Wisconsin Book Festival Fall Celebration Schedule Unveiled

Wisconsin Book Festival Fall Celebration Schedule Unveiled

Nearly 70 authors are scheduled to speak about their latest published works at the Wisconsin Book Festival’s 23rd annual Fall Celebration October 17–20 at Central Library and downtown Madison partner venues. From edge-of-your-seat mystery and globetrotting fantasy to...
Meet Events Intern Nathan Baker

Meet Events Intern Nathan Baker

Madison Public Library Foundation regularly hosts interns to support our staff. Interns work in our office and at foundation events. As a nonprofit organization, we believe that internships are vital to both student and professional success. Internships provide...
Meet Communications Intern Ray Kirsch

Meet Communications Intern Ray Kirsch

Madison Public Library Foundation regularly hosts interns to support our staff. Interns work in our office and at foundation events. As a nonprofit organization, we believe that internships are vital to both student and professional success. Internships provide...
Meet Development Intern Anayna Prabhakar

Meet Development Intern Anayna Prabhakar

Madison Public Library Foundation regularly hosts interns to support our staff. Interns work in our office and at foundation events. As a nonprofit organization, we believe that internships are vital to both student and professional success. Internships provide...
Meet the Dream Bus Summer Intern

Meet the Dream Bus Summer Intern

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...
Making Justice Marks 10 Years of Program Success

Making Justice Marks 10 Years of Program Success

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...
A Message About the 2025 Library Budget

A Message About the 2025 Library Budget

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...
WE READ Card Game Returns This Summer

WE READ Card Game Returns This Summer

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...