Madisonville, TN Public Library

Join us for our Starship Adventure Summer Reading Program May 27 through July 31 for prizes, rewards, shows and 2 Grand Prize bicycles.  Stop by the library May 27 or anytime after that to register and receive your bag of information and goodies!  Pick a reward from our treasure chest each time you read or listen to 10 books.  Prizes and gifts are given out at each show in July and 2 Grand Prize bicycles will be awarded at the final show.

July 10 at 11:00 a.m.: Space Rocks  U.T. Professor will bring real moon rocks and talk about space

July 17 at 11:00 a.m.: Space Taste  Ever wonder what astronauts eat?  Come and find out!

July 24 at 11:00 a.m.: Space Race The Cross Creek Players will perform a play 

July 31 at 11:00 a.m.: Space Music The Charlie Hicks Band will perform and grand prizes will be awarded

Newsletters and On-line Book clubs now available!

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      Click here to sign up to for our on-line Book Clubs.

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  awarded $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.  We welcome your theme suggestions-just e-mail us at  mplib@bellsouth.net

Madisonville Library has been awarded an East Tennessee Foundation Grant in the amount of  $10,000 to expand our  T.G.I.F. (Teenage Girls Investigating their Futures) Outreach Program.  We are using these funds to purchase books and audio visual materials geared toward teens and their issues.

Madisonville Library’s Outreach Program began 8 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 $110,000  to keep it going.