Week Calendar

Spoke to first grade students at Silver Creek Elementary School about the library, reading challenge, and what it takes to be a librarian. 

Need assistance navigating Ancestry.com or researching your family tree? Local historian and genealogy enthusiast Todd Moberly will be available in the library's Madison County Room on the first and third Monday of each month ready to help.

Presented in partnership with Madison County Adult Education. 

Presented in partnership with Madison County Adult Education. 

We love learning different types of literacy through reading, music, movement, and play. It may get messy—please dress appropriately! Meant for ages 0-5. 

Join Us for Play with Purpose!

Join Us for Play with Purpose!

We promote preschool literacy with conversation, parachute play, music, movement, and picture books. Activities end with stations (occasionally preschool crafts). It may get messy—please dress appropriately! Meant for ages 3-5.

Stop by the Berea Location to watch the Berea Woodcarver Group in action, hear some great stories, and learn a thing or two about wood carving. 

We love learning different types of literacy through reading, music, movement, and play. It may get messy—please dress appropriately! Meant for ages 0-5. 

Peaceful Play is designed with shy or neurodivergent children in mind, though all are welcome.

Come celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday with us here at the library! Miss September and her ‘friends’ love to celebrate reading with Dr. Seuss.

Start your Saturday morning with a gentle yoga class! Join us as Tiffany leads a class that teaches gentle stretches, breathing techniques, and mindful meditation.  

Want to learn yoga?

Join us at the Richmond Location once a month  for Yoga for Every Body: Free, beginner-level yoga classes taught by certified instructor Jennifer Wait.

Gather with us to create, mend, knit, stitch, or make.

Crash Course is a weekly introduction to the machines and equipment housed in the Makerspace and will include basic operations, materials selection, and even resources to start your very own project. 

Come celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday with us here at the library! Miss September and her ‘friends’ love to celebrate reading with Dr. Seuss.

Join us at the library for our Teen D&D Open Table! Bring your own character or stop by an hour before the program for help making your character, and we'll have a short one-shot scenario for you to role-play your way through!

The Madison County Public Library provides a Pearson VUE GED testing site on the second Monday of the month from 9am to 1pm.  To register for your GED exam, visit ged.com and create an account.  Once you hav

Come hang out with friends or meet new friends over a cup of coffee (or tea). Our coffee cart will have everything you need to create a delicious brew. Games, simple crafts, and fun will be provided!

Join us for a craft at the Richmond location. 

Join us this week at the library in creating process artworks! We'll be using all kinds of materials to explore painting and different mediums.

Create your own unique, reusable, and sustainable beeswax food wraps! We will have everything you need to create your own set of wraps. Teen programs are intended for those age 11-17. 

Create your own unique, reusable, and sustainable beeswax food wraps! We will have everything you need to create your own set of wraps. Teen programs are intended for those age 11-17. 

This week in Exploration Station, we will be using engineering to understand the art basket weaving.   

Join us for an afternoon of fun STEAM activities! From LEGO challenges to arts and crafts, fun experiments and games, learning through play is our goal! Each of the four stations focuses on a different aspect of STEAM education.

Design a Planter!

Teach yourself the basics of TinkerCAD and print or cut your own planter for your home!

Makers Space open Lab is a time for using the equipment and space in the Maker's Lab to start, work on, or complete projects. Don't have any projects to work on?

The Madison County Public Library and Berea Parks and Rec are happy to have Mr. Jason Lindsey! Discover the science behind Pokémon as kids touch a Pikachu lightning bolt, help capture Charizard in a jug, launch Poké Balls and more.

Come join us for the Maker Space Orientation. Where you can learn about the machines and technology hosted in the lab.

Stop by every Monday night to join our group of Nifty Needlers! Every skill level is welcome!

Presented in partnership with Madison County Adult Education. 

Stop by, let us know what you want to see at the library, volunteer, and earn service hours! The Teen Advisory Group (TAG) is open to patrons 13-18 to join. 

Stop by, let us know what you want to see at the library, volunteer, and earn service hours! The Teen Advisory Group (TAG) is open to patrons 13-18 to join. 

Presented in partnership with Madison County Adult Education. 

Individual and small-group language practice and tutoring for adults who are developing English language skills.

Join the Madison County Public Library at Just Love Coffee in Berea for our Just Love Book Club! This book club will meet on the first Tuesday of every month.

Individual and small-group language practice and tutoring for adults who are developing English language skills.

Weekly Spanish language class for adults who are developing Spanish language skills. Led by Berea College students through the Hispanic Outreach Program (HOP) of the Center for Excellence in Learning through Service (CELTS).

We are pulling the champs out of retirement for one night only!

Madison County Public Library's team of champs, The Dewey Decimators, are back and they are ready to take down any overdue trivia team in town!