Adult Arena
For Those Ages 18 and Older
We have a variety of regular events that happen every month. We also host contests, parties and other special activities throughout the year. Scroll down for more resources just for our adult patrons.
ALL Events
the Community Room
We have all our how-to videos from previous crafts on our YouTube channel.
Our Madison Library YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNNivDJ_0aeQsKNbqRFrkA
OPEN RECITALS
Have a piece that you’d like to perform for the public?
An open recital will be held
Monday, April 22, at 6:30 pm
Open to all ages, instruments, and skill levels!
Click for more information and to sign up.
We look forward to hearing you perform!
Creative Writing Club
First and Third Wednesdays at 6:00 pm
Adult Makers
Every Second Friday at 7:00 pm
Take a Break Book Club
Every Fourth Thursday at 6:30 pm
Armchair Traveler Challenge
Read Around the World with Us!
General Collections
Books, Movies, Magazines and More!
Don't Forget Our Free
Family Friendly Films
Fridays at 3:30 pm in the Community Room
- March 1: Trolls Band Together (PG)
- March 8: Wonka (PG)
Parents, please pre-screen movies for appropriateness for your family.
Children under 12 MUST be accompanied by someone age 14 or older.
Activities & Events Blog
Get details for all our events. Join us for friendship and fun!
Adult Activities March 2024
Creative Writing ClubJoin our Creative Writers Club (Ages 18+) on Wednesdays, March 6 & 20 at 6:00 PM in the Community Room! Share your literary gems with fellow storytelling enthusiasts and bond over love for the written word.Adult MakersAdult Makers! Join us on...
Adult Activities February 2024
On The Same PageOn the Same Page is back and this year we're reading "Holes" by Louis Sachar! Join our big community read and pick up your free-to-keep kick-off kit from the circulation desk today! Please, limit 1 book per household.Sploosh! Join us for an activity...
January Adult Activities
Creative Writing ClubJoin our Creative Writers Club (Ages 18+) on Wednesdays, January 3 & 17 at 6:00 PM in the Community Room! Share your literary gems with fellow storytelling enthusiasts and bond over love for the written word.Closed for Martin Luther King Jr....
Holiday Closures 2023
The Library will be closed Saturday - Tuesday, Dec. 23 - 26 for Christmas & Saturday - Monday, Dec. 30 - Jan. 1 for the New Year No items are due when the Library is closed. Thank You! Have a safe and happy holidays!
Christmas Extravaganza!
Christmas is not just a day, it's a feeling! It's the joy that fills our hearts, the sparkle in our eyes, and the warmth we share with our family and friends. This year, everyone is invited to Madison Library District’s 14th Annual Christmas Extravaganza, a Christmas...
November Adult Activities
Creative Writing ClubShare your writing with other storytelling enthusiasts and make new friends! Join the Creative Writing Club for ages 18+. We will share our favorite piece and talk about why writing is our passion. This month we are meeting in the Community Room...
October 2023 Adult Activities
Creative Writing ClubShare your writing with other storytelling enthusiasts and make new friends! Join the Creative Writing Club for ages 18+. We will share our favorite piece and talk about why writing is our passion. Meetings are every second and fourth Wednesday of...
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Adult Makers
Friday, March 8, at 7:00 pm
For March:
- Burned Wood Earrings or Keychains
Leave the kids at home for a night of creativity and grown-up fun.
Participants will use wood burning tools to decorate a pair of earrings of a keychain.
Come join us, make new friends, and express your creativity!
Waffle Wednesday
no waffle wednesday in may
Keep Me in Stitches
Tuesday, October 11, at 2:00 pm
Thursday, October 13, at 6:00 pm
A FUn get-together for crafters!
Bring your crocheting, knitting, cross-stitching, lace-making, tatting, or whatever it is you like to do and spend some time with others who do it too!
Creative Writing Club
Wednesdays, March 6 & 20, at 6:00 pm
Share your writing with other storytelling enthusiasts or join to make friends! Join the Creative Writers Club for ages 18+. We will share your favorite piece of writing and talk about why writing is our passion.
Take a Break Book Club
Thursday, March 28, at 6:30 pm in the Community Room
Come join your fellow community members for a lively discussion of both classic works and modern masterpieces.
Unless otherwise noted, a limited number of book club reading copies will be available for checkout from the circulation desk about a month prior to the meeting.
FOR March:
We’ll be reading The Persian Pickle Club by Sandra Dallas.
It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there’s not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and putting their quilting skills to good use. When a new member of the club stirs up a dark secret, the women must band together to support and protect one another. In her magical, memorable novel, Sandra Dallas explores the ties that unite women through good times and bad.
We hope to see you there!
Book Bingo!
December 1 – 31 – this month’s theme is English Literature!
Madison Library’s Reading Challenge
All ages can play. We have a bingo card for kids 11 and under, and one for teens and adults 12 and older. Read fun new books and audiobooks and win great prizes!
Here’s how it works:
Step 1: Read the challenges and pick a bingo line that most appeals to you.
Step 2: Read a book that completes a challenge. Read another. And another.
Step 3: When you are able to cross off 5 squares in a row on the board, bring your sheet in to the Circulation Desk for a prize and an entry in our monthly drawing. We will have a separate drawing for each age group.
Step 4: Keep reading! You can get as many prizes and entries as there are bingos on the board.
Armchair Traveler Challenge
January 1 through December 30, 2024
Madison Library's Year-Long Reading Adventure
For patrons ages 12 and older.
Read fun new books and audiobooks and win stickers and other great prizes!
Here’s how it works:
Step 1: Sign up at the Circulation Desk to get your reading log.
Step 2: Read a book set in a state listed in one of the challenges. Read another. And another. You can get a sticker for each state.
Step 3: For every challenge completed, bring your log in to the Circulation Desk for a small prize and an entry for the grand prize final drawing at the end of the year.
Step 4: Keep reading! If you complete your journey across the United States, you'll receive a special travel bag in commemoration of your achievement.
If you finish early, you can obtain an international passport and start your journey around the world, earning extra prizes and entries into the final drawing!
Reading can take you places and we are going on an adventure!
ARE YOU READY? GET PACKING, HERE WE GO!
Author Visit with Josi S. Kilpack!
Monday, November 14, at Noon
PRESS RELEASE
Josi S. Kilpack to be the featured speaker for a community presentation at the Madison District Library, with a booksigning to follow that evening at the Rexburg Deseret Book Store.
Best known for her Sadie Hoffmiller Culinary Mystery series, Josi S. Kilpack is the author of more than 30 novels, a cookbook, and several novellas. Writing in a variety of genres over the years, Kilpack has covered everything from modern mystery to historical fiction and is known for addressing difficult issues in an approachable way. She has published two general fiction titles through Kensington Press under the pen name Jessica Pack.
Kilpack is a sought-after instructor for writing conferences and enjoys mentoring other authors while also challenging herself to do better with each new story she writes. Kilpack has been the recipient of the Utah Best in State award for fiction as well as several Whitney Awards, including two Novel of the Year awards for Lord Fenton’s Folly and As Wide as the Sky.
At the library event hosted by the Madison Library District located at 73 North Center Rexburg, Kilpack will be talking about her writing journey as well as sharing her thoughts regarding personal development. She will also be taking questions from the audience. Later that evening she will be the featured author at a book signing hosted at the Deseret Bookstore located at 180 W 2nd S, Rexburg. The public is welcome to bring books already purchased for her to sign, or purchase copies from the store.
Josi lives in Garden City, Utah where she gets to see beautiful things every day. She is the mother of four adult children and a real estate agent in both Utah and Idaho.
General Collections
For older teens and adults
Most Items Located on the East Side of the Building
We have a wide variety of materials for all you learning and entertainment needs!
Having a hard time finding something? Ask a librarian!
Along with Fiction and Nonfiction we also provide the following materials:
- LARGE PRINT – we have both fiction and nonfiction titles.
- AUDIOBOOKS – books on CD.
- eBOOKS and eAUDIOS – downloadable from the Libby app on your phone or tablet.
- MAGAZINES
- MUSIC CDs – in a wide variety of genres.
- DVDs & BLU-RAYs – these are located in the front lobby.
- SPECIALTY COLLECTIONS:
- COOKBOOKS
- BIOGRAPHIES
- GRAPHIC NOVELS and COMICS
- FOREIGN LANGUAGE COLLECTION – located next to the Children’s materials.
- IDAHO COLLECTION – materials dedicated to books on Idaho. You’ll find specialty books here on the great gem state, biographies, studies on the flora and fauna, local histories, and books by Idaho authors.
- SPECIAL and RARE ITEMS – located in the glass cases. These items do not circulate, but can be read in the library.
- KITS – we have several types of kits:
- ADULT EXPLORATION KITS – like having a college course in a red or yellow bag!
- BOOK CLUB KITS – with several copies of the same book and other education materials; in burgundy bags.
- SPEEDY READER KITS – the entire book series in one bag; in pale blue and grey bags.
Short Story Contest
Entries may be submitted anytime between October 1 and December 1
Do you love writing?
Enter the Madison Library District’s short story writing contest!
Our theme is “Capturing 100 Years.” Give us your impression of what that means to you. Fiction or non-fiction are accepted.
All entries receive a prize. 1st prize winner will be awarded the choice of either a $50 gift card to Barnes and Noble or a feather quill pen and ink set.
Email submissions ONLY accepted.
RULES
Entries are submitted online via email: Submit to programs@madisonlib.org
The contest is open to writers 18-years-old and up. No minors may enter the contest.
No employees, relatives of employees, or former employees of the Library or its divisions are eligible.
Entries must be 1,000-1,500 words in length. It must not exceed 1,500 words. Entries that do not meet this requirement will not be accepted.
Entries are allowed to be either fiction or nonfiction so long as they meet the requirements of the theme.
No entries containing violence or derogatory, racist, or sexist language or situations will be accepted, at the sole discretion of the judges.
No published works will be accepted. An “unpublished piece” means it has not been published anywhere. Published work includes anything posted on your own blog, someone else’s, or through a magazine or book. The idea is to get you writing and thinking creatively while following submission guidelines with a new piece.
You can submit your entry anytime before the deadline of the contest. Entries open October 1, 2022 and end December 1, 2022. All submissions must meet the entry deadline.
Entries should be text only and may not include illustrations or photographs.
Proofread your entry before submitting. Follow these contest rules, just as you would a publisher’s submission guidelines.
The winners will be announced on our Facebook page, on our website, and in our newsletters. We reserve the right to first publication of the winning entries in our newsletter, after which all rights revert to the authors. We do not own your work product in any way, shape, or form.
All entries will be read by judges chosen by the Madison Library District staff. Winners will be notified by email (or other means) approximately 30 days after the close of the contest.
Formatting
- Double space your entry.
- Margins should be one inch all around.
- Use Times New Roman or Courier, 12-point font.
- Do not include a cover page with your entry.
- Submissions will only be accepted as a PDF or Word document.
- Be sure to list your name, library card number, email, and title of your submission in the email sent with your submission.
- Entries will only be considered within the deadline, October 1, 2022 through December 1, 2022.
*Entries that do not meet these requirements will not be accepted*
Photography Contest
Entries may be submitted anytime between October 17 through December 10
To Celebrate Our 100 Year Anniversary
Madison Library District is having a photography contest!
Our theme is "Capturing 100 Years."
Take photos to show us what that theme means to you.
Submissions will need to be turned in at the Circulation Desk of the library.
All Entries will need the following forms filled out and submitted with your photograph:
If you're taking photos of people, you'll need to submit the following Model Release form. Children under age 18 will need their parents to sign the form as well, indicating their permission for their children to participate as models.
Peeps Diorama Contest
"There's More to the Story!"
Entries can be submitted April 17th through April 22nd
Library Appreciation Week is on its way, and we’ve got some great things planned.
Peeps Diorama Contest!
Depict a scene from a published book, any of our programming events, or any item you've used in the library (such as Libby).
Submit your Peeps diorama by 4:00 pm April 22nd to be considered for a prize.
All ages are welcome to particpate. Any participants under 18 must have approval from their legal guardian.
Peeps Diorama Contest
"There's More to the Story!"
WINNERS have been announced!
CHILDREN AGES 5 - 11
Waylon D (age 5):
"Creepy Carrots"
TEENS AGES 12 - 18
Emma H (age 17):
"To the tiger in the zoo,
Madeline just said 'Pooh-pooh!'"
ADULTS AGES 19+
Joshua Haworth:
"Harry Potter series: Diagon Alley"
Online Resources
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Regular Hours of Operation
- Monday: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Tuesday - Wednesday: 9:00 am – 8:00 pm
- Thursday: 11:00 am – 8:00 pm
- Friday: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
- Saturday: 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
- Sunday: CLOSED
Closures in 2024
- January 1 – New Year’s Day
- January 15 – Martin Luther King, Jr., Day
- February 19 – Presidents Day
- March 22 – Staff Development Day
- April 6 – Building Maintenance
- May 25-27 – Memorial Day
- June 19 – Juneteenth
- July 4 – Independence Day
- August 31 – September 2 – Labor Day
- October 5 – Building Maintenance
- October 31 – Closing at 5:00 pm
- November 11 – Veterans Day
- November 27 – Closing at 5:00 pm
- November 28-30 – Thanksgiving
- December 24-26 – Christmas
- December 31 – New Year’s Eve
- January 1, 2025 – New Year’s Day
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