Manitowoc Public Library
Enriching, Connecting, Inspiring
The mission of Manitowoc Public Library is to promote a culture of reading and to provide access to information. Through our services we strive to foster an environment that meets the educational, recreational and cultural needs of the community.
Manitowoc Public Library is located overlooking the waters of both the Manitowoc River and Lake Michigan in the center of downtown
Manitowoc. The many-windowed two-story 52,000 sq. ft.
building was erected in 1998 to meet the information needs of the
community in the 21st century.
- During 1898 and 1899, a committee comprised of five members of the Clio Club, a women’s literacy group, raised $4,700 to establish a public library supported by public taxation. In November of 1899, the Manitowoc City
Council adopted the gift from the Clio Club, provided a tax to support the library, and appointed the first Library Board of Trustees comprised of C. F. Canright, John Nagle and Norman Torrison. Learn More »
- The Manitowoc Public Library is governed by the Board of Trustees,
appointed by the Mayor of the City of Manitowoc. Each trustee is appointed for a three year term. The trustees then elect board officers. Learn More »
- Minutes of all MPL Board of Trustee Meetings are posted when approved, beginning with the minutes of the December 2005 meeting, approved at the January 2006 meeting. Learn More »
- Manitowoc Public Library has established policies and procedures to guide the library in providing open access to library materials for people of all ages;
providing materials representing as many viewpoints as possible; and
protecting a patron’s right to privacy in dealing with the Library and with respect to records maintained at the Library. Learn More »
- The Friends of Manitowoc Public Library helps focus public attention on the Library and its needs; stimulates the use of existing programs, services, and resources; supports the library in developing and expanding services and
facilities for the public; helps to fund special library needs; and provides
volunteer services where needed. Learn More »
- The Manitowoc Public Library Foundation established the Centennial
Endowment Fund to help ensure that Manitowoc Public Library is able to meet the needs of this community at a standard far higher than that which can be achieved using tax support alone. Learn More »
- Manitowoc Public Library posts its employment openings here. Learn More »
For the week of May 13
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May 14, 2012
- 9:15 AM
- Friends of MPL Board of Directors MeetingThe Friends of Manitowoc Public Library is an organization devoted to supporting the Library by being strong advocates for the library, by volunteering at the library and by funding library programs and projects.
The Friends of MPL Board of Trustees meets the second Monday of each month at 9:15 a.m. More
- 6:00 PM
- Sand County Songs with Tim Southwick JohnsonEnjoy the Sand County Songs, original music inspired by naturalist Aldo Leopold.
Tim Southwick Johnson is an accomplished
performer on acoustic guitar, mandolin, tenor guitar, ukulele and
harmonica. His original songs run the gamut from fun story songs to
romping fingerstyle instrumentals.
This program is free and open to the public. More
May 15, 2012
- 10:00 AM
- Toddler Time - How Does Your Garden Grow?Hear some fun stories about planting a garden. More
- 6:30 PM
- Family Activity Night: "Every Child Ready to Read: fun with science and math."Early literacy begins with you. "Fun with science and math." More
May 16, 2012
- 10:00 AM
- Toddler Time - How Does Your Garden Grow?Hear some fun stories about planting a garden. More
- 2:00 PM
- Computer Class: Google DocsGoogle Docs is a free, Web-based office suite, and data storage service offered by Google More
- 4:00 PM
- YT Connection LEGO ClubUse your imagination to build creations with our thousands of LEGOs. More
- 5:30 PM
- Job Search Skills: Email for Job HuntingManitowoc Public Library is offering Job Search Skills Classes each Wednesday evening. These hands-on classes are free and open to the public. More
May 17, 2012
- 10:00 AM
- Story Time: How Does Your Garden Grow?Hear some fun stories about planting a garden. More
- 6:00 PM
- Book Discussion: The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love by Kristin KimballJoin fellow readers and library staff for a lively discussion of The Dirty Life: On Farming, Food and Love by Kristin Kimball.
Single, thirty-something, working as a writer in New York City, Kristin Kimball was living life as an adventure. But she was beginning to feel a sense of longing for a family and for home. When she interviewed a dynamic young farmer, her world changed. Kristin knew nothing about growing vegetables, let alone raising pigs and cattle and driving horses. But on an impulse, smitten, if not yet in love, she shed her city self and moved to five hundred acres near Lake Champlain to start a new farm with him.
Kimball and her husband had a plan: to grow everything needed to feed a community. It was an ambitious idea, a bit romantic, and it worked. Every Friday evening, all year round, a hundred people traveled to Essex Farm to pick up their weekly share of the "whole diet"—beef, pork, chicken, milk, eggs, maple syrup, grains, flours, dried beans, herbs, fruits, and forty different vegetables—produced by the farm. The work is done by draft horses instead of tractors, and the fertility comes from compost. Kimball’s vivid descriptions of landscape, food, cooking—and marriage—are irresistible. More
- 6:30 PM
- Bedtime Stories - How Does Your Garden Grow?Hear some fun stories about planting a garden. More
May 19, 2012
- 10:00 AM
- Story Time: How Does Your Garden Grow?Hear some fun stories about planting a garden. More
- 2:00 PM
- May Movie Marathon - Princess Bride!May Movie Marathon - Saturdays in May More
For the week of May 20
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May 21, 2012
- 6:00 PM
- BookendS: Room by Emma DononghueBookendS is a book discussion group geared toward young adults, 18 to 30 (but we don't check IDs). It takes place the third Monday of each month at Manitowoc Coffee, right across the street from Manitowoc Public Library.
About the Book . . .
To five-year-old Jack, Room is the entire
world. It is where he was born and grew up; it's where he lives with his
Ma as they learn and read and eat and sleep and play. At night, his Ma
shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when
Old Nick visits.
Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it is the prison
where Old Nick has held her captive for seven years. Through
determination, ingenuity, and fierce motherly love, Ma has created a
life for Jack. But she knows it's not enough...not for her or for him.
She devises a bold escape plan, one that relies on her young son's
bravery and a lot of luck. What she does not realize is just how
unprepared she is for the plan to actually work.
Told entirely in the
language of the energetic, pragmatic five-year-old Jack, Room is a
celebration of resilience and the limitless bond between parent and
child, a brilliantly executed novel about what it means to journey from
one world to another. More
May 22, 2012
- 10:00 AM
- Toddler Time - Alphabet SoupDo you know your ABC's? If not come and hear stories about the alphabet. More
- 6:30 PM
- Family Activity Night: Make an Alphabet BookLearn your ABC's by making an Alphabet Book. More
May 23, 2012
- 10:00 AM
- Toddler Time - Alphabet SoupDo you know your ABC's? If not come and hear stories about the alphabet. More
- 4:00 PM
- YT Connection - Origami FunTry you hand at paper folding. More
- 5:30 PM
- Job Search Skills: Internet Job Search SkillsManitowoc Public Library is offering Job Search Skills Classes each Wednesday evening. These hands-on classes are free and open to the public. More
May 24, 2012
- 10:00 AM
- Story Time: Alphabet SoupDo you know your ABC's? If not come and hear stories about the alphabet. More
- 3:00 PM
- Barnes & Noble NookGet to Know NOOK and How to Borrow E-books from the Library
More
- 6:00 PM
- Barnes & Noble NookGet to Know NOOK and How to Borrow E-books from the Library
More
- 6:30 PM
- Bedtime Stories - Alphabet SoupDo you know your ABC's? If not come and hear stories about the alphabet. More
May 26, 2012
- 1:00 PM
- May Movie Marathon - The Vow!May Movie Marathon - Saturdays in May More
