Skip navigation
Close Expanded Sunday Hours for Central, Good Hope and Tippecanoe

Starting March 1, Milwaukee Central Library, Good Hope Branch, and Tippecanoe Branch are open Sundays 10 am–5 pm.

Milwaukee Public Library Hours & Locations Close

Now@MPL

Now@MPL

What's "vending" @ Bay View Library!?

By frang on Feb 18, 2014 7:30 PM

I bet you thought that vending machines were made only for snacks, sandwiches, and sodas.  Well you would be wrong!  Bay View Library now has a vending machine for, wait for it..., LAPTOP COMPUTERS.  You heard me right, computers from a vending machine.  The Bay View Library vending machine holds 18 laptops.  They are available to patrons, age 8 and up, with a valid library card…

Read more

Black History Month: Bayard Rustin

By tim on Feb 18, 2014 3:52 PM

When most people think of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, they think of Martin Luther King Junior, the crowds, the 'I Have a Dream' speech, and all with good reason. Yet one of the chief organizers of the event, Bayard Rustin, remained carefully and pointedly out of the spotlight. Why? Why was a man who was so integral to the nonviolent resistance…

Read more

Daily Rituals by Mason Currey

By MPL Staff on Feb 18, 2014 9:42 AM

Daily Rituals by Mason Currey is incredibly fantastic, offering a peek into the lives (and perhaps minds) of great cultural figures. The project started as a blog, so it has that same short, easy-reading format. The book covers authors, composers, poets, artists, scientists, mathematicians, inventors, and filmmakers; and the huge variety in how different people create. Some toil waiting for inspiration, others chug ahead day…

Read more

Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike

By MPL Staff on Feb 13, 2014 10:37 AM

When I sat down to start reading Lone Wolf and Cub, I wasn't entirely certain what to expect. I was vaguely aware of the movies based on it, most famously the movie Shogun Assassin (which was actually an American effort that spliced together parts of two of the original Japanese Lone Wolf and Cub movies). I knew that it was considered a 'classic', though…

Read more

Winger by Andrew Smith

By MPL Staff on Feb 13, 2014 9:22 AM

Junior year at Pine Mountain Academy (PM) is going to be rough for fourteen-year-old Ryan Dean West. With a name like Ryan Dean, things don't come easy. Luckily, most of his rugby teammates called him Winger after his rugby position or Eleven after his jersey number. After Winger steals a teacher's cell phone to make long distance calls to his crush and friend Annie, he…

Read more

The World Below by Sue Miller

By MPL Staff on Feb 12, 2014 12:25 PM

The World Below tells two different stories; one about Cath, a new divorcee who moves across country to her Grandmother's house to pick up the pieces of her life, and also that of her Grandmother Georgia, a woman who went to a sanatorium for tuberculosis and the affect it had on her life. Chapters alternate between the two to show the differences and similarities between…

Read more

Looking for love between the covers?

By MPL Staff on Feb 12, 2014 11:42 AM

The covers of a good book, that is! Look no further than Milwaukee Public Library. Whether you want to laugh at another's messy foibles as they search for love or live vicariously through their sexcapades, we've got a book for you to check out and enjoy today. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion is a fast-paced and often hilarious comedy--even though the ending was a little…

Read more

Throw the Damn Ball by R D Rosen, et al

By MPL Staff on Feb 12, 2014 11:29 AM

Throw the Damn Ball: Classic Poetry by Dogs by R. D. Rosen, Harry Prichett, and Rob Battles Let your poetry-loving pooch share the couch for a read-aloud of this collection--poems from the canine perspective accompanied by photos of dogs being dogs. Most of the focus is on food, sticks, toys and body and potty humor--which is where it's at for dogs! Especially fun are…

Read more