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Wintertime Play Group: Friday mornings at 9 am

Starting this Friday, we’ll be opening the children’s room at 9 am (an hour before library opens) for a Wintertime Play Group for babies, toddlers, parents, and caregivers. Use the children’s room entrance on the left side of the building. If school’s cancelled because of bad weather, so [...]

Saving the Mountains

Join us on Thursday, November 3 at 7 pm for “Saving the Mountains,” and learn about the founding of the White Mountain National Forest. Marcia Schmidt Blaine, Chair of the Department of History and Philosophy at Plymouth State University, will explore the relationship between our mountains and individuals who worked to protect them in this [...]

Library resources for job seekers

Representatives from area libraries, including our own Madison Library, will be at the MWV Job & Resource Fair from 10 am to 2 pm on Wednesday, October 19 at Granite State College in Conway. We will share some of the resources available at libraries to help local job seekers.

At Madison Library, these include:

Career Cruising, an [...]

Author to speak on October 11

Join us on Tuesday, October 11 at 1 pm at the Silver Lake Landing meeting room to hear author Rosamond van der Linde read excerpts of her new book A Piano In Every Room. This event will take place right after the Gibson Center’s congregate meal at Silver Lake Landing, and is free and open [...]

They're here!

Our copies of Following Atticus, this year’s One Book One Valley book have arrived! Madison Library book group will discuss this title at its October 25 meeting. Pick up a copy, and join us, or join in any of the One Book One Valley events.

Book and Author luncheon

Join us this Saturday, August 27 at 12:30 pm, for the Friends of Madison Library Book and Author Luncheon with crime novelist Cornelia Read, author of the Madeline Dare series of mysteries. Read’s first novel, “A Field of Darkness,” was nominated for an Edgar Award and she won a Shamus Award from the Private Eye [...]

Let it snow! and other vacation week news

We’re happy to see snow for school vacation week. As the storm continues on Monday, the Madison Library will be closed as our town’s road crews work hard to clear roads first, then parking lots like ours once the blizzard is done.

We have two children’s programs lined up for this week:

Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 2 [...]

Holiday Open House

Please stop by the library on Saturday between 10 am and 1 pm for our annual holiday open house. We’ll have some seasonal music playing, festive food, coffee, and eggnog. Take a minute to visit with neighbors, library staff, Trustees, and Friends.

Be sure to notice the lovely wreaths (made in Madison by Mrs. Brooks) that [...]

National Gaming Day

Come to the library on Saturday, November 13, 2010, as the Madison Library joins with thousands of libraries across the country to celebrate the educational, recreational, and social value of games with a community gaming day. This event is multigenerational, so bring yourself, your friends, your family. All games will be taught, and novices as well as [...]

Criminal Investigations program October 28

The Madison Library will host a presentation on Criminal Investigations on Thursday, October 28 at 7 pm in the library’s Chick Room. New Hampshire State Police Detective Justin Rowe will speak about criminal investigations in New Hampshire, focusing on how they are handled in rural areas.

This program is part of the One Book, One Valley [...]