The Mid-Hudson Library System provides coordinated outreach library services to our member libraries to reach those most in need and who often are not typical library users.
- Target populations include persons who are:
- Educationally disadvantaged
- Members of ethnic or minority groups in need of special library services,
- Unemployed and in need of job placement assistance
- Living in areas underserved by a library
- Blind, physically disabled, have developmental or learning disabilities
- Aged or confined in institutions
- At-risk youth from birth to age twenty-one
Correctional Facilities
Funds are made available to public library systems through a State-aided partnership between the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) and the New York State Library to provide the system’s services to the correctional facility’s library and incarcerated individuals.
- Correctional Facilities in the MHLS service area:
- Coxsackie Correctional Facility
- Fishkill Correctional Facility
- Greene Correctional Facility
- Green Haven Correctional Facility
- Hudson Correctional Facility
- Reentry Guides
- Hudson Valley Connections – A resource guide for formerly incarcerated individuals returning to Columbia, Dutchess, Greene, Putnam or Ulster counties in New York State. Hudson Valley Connections is developed by the Mid-Hudson Library System.
- Reentry Guides available in NYS
County Jails
New York State Education Law §285 (2) designates funds to make a public library system’s services available to the incarcerated individuals in that region’s county jails.
- County Jails in the MHLS service area:
- Columbia County Jail
- Dutchess County Jail
- Greene County Jail
- Putnam County Jail
- Ulster County Jail
New York State Education Law §285 State aid for cooperation with correctional facilities