Madison Public Library



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Welcome to the Madison Public Library website.
This website should provide quick and easy access
to information about the Madison Public Library.

Our foremost concern is to produce a warm and creative
environment where Madison residents can partake of a
variety of activities both pleasant and conductive to
life long learning.



YOUR LIBRARY- A LIFELONG LEARNING PLACE


Library Hours

Tuesday through Saturday:  1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Wednesday evening - 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM
Friday Morning - 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
   Friday Afternoons  "Wee Wigglers"  4:00 PM- -ages 4 & 5
Sunday and Monday - Closed

COMPUTER ACCESS AVAILABLE
AT THE LIBRARY!!
We have 3 gateway computers
with high speed DSL connection
Madison library-your information station!




Parents as Teachers
Playgroup
Birth to 3 years

watch our site for future dates of activities.
Visit the library to check out books to read to your child.
Educational toys available and books and videos available for check out on parenting children of this age group.




BEEF FOR MOTHER's day drawing

Sign up your Mom to win a "Classic Beef Pot Roast with Root Vegetables" dinner.

You can help your Mom make a delicious Mother's Day Dinner with the ingredients provided by the Greenwood County Cattle Women










BEST SELLERS  and new books


Into the Deep by Robert Rogers
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
The Diana Chronicles by Tina Brown
In an Instant by Lee & Bob Woodruff
Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins
Every Day Deserves a Chance by Max Lucado
Years of Minutes by Andy Rooney
An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore
Flint Hills Cowboys by Jim Hoy
Celebrating Drusilla by Drusilla Deja-
features many of Drusilla Esslinger's dolls!
The Pastors Wives Cookbook
Schroeder's Antique  Price Guide 2008
Beatrix Potter-A Life in Nature by Linda Lear.  Given in memory of Margaret Hind by Chapter DY P.E.O.
The Loose Change of Wonder by Steven Hind.  Given in memory of Margaret Hind by Sue Engle Barrientos
DK Ultimate Visual Dictionary given by Margaret Curry
Mayo Clinic on Alzheimer's Disease
DK Eyewitness Travel - Ireland


Fiction
 Gideon's Gift, Maggie's Miracle by Karen Kingsbury
Summer by Karen Kingsbury
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Porch Talk by Philip Gulley
Playing for Pizza by John Grisham
Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead
  Stone Cold by David Baldacci
Home to Holly Springs by Jan Karon
The Appeal by John Grisham
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Selected works of Henry James
Plum Lucky by Janet Evanovich
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Rest of her life by Laura Moriarty
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Dinner with a perfect stranger by David Gregory

We now carry Mother Earth News

 YOUNG READERS
Star Wars - a Pop Up guide
The Higher Power of Lucky by Susan Patron
So B. It by Sarah Weeks
Clementine by Sara Pennypacker
Wings by William Loizeaux
Flush by Carl Hiaasen
The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo
Punished! by David Lubar
Rules by Cynthia Lord
Drita My Homegirl by Jenny Lombard
Listen by Stephanie Tolan
Gossamer by Lois Lowry
Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
The Stout-Hearted Seven- Orphaned on the Oregon Trail by Neta Frazier
One-Handed Catch by MJ Auch

Gib and the Gray Ghost by Zilpha Keatley snyder
What Do You Do With a Tail Like This? by Jenkins
How Do dinosaurs eat their food? Jane Yolen
Walter's Tail by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Miss Penny and Mr. Grubbs by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Detective LaRue by Mark Teague
Flotsam by David Wiesner
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See by Bill Martin
Tops and Bottoms by Janet Stevens
Monday with a Mad Genius by Mary Pope Osborne
Marley, a Dog Like No Other by John Grogan
Frightfuls Mountain by Jean Craighead George




A humble life - plain poems by Linda Oatman High
Wings on the Wind by Kate Kiesler
World of Water by Rona Arato
Twisters and other terrible storms by Osborne
Children's Guide to Insects & Spiders by Jinny Johnson
The Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids
Book of Lists- Fun Facts and Weird Trivia
Can You See What I See? by Walter Wick
They Came From the Bronx by Neil Waldman
Almost Gone -The World's rarest animals by Steve Jenkins

audios
New donated audios: The Cat Who Moved a Mountain The Wind in the Willows
A Treasury of Sherlock Holmes
The Call of the Wild

DVD'S
For children:
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
The Mitten by Jan Brett
For family
The Waltons   Season one
Little House on the Prairie  Season one

DVD Adult
Oil Dorado:  The Life and Times of an Oil Boom



                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                              
 

                                                                  
History Hour
Rev. Bob Robison
History of Madison
Watch for next date and time

Rev. Robison and Local residents give insight into
early Madison history
Lively discussion and refreshments



If you need help using the internet,
here is a good place to learn.

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Library Address and Telephone #

110 S. First St.
MADISON, kANSAS   66860

620-437-2634
Fax - 620-437-2631

e mail:   madison.library@madtel.net



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Virginia Pedroja, Director

Site design by Leslie Elliott
Last revised Thursday, September 20, 2007