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... 103 Book Festival author events Hosted over 22,000 meeting room uses Had nearly 230,000 WiFi uses Purchased over 75,000 ... Facilitated almost half a million digital checkouts In the News Stay up to date with recent features about the Madison Public Library. Press Releases Community news, service updates, and more from the Madison Public ...
... of the second floor, an experimental "Men's Smoking Room" in the basement, and the acquisition of the popular ... of interest to mechanics and other tradesmen including newspapers, general periodicals, and ones of scientific or ... influence of good reading." This clubroom was supplied with newspapers and technical magazines and included games such ...
... founding. The library has grown from operating in one small room in city hall to offering service at the Central Library ... for the right person has now expanded to include magazines, newspapers, microfiche, videotapes, compact discs, and more. ... State Historical Library…" In 1875, Madison had two daily newspapers: the morning Madison Democrat and the afternoon ...
... librarians shared information and stories through a staff newsletter that became known as the Listening Post. In the ... so everyone could have a copy, a circular letter with news, notes, new rules and miscellany because it was so ... handed cards requesting them to step lightly across the room and not talk away from the loan desk, even in low ...
"A library is a delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to ... her antipathy for the press. In 1921 she reported that no newspaper publicity had been used for the year. "Use of the ... Smith had detested the press, Helen Farr worked with the newspapers, radio, and television to promote library ...
... Davis diet and health books in 1966; and the underground newspaper Take Over in the 1970s. The library board and ... produced a hostile reaction from the library board and the newspapers. A school librarian's placement of a chain across the door of a library reference room in 1913 prompted a board member to propose ...
... special children's work was hired 1902 - First children's room opened in library 1902 - First children's librarian ... only, time Madison Free or Public Library receives no newspaper publicity during the year and the library ... radio program of Madison Free Library broadcast ("The Book News") 1948 - First year Madison Free Library has a ...
... have stood the test of time. During the twentieth century, newspapers, staff newsletters, and annual reports to the library board ... spacious environs of the newly remodeled fire department room. Since the new room was larger, one part of the room ...
... and the residences of the homebound. Radio, television, newspapers, computers, bookmobiles, and even marching bands ... the gathering of a certain class of men in a lecture room when a subject uninteresting to them is presented. The ... of dropped and rolled cookies that only the resources of a newspaper's home service could garner. As for those holiday ...
... life in their own way. The mom is trapped watching the news, unable to change the channel. The dad is sick in the bedroom coughing and coughing and coughing but is still ... and loving, communicating with his kids in the next room. The sister is a fighter, tied to her phone and ready ...