Upcoming Events

Explore history like you never have before! Learn about our nation's past through crafts, food, and mysteries. Learn the basics of using a sewing machine and make your own pillow!

Play board games, swap book recommendations, and explore creative projects with other teens while building real-world skills. Unplugged is your space to meet new friends, be yourself, and build confidence.

Madison County Adult Education offers free English Language Learners classes for those who want to improve their reading, speaking, and written English language skills.

We promote preschool literacy with conversation, parachute play, music, movement, and picture books. Activities end with stations (occasionally preschool crafts). It may get messy—please dress appropriately! Meant for ages 3-5.

Stop by the Berea Location to watch the Berea Woodcarver Group in action, hear some great stories, and learn a thing or two about wood carving. 

Little Artist Story Time introduces preschoolers and their caregivers to basic art ideas through two engaging picture books, a fun hands-on craft, and group sharing.

Join our parent support group to connect with other caregivers, share experiences, and find encouragement in a welcoming space.

A book club where you pick what book you read every time! This month, we will be discussing dystopian books. Read a dystopian book, short story, or comic and tell us all about it! Teen programs are intended for those aged 11-17. 

Try some Japanese snacks, enjoy some fun crafts, and watch a few episodes of anime with us each month. This month we will be doing Origami Art and watching Sailor Moon! Anime Club is intended for those aged 12-18.

Crash Course is a weekly introduction to the machines and equipment housed in the Makerspace and will include basic operations, materials selection, and even resources to start your very own project. 

Peaceful Play is designed with shy or neurodivergent children in mind, though all are welcome.

We love learning different types of literacy through reading, music, movement, and play. It may get messy; please dress appropriately! Meant for ages 0-5. 

Welcome to the Madison County Public Library's Makerspace crash course. Every week we will do an introduction to the various machine and equipment housed in the Makerspace.

Take flight with the Wright brothers! Learn how airplanes fly, then design and test different paper airplanes. Experiment with shapes and folds to see which planes soar the farthest, fly the fastest, or stay in the air the longest.

We provide the building blocks, and you bring the creativity!

Presented in partnership with Madison County Adult Education. 

Madison County Adult Education offers free English Language Learners classes for those who want to improve their reading, speaking, and written English language skills.

The Madison County Public Library provides a Pearson VUE GED testing site on the first and third Fridays in Berea. To schedule an exam please contact Madison County Adult Education by phone at 859.353.4712 or email brandym@madisonlibrary.org.

Join us for an interactive story time for babies and their caregivers, featuring lap and finger plays, scarves, board books, songs, rhymes, and gentle movement that support early language and social skills.

Makers Space open Lab is a time for using the equipment and space in the Maker's Lab to start, work on, or complete projects. Don't have any projects to work on?

Books Cook is a hands-on story time where reading meets cooking! Each week, we’ll read a fun book and then make a simple, themed dish together. Kids help with safe prep steps while we handle the heat.