Have you ever given yourself a reading challenge? Reading challenges are not just for kiddos. They are for everyone! People who use the social media site for readers called Goodreads can set reading challenges for themselves. It is fun to keep track of what you are reading and to see yourself making progress. That is […]
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The new InfoSoup catalog launches August 19! Here’s what to expect during the transition, including important dates for holds, the current app, and catalog access. Planning to place a hold? Holds can be placed through August 6, but holds placed July 28–August 6 will be suspended until the new catalog launches. Save this timeline and
August, 2026 will be so exciting as we change to a new library experience! Read More »
The library staff are so amazing for so many reasons: they are good readers, good problem solvers, and creative thinkers. We are so blessed that staff shows initiative–they speak up and ask, “Can I try this?” In this case, our library star is ANGIE. She created a pop-up program for the Saturday of Memorial Day
Angie led the diamond art projects on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend, 2026 Read More »
Our library stars are Jean and Dave who visited our library on Friday, June 16, 2026 from Kiel, WI. They own a hearing loop installation business. You can reach their website @ DRS Sound Inc. We had fun finding out that our HEARING LOOP is functioning properly. After their visit to us, they were visiting
Jean & Dave serviced our hearing loop with professionalism and flair Read More »
Ed B. is a library star! He enjoys passing time at the library working on the community puzzles. He is very, very good at them. During Outagamie County Fair Week, 2026, the library had a puzzle to work on which featured a beautiful farm scene. We choose puzzles by what is going on in the
Thank you to Ed, puzzler at our library! Read More »
For the book group at our library, we met on Saturday, April 11, 2026 to talk about the book The Forbidden Garden: The Botanists of Besieged Leningrad and Their Impossible Choice by Simon Parkin and published in October, 2024. I found a fabulous interview with Simon Parkin on YouTube. Lyn Buchmann is a member of our book
Sometimes you discover a very important book at the library! Read More »
Colette Bezio made us aware that our puzzling board was both breaking and warping. She stated that it gave us a good life, lasting six years. Joint puzzles are done at the center of our library. Patrons work on them daily and it is pretty amazing how quickly they finish them. Colette takes pictures of
FMPL purchases a new puzzle board for the puzzlers at our library Read More »
This year, the Money Smart activity will be a special story time during our regularly scheduled story time on Monday, April 6, 2026 from 10:15 to 10:45. Our guest will be Katie Gellings from UW-Extension as she helps Elizabeth out with the story time. #MoneySmartWisconsin #MoneySmartWeek
Money Smart week in our region and at our library! Read More »
As so happens in small libraries like ours, sometimes our patrons are our actual neighbors! This is the case with Virginia who lives across the street from the library. Virginia is a wonderful, kind, and upbeat lady. She does outreach to a facility where she reads to the residents. She also shares books with the
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