorado. 

I shared libraries large & small.

Each library, with community

input, meets the specific needs

of the people they serve.

Thank you to the Hudson Mohawk Library Association Board Members for giving me the opportunity to give back to the library community in the Capital Region, which has provided me with many opportunities throughout my career.