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The Milwaukee Public Library's Entrepreneur-in-Residence program was launched in summer 2024 as a collaboration between the library and a local entrepreneur. It provides free workshops, one-on-one consultations, mentoring, and more for current and aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Nghi Vo is one of three authors being added to the Milwaukee Public Library’s Wisconsin Writers Wall of Fame that pays tribute to a those whose work has been influenced by their life and experiences here in Wisconsin.

Last year, the Bridges Library system received a grant from Bader Philanthropies to do an oral history project in partnership with StoryCorps.

Every month on Lake Effect, we partner with the Milwaukee Public Library for our Book of the Month series to bring you new reading recommendations. We’ll hear from Matthew Arends, a librarian from the central branch, about his pick that could help you get smarter with your money.

Every month on Lake Effect, we partner with the Milwaukee Public Library for our Book of the Month series to bring you new reading recommendations. We’ll hear from Kelly Bolter, a library services manager at the central branch, on her book recommendation for Women's History Month.

Every month here on Lake Effect, we partner with the Milwaukee Public Library for our Book of the Month Series to bring you new reading recommendations. For February, we’ll hear from librarian Brittany Lee, an adult services librarian at the Washington Park branch about her recommendation for Black History Month.

A Milwaukee Public librarian recommends books related to Native American Heritage Month and how we can learn more about indigenous culture in Wisconsin. Every month on Lake Effect, we’re highlighting a Milwaukee Public librarian and their personal book recommendation in what we call our Book of the Month Series.

If you’re still working your way through your summer reading list or if you’ve finished it already and need a new recommendation, Jacki Potratz has you covered. She’s a librarian at the Central Milwaukee Public Library branch. She recommends a book of short stories called Afterparties by Cambodian American author Anthony Veasna So.

Right now, many of us are engaging in conversations about race and systemic racism in the United States. In some ways, it’s a conversation our country has…

On last week's Bubbler Talk, we visited the library at the Milwaukee County Zoo to learn whether visitors to the zoo, years ago, were really allowed to…