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The library is currently raising money to be able to offer Explorer Passes for 2025. With your help, we will be able to offer passes to local attractions such as the Milwaukee County Zoo, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and more! With these passes, you can bring your family or friends to check out some of the best attractions Milwaukee has to offer, for free! We are hoping to raise $3,000. Donation boxes are at all check out desks on the first floor. Every penny helps! If you’d like to donate online, you can do so here: https://countycat.mcfls.org/donate – please put “Explorer Pass Fundraiser” in the comments section to help us make sure all donations go to the right place.

Make a Donation or Memorial

Thank you for considering the South Milwaukee Public Library or the Friends of the South Milwaukee Public Library as a possible recipient of your donation. We are able to do more and offer more services with your donation. Below outlines some of the different ways your donations can help.

Memorial Donation

If you would like to honor or memorialize a special person or event, you can do this through a memorial donation. You can do this by donating funds to the library in that person’s name. The Director would work in partnership with each memorial donation to ensure that it is used in a way that would best represent the person being memorialized. Please call or e-mail the library for more information.

Other Donations and Partnerships

We accept online donations! Please click here to donate now. Of course, we are also happy to accept cash donations or donations by check, or develop partnerships with organizations or individuals that are mutually beneficial to the Library, residents, and community organizations or businesses. Those can be dropped off at the library.

Donating Items

We accept donation of new or used items. Due to the variety of items we can accept we would appreciate it if you reviewed our Book and Media Donation Policy.

Support Our Friends of the South Milwaukee Public Library

Our Friends of the South Milwaukee Public Library is a 501c3 volunteer led organization that does activities and fundraisers to support the South Milwaukee Public Library. You can read all about the ways to support this wonderful organization on their part of the library page.

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions or concerns. 414.768.8195 or smpl.ref@mcfls.org

We thank you for considering South Milwaukee Public Library!