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Today (November 21) the Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) visited Madison. The Madison Library is the recipient of a “rural public libraries” grant from CLiF. The grant provided $2,000 worth of new children’s books for our library. Duncan MacDougall, founder and Executive Director of CLiF, stopped first at Madison Family Daycare to tell stories and to give them a [...] The Children’s Literacy Foundation has recently granted the Madison Library a Rural Public Libraries Sponsorship. This means that the Madison Library will receive $2,000 worth of new children’s books for our collection. On Monday, November 21, CLiF will bring the books, along with a storyteller to introduce the books and tell some stories. This event will take [...] Time to start your summer reading! Kids age 4 and up, teens, and adults are all invited to join in the fun, this year with an international theme. Stop in and fill out a registration form today! Can’t make it to the library? Don’t be left out, sign up online. At 3:30 pm on June 28, [...] Pick up a copy of Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother today and join us for pizza and a discussion of this book and other dystopian novels (Hunger Games, anyone?) at 6 pm on Tuesday, July 19. Can’t come in person? Join us via Skype, just let us know ahead of time. Book description (from Novelist): “After being [...] Too many celebrity bios and memoirs . . . too little money! This past year has seen the publication of several acclaimed and award-winning books related to Black history. Here is a list of some of the ones available at the Madison Library, all recommended: Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family by Condoleezza Rice (BIO Ric) Today is the start of Banned Books Week, an annual event organized by the American Library Association to draw attention to challenges made to libraries in an effort to remove titles from library shelves. Stop in and see our display of some of the titles that have been challenged over the past few years. According to [...] It must be fall–One Book, One Valley, the Mount Washington Valley’s community read program is back for its fifth year. This year’s title is Go With Me by Castle Freeman, Jr. Book discussions and other programs related to the themes in the story will take place throughout the month of October in locations across the [...] |
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