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Madison Public Library is honored to partner with the City of Madison Clerk's Office once again to provide a location for voter registration, in-person absentee voting, and election day voting.

Madison Public Library offers beginning and modified yoga classes throughout the year at various library locations. See what's coming up and join a free yoga class in Madison, Wisconsin.

Join us for a casual playdate for babies ages birth to 18 months and their caregivers.

Come to the library for an old fashioned board game night or play Minecraft, try the Nintendo Switch or join a Dungeons & Dragons group! 

Kids and families can read aloud to therapy dogs this spring at the library.

This summer, Chef Lily is hosting a variety of cooking classes at the Lakeview Library. 

Use the Personal Archiving Lab at Madison Public Library to convert your analog items into digital format. 

Madison Public Library is hosting a series of aging and dementia-awareness classes throughout 2024 in partnership with the Aging and Disability Resource Center (ADRC) of Dane County

Sewers from the Sewing Machine Project are offering free mending at two Madison Public Library locations

Madison Public Library will host several free events on learning to mend, repair, and care for household items from August-November 2024. This series is hosted by Beyond the Page. 

Enjoy some cooking and knife demonstrations from Chef Paul at Lakeview Library in 2024

Volunteers Needed! Help Package Native Seeds ahead of Madison Public Library's Seed giveaway in March 2025

An inter-generational art series will take place at Alicia Ashman Library every Tuesday in February and March. 

Madison Public Library's website - madisonpubliclibrary.org - may experience some planned maintenance interruptions on February 13, 2025, followed by a new look!

Try out new, dynamic art forms as a family at Goodman South Madison or Monroe Street Library for a drop-in Art Club featuring artist Deckard Salm. 

Learn to bake with demos from Punky Egan at Lakeview Library in Fall 2024

Central Library's monthly film series, Cinesthesia, takes place on Wednesday nights from 6-8:30pm

Madison Public Library is partnering with Madinah Academy to host a series of storytimes and 101 events about and during Ramadan in 2025

Kids and families can learn to make a scale model of Goodman South Madison Library with the My Library/Your Library program in February and March 2025 at Madison Public Library

Parents and teens can each learn skills to help their kids thrive in this program hosted in partnership by Madison Public Library and Dane County Extension