Library News

A memory from Youth Associate Mary W: 

WHAT: Reading Menagerie: Meet the Dragons - Winter Reading Challenge

WHEN: January 6 through May 24, 2025

WHO: Readers age 5 to 12 

STAFF CONTRIBUTOR:
Julie Westby, Youth Services Librarian

By: Jamie Swenson, HPL Youth Services Associate

One of my favorite moments from 2024 was challenging our Homeschool Idea Lab kids to complete the Pringles Ring Engineering Challenge. That’s right.

SENSEational Storytime Begins in January

Mariah Smitala, HPL’s Youth Services Librarian, began the process of adding a sensory-friendly storytime to the Hedberg Public Library calendar in 2019.

The Back to School Clothing Drive has wrapped up!

On Tuesday, July 16, HPL’s Executive Board approved the motion for the library to go FINES FREE! 

Attention Master Builders: The Children's Room now has a LEGO Wall ready and waiting for your creative building! The wall was made possible by the Friends of Hedberg Public Library and is intended for school-age builders. (Thank you, Friends!)

Join the 2024 Summer Library Challenge

Hedberg Public Library is excited to offer the Adventure Begins At Your Library summer library challenge starting on Monday, June 10.

We have a new club starting on March 20^th specifically for tweens. What’s a tween, you ask?

Excellent question.

Calling all of our creative peeps! It’s your chance to create a diorama featuring Peeps™ Mallows and win a highly sought-after Peeple’s Choice Award.

Our mural is done! In just five days, Madison, WI-based artist Emily Balsley transformed a wall in the Cathy Norris Picture Book Garden of The Children’s Room at Hedberg Public Library from ordinary to extraordinary.

The American Library Association announced the 2024 Youth Media Awards this week. Here are a few highlights:

The Children’s Room is getting a mural!! Madison muralist and illustrator Emily Balsley has designed a garden-themed mural for one of our walls in the Picture Book Garden area of the Children’s Room.

Welcome to 2024!

We are up and running with our regularly scheduled programs PLUS some of our winter favorites are returning (drumroll please!)