Week Calendar

Babies ages 6 to 23 months are invited to bring their favorite adult to this fun and interactive 20-minute program. We will share simple books, lap bounces, songs, rhymes and fingerplays.

Preschoolers can practice language, literacy, and listening skills while enjoying a variety of books, rhymes, music, movement activities, and even short films during this 30 minute storytime.

Story Time that promotes early literacy

Mead Public Library will host a Charity Knit-a-Thon where skilled knitters are invited to create hats, mittens and scarves for local children in need from 9:15 a.m.-4:45 p.m., in The Loft.

Preschoolers can practice language, literacy, and listening skills while enjoying a variety of books, rhymes, music, movement activities, and even short films during this 30 minute storytime.

Story Time promotes early literacy

Learn how to read a pattern, cut fabric, and sew a simple pillowcase.  

Read.  Relax.  Repeat.

There is no assigned reading in this book club! Just bring a book, read and relax in our beautiful Loft! Bag lunches welcome.

Local, self-published cookbook author Toni Mariani will show tools, techniques and tips to use to recreate appetizing, inexpensive recipes from the Old South. She will also discuss the rewards and challenges of meal preparation.

Words have Power! Join us for an open mic lunch, celebrate our freedom to speak, and share passages from your favorite banned or censored books and writers.

Jackie, with Natalie Portman & Billy Crudup.  2016, R, 100 minutes.

One-on-one help from Mead volunteers. Learn how to:

100 Thousand Poets For Change returns to Sheboygan for its seventh annual poetry and music event celebrating peace, justice and sustainability worldwide.  Sheboygan is just one of 500 cities in nearly 100 countries that will share visions of

September 24-30 is Banned Books Week! Come for Tinker Time in the Imaginarium to design your own bookmark based on your favorite Banned or Challenged Book.

Drop in for self-guided open studio time.  Craft some cards, paint a picture, bead a bracelet, sew a circuit, or print in 3D.  You are only limited by your imagination!

Drop-In recommended for grades 2-6

September 27th, October 25th, November 29th and December 27th

Celebrate your right to read at this special after school storytime.  In honor of Banned Books week, we will be sharing children's picture books that have been challenged or banned over the past several years.  

September 24-30 is Banned Books Week! Come for Tinker Time in the Imaginarium to design your own bookmark based on your favorite Banned or Challenged Book.

Drop in fourth Mondays, 5-7pm, for Lego Club in the Imaginarium for teens and adults!

Preregistration is not required, but appreciated. 
 

Drop in for self-guided open studio time.  Craft some cards, paint a picture, bead a bracelet, sew a circuit, or print in 3D.  You are only limited by your imagination!

The Horizons4Girls therapy dog, Faith, will be available for children to read to her at Mead Public Library.  Faith is a "Teddy Bear" dog, a Shih  Tzu/ Bichon Frise mix.

Join award winning artist Lil' Rev as he discusses and demonstates the ukulele and its history and culture.

Join us for a reception prior to the Academy Talk lecture series event from the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters.

Enjoy a little romance with a twist this year!

In honor of Banned Books Week, come learn about censorship and the role of libraries in defending our intellectual freedom.

Family Stroy time with fingerplays, and activities

Curiosity Labs is a series sponsored by MilliporeSigma Corporation that connects their scientists with Mead Public Library patrons.

The Great Lakes alone contain one-fifth of the world’s supply of surface freshwater – the greatest single freshwater resource on the planet.  Yet despite their size, these lakes are surprisingly fragile and are subject to a host of complex an