Mason City Public Library

The Friends of the Library Geranium sale is in the Mason City Room on Friday, April 30 from 9:00-5:00 and Saturday, May 1 from 9:00-12:00. Plants are $5.00 each and are from the Stillwater Greenhouse.

Let reading color your world this summer with the Mason City Public Library Summer Library Challenge. This free, virtual challenge will run from June 1st July 2nd. Participants will log reading and activities with the MCPL’s online reading tracker. Readers will earn badges as they reach goals and win tickets to enter into the prize drawings of their choice. Readers can keep track of the books they read, write book reviews to share with other users, and even receive weekly p...ersonalized book recommendations. Do all this and more through the MCPL’s Beanstack site or download the free Beanstack Tracker mobile app. Signing up the whole family is easy and only takes a few minutes. For more information, including a how-to video, go to www.mcpl.org and click on the Summer Library Challenge banner to pre-register now! Questions? Call 641.421.3671. See more

Do you like to win prizes? Well, sign the whole family up for the MCPL's FREE Summer Library Challenge! We have programs available for all ages, including adults. All you have to do is use our online tracker to log your reading and activity progress. You will earn badges and tickets to enter into the prize drawings of your choice! We are giving away a ton of cool stuff, including gift certificates to Charles H. MacNider Art Museum, Now & Then, Turtle Creek Pottery & Glass, and Historic Park Inn Hotel, NatGeo science kits, a coding robot, VR goggles, an animation studio, tie-dye kits, and more! Pre-register today so you will be ready to get started when the challenges launch next Tuesday, June 6th! Go to www.mcpl.org and click on the Summer Library Challenge banner to get started! Questions? Call 641.421.3671 for more information.

Brighten up your windowsills! The Friends of the Library Geranium sale is in the Mason City Room today from 9:00-5:00 and tomorrow May 1st from 9:00-12:00. Plants are $5.00 each and are from the Stillwater Greenhouse.

The library is open, with no appointments necessary from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday. The Large Group Study Room is available. It can be reserved ahead of time. Otherwise it can be used on a first come first serve basis.

Enrollment for the Emergency Broadband Benefit opens tomorrow! The temporary benefit provides a discount of up to $50 per month toward broadband service for eligible consumers who are struggling to stay connected during the pandemic. Qualifying households on Tribal lands can receive a discount of up to $75 per month for service. See if you qualify by visiting www.fcc.gov/broadbandbenefit

The Mason City Public Library is open from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM Monday through Friday, no appointments necessary. Curbside service is still available too.

If you would like to visit the library in person, please call 421-3668 to make an appointment.

Tax forms are available in the entrance to the Mason City Room between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM Monday thru Friday. Please call the library if you need help finding tax forms, 641-421-3668. Did you know that Mason City Public Library Cardholders can read the current and many years of past issues of the Globe Gazette online every day through the library website? Go to www.mcpl.org Click on the Digital Media box, ... Click on the Newsbank icon, Enter your library card barcode number-The barcode is on the back of your library card, or you can call the library and find out how to get a barcode. Click on the link to the Globe Gazette. I leave you today with a quote from American poet, essayist and journalist, Walt Whitman, Be curious, not judgmental".