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Reading Blitz Campaign with United Way

Celebrate National Reading month with the United Way and Milwaukee Public Library!

Hildegard Chada: A Depression-Era Pioneer

Can you imagine walking 2 miles to work everyday, with all your supplies carried in an onion sack over your shoulder, and once you've made it there you still have to climb up an 85-foot ladder?

Atkinson's Nonfiction Picks

Check out these great books from Jennifer Lopez, Cooking Light, National Geographic and The Smithsonian.

Happy St. Patrick's Day From MPL!

Take Advantage of the Warm Weather: Use the Rack!

Celebrate the warm weather by biking to the new East Branch!

Eveline M. Burns

Today is the 115th birthday of Eveline M. Burns, who helped lay the groundwork for Social Security and other social welfare programs in the U.S.

Golda Meir

Golda Meir was born Goldie Mabovitch in Kiev, Russian Empire (now Ukraine) on May 3, 1898. Her father left to find work in the United States a few years later and by 1906 he had established himself in Milwaukee and had saved enough money to bring Goldie and her mother and sisters to join him. He worked in a local railroad yard and Golda's mother…