Events and Programs

Public Services Recognition Week

In the spirit of Public Services Recognition week, we'd like to thank the many people who use our library. You keep us very busy! How busy? So busy we're planning for more space...

Last year library staff ...

	checked out 4,620,766 library items (nearly 21 items per resident!*)
	hosted 2,563 programs with 68,075 attendees welcomed 2,248,580 visitors to the library (10 visits per resident)
	answered 917,712 questions (4 questions per resident) registered 16,562 new or returning users (more than 60% of residents have a library card)

In addition to the people you see every day when you visit the library, there are many more employees that keep library service running smoothly. Our staff select, order, purchase, catalog, label, deliver, and repair the 1.1 million items in our collection, and we work with libraries throughout the South Central Wisconsin area and beyond to share our materials for your benefit. Other staff keep the sidewalks clean, the bathrooms working, the carpet vacuumed, the books shelved, and the holds filled. Still more staff take programs and resources out into the community, working with other city agencies, nonprofit groups, neighborhood associations, local businesses, and funding sources to share library resources with those learning to read, looking for jobs, or wanting to learn more about practically any subject.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all our staff for a job well done.

Public Service Recognition Celebration

Madison, WI - The City of Madison will be celebrating Public Service Recognition week with an event on Wednesday, May 7, 2008. A proclamation by Mayor Dave Cieslewicz honoring all City employees will be held on the steps of City Hall starting at 12:00 p.m.

Representatives from the Police Department, Fire Department, Metro Transit, and the Streets Department will have some equipment on hand on the first block of Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. near the Capitol to view during the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. The public is invited to stop by and tour a fire truck, check out a new hybrid bus, talk to a police officer about the K-9 unit and see what new vehicles the Streets Department uses.

Public Service Recognition week is a time to help every citizen become more aware of the ways, both direct and indirect, that public services improve the quality of their lives. It is also a chance to highlight our accomplishments, to raise awareness of the good work City employees do every day, and to express appreciation for those efforts. The week offers an opportunity to celebrate the importance of contributions made by Madison's public servants.

Reprinted from a City of Madison news release dated May 6, 2008

* Based on a population of 223,280 on January 1, 2006