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Milwaukee Public Library's Brittany Lee shares her book recommendation and some programs offered by the library for Black History Month.

City health department, Childrens Wisconsin and Medical College will partner in effort. By Graham Kilmer - Mar 3rd, 2021 03:57 pm //end headline wrapper ?> COVID-19 vaccine. (Pixabay License). The City of Milwaukee and two major health systems are partnering in an attempt to vaccinate every educator and childcare worker in the city in just two weeks. The second phase of vaccination began Monday statewide and the first priority group that became eligible includes ...

Through a partnership announced Wednesday, hundreds of employees and medical students from Childrens Wisconsin and the Medical College of Wisconsin plan to help the Milwaukee Health Department deliver the COVID-19 vaccine to all education and child care staff who live or work in Milwaukee by March 15.  "We’ve attempted to move heaven and earth to make sure that we can get these vaccinations in people’s arms safely, efficiently and in a very coordinated fashion by the middle of March," Mayo...

Retiring Milwaukee Public Library director Paula Kiely reflects on how system has changed. //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee “If you can read, you can do just about anything, but when you can’t, you hit a wall,” Paula Kiely says on the library system’s early outreach literacy programming. File photo by Alhaji Camara/NNS. A self-proclaimed lover of books, Paula Kiely never gave much thought to becoming a librarian and instead chose to ...

“If you can read, you can do just about anything, but when you can’t, you hit a wall,” Paula Kiely says on the library system’s early outreach literacy programming. (File photo by Alhaji Camara) A self-proclaimed lover of books, Paula Kiely never gave much thought to becoming a librarian and instead chose to pursue a fine arts degree. But a conversation with a supervisor changed that. “The lightbulb went off, and I thought, ‘I should be a librarian,’ ” Kiely said. Kiely, who ser...