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Grandparent's Tea Party

It's tea time for Grandparents and their grandchildren. Join Miss Shelly to learn tea time etiquette and enjoy tea and juice, cookies, stories and a craft. For children in grades K-3 and their grandparents. Pinney Library, Saturday, April 20, 10:00 a.m. Call 224-7100 or register here. ...read more

Posted by Krissy on April 17, 2013

Featured Kids Events: April 15 - 20

Spend time with family at these free, fun family events! Read to a Dog Bring a favorite book and read aloud to a furry friend. Time slots available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Meadowridge Library, Tuesday, April 16, 4:00 pm No registration required. Pinney Library, Saturday, April 20, 2:00 pm No registration required. Family Fun Night: The Soda Pups Are Back! Welcome Ginger Ale, Sierra Mist, Squirt, Dr. Pepper, and Root Beer! Unlike their name sake, the soda pups are really good for ...read more

Posted by Krissy on April 14, 2013

Celebrate National Library Week

As National Library Week approaches (April 14-20), please join us in celebrating a century of neighborhood library service at a free centennial celebration of the Hawthorne Library on Thursday, April 18, 6-8 pm. at the Hawthorne Library on 2707 East Washington Avenue. Ann Waidelich, retired Municipal Reference Librarian and active member of the East Side History Club and Historic Madison, Inc., will present on the history of library service on Madison’s East Side with light refreshments ...read more

Posted by Tana on April 11, 2013

Community Cinema: The Island President

Join us for a free screening of the Community Cinema film The Island President by Jon Shenk, Bonni Cohen, and Richard Berge on Saturday, April 20, 1:00pm - 3:00pm at Sequoya Library. Maldives President Mohamned Nasheed is confronting a problem greater than any world leader has ever faced - the literal survival of his country and everyone in it. His is the most low-lying country in the world, and a minor rise in sea level would literally erase it from the map. Margaret Mooney from the ...read more

Posted by Sean - Central on April 9, 2013

Featured Kids Events: April 8 - 13

Enjoy a lovely spring evening out at the Library! Dino Stomp It's a pre-historic party! Celebrate dinosaurs with stories, songs, crafts, and more. Join us for a rip-ROARing good time. Lakeview Library, Tuesday, April 9, 6:30 pm No registration required. Fairy Wishes Wing your way to the Library for some Fairy Fun with stories and crafts! Sequoya Library, Thursday, April 11, 6:30 pm Call 266-6385 or register here. Family Fun Night: Up By tying thousands of balloons to his home, 78-year-old Carl ...read more

Posted by Krissy on April 6, 2013

No automated message while we're closed this weekend

The State of Wisconsin Voice Mail system, which many Madison Public Library locations also use, will be down for maintenance from Friday, April 5 at 6 pm until Sunday, April 7 at 9 pm. We will still be open regular hours and you'll still be able to call us while we're open. However, if you call us during closed ours, the phone will ring and ring, and no message will tell you we are closed. In addition, you will be unable to leave messages for any of our staff (like the Outerlibrary Loan Office ...read more

Posted by Jon - Central Library on April 5, 2013

Author Visit: The Catonsville Nine

Shawn Francis Peters, author of the riveting book The Catonsville Nine: A Story of Faith and Resistance in the Vietnam Era, will be visting the Sequoya Library on Saturday, April 13 at 2:00 pm. On May 17, 1968, in one of the more symbolic protests against the Vietnam War, nine Catholic men and women entered the Catonsville, Md., draft board office, removed several hundred Selective Service records, and burned them with homemade napalm. Combining a novel’s readability with in-depth historical ...read more

Posted by Sean - Central on April 4, 2013

Featured Kids Events: April 1 - 6

Celebrate the start of Spring with these free, fun events for kids and families. April Fool's Day Tricks and Traps Learn how to make some funny tricks to play on your friends and family. Ages 5 and up. Hawthorne Library, Monday, April 1, 2:00 p.m. Call 246-4548 or register here. Meadowridge Library, Monday, April 1, 2:00 p.m. Call 288-6160 or register here. Library LEGO Club We'll provide a different theme each month, along with some stories and pictures to inspire the imagination. Join other ...read more

Posted by Krissy on April 1, 2013

Articulate While Black: with author H. Samy Alim

Articulate While Black: Barack Obama and the Shifting Racial Politics of "Sounding Presidential" in the New America with author H. Samy AlimA Wisconsin Book Festival Event presented by OMAIMonday, April 8, 7:00 – 8:30 PM1100 Grainger Hall; 975 University Avenue, Madison WIbooks available for purchase and signing after the eventBarack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and ...read more

Posted by Tana on March 29, 2013

A Centennial Birthday for Hawthorne

The Hawthorne Branch of Madison Public Library will hold a centennial celebration at 2707 East Washington on Thursday, April 18th at 6:00 pm. The East Side History Club’s Ann Waidelich will present a lecture on the history of library service to the East Side. In 1913, Madison’s first branch library opened at 1249 Williamson Street. This library would eventually become the Hawthorne Branch, now located at 2707 East Washington. In 1911 the Carnegie Foundation had agreed to help fund a library ...read more

Posted by Tana on March 28, 2013