For our craft lovers, we will continue to provide Take and Make Craft Kits for pick up! Kits are in limited supply, so we encourage crafters who have their hearts set on certain crafts to call ahead to reserve one at (920) 398-3434. All supplies are included.

A small fee for each craft kit covers the supply costs. Here's the schedule for February's crafts:

You can also find updates and news about Take and Make Crafts on our Facebook page and website !

Here's a sneak peek of a few of the March Crafts - we'll post more on Facebook as the month goes along!

There's still time to join in the fun and read to win great prizes in our Winter Reading Program! You can pick up and turn in reading tickets until Saturday, March 13.

Thanks to a generous donation by the Giddy Up Bar & Grill in Dalton for children’s activities along with other donated funds, the library is able to offer a Winter Reading program!! Similar to our Summer Reading program, the Winter program, “Snow Much Fun”, is raffle based and there are fun raffle prizes for all ages!!

Children & teens are invited to pick up reading tickets at the library and begin logging their reading. For every two hours read, a reading ticket will be completed and participants can enter that ticket into the raffle of his or her choice.

For adults, every book read earns a completed raffle ticket, which can be put towards the raffle prize of their choice.

Visit the photo album on our Facebook page to see the fun assortment of prizes on display!

Thank you also to the Markesan Area Chamber of Commerce and Subway of Markesan for donating 16 6-inch Subway coupons for our reading program!!

If you have any questions about participating in our Winter Reading Program, please call the library at (920) 398-3434, or visit the Winter Reading Program page on our website for more details!

The 2021 Chair Affair is fast approaching! This great fundraiser will help improve and refresh our children's area!

Volunteers to paint or decorate a chair are earnestly needed! Would you like to help but feel like you don’t have the skills? Then, we hope you'll consider attending our Chair “Refresher” Course! This informational class will give you all the ideas, tips, and tricks you need to get you started on your own chair design. We'll cover topics like how to prep a chair, how to transfer decals or stencils, and how to paint will all be covered. You will be pleasantly surprised at how easy and fun “refreshing” an old chair can be. This class will be led by local artists Nancy Kirst and Cindy Boelter.

This class can be attended in person or you can watch in on Facebook live! To watch it online, all you have to do is go to our Facebook page when the class begins at 6:00 pm.

To let us know if you plan on attending in person or if you have any questions, please call the library at (920) 398-3434.

Decorate eggs at the library with your friends! You supply the hard-boiled eggs; the library will supply the coloring materials. Fun DIY techniques will be explored like shaving cream, rice shake, traditional, and more! Sign up is required due to space limitations. Please let us know which session you would like attend. Both sessions will cover the same techniques.

This program is geared towards ages 10 and up. Younger children are welcome to attend with a helping adult.

You can sign up at the library or by calling (920) 398-3434.

Not sure how to hard-boil an egg? Try this recipe!

Despite a challenging COVID year, the Markesan Public Library continues on its quest to be better than ever by updating our building and expanding our offerings. All proceeds from the 2021 Chair Affair will go towards a much-needed refresh of the Children’s Area. We are busy working on ideas on how to make the children’s area more fun and functional from paint, to shelves, to toys, to books. And we are going to need funds to make those dreams come true.

You can now access over 3,000 magazine titles from home using Overdrive and Libby! Read about sports, health, fashion, design, food, and more!

Go to www.markesanlibrary.org, then click on "Research Tools" in the top banner. You'll go to a page with a list of our online resources. (You could also click this link to go straight there: https://sql.winnefox.org/research/default.asp?lib=mar) Find Overdrive and click on it to get started! All you'll need is your library card!

Stop by the library or call (920) 398-3434 if you have any questions, or need help!