All day
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9:30am
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Baby & Toddler Storytime (ages birth to 3)
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 9:30am to 10:30am
READ and PLAY with your favorite baby or toddler! Reading, singing, talking and playing with your baby from the beginning is important because the roots of language are developing in a baby’s brain even before they can talk! Library programs are always free. Siblings and childcare groups are welcome.
Youth Program Room
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10:00am
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Scrabble at the Library
Community Room - Table Side
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 10:00am to 12:00pm
Attention word lovers: exercise your brain by playing Scrabble with other adults!
Community Room - Table Side
Multi-age Storytime (ages 5 and under)
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 10:00am to 10:30am
READ and PLAY together with children under age 5! Engaging with books, songs and playful experiences all help children develop communication skills, patience, empathy, and pre-reading skills and helps to build a lifelong love of reading. Library programs are always free. Siblings and childcare groups are welcome
Youth Program Room
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10:30am
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Read & Breathe: A Mindful Storytime for all ages
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 10:30am to 11:15am
A special storytime series woven together with playful mindfulness practices for children and their caregivers to do together. Comfy clothing encouraged!
Books, songs and mindful practices all help children develop communication skills, patience, empathy, and pre-reading skills as well as a lifelong love of reading. After about 20-30 minutes of stories, songs, and a few mindfulness games we'll end with a time for child-led play together in our children's area. You are welcome to stay as long as you like!
Library programs are always free. Siblings and friends are welcome.
Community Room
Multi Age Storytime (children & families 5 & under)
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 10:30am to 11:30am
READ and PLAY together with children under age 5! Engaging with books, songs and playful experiences all help children develop communication skills, patience, empathy, and pre-reading skills and helps to build a lifelong love of reading. Library programs are always free. Older and Younger siblings and childcare groups are welcome.
Youth Program Room
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11:00am
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Baby Storytime (ages birth to 17 mo)
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 11:00am to 11:30am
READ and PLAY with your favorite baby! Reading, singing, talking, and playing with your baby from the beginning is important because the roots of language are developing in a baby’s brain even before they can talk! Library programs are always free. Siblings and childcare groups are welcome.
Youth Program Room
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12:00pm
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Free Mending @ Hawthorne Library
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 12:00pm to 2:00pm
Do you have clothing or other fabric items that need mending?
Volunteers from the Sewing Machine Project are offering free mending at Hawthorne Neighborhood Library every other Wednesday from noon - 2:00 pm. These helpful sewers mend clothing and can handle many other fabric-related repairs (exception: no zipper repairs).
Mending is done on the spot on a first come, first served basis. There’s no drop off or pick up, we do what we can do in the time allowed.
Drop in anytime between 12:00 - 2:00 pm!
*In Hawthorne Library
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12:30pm
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Go by Metro
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 12:30pm to 3:30pm
Metro Transit is nearing the launch of BRT, and with that comes the distribution of Fast Fare Cards.
Go By Metro will focus on distributing Fast Fare Cards and assisting individuals with setting up their accounts.
*In Meadowridge Library
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2:00pm
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Go By Metro: Introducing Metro Transit Fast Fare!
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 2:00pm to 5:00pm
This Go By Metro series is dedicated to everything Fast Fare! Metro Transit and City employees will be distributing the new reloadable cards. Staff will also be available to answer questions, and help rider’s set up online accounts, add any half-price entitlements and trade in unused passes/ cards. Get the latest updates on BRT to prepare for the Rapid Route A launch. No reservations required.
Community Room
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2:30pm
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3:00pm
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Chess for All Ages
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Please join us to play chess at our weekly, drop-in program! All ages and experience levels welcome.
Study Room A
All-Ages Knitting Circle
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 3:00pm to 4:30pm
Drop-in knitting. All experience levels welcome! Children under 9 must be accompanied by an adult for duration of program. Yarn and Needles provided for in-library use.
Please contact Meadowridge Library at 608-288-6160 for more details and information!
*In Meadowridge Library
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3:30pm
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4:00pm
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One-On-One Computer Assistance
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Need help with basic computer or Internet skills? Get assistance with opening an email account, writing a Word document, navigating the internet, keeping your files safe, and more.
Call 608-266-6350 to make a 30-minute appointment.
Computer Assistance is sponsored by the Digital Equity Project.
Study Room 211
It Takes A Village Afterschool Enrichment : Digital Arts with Nate
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
It Takes A Village After-School Enrichment sessions are created in an effort to promote community, and a safe place for youth patron between 12 and 18 years old.
Nate from The Bubbler has expertise in film production, editing, animation, game design, graphic design, and digital art.
Meeting Room 115
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4:30pm
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Kids' Open Dungeons and Dragons
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 4:30pm to 6:30pm
School-age children (elementary and middle school) are invited to join us for this kid-led Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Be a part of an adventuring party where you'll use your imagination and creativity to explore a fantasy world in an epic quest. Our Dungeon Master Jared will provide support and help guide campaigns along with our adult D&D experts and our Youth Librarian Ruth.
This weekly session is for beginners.
About D&D: Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game that allows each player to create their own character to play. These characters embark upon imaginary adventures within a fantasy setting. A Dungeon Master (DM) serves as the game's referee and storyteller, while maintaining the setting in which the adventures occur.
Meeting Rooms A and B Combined
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5:00pm
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6:00pm
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Women in Tech: NLP without a PhD
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
From its humble origins in phone trees and voice assistants, to today's innovations such as ChatGPT and Llama, natural language processing (NLP) is a fast-moving field with wide-ranging real-world applications. Yet it's also often shrouded in an air of complexity and exclusivity. How can you work in the field of NLP and language AI without a PhD? In this talk, Julia shares her own experience from nearly a decade in the field. She presents her past consumer-facing projects, highlights key concepts and challenges, and outlines skills and opportunities across various industry job roles.
SPEAKER
Julia Kroll is an Applied Engineer at Deepgram, where she blends her expertise in engineering and product to advise users in building language AI. Her work has focused on multi-lingual AI, voice assistants, and cloud computing. Her interests lie at the intersection of technology, linguistics, and society.
Media Lab
Knitting at the Library
Community Room - Fireplace Side
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
Drop in knitting: Learn a new craft or work on that unfinished project with other neighborhood knitters.
Community Room - Fireplace Side
[RESCHEDULING SOON!] Care & Repair: Stuffed Animal Mending Clinic
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 6:00pm to 8:00pm
This workshop is being rescheduled and information will be available soon to sign up.
Is your Big Bossy missing an ear? Lambie sprung a stuffing leak? Pato the Duck have a hole in his wing? Christina can help you learn to visually mend your most precious stuffed friend with sewing and fabric patches. They will be even more lovable after the repair. Please bring your own stuffed animal. All materials for the most common stuffed animal repair are provided including spare parts, stuffing, patches, and more.
The skills in this class are targeted at adult learners, however, youth participants are welcome to attend with an adult! Registration is required and opens two weeks prior to the event on September 4, 2024.
This program is part of the Care & Repair program series, which is made possible thanks to support from Beyond the Page, National Endowment for the Humanities and Madison Community Foundation. See all upcoming programs at madpl.org/careandrepair.
About the artist: Christina Ruhaak is an artist and textile designer with a studio practice here in Madison. Inventing and making the tools she needs to create her work is one of her favorite things. When she needs time to think she tends to her mending basket. Christina has an MFA in Textiles from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Studio
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7:00pm
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Book Discussion of Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World by Henry Grabar
Wednesday, Sep 18, 2024, 7:00pm to 8:30pm
‘Convenient, available and free’ is what every car owner wants regarding parking. But then there’s the parking-driven psychosis; a citizenry that is underhoused yet overparked; and communities that set parking minimums for apartment buildings that ultimately keep lower income units from being built. A perfect read for development obsessed Madison! Join us for discussion and perhaps dessert. Newcomers warmly welcomed.
Conference Room 104
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