🗓️We're having an issue with viewing events on the calendar while you're logged in today (Tuesday, March. 31).
Until this gets fixed, please browse the calendar without logging in, and give us a call to sign up for a program. Thank you for your patience!
🎶Humans of Muskegon is back with a Musical Edition! 🎵
This year, we are highlighting musicians from Muskegon County and giving them a platform to share their stories, music, and connections to West Michigan. Check it out at MADL.org/Humans
Tonight, between 9pm and Midnight, our Library Servers are updating.
What does that mean for you? It means that library tools like placing holds, paying fines, and apps like Hoopla, Libby, and Kanopy will not work.
Thank you for being patient with us while this update happens!
Why buy it when you can borrow it?
Check it all out at MADL.org/LibraryofThings
The scene from Oliver Twist where he is asking "Please Sir, may I have some more." His bowl is full of all the library cooperatives you can access on Libby with your MADL Library Card. They are Bay County Library System, Download Destination, Genesee District Library, Great Lakes Digital Libraries, Lakeland Digital Library, Metro Net Library Consortium, Mideastern Michigan Library Consortium, Midwest Collaborative for Library Services, Southwest Michigan Digital Library, St. Clair County Library, Suburban Library Cooperative, Traverse Area District Library, Up North Digital Collection, White Pine Library Cooperative, and Woodlands Downloadable Library.
We keep begging for more, and they keep giving it to us!
There are now 15 library cooperatives you can add to your Libby account with your MADL Library Card!!! Many of these cooperatives contain dozens of libraries, and that means HUGE collections to browse. Get started at MADL.org/AtHome
Library Card verification has been reatored! 🎉
You should be able to access all Library services again.
You may experience issues using Library apps (like Libby and Hoopla) or logging into your Library Account this morning.
There are currently issues connecting to the software that authenticates library card numbers. Thank you for your patience while this gets sorted out!
We're open and we're warm! ♨️
If you're looking to warm up and charge, visit one of MADL's 11 Branches (find them all at MADL.org/Hours While you're here, grab some supplies for the weekend (books, movies, video games)
Also be sure ask our staff about how to connect to our digital library!
Currently, all MADL Branches will plan to open at Noon on Tuesday, January 20. Please be sure to check in again around noon to make sure your local Branch is opening. Stay safe and warm!
A scene from The Dark Knight Rises with Bane circling for a fight, but the person he is circling is a smaller man in a bright pink body suit. Bane is labelled "Increasing subscription costs" and the pink man is the MADL Library Card.
We're much more powerful.
A scene from Escape to Witch Mountain. In the first panel, Dwayne Johnson is driving and saying "I got a game console for my birthday, but I can't afford to get any new games to play on it." In the second panel, a girl the back seat replies, " MADL has video games you can check out for free!" In the third panel, Dwayne has turned around with a look of incredulity on his face.
Libraries are so much more than books! We have movies, video games, comics and graphic novels, apps, yard games, tools, and so much more! Get started at MADL.org
A scene from the Simpsons where the bus driver says "Don't make me tap the sign." When it cuts to the sign it says "Libraries are community spaces."
We are reflections of our communities! Muskegon County is an amazing place where we look out for each other and work hard to make our neighborhoods a better place. That mission is reflected in our libraries where we strive to be a welcoming space for everyone. ♥️
Why buy it when you can borrow it?
Check it all out at MADL.org/LibraryofThings
All MADL Branches will be closed Wednesday and Thursday, December 31 and January 1.
Why not get a head start on some New Year's resolutions? How about learning some new languages? Choose from over 100 languages and start learning with Transparent Language Online at MADL.org/Learn
All MADL Branches will be closed Wednesday and Thursday, December 31 and January 1.
Why not get a head start on some New Year's resolutions? How about learning some new languages? Choose from over 100 languages and start learning with Transparent Language Online at MADL.org/Learn
A picture of Norman Osborne (played by Willem Dafoe in Spiderman in 2002) smiling with the altered captions saying "You know, I'm something of a financial expert myself." The image is labelled "When people are talking about all the cost cutting they're doing to save money, and you're a library user."
We'd say you're pretty good.
The Library Card authentication issue has been resolved. All Library services should be back up and running!
There is currently an issue with the service that authenticates library cards. Anything that requires a library card -including digital resources- will be affected.
Thank you for your patience!
All MADL Branches will be closed Wednesday and Thursday, December 24 & 25.
It's too late to start homemade presents for everyone this holiday season, but you can still checkout CreativeBug to find fun, cozy crafts to keep everyone busy on holiday break. Check it out at MADL.org/Learn
All MADL Branches will be closed Wednesday and Thursday, December 24 & 25.
It's too late to start homemade presents for everyone this holiday season, but you can still checkout CreativeBug to find fun, cozy crafts to keep everyone busy on holiday break. Check it out at MADL.org/Learn
A scene from wrestling where one wrestler is laughing happily thinking he was one, but another wrestler is emerging from the smoke behind him ominously. The laughing wrestler is captioned "Ads encouraging you to spend money" and the wrestler emerging from the smoke to take him down in a MADL library card.
There's no need for that with your Library Card.
The scene from Oliver Twist where he is asking "Please Sir, may I have some more." His bowl is full of all the library cooperatives you can access on Libby with your MADL Library Card. They are Bay County Library System, Download Destination, Genesee District Library, Great Lakes Digital Libraries, Lakeland Digital Library, Metro Net Library Consortium, Mideastern Michigan Library Consortium, Midwest Collaborative for Library Services, Southwest Michigan Digital Library, St. Clair County Library, Suburban Library Cooperative, Traverse Area District Library, Up North Digital Collection, White Pine Library Cooperative, and Woodlands Downloadable Library.
We keep begging for more, and they keep giving it to us!
There are now 15 library cooperatives you can add to your Libby account with your MADL Library Card!!! Many of these cooperatives contain dozens of libraries, and that means HUGE collections to browse. Get started at MADL.org/AtHome
Agatha from Wanda Vision looking into the camera and winking very obviously. The captions says, "When you say you'll finish those audiobooks before you put more on hold."
wink wink
History channel Alien guy meme with the caption "A Safe, third space with no expectation of purchase that offers free access to books, movies, video games, tools, newspapers, and more..." and instead of saying aliens, the man is captioned as saying "Libraries."
It's crazy man.
The meme of Gru standing in front of a display as though he is excitedly explaining his plan. In the first three frames it says, "People want access to books, movies, and audiobooks on their phones." In the second frame it says, "Libraries off free access to books, movies, and more through apps" while Gru points as though he is providing a solution. In the third and fourth panels, the board says " People pay for apps that have books, audiobooks, movies, and more" and Gru looks at it in confusion.
wait a minute, this doesn't make sense.
Congratulations to our "Find Ron" winner, La Tonya B.! She found the hidden image of our director, Ron, in our newsletter at MADL.org/Newsletter and she won a MADL swag bag full of goodies!
You can enter now if you find Ron in our Winter Newsletter.
A still from the Twilight films showing three members of the Vampire Council looking down imperiously from a balcony. The Image is captioned "Library Royalty" and the three vampires are labelled with the icons for Kanopy, Libby, and Hoopla.
Which one is your fav?
#library #muskegon #muskegoncounty #madl #muskegonareadistrictlibrary #libby #hoopla #kanopy #library
screen shot from the PBS show "Arthur" showing Arthur's fist furiously clenched by his side. the caption reads "Some one tells you they don't use the library because it just has books."
There are books, movies, audiobooks, apps, power tools, board games, equipment, video games, tv shows, and so much more!!!
All MADL Branches will be closed Thursday and Friday, November 27 & 28.
You can celebrate the end of Noir-vember on Kanopy with some classic film noire flicks. Visit MADL.org/AtHome to find Kanopy as well as other awesome library resources you can access from home.
Miss Piggy watching a Sabrina Carpenter show - looking stunned. Sabrina Carpenter is labelled with the MADL Library Card, and Miss Piggy is labelled "Us."
Stunning.