OGDENSBURG – Ogdensburg Public Library remains open with reduced hours and is offering curbside craft programs for area youth.

One craft will be for elementary age children and the other for children aged 18 months to 4 years. The elementary aged crafts will feature African American inventors and each kit will include the bio of an inventor and an activity or craft based on their invention.

Those crafts can be picked up Feb/ 4, 11, 18 and 25 at no charge.

Reserve a craft by calling 315-393-4325. Complete the craft at home. Each kit contains a short fact sheet featuring an African American inventor and everything you need to complete a craft or activity based on one of their inventions.

Younger children will receive a craft teaching them important pre-literacy skills and concepts like colors, shapes, letters and numbers. Each Toddler kit will also include a free picture book.

Those will be available Feb. 2, 9, 16 and 12.

Reserve a craft by calling 315-393-4325. Complete the craft at home. Each kit contains an early literacy pamphlet with a song and instructions for a craft, the materials to make the craft and a free picture book to read together.

The library is open for browsing and computer use Mondays and Tuesdays from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. On Wednesdays access is available from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. And on Thursdays and Fridays it is open from 1:30 to 4:40 p.m.

Curbside hours are offered 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Mondays and Tuesdays. On Wednesdays pickup is available from 11:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. On Thursdays and Fridays curbside is offered fro 9:30 to 12:30 p.m.