Welcome to our Library!

Library Services:

Library Hours:

  • Monday - Thursday: 10 a.m. - 7 p.m.

  • Friday: 9 A.M. - 5 P.M.

  • Saturday: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.

Search Tools:
 merlin - the online library catalog merlin (the online library catalog)
and other databases:  www.nwls.wislib.org

From the Merlin catalog you can:

  • Browse through public library collections in eight Wisconsin counties

  • Request or renew materials

  • Review your account

  • Check out e-Books

  • Link to reference databases

  • Keep reading lists

Special Library Programs


Story Time takes place  Wednesday mornings from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. from September through June.  Summer story time begins the first week of June and continues to the end of August.

 

 

 

 

The “Friends of the Library” meet the second Thursday of each month at 9:00 a.m. to explore fund-raising possibilities for the library.

The Knit Wits craft group meets each Thursday from 10:00 a.m. until noon.

Book Club meetings are held at 10:00 a.m. the fourth Tuesday of every month at the library (lower level) to discuss the book of the month. Everyone is welcome. Books are selected by participants and are usually available at the library (ask at the desk for Book Club selections.) Contact Jean McLaughlin to discontinue receiving book selections by mail.

Book Club Calendar
Date / Book / Discussion Leader

September 23 / Season of Life by Jeffery Max / Jewel Johnson
October 28 / The Glass Castle / Karen Klink
November 25 / Life Class / Jean McLaughlin
January 27 / Call of the Wild / Carolyn Wedin
 February 24 / Snow Flower & Secret Fan / Pat Bittner
March 24 / Beneath a Marble Sky / Laura Rachford
April 28 / Murder at the Bad Girl's Bar & Grill / Mary Poretti

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Staff

Library Director: Maxine D. Peterson
Librarians: Desiree Steinberg & Susan Reh

Library Board Members:

Friends of the Library

     President: Bonnie Niemi
     2008 Calendar:
December 13, Winter Book Sale, 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

How You Can Help Your Library

The Library’s continuous success is due to generous patrons.  Here are some ways you can help:

Library History

Library Building photo

 

 


The Burnett Community Library, Inc., formerly a bank building, became an official library on January 2, 1992 and has a 501 © 3 non-profit status.  We are one of 29 libraries in the Northern Waters Library Service.

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