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, October 21, at 6:30 pm
Please sign up by Friday, October 11!
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
Every First and Third Wednesday at 6:00 pm
Adult Makers
Fourth 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!
"Accidentally Wes Anderson"
Photo Contest
Entries Due by November 1
Send us your best photo that emulates the style of Wes Anderson!
The new book, Accidentally Wes Anderson, is your inspiration.
For those aged 15 and older
Click here for more information, and how to submit your photo.
Hogwarts Hijinks!
The Weasley Halloween Heist Escape Room
Week of October 21 - October 26
For folks ages 8 and older
(Participants under 12 must be accompanied by someone 14 years of age or older)
You’ve been entrusted with a mission straight from the mischievous minds of Fred and George Weasley. This Halloween, the twins have concocted an epic prank that will have Hogwarts buzzing for weeks. However, Filch has confiscated the secret ingredient for their prank.
Fred and George have tasked you to sneak into Filch’s office, navigate through his traps and puzzles, and retrieve the item before time runs out.
The escape room is free of charge but will be on a first come, first serve basis, so sign up while you can! It will take approximately 45 minutes to complete the room including the instruction before the start of the activity. We ask that you arrive in a timely manner. If you are late, we may not have enough time to let you into the room.
Can you outwit the castle's vigilant caretaker and help the Weasley twins pull off their grand prank?
2 to 5 aspiring wizards and witches per session
**All Time Slots Have Been Filled**
Don't Forget Our Free
Family Friendly Films
Fridays at 3:30 pm in the Community Room
- October 18: Inside Out 2 (PG)
- November 1: The Garfield Movie (PG)
- November 15: Despicable Me 4 (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!
October Programs for Adults
Creative Writing Club Join the Creative Writing Club! Calling all storytelling enthusiasts ages 18+! Meet us in the Community Room at 6:00 PM on Wednesdays, October 2nd and 16th. Share your writing, make new friends, and discuss your favorite work and the passion...
September 2024 Adult Programs
Creative Writing ClubJoin the Creative Writing Club! Calling all storytelling enthusiasts ages 18+! Meet us in the Community Room at 6:00 PM on Wednesdays, September 4th, September 18th, October 2nd, and October 16th. Share your writing, make new friends, and discuss...
July 2024 Activities for Adults
Summer Reading 2024Adventure Begins at Your Library with Summer Reading 2024! This annual program is designed for all ages to read every day, participate in special Library programs, and keep smashing our reading goals! The second prizes for every level will be...
June 2024 Adult Activities
Summer Reading 2024Adventure Begins at Your Library with Summer Reading 2024! This annual program is designed for all ages to read every day, participate in special Library programs, and stay active all summer long! Sign-ups begin on Monday, June 3rd, either online or...
Cooking the Books – Baking Yesteryear
Adult Makers Try Cooking the Books: Baking YesteryearOur Adult Makers had an extra sweet April activity that was a blast from the past! Cooking the Books follows a recent online trend of "Cookbook Clubs" that brings together chefs and readers alike. Our library...
May Programs for All Ages
Miss Wendy's Reading Tips & Tricks For ParentsAre you ready to make reading a fun adventure for your child this summer? Join us for Miss. Wendy's Reading Tips & Tricks for Parents class! Discover simple, game-like reading activities that will help strengthen...
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Adult Makers
Friday, October 18, at 7:00 pm
For October:
- Wire Wrapped Jewelry
Leave the kids at home for a night of creativity and grown-up fun.
Wire wrapping is a fun, quick, and easy way to make attractive jewelry. Tonight, we’ll make rings, small and elegant, big and bawdy, quirky and fun, the choice is your. There are no limits.
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
Mondays, October 2 & 16, 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, October 24, at 6:30 pm
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 October:
We’ll be reading The Incredibly Dead Pets of Rex Dexter by Aaron Reynolds.
Rex Dexter is itching to have a dog. He was practically born to have one. His name is Rex, for crying out loud. It’s a dog’s name. Any pooch is preferable, but a chocolate Labrador is the pinnacle. The best of the best. The dream of all dreams.
When Rex’s B-Day for Me-Day finally arrives, his parents surprise him with a box. A box with holes. A box with holes and adorable scratchy noises coming from inside. Could it be? Yes! It has to be! A . . . a . . .
Chicken?
Pet poultry?
How clucky.
One hour and fourteen minutes later, the chicken is dead (by a steamroller), Rex is cursed (by the Grim Reaper), and wild animals are haunting Rex’s room (hounding him for answers). Even his best friend Darvish is not going to believe this, and that kid believes everything.
Rex’s uninvited ghostly guests are a chatty, messy bunch. And they need Rex to solve their mysterious deadly departures from the Middling Falls Zoo before it happens again.
But how?
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. Since many of these volumes can’t be replaced, they aren’t available for home use, but we encourage you to explore our great state here in the library.
- 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 June 3 and June 28
Do you love writing?
Enter the Madison Library District’s short story writing contest and you could win a prize and be featured in our newsletter!
Our theme is “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” Based on the famous Dr. Seuss tale of facing life’s ups and downs, tell us a story of the places you’ll go, Fiction or Non-fiction are accepted.
The contest winner will be awarded a $100 gift card to Barnes and Noble. The winner will be announced Friday, July 26th and will be featured in our August newsletter.
Email submissions ONLY accepted. Must be 18 or older to enter.
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 1,500-2,000 words in length. It must not exceed 2,000 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 June 3, 2024 and end June 28, 2024. 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, June 3, 2024, through June 28, 2024.
*Entries that do not meet these requirements will not be accepted*
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.
Book Nook Contest
"Small Adventures to Amazing Places!"
To Celebrate National Library Week
WINNERS have been announced!
Juniors First Place
Ellie D. (age 4) &
Mykee D. (age 2):
"Night in Paris"
Juniors Second Place
Elena S. (age 14):
"Space Battle'"
ADULTS First Place
Mona Lords:
"Chinese New Year"
Adults Second Place
Tatjana Zumbach:
"Frog Prince Sanctuary'"
Adults Third Place
Tatjana Zumbach:
"Deep Sea Schtroumpfing'"
Adults Honorable Mention
Aleise Lords:
"Pearl Tree'"
"Accidentally Wes Anderson"
Photo Contest
Entries Accepted October 14 through November 1
For those aged 15 and older
Film director Wes Anderson has a distinctive style that many attempt to mimic. A recent book, Accidentally Wes Anderson, shares views of the best efforts by professional photographers. If all those pros are having such a good time making Wes Anderson fakes, we thought it might be fun for our patrons to do so as well.
Take a look at the style hints found in the adult section display case and take a photo that you think is "Accidentally Wes Anderson," and we'll display them during the month of November.
TO ENTER:
Email your photo to our programming team or leave it at the Circulation Desk by November 1.
Please include your name, library card number, and phone number.
The three photos judged to be closest to Anderson's style will receive a copy of the book.
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
- September 20 – LCEI Conference
- October 5 – Building Maintenance
- October 31 – Open from 9:00 am to 6:00 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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