Archive for 2007
The holidays are a traditional time for remembering and celebrating family and community. Madison libraries promote community each and every day, and nothing says this better than this article in the December 21-27 issue of The Madison Times, “The Right Library: Lakeview Library Serves Community.” In the article, you’ll meet 4 year old Tahji Jackson and his grandmother, Renee Taylor, and find how the library is an integral part of their community. Article author Lisa Nunez is a part time employee at the Lakeview Library.
December 28th, 2007
Barb D.
Yesterday, among the holiday sale flyers and late Christmas cards, I found my copy of Sequels, the Madison Public Library Foundation’s donor newsletter.
Did you receive yours?
Because the demands for library services and the needs and opportunities facing the library are growing much faster than the public funds available to support them, the goal of the Foundation is to enrich, not replace, traditional tax-based support through private fund-raising from individuals, businesses and foundations. If you’re looking for a last minute tax break, a late holiday gift, or want to thank the library for another year of books, movies, research assistance, programs, and internet service, please consider a donation to the Foundation. You’ll see your name in print in the next issue of Sequels!
December 28th, 2007
Tana
In a hurry? You can pay your City of Madison property taxes online with a credit card. (Note the convenience fee.) Want to know more about your assessment? Visit the City Assessor web site to look up your assessment history or find out how to contest an assessment.
December 28th, 2007
Tana
Our Winter/Spring 2008 issues of Kidspages are now available in English and in Spanish. View and print online, or stop by your nearest library to pick up an oversized color copy of your own. While you’re at it, take an extra copy for a friend or colleague!
Kidspages isn’t a complete list of our programs, though. More programs for all ages are being added weekly to our online calendar. Sign up for programs online and you’ll receive an email confirmation. You can even receive alerts of a particular type of program (preschool storytimes, for example) three weeks before they begin. Contact Tana Elias at madtech @ scls.lib.wi.us for details, or find a program you like online and click “Notify me” to receive alerts of similar programs at that location. You can change your alerts at any time.
December 27th, 2007
Tana
All Madison Public Library locations are closed for the Christmas holiday on Monday, December 31 and Tuesday, January 1. The Central Library will also be closed Sunday, December 30. You can still use the library when we’re closed: place holds in LINKcat**, return items to our bookdrops, or use our 24/7 online reference service, AskAway.
**From 10:35 p.m. Monday, December 31st until approximately 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 1st, 2008, LINKcat will be down for maintenance. This maintenance is required to keep the library’s catalog system operating at an optimal level. We apologize for the inconvenience, and wish you a happy holiday season.
December 27th, 2007
Tana
Join us on Friday, December 28 from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. at the South Madison Branch for a sharing of Kwanzaa.
Learn about this simple, beautiful holiday and how you, your family and neighbors can celebrate together. Presenter Fabu has celebrated Kwanzaa as a single University student in Madison, with her family, and with her Memphis community. She will share with her South Madison neighbors just how wonderful and meaningful Kwanzaa is. Register online or call 266-6395.
December 26th, 2007
Tana
You know you can request titles via LINKcat and have them delivered from any public library in a seven-county area. In library jargon, that’s called placing a hold. But you can also request that we borrow materials that aren’t in LINKcat, a service the library calls interlibrary loan.
We rely on the generosity of libraries around the state and across the nation to fill these requests for us. Many of those libraries are academic, and they often are closed through the holidays. Because of this, any interlibrary loan requests received between December 23, 2007, and January 2, 2008 will be processed beginning January 3, 2008.
December 20th, 2007
Tana
Looking for a last-minute gift for your favorite reader? There is no better way to honor someone than making a contribution in his or her honor to the Madison Public Library Foundation. An honorary gift to the Foundation is a gift that will keep on giving for the many people served by the Library for years to come.
Your contribution will be acknowledged through a note to the honoree as well as included in Sequels, the Foundation’s quarterly newsletter. Happy Holidays!
December 19th, 2007
Tana
Forbes ranked the Madison area #2 in a recent list of best places to educate your child. Public library popularity was one of five factors included in the ranking (Madison received an A+).
The Capital Times and WISC-TV both reported on the Forbes study, which was released online on December 12. Read the article online: Where to Educate Your Children. David Savageau. Forbes Online, December 12, 2007.
December 19th, 2007
Barb D.
Many libraries are reporting that email notices to Verizon customers have recently been bouncing due to Verizon’s antispam solution.
If your email ends in verizon.net and you haven’t been getting notices about available holds, you may wish to request that we send your notices via a telephone message or a letter until the problem has been resolved. When the problem is resolved, we’ll post information here.
A reminder to everyone who receives email notices from us - if you or your email provider uses spam protection, please configure your email to accept email from the scls.lib.wi.us domain.
December 18th, 2007
Tana
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