by Amy Mertz | Jul 24, 2024 | Giving, News
Looking for a new book from the Dream Bus? Its summer intern can help you find your next summer read! Meet this year’s Making & Learning Intern, Yaritza Garcia, a senior at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Her internship is funded through gifts to Madison...
by Amy Mertz | Jul 24, 2024 | Giving, News
Madison Public Library and Madison Public Library Foundation’s Making Justice program, a community-based learning model for at-risk and court-involved teenagers, is entering its second decade of successful programming with new events and thoughtful projects. Making...
by Amy Mertz | Jul 9, 2024 | News
Dear Library Supporters, As you might have read recently in the local news and across social media, the City of Madison is facing major budget challenges in 2025 that could force significant cuts to Madison Public Library service and operations. In response to the...
by Amy Mertz | Jun 20, 2024 | News, Newsletter
Madison Public Library’s WE READ card game has returned to offer families a summer-long reading experience! Every card and deck is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. The two kinds of cards, “read” and “play,” offer learning activities and reading-based awards for...
by Amy Mertz | Jun 20, 2024 | News, Newsletter
The Wisconsin Book Festival had a record-breaking spring season, made possible only by the unwavering support of sponsors, festival members, and other donors. Your contributions to the festival’s work ensure that programming stays world-class and that we’re able...
by Amy Mertz | Jun 20, 2024 | Giving, News, Newsletter
The Wisconsin Book Festival and Madison Public Library Foundation are deeply grateful to the Pleasant T. Rowland Foundation for becoming the festival’s Signature Sponsor for the 2024–25 season! Rowland has been a longtime backer of the festival’s work through both her...
by Amy Mertz | Jun 20, 2024 | News, Newsletter
Madison Public Library is bringing together two of its favorite programs for the WE READ Bubbler Artists-in- Residence program and welcoming new artists to its summer schedule! Nine local teaching artists will be joining the Bubbler in the libraries from June to...
by Amy Mertz | Jun 20, 2024 | Event, Giving, News, Newsletter
Mark your calendar for Madison Public Library Foundation’s favorite fall gathering, Ex Libris Vol. XIV: Local Flavor, on Friday, November 8 from 7–10 p.m.! Our annual fundraiser is a premier local tradition that will once again feature an array of locally made craft...
by Amy Mertz | Jun 20, 2024 | Giving, News, Newsletter
Madison Public Library employees from throughout the city came together on May 31 for Staff Day at Central Library. Madison Public Library Foundation provided a grant to cover the cost of speakers, as well as breakfast and lunch during this day of training and...
by Amy Mertz | Jun 20, 2024 | Giving, News, Newsletter
Madison Public Library is hosting an AASPIRE (Affirmative Action Student Professionals In Residence) intern again as part of a citywide program this summer. A Madison Public Library Foundation grant is paying the intern’s salary. Isabel Chiriboga-Pineda, a junior...
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