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January 2024

Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

Use your library card!

Many people abandon their resolutions within the first month of the year. Don’t let it be you! Using your library card can make some of the most common resolutions attainable.

  1. Read More

  2. Save Money

  3. Improve Your Health

  4. Try Something New

  5. Decrease Screen Time

  6. Advance Your Career

  7. Explore New Genres

  8. Plan a Staycation

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Keep your resolutions with these tips!

In the News

Memory Cafés Featured on Fox 6 News

Pauline Haass Public Library in Sussex enjoyed a visit from Fox 6 News at their holiday Memory Café on December 18. The Library Memory Project has helped more than 260 individuals in 2023.

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2024 Memory Café Schedule

Around the Libraries

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Gentle Yoga Series

Powers Memorial Library

Powers Memorial Library in Palmyra hosted their first Gentle Yoga session on January 6, marking the beginning of a seven week series on Saturday mornings. Each week will focus on a different chakra. Next session details.

Facebook photos.

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Lionel Train Day

Butler Public Library

Join the Friends of the Butler Library and the Milwaukee Lionel Train Club for a fun train display at the Butler Public Library.

   Saturday, January 20 

   11 am - 3 pm

Find the event on Facebook.

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StoryCorps Recording

Pewaukee Public Library

Pewaukee Public Library hosted Peter and his grandmother, Dodie, to share and record a StoryCorps conversation at the library.

Check it out on Facebook.

Schedule your StoryCorps session.

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Breakfast With Bluey

Jefferson Public Library

Jefferson Public Library is hosting a fun breakfast with a very special guest filled with snacks, stories and games.
   Monday, January 22

   10 am - 11 am
Find the event details.

On The Shelf

Personal Development

Cover art for "Atomic Habits"

Atomic Habits

by James Clear

Cover art for "Best Self: Be You, Only Better"

Best Self: Be You, Only Better
by Mike Bayer

Cover art for "Girl, Wash Your Face"

Girl, Wash Your Face 

by Rachel Hollis

Cover art for "Big Magic"

Big Magic

by Elizabeth Gilbert

Cover art for "Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World"

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
by Cal Newport

Cover art for "Picturing Joy: Stories of Connection"

Picturing Joy: Stories of Connection

by George Lange

Find Your Library

Jefferson County

Dwight Foster Public Library (Fort Atkinson)
Irvin L. Young Memorial Library (Whitewater)
Jefferson Public Library

Johnson Creek Public Library

Karl Junginger Memorial Library (Waterloo)
L.D. Fargo Public Library (Lake Mills)
Powers Memorial Library (Palmyra)
Watertown Public Library


Waukesha County

Alice Baker Library (Eagle)
Big Bend Public Library
Brookfield Public Library
Butler Public Library
Delafield Public Library
Elm Grove Public Library
Hartland Public Library
Menomonee Falls Public Library
Mukwonago Community Library
Muskego Public Library
New Berlin Public Library
Oconomowoc Public Library
Pauline Haass Public Library (Sussex)
Pewaukee Public Library
Town Hall Library (North Lake)
Waukesha Public Library

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Waukesha, Wisconsin 53186
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