Newsletters
Newsletters
Our newsletter is published three times a year: in May, September and December. Click below to read our digital newsletter PDF, or click on an individual story of your choice. To subscribe to our print newsletter, please send us a message with your name and address.
Shop at Kendra Scott on December 18
Support Madison Public Library Foundation and do your holiday shopping at the same time! Kendra Scott in Hilldale Shopping Center will donate a...
20th Anniversary Was Banner Year for Wisconsin Book Festival
The Wisconsin Book Festival closed out the celebration of its 20th anniversary year with more than 60 events, mostly in person plus some virtual. It...
Book Festival Represented at International Conference
The second Global Association of Literary Festivals (GAOLF) Conference invited and paid for a Wisconsin Book Festival representative to attend its...
September Is Library Card Signup Month
Support Library Card Signup Month by encouraging someone you know to apply for a card! Tell them to visit Madison Public Library staff at the...
Foundation Grant Outfits Libraries With Birding Backpacks
Madison Public Library will begin to offer Birding Backpacks for checkout, thanks to a Madison Public Library Foundation grant and a gift from the...
Library Hosts First-Ever Naturalist-in-Residence
Local naturalist John C. Newman has been named the first Naturalist-in-Residence at Madison Public Library, through which he will lead a series of...
Summer Filled With We Read Literacy Activities
Madison Public Library’s We Read program, which celebrates the joy of reading, featured a wide assortment of fun library events and activities...
Making Justice Participants Step Into Shoe Design
Madison Public Library’s Making Justice program recently brought teaching artists to teen participants at the Dane County Juvenile Court Shelter...
Go Big Read Events Planned
Book Discussion Kits for UWMadison’s Go Big Read 2022-23 selection, How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America...
Grants Add Self-Checks, Expand Central’s Adult Nonfiction Collection
Madison Public Library Foundation issued $110,000 in grants to Madison Public Library to cover the costs of new self-check machines at Sequoya,...
Madison Public Library Foundation
201 W. Mifflin Street
Madison, WI 53703
608.266.6318
Tax ID: 39-1777242