Madison Public Library



Sculpture of Nina
              


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.




***

many thanks to the madison elementary school students for making our great new book marks!!

***

MANY THANKS TO JR AND SR HIGH GIRLS
FOR WASHING OUR WINDOWS!!

***

children's author visit
lisa harkrader

september 16, 2010

Grades 3 to 5    1:00 p.m.
Grades 6 to 8     2:00 p.m.

*****


Christian fiction author - deborah vogts
will give program Sat. Oct 23, 2010
1:00 p.m. at the library




******

PARENTS  AS TEACHERS


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
ages birth to 3 years.






BEST SELLERS  AND NEW BOOKS



Addie of the Flint Hills by Adaline Sorace
this time together by carol burnett
spoken from the heart by laura bush
Making Memories- Simple quilts from cherished clothing by Deb Rowden --Given by KFWC Madison Civic Culture Club
Sins of the Fathers-Facing Today's Global Challenges by Dr. William H. Browning
Spatzies and Brass BB's by Dr. Ken Ohm
Ducks Across the Moon by Dr. Ken Ohm
Survival of Rural america by Richard e. Wood
Kansas Gold - Kansas Wheat Commission
Betty Crocker's Diabetes Cookbook
Nell Hill's Decorating Secrets by Mary Garrity
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills
traveling with your pet - AAA travel
Guide to your child's Nutrition -American Academy of Pediatrics
Read my pins by madeleine albright
caesar by adrian goldsworthy
louisa may alcott by harriet reisen
Paul newman a Life by Shawn Levy
The Snowball-Warren Buffett and the business of life byAlice
 Schroeder
abigail adams by woody holton
highest duty by capt chesley sullenberger
How to really get postal jobs  by parnell
You can adopt by susan caughman



Fiction
 
the help by Kathryn Stockett
every last one by anna quindlen
hannah's list by debbie macomber
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffe
the shadow of your smile - mary higgins clark
think  twice by lisa scottoline
lavender morning by jude deveraux
state fair by earlene fowler
last kiss by luanne rice
Tinkers by Paul Harding
the silent sea by Clive Cussler
This Side of Heaven by Karen Kingsbury
Seeds of summer by deborah vogts
The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks



We now carry Farm & Ranch & Mother Earth News

 YOUNG READERS



Swindle by gordon Korman
Freedom Train by Evelyn coleman
Masterpiece by Elise Broach
A Difficult Boy by M.P. Barker
Eleven by Patricia Reilly Giff
When you reach me by Rebecca Stead
The Underneath by kathi Appelt
 the adventures ofSir Lancelot the Great by Gerald Morris
The Boy who dared by susan bartoletti
Woods Runner by Gary Paulsen
diamond Willow by helen frost

Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop

Meet Julie by Megan McDonald
The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pikney
Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni

Non-Fiction
vinnie and abraham by dawn fitzgerald
Driven -a photobiography of henry ford
nubs by  major brian dennis
Biggest, Strongest, Fastest by Steve Jenkins
Planting the trees of kenya by claire nivola
food & farm facts - farm bureau


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


DVD'S
For children:
Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
The Mitten by Jan Brett
several new Kipper DVD's
my side of the mountain


For family
The Waltons   Seasons one  to six
Little House on the Prairie  Season one


DVD Adult
Fireproof
M*A*S*H  Season one & two
Sense and Sensibility
the english patient
a woman of independent means


Oil Dorado:  The Life and Times of an Oil Boom

Lamont Kansas-A History of the Town
and Remembrances of School Days Past


*******
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
                              
 

                                                                  
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.
 

Webwise
Click to enter

 


Library Address and Telephone #

110 S. First St.
MADISON, kANSAS   66860

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

e mail:   madison.library@madtel.net



Kansas Library Card
 
Kansas Library Card

Click Here to Enter
Sign Up For Your Card at the Library

************************************************************


SEKnFIND card Catalog
Click Here to enter





Click Here to E Mail Us


Virginia Pedroja, Director

Site design by Leslie Elliott
Last revised   March 25, 2009