#Madridcometogether a community collaboration between the Hepburn Library of Madrid, the Madrid Dam Music Series and the Madrid Pride and Beautification Committee.

This is a community scavenger hunt. No rules, and anyone can participate. We ask that those who do participate, do so safely and while following all of the current health guidelines set forth. To participate, look for each weeks themed items while out doing your essential errands, see if your neighbors are participating, and look for local business to have stuff up too!

As of today, we are adding these measures to our protocols:

+ All surfaces wiped down with disinfectant before and after programs

+ Staff wash hands before/after all programs and desk shifts, and before/after using library equipment

Libraries are so many things to people:

The end of the year is almost here!

We still have lots of exciting events left, read on to find out about them!

Book Club

Pre-K Story Hour

Trunk or Treat 2019 will be held on October 19th, from 4-7pm.

Those who wish to Trick or Treat need to bring thier own goodie bags and come dressed in a fun, silly, spooky, scary, or creative costume!

We will have games with prizes, a contest for the best trunk and a costume contest (online this year- check out our Facebook! for more details.)

October 19th from 4-7pm. SAVE THE DATE! More details coming soon!

CLICK--> The latest issue of our new newsletter!  There is no newsletter for the month of December... We are super busy! Check back in January for our Report to the Community.

This newsletter is staff created and intended to let our community know of upcoming events, new books, intersting facts, services offered and more!

Beginning April 11th, 2019 the Hepburn Library of Madrid will join a handful of other St. Lawrence County Libraries that no longer charge fines for overdue materials. Why did the library decide to go fine free? It’s good for our community- we hope this will encourage prior users to come back to the library and to attract new users to experience our offerings. What this means for our community is that you will no longer receive a daily late fine on overdue items. You are still responsible for returning your items, once there are 5 overdue items on your account, privileges will be suspended. The library will still send you reminders about your items. If you have other overdue fines from other libraries in the North Country Library System, you are still responsible for paying these at the library where these fines accrued.  If you check out materials while visiting another library in the North Country Library System, you could still be charged fines based on that library’s fine policy (some have fines, some do not). Items 45 days or more overdue will be assumed lost and you will be billed for the replacement cost. Past replacement fees and processing charges for lost or damaged items still apply. As always, the library will still accept monetary donations. These donations provide services, critical programming and more. Thank you to our community.

Check out our new circulation desk! Thanks to Clifton Community Library.

We hope 2019 is as much of an opportunity for our continued improvement as 2018 was!

This coming year we  hope to remodel our upstairs restroom facility, fix some lighting and apply for more grants! When it does come time to redo the bathroom, our patrons will need to head downstairs to the community room to use the facilities there. Keep looking for more updates!