Madisonville, TN Public Library

            Madisonville Library has been awarded a Grant in the amount of $1,000 from Target.  This money will be used to purchase books for our Daycare Outreach Program. 

                                     Madisonville Public Library has been awarded a BOOKS FOR CHILDREN Grant from the LibriFoundation.  This was a donation of 80 children's books.

       Madisonville Library has been awarded a Literacy Grant in the amount of  $2,000 from the Madisonville Walmart.                                                                                   This money is being used to purchase books geared toward the library's juvenile and young adult patrons.

Madisonville Library has been awarded an East Tennessee Foundation Grant in the amount of  $15,000 to expand our  Daycare Outreach Program.  We are using these funds to purchase books and audio visual materials geared toward preschool age children.

Madisonville Library receives new public access computers from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation!  Come by to try them out or bring your laptop and use our free wireless internet.

Madisonville Library  has been awarded a $15,000 LSTA Grant to start a new program called MAD Packers.  The first 55 theme based backpacks are available for checking out and we are working on the next 55. They all contain a combination of books, movies, audio books, computer software, etc. 

Madisonville Library’s Outreach Program began 10 years ago with a few daycare centers.  It has grown to include 10 local facilities ranging from Head Start Centers and the Boys and Girls Club to nursing homes.  Each month we visit these facilities and rotate close to 600 materials to them-that’s over 7,000 per year!  We are committed to going out and serving people who cannot get to us.

We received a grant in 1999 to start this amazing program and to date have received grants totaling $140,000  to keep it going.