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Get events happening at the Library automatically added to your calendar with our WebCal subscription feeds (.ics calendar feeds).
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… need to go to "other calendars" in the sidebar and add a new calendar "From URL." Google Support does note that this … your calendar. On Apple's Calendar program, go to File --> New Calendar Subscription in the toolbar. On Microsoft …
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… such as Virginia Robbins were considered clerks whose jobs were to dispense books requested by patrons, keep track … his School of Library Economy at Columbia College in New York. It wasn't until December 1901 that the MFL hired … in 1901 it was supplemented with a monthly Buying List of new titles. This list was so popular that surrounding states …
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Full access to The New York Times' industry-leading, original journalism. Find breaking news, multimedia, reviews & opinion on Washington, business, sports, movies, travel, books, jobs…
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… Full access to The New York Times' industry-leading, original journalism. Find … on Washington, business, sports, movies, travel, books, jobs, education, real estate, cars & more. Get unlimited … on Washington, business, sports, movies, travel, books, jobs, education, real estate, etc... … How do I access New …
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"I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges, author
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… had free access to books in Italian and Yiddish in their new Neighborhood House Library. I smile in reverie as I … occurs fosters the same kind of affection for the new spaces that the old Carnegie Library still evokes. "The … often referred to as the "Patron Saint of Libraries," made new library buildings available to hundreds of communities …
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Khurelbaatar and Erdentuya's first visit to Alicia Ashman Library was just over a year ago. The couple had recently moved to Madison from Mongolia and hoped to apply for asylum.
They were first…
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… licensing process. When they needed help promoting their new handyman business, they came back to the library. … other job-finding/listing services. In no time at all, jobs were pouring in, and, on their next visit, they were in … for the opportunity to work together in supporting new members of our community. … First they get welcomed and …
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Kazimieras “Kaz” Zemeckis was bound for the stars. At least, that was the plan before a bird strike on a routine fighter training flight left him with a glass eye and a job shepherding…
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… and readers of more action-focused spy novels. … A new meaning for moonshot …
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"You think your pains and your heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things…
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… My habitual browsing of "Best Seller Rental Books," "New Mysteries," "New Fiction," "New Nonfiction," "New Children's Books," and the common …
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I'll tell you what it was like: there were tons of phone calls. On a landline. Everything took forever. If you made plans with a friend to meet up and one of you went to the wrong location, there was…
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… He worked at the front desk and later as a bellman at a New York City hotel where he took naps during his shifts. … co-host of Fashion Police . … What was it like being a new adult before the internet? …
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This prize-winning first novel from George Saunders bends the mind and history in a way that still has me reeling. Lincoln in the Bardo is set in the days following eleven-year-old Willie Lincoln's…
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… was the sky like the night Willie Lincoln died? Was it a new moon, a full moon, was it cloudy? How did Willie Lincoln … in the Bardo is the Winner of the Man Booker Prize, A New York Times Notable Book, One of Time's Ten Best Novels …
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"No person shall be allowed to handle the books upon the shelves." 1st rule published in the Catalog of the Madison Free Library-1877In my eighth grade social studies class, we discussed the…
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… of the same to the Librarian." By the time MFL opened its new Carnegie library in 1906, patrons had two library cards, … two weeks to four. In August 1912, the library issued a new special vacation card for patrons. Madisonians leaving town for an extended vacation could apply for this new card on which ten books could be borrowed and kept until …
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"Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend; inside of a dog, it’s too hard to read." - Groucho Marx, comedianFrom 1947 through 1984, Madison Public Library librarians shared information and…
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… could have a copy, a circular letter with news, notes, new rules and miscellany because it was so difficult to get … 1954. In January of 1955 Circulating "D" News came under new authorship, put out three issues, and seems to have been … read as much as I did about what librarians do at their jobs." "I am going to be a librarian like you are. I have …
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"Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn." - Leo Tolstoy, authorIn celebration of the 125th…
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… in the description of the results from the 1940 survey of new borrowers. The second collection of stories exemplify MPL … at Thompson are on work release and are driven to and from jobs in the nearby communities each day. These men pay a … release date approaches he vitally needs information on jobs and housing from newspaper want ads as well as current …
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#1 New this week
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… #1 New this week Say You'll Remember Me by Ab Jimenez | … Violet Sorrengail’s next round of training under the new vice commandant might require her to betray the man she loves. #15 New this week The Sirens by Emilia Hart | St. Martin's In …
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#1 102 weeks on the list
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound …
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Contemporary | Historical | Mystery | Romance | Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror | Classics
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … to prize-winners. Looking for more great fiction? Get a new list every month with the Beyond Bestsellers Insider … the pair can find peace. Available to download: Audio The New Naturals Gabriel Bump After losing her child and seeing …
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Art, Music, & Literature | Civil Rights & Social Justice | Economics, Business, & Leadership | Food, Health & Wellness | History | Humor | Memoirs & Essays | Sports
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … number of black women forged relationships, families, and jobs that were more empowered and typically indifferent to … while creating thousands of research and technology jobs in the Deep South to ameliorate poverty. We Could Not …
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … American authors. Looking for more great fiction? Get a new list in your inbox every month with the Beyond … the ripple effects of a shooting from decades ago after a new incident brings their families’ painful memories hurtling …
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July - September 2024 Issue
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… the stories of three working class families in Sam Dent, New York, a run-down rural town dependent on wealthy … set in Miami are a young Cuban-American man looking for a new job, and a female orca whale, who, though she has been in … the presidential campaign in 2008, a young Black man from New York gets a job as a campaign staffer, and as he travels …
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Contemporary | Classics
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … to prize-winners. Looking for more great fiction? Get a new list in your inbox every month with the Beyond … women, weaving the past and present, from Santo Domingo to New York City, spanning the three days before a living wake …
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What did you learn in school today, dearlittle child of mine?What did you learn in school today, dearlittle child of mine?I learned that war is not so badI learned about the great ones we have hadWe…
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… campaigns to support the wars. Library staff members added new materials to the collection and publicized war-related … Books were also bought." The library also purchased many new books related to the war, made available "war propaganda … Fats to Make Explosives" "Preparedness through Books" "War Jobs for Women" "Handbook of First Aid" "The Consumer and …
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Find out about Madison's neighborhoods, community organizations, local history, and more.
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… departments, and more. | more info » City of Madison Jobs Find a career with the City of Madison | more info » … world. | more info » Job Center of Wisconsin Look for jobs, fill out applications, write resumes, and more. Great … info » SCORE Madison Provides classes and counseling for new and existing small businesses. | more info » Small …
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October - December 2017 Issue
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… twists, a con artist targets a wealthy young couple in New York, intending to become the man’s next wife. Craig, … embezzles a large sum of money from a private school in New York, and then goes on the lam when she fears the school … . A pair of Irish brothers with IRA connections come to New York in 1939, to find their oldest brother, a jazz …
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October - December 2013 Issue
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… One Thousand and One Nights: A Retelling . This is a new collection of 19 of the traditional One Thousand and One … to search for her sister, who has disappeared on a trip to New York City, and uncovers some ugly secrets about their family. Bulawayo, NoViolet. We Need New Names . A ten-year-old Zimbabwean girl who has grown up …
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YA Graphic Novels
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… SCLS Beyond Bestsellers from Madison Public Library The New York Times Best Seller Lists Bestsellers from IndieBound … A mix of new and popular titles that amplify young LGBTQ+ voices and … by a ghost ever since her father passed away, and her new supernaturally inclined friends are determined to help …
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"Problems worthy of attack, prove their worth by fighting back." Paul Erdos, mathematician
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… The proposal to build a Vaudeville house near the new library in 1906 produced a hostile reaction from the … standards for a librarian, when such reviews as the New York Times and the Saturday Review of Literature , the … in numerous places, including the Saturday Review, the New York Times, and the New York Herald-Tribune . How many …
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