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Share your historic images! Your personal collections of photos and films could appear in the upcoming PBS Wisconsin documentary, “Wisconsin Hometown Stories: Madison.”

Madison Public Libraries will experience multiple closures and hours changes in May 2025

Madison Public Library is honored to partner with the City of Madison Clerk's Office once again to provide a location for voter registration, in-person absentee voting, and election day voting.

Madison Public Library offers beginning and modified yoga classes throughout the year at various library locations. See what's coming up and join a free yoga class in Madison, Wisconsin.

Join us for a casual playdate for babies ages birth to 18 months and their caregivers.

Come to the library for an old fashioned board game night or play Minecraft, try the Nintendo Switch or join a Dungeons & Dragons group! 

Kids and families can read aloud to therapy dogs this spring at the library.

This summer, Chef Lily is hosting a variety of cooking classes at the Lakeview Library. 

Use the Personal Archiving Lab at Madison Public Library to convert your analog items into digital format. 

Madison Public Library is hosting a series of aging and dementia-awareness classes throughout 2024 in partnership with the Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) of Dane County

Sewers from the Sewing Machine Project are offering free mending at two Madison Public Library locations

Madison Public Library will host several free events on learning to mend, repair, and care for household items from August-November 2024. This series is hosted by Beyond the Page. 

Enjoy some cooking and knife demonstrations from Chef Paul at Lakeview Library in 2024

Volunteers Needed! Help Package Native Seeds ahead of Madison Public Library's Seed giveaway in March 2025

An inter-generational art series will take place at Alicia Ashman Library every Tuesday in February and March. 

Madison Public Library's website - madisonpubliclibrary.org - may experience some planned maintenance interruptions on February 13, 2025, followed by a new look!